After a long winter the chickens spend a lot of time just soaking up the spring sun.
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And now back to our regularly scheduled programming
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I was going to post a chicken picture today.
And then Madeline went and broke the Osage 7th grade girls record for the mile.
Scratch the chicken picture.
1 year ago:
* Rubber chore boots replace snow boots
* Chairs returned to the front porch
* Green grass
* Still need a stocking cap
Hear me crow!
Soooo good looking.
Lookit me and my bad self.
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Oh my gosh (or “O.M.G.” as my eldest daughter would say), you guys are good! So many answers that I just couldn’t choose. I couldn’t! So I handed the laptop over to Matt and made him pick.
There were a whole lot of names that made me hungry. For chocolate. And coffee. And pie. And ice cream. I thought Aileen’s continuation of the Shakespeare theme was brilliant. Kristi’s observation that he has George Clooney eyes – how right she is! After this contest’s entry and the last one, I think Patti is jonesing for some beef 😉
So I made Matt choose, and after he hemmed and hawed (what does that even mean?) he finally went with … (drumroll please)…Bullwinkle! Thanks for the name, Carrie! A calf named after a moose – perfect!
Carrie, please email me your pick of the photos and your mailing address to themillers92 (at) osage (dot) net.
Stay tuned, another contest coming up…soon 🙂
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You already met Number Six’s baby a couple of weeks ago – a cute solid brownish-black bull calf. Now you get to help name him!
Once again, winner will get pick of a 5×7 photo from this collection:
(or you can choose the picture of “your” calf shown here!)
Comments will close tomorrow (Monday) at 9 p.m. central.
Can’t wait to hear what you come up with!
(Twinville – I need your mailing address to send Zorro’s picture your way. But I understand you’ve been a little preoccupied this week with the fire, so no hurry! Email themillers92 (at) osage (dot) net whenever you get around to it. Hope everyone is safe!)
(Judy – I also need your mailing address, and which picture you’d like for your win naming Shakespeare. Thanks!)
3 years ago:
Today I drove a car full of girls down to the Iowa middle school girls state track meet in Ankeny, just one in a caravan of cars from Osage. Spring track meets in Iowa (or tennis, or golf, or trap shoot meets for that matter) are an interesting game for the spectator as well as athlete, because you just never know what kind of weather you’re going to be sitting in. Today was cold (started in the mid-30’s, “warmed” up into the 40’s in the afternoon) and windy (20 to 30 mph). So along came the sleeping bags, hats, mittens and winter coats. But at least it wasn’t raining, a rare thing this spring, and the sun was out. Except nobody was thinking sunscreen or lip balm this time of year and after 10 hours in a set of west-facing bleachers we all looked rather pink.
So though there were (many) portions of it that were long and rather boring (like 6 heats of the 1500), it was still fun to watch the girls compete at this level and I was glad I went. Despite only getting in 2.5 meets around the rain so far this spring they did all right. There was some tough competition!
Madeline ran first leg of the shuttle hurdle relay, 400 (last) leg of the sprint medley, and anchored the 4 x 400.
Here she is coming over the first hurdle (in the middle in the green & the black under armour). She just ran this race in a meet for the first time last Thursday, so I was a little nervous about it. But their team placed 4th overall in this event in the small schools division, so I guess I worried for nothing (as usual, I guess.)
She likes to run the 7 flight hurdles. And yet it seems to me like she’s got a distance runner’s build. But what do I know?
Just last week she started running the mile, and got 2nd in last Thursday’s track meet – only 10 seconds off the 7th grade girls school record. So she’s excited to work at improving her time this week and gunning for that record 🙂
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Madeline & Rafe were helping Matt fix fence in the pasture last weekend where I caught them having a little convo on the tractor.
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Wow, this was harder than I thought it was going to be! So many good suggestions.
“Bandit” from both Quilted Simple and Haymaker was very cute.
Matt’s favorite was “Rocky” from David. But I think this calf’s a lover, not a fighter. And since the prize is one of my pictures, I got to overrule him.
“Dominoe” from Sea 2 Shore Farm was in the running right up until the end.
Loved Karen’s “Kiss” idea, hailing back to my rock band days.
Debbie’s “Blackjack” idea was another one pretty fitting for this little guy. Jack was our “boy name” when we had our daughters and it’s still a favorite of mine.
“Marcel” from Blue Yonder was a great one, and did you know that when I was 13 my best friend and I did a pantomime act and won ourselves a trip to the Iowa State Fair? Good times.
But ultimately I had to go with Judy and call this calf “Shakespeare”. (With a hat tip to Farm Mom who brought up the Shakespeare connection with “Revelry”!) It was his dramatic start to life and his theatrical white mask that makes “Shakespeare” fit so well.
So Twinville and Judy, please email me your name, mailing address, and what photo you’d like to themillers92 (at) osage (dot) net. I’ll be sending your pick in a 5×7 print with a white border, suitable for framing 🙂 (And Judy, if you want either one of these photos of Shakespeare instead of one from the group just let me know.)
Thanks for playing, everybody! Keep your thinking caps on…another “Name That Calf Contest” coming up Sunday night!
Edited to add:
(1) I changed to allow anonymous comments. So if you comment anonymously just leave your name in your comment so I can tell the anonymous’s apart.
(2) I added a picture of Zorro (for you, Twinville:)
As of this morning, our last calf is on the ground! So it’s time to finish naming these guys…wanna help? (So far we have Zorro, and Dimitry.)
This is calf #3, a handsome little bull calf who started off life in dramatic fashion.
In his closeup you can see he’s got funny little old man hair in his ears! And a cute speckly nose.
So leave your suggestions in the comments of this post. Comments will close at 9 p.m. Central tomorrow (Wednesday).
Winner gets their pick of a 5×7 photo from this collection that I’m preparing for sale on Etsy:
And since Twinville named Zorro, she gets first pick of the pics! (Email me or leave a comment with the name of the picture you’d like.)
Ready, set, go…can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
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