SuburbanFarmChic
Overrun with beasties
And all designer clothes end up at Goodwill eventually. So sayeth my Ralph Lauren barn coat.
SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25
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Well that heifer hasn't ever had a calf, so it's probably a good thing you aren't getting them lol. I've driven by their farm every day either to/from school or to/from work and there has yet to be a calf in the pen with them :/ She should've had a calf by now, especially since she's been with the bull for two years now.SuburbanFarmChic said:I saw those and was begging my husband.... He said no though. Pooy head. Doesn't he know we NEED big fuzzy cooos. They're highlands so you can't call them cows.SheepGirl said:The people down the street from me are selling their cattle. In the two years they've had them, they've always been on a dry lot. What do you think, should I get them?
http://frederick.craigslist.org/grd/3527260601.html
JK I'd rather spend that money on buying new sheep
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But whenever my aunt & cousin get here, we will be leaving for NYC!! I will be taking my laptop with me since there is free wifi in the hotel lobby so I may check in. Also my laptop serves as an excellent music player on the trip up there
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Well our alternator went out in our car so we are stranded in Jersey City :/ BUT we are 4 minutes away from Carlo's Bakery (Cake Boss ) so guess where we are going for breakfast?!
But I will give a full update and post pictures when I get home tomorrow.
) so guess where we are going for breakfast?!But I will give a full update and post pictures when I get home tomorrow.
Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Can't wait to hear about your whole trip! 
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We stopped at a gas station on our way into NYC and as soon as my mom got back in from pumping gas, I was like "hurry up, mom, lock the doors." My cousin said I was such a little white girl 
But my overall impression of the city was that it was very safe. There were cops on every block. I ended up becoming feeling very safe by the end of the trip, I would've walked on the streets by myself if I knew where I was going! We only ran into 2 or 3 nasty people. Every body else was very nice & helpful. But it was soo much fun! We got back last night around 7:30ish.
THURSDAY
We arrived in NYC around 9:30/10ish. It was me, my mom, my grandmother, and my aunt & cousin from Rockville. We met up with my aunt & cousin from Florida at the hotel. On our way into the city, we saw the Statue of Liberty. My mom yelled out "Look, the Statue of Liberty!" and my grandmother was like "the real one?!" and my mom replied "Yes, this isn't Vegas!" 
It was sooo funny! lol But we got to our hotel (the Marriott Marquis) and we were on the 20th floor and the bubble elevators were awesome. We went out and walked around Times Square (which looked SO futuristic, it was awesome) and we went to the M&M Store. Three levels of chocolate! Almost as good as Hershey World in Hershey, PA
FRIDAY
Friday my aunt & cousin from North Carolina showed up in the morning at the hotel. We started out with breakfast at this random little bakery in the city. I don't even remember what it was called! lol But we then went to the bus tour building and we got our NYC Bus Pass card and our bus tickets. We then went on a bus tour of NYC and we got off at the Empire State Building. We went up to the 86th floor for free with our NYC Bus Pass Card (if you go to NYC--definitely buy one for each person; it is soo worth it, especially since many places are $40-$50 each for admission).
We then ate at the restaurant on the bottom floor of the Empire State Building. They had a 10 oz Filet Mignon for $31.50
Then we made our way over to the 9/11 Memorial. It was soo pretty. Each spot that once has the Twin Towers (each about 1 acre in size) now has a reflecting pool. They are building like 8 or 12 World Trade Center towers all around the Memorial.
After we went through the Memorial, we went to the gift shop and I got a picture with an NYPD officer!! That was one of my goals of the trip, lol. So after this we walked back to the hotel and six of us went out to an Irish Pub. The food was FABULOUS. Everybody enjoyed their food. My grandmother had TWO Irish Coffees (yes, with the whiskey in them, too) and we all had dessert. I had my first REAL New York Cheesecake there Oh and it was soo funny afterwards. We were walking Times Square again and there was a group of about 8-10 cops--young and all were extremely attractive. My somewhat drunk grandmother YELLED out "HUBBA, HUBBA!" and the cops all looked at her and she just started laughing and she laughed so hard she peed her pants! Oh what Whiskey does to you..... lol
SATURDAY
On Saturday we went to Grand Central Station and then we went to the New York Public Library (staircase pictured below).
We then stopped at Madame Tussaud's and I got pictures with Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kim Kardashian, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, John Wayne, Elvis, Leonardo Di Caprio, George Bush, Ronald Regan, Kate Middleton and her husband (my mom laughed at me the first time I said that--she was like "that would be Prince William"), Marilyn Monroe, Justin Bieber, the Jonas Brothers, Usher, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and a bunch of other people. It was soo cool seeing how tall (or short!) some of these people actually are. I was surprised at how tall Taylor Swift was. And how short Usher was.
