First day of High School

Sigh... I tried so hard to put it off, but it came anyway: The first day of High School.

Pennsylvania vacation this summer

I went on a vacation this summer to Pennsylvania. We went to Hershey Park, which was awesome, and had some really instense roller coasters. There is one (the first I went on, naturally) that drops more than 90 degrees, so you're going even more than straight down. That was awesome. We also went on an Amish buggy ride, which was cool because it was so different from the way we live. We also went to the Philedelphia Zoo, which was very cool.

Is this not the happiest picture you've ever seen in your life?

Have you ever seen a polar bear slide down the side of a rock and into the pool. I have, and let me tell you, they make one heck of a splash!

I took about 200 pictures in attempt to get this one. Otters are always having so much FUN!!!

This was our Amish Buggy.

Past feats of weather

It has been a very interesting weather year. We got a really intense hailstorm in June. It looked like snow! And then we had an extremely rainy summer, with thunderstorms almost every night. But it made for some really nice rainbows. AND THEN there was the practically unmentionable ice storm this fall/winter where everything was frozen and the entire state was out of power. If you have even been 4 days without heat, running water, or light, then you know how TERRIBLE it is!

Our little maple tree was frozen all over, but the pine trees were much worse. The branches were too heavy, and a lot of them broke.

Double rainbow this summer.

This really is hail. There was Sooo much of it! And, it all came down in a matter of about five minutes!

More hail...

A closeup of the rainbow. I like this picture a lot.

Toby!!!

This is Toby, my cat. He is a Maine Coon cat. I got him for my birthday last year. He is very soft and really cute, but he is very, very evil. He scratches and bites, and lays on the kitchen table and pulls the drain out of our bathroom sink, and claws the furniture. But I love him to death. He is just like me, he just sleeps a little more. : )

He was trapped in the box. : )

He likes to watch the tv, too. He sits right in front of it with his nose in the screen. He will stay that way for almost 20 minutes.

He loves to sit in boxes. Christmas is his favorite.

He's got really big feet. He's double-pawed. Twice the claws... yikes.

He was naughty from the beginning. : )

the whole point of this blog...

Ok, confession. The purpose of this blog is mostly to use as a place to dump all of my pictures so that I can delete them off of my camera and not feel bad. There. I said it. So here are going to be some of my favorite pictures. The horsey ones will come later. Bear with me, though. I am still figuring this out.

First Post! Yay!

Okay. So I've never done this before, but I am starting a blog. (Mostly for all of you pesky barn people who never get off my back about sending you pictures, even though I try and it breaks my email. Sigh...) Just Kidding, a little. So, anyway, here we go!