Oct
6
Cowboys and Shower Curtains
Filed Under Calgary, animals | 21 Comments
Tim and I went to the Canadian Rodeo Tour Championship today, no pictures because … well all rodeos pretty much look the same. Generally winners are decided upon based on times, lasso-ing skills, sheer brute, manly cowboy strength, speed, and general overall craziness for actually choosing to sit upon a 3000 lbs animal while its testicles are being yanked so hard that it wants to eat you. I don’t even watch the bull-riding anymore. I witnessed a horrible accident at the Calgary Stampede earlier this summer and I because of it I now choose to hide my face behind Tim’s back and whimper for the 8 seconds rather than watch and have heart palpitations for 8 seconds.
The real winners, in my books, are the (sexy) cowboys and their (even sexier) cowboy names. Pregnant women and bloggers like Swistle should go to the nearest rodeo to be inspired by these amazing men and women. Okay, moreso the men than the women, but I will get to that.
Cowboy Names, in order of preference:
1.) Come Bouvier (They pronounced it as in “Come over to my house for dinner,” but I pictured it more like “Co-Mee.” Just gorgeous!)
2.) Cimmaron Gerke (Simm-ah-run Gur-Kee. WOW! Be still my heart, and co-mee over to my house for dinner tonight, I will spoon feed you Bananas Foster for dessert and then we can talk about your muscles.)
3.) Tied for third are Blade Young and Dean Edge (Hello Blade and Dean, welcome to my dreams.)
4.) Rocky Dallyn (Like my old boss’ Welsh pronounciation of “darling.” Rocky Dallyn sounds like a cowboy superhero. Little did I know, but it is my favourite kind of superhero. Okay, well it is now.)
5.) Dallas Frank (Sounds like a country singer. Dallas has probably got an edge, and a real knack with the cowgirls. I picture him, bottle of beer in hand, leaning up against a bar in his little plaid shirt and cowboy hat chatting up all the ladies, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye. Hi Dallas! I am a lady, come chat me up - I, too, have a little twinkle in my eye…)
6.) Davey Shields Jr. (I just think this one sounds like a really strong name. A name that has lasted through generations. I bet Davey is a real stand-up guy,)
And the team cowboys (some events are team events) overall winners are:
Murray Linthicum and Dwight Wigemyr. (Dwight? Wigemyr? I know, right? But when you put the two together it just sounds so right. And Murray Linthicum - what a beautiful name.)
And then there are the cowgirls … Honestly they are all amazing, talented women but I am sorry ladies - you have awful names.
1.) Gaylene Buff (Gaylene? Really?)
2.) Aimee Willis (I envision the 28 year old redneck living in a trailer with 4 kids and her new boyfriend.)
The others were fine, nothing to write home about (literally, in this case! HA!) but not as lovely and imaginative as my cowboys. Even the horses and bulls get really awesome names. Our cats at home are names Herman and Dragon Baby, which are actually pretty awesome cat names, but dogs and cats generally have names like “Sadie” and “Patch” but these animals had names like “Border Denial” and “Street Dance” and “Gallant Warrior.” Now you have a whole other reason to watch the PBR channel while pregnant!
One more thing I am excited about - my new shower curtain! I have been admiring it for months and finally on Saturday I went out and bought it, and I want to share my excitement, because Tim apparently doesn’t get excited over things like shower curtains - come on Tim! It’s the little things in life. On that note, he also doesn’t get excited over cowboy names. One thing I am learning really well out here is being able to entertain myself! I kind of like it, it’s a new idea for me as I have been surrounded by lots of really awesome people the past 21 years and always had someone with as much energy as me entertaining me.
See that little hint of red on top of the toilet? Those are candles that are usually in the kitchen, but last week I woke up at 5:35am feeling really sick so Tim got up and drew me a bubble bath complete with those candles! It was so unbelievably sweet.
Also, I am currently becoming a surrogate Aunt. Currently as in, Nat’s sister is in the hospital RIGHT NOW having a baby boy! Be expecting some baby photos on here real soon. I am going to spoil the heck out of that little baby! Hopefully Nat’s sister has been to a rodeo lately, and got some good cowboy names!
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Jun
13
New Kitten!
Filed Under animals, cats, kittens | 28 Comments
EDIT (Tuesday June 17)
WE HAVE PICKED A NAME (Well I let Scott pick a name, because I named our other cat [Chase])
The cute little black kitten’s name will be:
Co Co Beans Tlastname
Or
Co Co (for short)
Thank you for all your wonderful suggestions, I really liked lots of them, but Scott is a picky man.
Scott and I are the proud owners of a new kitten!
Our friend’s cat had 4 kittens and I some how convinced Scott that it would be a fantastic idea to get another kitten. I’m still wondering how this happened. We have a cute orange cat at home- Chase, of whom you have seen pictures. But I think that cats are happier when there are 2 of them so they can play together! So we got another!
So here is the new addition to our family! He’s been pretty scared so far, so no great pictures. So far he likes to hide under the couch and the bed in the spare room.
I promise I’m not strangling him..
But friends and readers we need your help!
We need a name for our cute black kitten! It- is a boy, and he has a a white patch under his neck, but otherwise he’s totally black.
Any suggestions?
Jan
24
The World is Amazing
Filed Under animals, pigs | 67 Comments
I was forwarded this email while at work. It is especially fitting because we are pig farmers!
We have since found out that the story associated with these pictures isn’t true…you can find out the true story on Snopes.
Enjoy the pictures anyway!
“In a zoo in California , a mother tiger gave birth to a rare set of triplet tiger cubs. Unfortunately, due to complications in the pregnancy, the cubs were born prematurely and due to their tiny size, they died shortly after birth.
The mother tiger after recovering from the delivery, suddenly started to decline in health, although physically she was fine. The veterinarians felt that the loss of her litter had caused the tigress to fall into a depression. The doctors decided that if the tigress could surrogate another mother’s cubs, perhaps she would improve.
After checking with many other zoos across the country, the depressing news was that there were no tiger cubs of the right age to introduce to the mourning mother. The veterinarians decided to try something that had never been tried in a zoo environment. Sometimes a mother of one species will take on the care of a different species. The only orphans’ that could be found quickly, were a litter of weanling pigs. The zoo keepers and vets wrapped the piglets in tiger skin and placed the babies around the mother tiger. Would they become cubs or pork chops? Take a look…you won’t believe your eyes!!”
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So cute, right?! Oh if only I had a tiger..
I went to the barn last night to visit the baby pigs. But they were all sleeping and then I woke up the mommy pigs and they started being all possessive like I was going to steal their piglets. Imagine it was a tiger instead? I’d be attacked in an instant!
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