After Madame Tussaud's we walked around and found the Cake Boss Cafe. OF COURSE we had to go in and I had THE most delicious Oreo Tower Cake.
We then went to the Museum of Natural History (you know, where Night at the Museum was filmed?), but my cousin & I were soo disappointed because all we wanted to see & take pictures of was the T-rex, Sacajawea, the monkey, the dum-dum I want gum-gum statue, and Owen Wilson's little town. We only saw the T-rex and the dum-dum I want gum-gum statue. Everything else we couldn't find and it looked nothing like the movie. You would've thought they would've at least made it more realistic :/ Oh well. It was still interesting, though.
(Sorry for the blurry photo--the Museum had poor lighting)
In the Hall of African Mammals, they had these (I think they're Gemsbok?) and I was really shocked of how well the taxidermist captured the alert look on them. It reminds me of when I would approach the sheep flock at eye level and I would have them face me, heads high, ears alert, and eyes wide. They did an awesome job with this.
After that we went to Central Park to go to the Castle. We climbed all the way to the top. It was really pretty. We also saw Cleopatra's Needle (I think that's what my aunt said it was).
We were then going to go to the 48th floor of the Hotel to eat at the restaurant there. Turns out the buffet starts at $80 per person. NO WAY could any of us eat that much food. So instead we went to John's Pizzeria. We still had to go some place fancy because we all brought dressy clothes and us granddaughters all wanted to dress up and look pretty!
Then when we got back to the hotel we changed into normal clothes again and we wanted to go ice skating. Well skating at Rockefeller's was like $38 and skating at a park was like $18. But the line was like 2 hours long so we ended up not doing that We ended up just walking around some more and then going back to the hotel to sleep.
SUNDAY
Sunday we went to the Staten Island Commuter Ferry because they (drive?) real close to the Statue of Liberty. Ellis Island was closed due to Hurricane Sandy damage, so we had to do the next best thing so we could see Lady Liberty. But oh my gosh, it was soo foggy out! The picture below is of the city while we were on the Ferry.
We then walked down Wall Street and saw the NYSE. It was pretty cool. We then went down the Fashion District and saw DASH, Prada, Chanel, etc. My cousin got yelled at by one of the security guards in DASH because she was taking a picture of an outfit But I saw a really pretty suit jacket, made of wool. Guess how much it was? $952!!!! I wish raw wool prices were even 1% of that!
After that we headed over to the Brooklyn Bridge, but there was construction going on so you couldn't see over the sides of it to take pretty pictures. So we gave up and took the subway over to Macy's. Macy's was on 34th Street (Miracle on 34th Street) and it is 11 stories high and they had an Auntie Anne's, Ben & Jerry's, McDonald's, and so much in there. They even sold Carharrt clothing!
This was the roof of someone's apartment/condo/house. They had a lawn, a grill, a couple trellises, and a hot tub. Could you imagine what kind of parties they would throw?
Walking off of the Brooklyn Bridge, I saw this building. I thought it looked so cool.
Pretty much Macy's was our last stop, then we had to go back to the hotel to pick up our luggage. My family from NC & FL went to the airport and all of us from MD got our car and started driving home. We started going through a tunnel when the car battery light went on. When we got out of the tunnel, we stopped at a gas station and my mom checked the cables or whatever to see if anything was loose. Nope. Then our lights inside our car started getting dim. So my mom started freaking out so we unplugged our GPS and the phone that was charging. Then my mom's gages went caput. We were freaking out and all the local auto shops were closed because it was Sunday night. Our head lights went out, too, but we kept trucking because my mom didn't want to pay for a towing bill on top of whatever was wrong with the car. So we finally found a Sears and our car had completely died by the time we pulled into the parking lot. We ran inside, but the auto part of the store had already closed down. But the guy was still there and he got us all hooked up for the first appointment of the next day and he even walked us to our hotel (which was great because there were a lot of sketchy people hanging out near the mall that night and who wouldn't have wanted to see what us five girls had in our suitcases?) and showed us how to get back to Sears the next morning! He was soo nice.
MONDAY
We woke up stranded in Jersey City. But we bought train tickets over to Hobokken (it was only a mile, but a mile our feet were too exhausted to walk because of all of our walking this past weekend) and we went to Carlo's Bake Shop!! Unfortunately Mondays are the family's day off so we didn't get to meet any of the sisters or Buddy. But it was still a nice experience. I bought an autographed DVD of the 4th season of Cake Boss and I bought a strawberry cheesecake. It was AMAZINGLY delicious and it was nice and creamy.
