HankTheTank and Ownedby3alpacas Journal

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Ownedby3alpacas got a call from the vet today with our CL test results. Bonnie, Luke, and Desmond are all negative, and Hank and Kripto don't have it but they have come in contact with it.

Thank goodness!!

 

[HankTheTank]

Tommorow is Freddie's 1st birthday! Ownedby3alpacas and our other sister are making some sort of sweet potato and pumpkin cake for him and the other dogs

As you can see, he is dressed up for the occasion

 

[elevan]

Freddie is very handsome. Give him an extra hug from all us BYHers for his birthday.

 

[Ownedby3alpacas]

Freddie is very handsome. Give him an extra hug from all us BYHers for his birthday.

HankTheTank gave him a hug for you guys this morning!

Here's the cake we made. It's pumpkin and sweet potato cake with yogurt and banana icing. and sprinkles to make it look pretty

And this is a poem our other sister wrote in honor of his birthday:

An Ode for Fred's Natal Day.

Young Fredericksburg is one today!
Come all with countenance glad;
Drink up a toast and cut the cake
To celebrate our lad.

One short year round we've watched him grow:
That pup who could curl on a lap
Is now a gangly, handsome hound
Whose tongue drips like a tap!

His nose, though wet, is trained and keen;
His skin is loose and flappy;
His paws are large, his eyes are bright,
And he howls to make us happy.

He is quick and cunning on a trail;
His good will knows no measure;
The officer who works with him
Will find him a great treasure.

So happy birthday, Freddy dear!
The year that lies ahead
Will bring to you prosperity
Whatever path you tread.

 

[elevan]

Yummy looking doggie cake and wonderful poem!

 

[HankTheTank]

They need to make a smiley with red blistery hands who is sweating and breathing heavy...cause I would need to use about ten of them right now! We took Freddie out on a track earlier, with me handling him and one of the constables as the runner. That boy can PULL. Once he gets his nose on the trail there isn't much that can stop him...the closest comparison would be to hitch a leash to a John Deere and let 'er rip! I actually wound up dropping the lead to save myself from being wrapped around a tree, and he finished the trail on his own. He did well, but next time we'll have to find the Hulk to handle him.

After that I got my turn as a runner, so I made a loop back to the car and listened to an Aerosmith marathon while they wrestled with Fred. I'm not sure how that track went but no one seemed too ticked off when they found me so I guess it was ok.

Fred is taking full advantage of his birthday and being as snotty as possible

 

[Vickir73]

well, it is his birthday after all

 

[HankTheTank]

I got to go to work today! Not at my old job, at Yellowframe Farm where my Dad works and I usually work summers. I haven't been there this year since the guy in charge got a lot more people to help with mowing and stuff, and nothing needed painting (which is my specialty! )

Every year Yellowframe takes part in two local horse shows, the Millbrook Horse Trials and Fitch's Corner. Fitch's Corner was a couple weeks ago and they didn't need me for anything at that, but the Millbrook ones (I just call it Coole Park) is this weekend!! Yellowframe sponsors a couple jumps every year, which means that they pay to have them there with their farm sign on it and we get to decorate it how we want. It's the same every year, there's the two giant wooden couches (painted by yours truly!), the water jump with the Sweet 'N Low signs (the company is owned by the farms owner) and the Produce Stand.

The Produce Stand is, well, a produce stand. It's three big wooden shelf things with different compartments that we stuff with hay, then arrange different fruits and vegetables on (sounds cheesy but it looks really good). Last year we used 200 pounds of carrots in it!! It sounds pretty wasteful, but really by the second day of the show it's empty from so many people taking things, mostly as horse treats. I wish I could have gotten pictures of everything but there were Golf Cart People (show officials) everywhere so I didn't want to. So I pretty much spent the day either in the back of a truck, throwing crates of fruit at people, or getting crates of fruit thrown at me, then taking it out and arranging it.

 

[Sugarbushdraft]

Glad your goats are CL free


How many goats do you have /what breeds? I always thought you only had 2

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Well hello CBL.