Ten Swamp Dogies

Monday, December 1, 2008

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY OLIVIA POLLOCK

We love you, Olivia.

THE PARTY

When Liv was a baby, her parents, aunts, uncles, granny, etc., were on the

show, "Let's Make A Deal", so we thought it would be fun to do a remake for

her birthday.

Some of the contestants.

More of the contestants, the Discher family.

Some of our players had never seen the show before,

so,

before we got started, we played some of the shows from years past.

Ready to give away some MONEY!!

Each contestant picks a container of grits.

(A surprise was hidden under one of them)

I think he's a winner, or a REAL excited loser!

Now it's the birthday girl's turn to play.

Studying........trying to make her decision.

"You can trade your money to play the "scales" game."

She decides to go for it.

It was a good trade. She won an ounce of silver for her $1.

Hillary wants to play. (She's real good at games, ya know? :) )

Aunt Lee won a Wonderful, Fabulous, Marvelous

bag of dried beans :(

Michael won a candelight dinner.

(btw, that is NOT wine, it is apple cider)

Time for a new game and new players.

Grace wins a SHELL. (That's a rare thing in Florida, :):)

Ariana and Sarah are left to see what they can win.

Not sure what Sarah won, but....

Ariana was happy with her volleyball.

Now for the outlaw and the cowgirls.

Pick your favorite drink and see what's underneath.

Sam found a $10 under his drink.

Special guests, just arriving from a hunting trip.

So glad you came, David and Ju.

Which door do you choose?

1, 2 or 3?

She's going to trade her winnings for door #3.

What will she find behind that door?

And she wins a lovely jug of water!

Hills wants to trade, Hills wants to trade.

(Remember, she's real good at games)

She trades her set of flashlights

for

A bug zapper. OUCH!

Wah, wah, not everybody is a winner :(

Hillary is getting excited, wait, that's not Hills, she shrunk and ....:)

Something's fishy. He looks familiar :}

Hmmm, wonder what he said :>

Something is Hily larious

Momma said she's soooo glad that's a costume!!!

That's all folks.

Hope you enjoyed cooking up some fun :)

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Twice Blessed

Twins!!

One of our cows that we had been planning on butchering for a while, went and had twins Tuesday:)

Ariana found them off in the woods, where she had been noticing the momma going. The momma doesn't have milk and has lost two calves so far, which is one of the reasons we were going to butcher her. After noticing our cow was not in the pasture, me and Ariana decided to go on a late night calf rescue. Usually when the cows disappear away from the herd, they are calving, so we figured there must be a calf somewhere out there. But we had a big surprise when we found two. If you can get colostrum to the babies within their first 24 hours of life, they have a good chance of making it.

Praise the Lord we didn't butcher the cow yet, we would have been minus the only twins ever born in that pasture!