After that, our car still wasn't done so we went to a little park and we got pictures of NYC from NJ. It was about time to check out of our hotel so we went back and had them hold our luggage for us. Well then we walked over to the mall, hung out for a half hour, walked over to Sears, got our car, went over to the hotel to get our luggage, and FINALLY went back home. I slept the first 1-2 hours. Apparently it took an hour to go a mile due to an accident--boy am I glad I slept during that part! But the rest of the ride home was bearable. I was awake for the last 2-3 hours of the trip. And we stopped at my McDonald's on the way home and my mom came in with me (I had to check the schedule and the family wanted food) and my mom was like "you should hook up with him. he's cute. i think he likes you." and on and on lol
Me in front of Carlo's
My box of delicious goodness
This is the best picture of my cheesecake I got. Because then I wanted to eat it.
Me in the park
This is the world trade center(?) under construction
The empire state building
BUT I'm just happy to be home! And my sheep are, too. My brother opened up the door to the house and the dogs came out to see us and I yelled "MAGGIE!" and she came running over to me wagging her little tail and my sheep of course heard my voice and ALL of them were baaing at me. Not just one little baa each. They were long, drawn out baas that were VERY loud. And they kept baaing until I got out there with their food and then they were jumping around. And they all let me pet them Normally I'm lucky if I get to pet all of them in one night lol. I guess they missed me feeding them! Lol I had my grandfather feed them for me. He was so stubborn about it, though. He kept saying "I'm going to feed them like a real farmer and I'm just going to throw whatever out and they can all eat it." I was like "No, if you want $20, you will feed them the way I feed them and you will make sure that the hay gets in the feeder and my lambs get their correct ration and make sure Hank doesn't steal their food. Ideally I would have different pastures & pens to separate everybody by their production stage to feed them correctly, but I just have this one area so when I feed I have to guard the feed pans when the lambs eat." The amount I paid him equated to about $40/hour so I hope he fed them correctly and didn't do what he wanted to do. He was telling me though that he had to fight Hank to keep him away, so I'm thinking he followed my instructions. Hank knows he will get kicked by me if he comes near the lambs when they eat so he has learned to just stick his head in the hay feeder and he's happy. He learned fast
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Just got back in from feeding my sheep
THE GATE WAS WIDE OPEN! OMG, it must have been open all day since the last time I went through it was last night. Unless someone went in there? But fortunately the sheep were still in the field. I'm surprised they didn't venture out!
But my overall impression of the city was that it was very safe. There were cops on every block. I ended up becoming feeling very safe by the end of the trip, I would've walked on the streets by myself if I knew where I was going! We only ran into 2 or 3 nasty people. Every body else was very nice & helpful. But it was soo much fun! We got back last night around 7:30ish.THURSDAY
We arrived in NYC around 9:30/10ish. It was me, my mom, my grandmother, and my aunt & cousin from Rockville. We met up with my aunt & cousin from Florida at the hotel. On our way into the city, we saw the Statue of Liberty. My mom yelled out "Look, the Statue of Liberty!" and my grandmother was like "the real one?!" and my mom replied "Yes, this isn't Vegas!"
It was sooo funny! lol But we got to our hotel (the Marriott Marquis) and we were on the 20th floor and the bubble elevators were awesome. We went out and walked around Times Square (which looked SO futuristic, it was awesome) and we went to the M&M Store. Three levels of chocolate! Almost as good as Hershey World in Hershey, PA FRIDAY
Friday my aunt & cousin from North Carolina showed up in the morning at the hotel. We started out with breakfast at this random little bakery in the city. I don't even remember what it was called! lol But we then went to the bus tour building and we got our NYC Bus Pass card and our bus tickets. We then went on a bus tour of NYC and we got off at the Empire State Building. We went up to the 86th floor for free with our NYC Bus Pass Card (if you go to NYC--definitely buy one for each person; it is soo worth it, especially since many places are $40-$50 each for admission).
We then ate at the restaurant on the bottom floor of the Empire State Building. They had a 10 oz Filet Mignon for $31.50
Then we made our way over to the 9/11 Memorial. It was soo pretty. Each spot that once has the Twin Towers (each about 1 acre in size) now has a reflecting pool. They are building like 8 or 12 World Trade Center towers all around the Memorial.
After we went through the Memorial, we went to the gift shop and I got a picture with an NYPD officer!!
That was one of my goals of the trip, lol. So after this we walked back to the hotel and six of us went out to an Irish Pub. The food was FABULOUS. Everybody enjoyed their food. My grandmother had TWO Irish Coffees (yes, with the whiskey in them, too) and we all had dessert. I had my first REAL New York Cheesecake there Oh and it was soo funny afterwards. We were walking Times Square again and there was a group of about 8-10 cops--young and all were extremely attractive. My somewhat drunk grandmother YELLED out "HUBBA, HUBBA!" and the cops all looked at her and she just started laughing and she laughed so hard she peed her pants! Oh what Whiskey does to you..... lolSATURDAY
On Saturday we went to Grand Central Station and then we went to the New York Public Library (staircase pictured below).
We then stopped at Madame Tussaud's and I got pictures with Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kim Kardashian, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Harrison Ford, Robin Williams, John Wayne, Elvis, Leonardo Di Caprio, George Bush, Ronald Regan, Kate Middleton and her husband (my mom laughed at me the first time I said that--she was like "that would be Prince William"), Marilyn Monroe, Justin Bieber, the Jonas Brothers, Usher, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and a bunch of other people. It was soo cool seeing how tall (or short!) some of these people actually are. I was surprised at how tall Taylor Swift was. And how short Usher was.
After Madame Tussaud's we walked around and found the Cake Boss Cafe. OF COURSE we had to go in and I had THE most delicious Oreo Tower Cake.
We then went to the Museum of Natural History (you know, where Night at the Museum was filmed?), but my cousin & I were soo disappointed because all we wanted to see & take pictures of was the T-rex, Sacajawea, the monkey, the dum-dum I want gum-gum statue, and Owen Wilson's little town. We only saw the T-rex and the dum-dum I want gum-gum statue. Everything else we couldn't find and it looked nothing like the movie. You would've thought they would've at least made it more realistic :/ Oh well. It was still interesting, though.
(Sorry for the blurry photo--the Museum had poor lighting)
In the Hall of African Mammals, they had these (I think they're Gemsbok?) and I was really shocked of how well the taxidermist captured the alert look on them. It reminds me of when I would approach the sheep flock at eye level and I would have them face me, heads high, ears alert, and eyes wide. They did an awesome job with this.
After that we went to Central Park to go to the Castle. We climbed all the way to the top. It was really pretty. We also saw Cleopatra's Needle (I think that's what my aunt said it was).
We were then going to go to the 48th floor of the Hotel to eat at the restaurant there. Turns out the buffet starts at $80 per person. NO WAY could any of us eat that much food. So instead we went to John's Pizzeria. We still had to go some place fancy because we all brought dressy clothes and us granddaughters all wanted to dress up and look pretty!
Then when we got back to the hotel we changed into normal clothes again and we wanted to go ice skating. Well skating at Rockefeller's was like $38 and skating at a park was like $18. But the line was like 2 hours long so we ended up not doing that
We ended up just walking around some more and then going back to the hotel to sleep.SUNDAY
Sunday we went to the Staten Island Commuter Ferry because they (drive?) real close to the Statue of Liberty. Ellis Island was closed due to Hurricane Sandy damage, so we had to do the next best thing so we could see Lady Liberty. But oh my gosh, it was soo foggy out! The picture below is of the city while we were on the Ferry.
We then walked down Wall Street and saw the NYSE. It was pretty cool. We then went down the Fashion District and saw DASH, Prada, Chanel, etc. My cousin got yelled at by one of the security guards in DASH because she was taking a picture of an outfit
But I saw a really pretty suit jacket, made of wool. Guess how much it was? $952!!!! I wish raw wool prices were even 1% of that!
After that we headed over to the Brooklyn Bridge, but there was construction going on so you couldn't see over the sides of it to take pretty pictures. So we gave up and took the subway over to Macy's. Macy's was on 34th Street (Miracle on 34th Street) and it is 11 stories high and they had an Auntie Anne's, Ben & Jerry's, McDonald's, and so much in there. They even sold Carharrt clothing!
This was the roof of someone's apartment/condo/house. They had a lawn, a grill, a couple trellises, and a hot tub. Could you imagine what kind of parties they would throw?
Walking off of the Brooklyn Bridge, I saw this building. I thought it looked so cool.
Pretty much Macy's was our last stop, then we had to go back to the hotel to pick up our luggage. My family from NC & FL went to the airport and all of us from MD got our car and started driving home. We started going through a tunnel when the car battery light went on. When we got out of the tunnel, we stopped at a gas station and my mom checked the cables or whatever to see if anything was loose. Nope. Then our lights inside our car started getting dim. So my mom started freaking out so we unplugged our GPS and the phone that was charging. Then my mom's gages went caput. We were freaking out and all the local auto shops were closed because it was Sunday night. Our head lights went out, too, but we kept trucking because my mom didn't want to pay for a towing bill on top of whatever was wrong with the car. So we finally found a Sears and our car had completely died by the time we pulled into the parking lot. We ran inside, but the auto part of the store had already closed down. But the guy was still there and he got us all hooked up for the first appointment of the next day and he even walked us to our hotel (which was great because there were a lot of sketchy people hanging out near the mall that night and who wouldn't have wanted to see what us five girls had in our suitcases?) and showed us how to get back to Sears the next morning! He was soo nice.
MONDAY
We woke up stranded in Jersey City. But we bought train tickets over to Hobokken (it was only a mile, but a mile our feet were too exhausted to walk because of all of our walking this past weekend) and we went to Carlo's Bake Shop!! Unfortunately Mondays are the family's day off so we didn't get to meet any of the sisters or Buddy. But it was still a nice experience. I bought an autographed DVD of the 4th season of Cake Boss and I bought a strawberry cheesecake. It was AMAZINGLY delicious and it was nice and creamy.
After that, our car still wasn't done so we went to a little park and we got pictures of NYC from NJ. It was about time to check out of our hotel so we went back and had them hold our luggage for us. Well then we walked over to the mall, hung out for a half hour, walked over to Sears, got our car, went over to the hotel to get our luggage, and FINALLY went back home. I slept the first 1-2 hours. Apparently it took an hour to go a mile due to an accident--boy am I glad I slept during that part! But the rest of the ride home was bearable. I was awake for the last 2-3 hours of the trip. And we stopped at my McDonald's on the way home and my mom came in with me (I had to check the schedule and the family wanted food) and my mom was like "you should hook up with him. he's cute. i think he likes you."
and on and on lolMe in front of Carlo's
My box of delicious goodness
This is the best picture of my cheesecake I got. Because then I wanted to eat it.
Me in the park
This is the world trade center(?) under construction
The empire state building
BUT I'm just happy to be home! And my sheep are, too. My brother opened up the door to the house and the dogs came out to see us and I yelled "MAGGIE!" and she came running over to me wagging her little tail and my sheep of course heard my voice and ALL of them were baaing at me. Not just one little baa each. They were long, drawn out baas that were VERY loud. And they kept baaing until I got out there with their food and then they were jumping around. And they all let me pet them
Normally I'm lucky if I get to pet all of them in one night lol. I guess they missed me feeding them! Lol I had my grandfather feed them for me. He was so stubborn about it, though. He kept saying "I'm going to feed them like a real farmer and I'm just going to throw whatever out and they can all eat it." I was like "No, if you want $20, you will feed them the way I feed them and you will make sure that the hay gets in the feeder and my lambs get their correct ration and make sure Hank doesn't steal their food. Ideally I would have different pastures & pens to separate everybody by their production stage to feed them correctly, but I just have this one area so when I feed I have to guard the feed pans when the lambs eat." The amount I paid him equated to about $40/hour so I hope he fed them correctly and didn't do what he wanted to do. He was telling me though that he had to fight Hank to keep him away, so I'm thinking he followed my instructions. Hank knows he will get kicked by me if he comes near the lambs when they eat so he has learned to just stick his head in the hay feeder and he's happy. He learned fast -----
Just got back in from feeding my sheep
THE GATE WAS WIDE OPEN! OMG, it must have been open all day since the last time I went through it was last night. Unless someone went in there? But fortunately the sheep were still in the field. I'm surprised they didn't venture out!
Pearce Pastures
Barn Babe
WOW what a cool trip! LOL, at grandma.
HankTheTank
Loving the herd life
Cool trip! You know, I've only been to the city twice, and I've NEVER seen the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.. and I live in NY!
No pictures of the policemen....?
No pictures of the policemen....?
Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
Wow what a recap! NYC is so much fun, I'm glad you had such a great time and got to see so many things! I love your pics of everything. I have been impressed with NYC the last couple of times I went at how clean everything was and how many cops were around. Thanks for the photoblog!
Oh and I'm glad your sheep are still alive after Grandpa I'm sure they missed you very much.
Oh and I'm glad your sheep are still alive after Grandpa
I'm sure they missed you very much. 
bonbean01
Herd Master
Thanks for the photos...and I'm glad you had a great trip
Have to admit...I have no desire to go there...must be something wrong with me
Have to admit...I have no desire to go there...must be something wrong with me
