Welcome to Spasticville, KS

Yes folks, that's right. Spasticville. Only 46 miles south east of McPherson. Spasticville is an area in Valley Center. It was named after a house that used to be a home for mentally disabled people. Inappropriate, you say? Absolutely!
I learned of Spasticville on the local news this evening. They shared a few other fun names of towns in the U.S. of A. With a little research, I found a few more. Here's a top 10 list of some of my faves! Enjoy!


10.Oatmeal, TX
9. Monkey's Eyebrow, KY
8. Looneyville, WV
7. Boring, OR
6. Hellhole, ID
5. Lick Skillet, VA
4. Buttzville, NJ
3. Bird in Hand, PA
2. Beans, NH
Tied for #1: Crapo, MD & Pee Pee, OH

Easter on the farm

It has been so nice having Nathan and Marika here for Easter. We went to church this morning and then had dinner at Dwight & Cindy's with Emily, Tyler and Rowan. After a tasty meal and apple pie we went out to see the baby calves.

Nathan and Marika sat in the big combine and got a lesson on how a combine works.

Then we rode around on the 4-wheeler for a little bit. Tonight Marika and I went to Dillons to get ingredients for mac & cheese and mushroom bacon green beans. (Both recipes are on her blog http://www.marikanolt.blogspot.com/) So good! We watched Big Brother and Nathan and Dwight played guitar and sang. It's really nice to relax and hang out with them. We still have tomorrow for more fun times!

He is risen!

This morning we had a sunrise service. The service was at 7:00 and breakfast in the basement afterward. Our pastor brought me back to a tradition that I have missed. From the pulpit he said, "He is risen." Those who were familiar replied, "He is risen indeed." This is something I remember from Easters past, and I have missed it.

I ain't bloged in a minute!

But Gap is boring and expensive

Read this b.s.

http://www.247wallst.com/2008/03/ubiquitous-20th.html

You don't understand how upset I am about this Old Navy/Gap issue. Are you kidding me? No more Old Navy? Okay fine! Gap has some nice clothes, but I've had a love affair with Old Navy since I saw the first commercial on local television when I was in high school. The Salina Mall just got an Old Navy last summer and it has been oh so convenient. This hurts my feelings.

I'm not happy about K-Mart or Yahoo! either.

If I were president, I would end the war in Iraq and make Old Navy promise not to disappear.

and we're down ta two.

Puff must not be a very good mother. Another kitten died. It was the gray one. We're down to 2 orange kitties.

Free fallin' down the...free fallin' down the

We've all done it. Tried to sing along to a song only to find out the words you are singing are not the actual words to the song. The title of this blog entry is an example of one such event. It was 1989 when Tom Petty's song Free Fallin was released. I was just a child. I remember watching the video on VH1 with Nathan. After the second time the chorus is sung the video shows people skating down a ramp. The actual words in the chorus are: Free fallin, now I'm free fallin. I don't think it was too far off base for me to think he was talking about free fallin down the ramp on a skate board. Hence, free fallin down the...free fallin (down the ramp!)

Do you know the song The Tears of a Clown? The chorus says: The tears of a clown, when there's no one around.
What I thought the words were: Fifty years of a clown when there's no one around.

What about Blur Song 2. The actual words: I got my head checked by a jumbo jet.
What Adam thought the words were: I got my head shaved by a trombone-jay

You know it's happened to you too. What are some of the funniest lyrical mistakes that you or your loved ones have made?

Update for Shawn

I called Adam on my way home from work to see if the gray kitty was still alive. He went to check and found that Puff had given birth to yet another kitten two days after the others. The gray kitty was dead and so was one of the orange ones. I don't know for sure if it was a new orange one or if it was one of the first born orange ones.

I also found out that its an old wives tail that you can't touch the babies until a certain age. I can touch 'em all I want!

Overnight guests?

Last night after checking on the kittens one last time I went to bed. It was around 10:30. Puff was mothering her kitties and trying to hide them from me.

Around 12:20 a.m. I awoke from a pretty deep sleep. Adam woke up too. We heard little mews that sounded really close by. I turned on the light to find that one by one, Puff had carried her babies up from the basement to our room and onto our bed. She placed them between our pillows.

We didn't want to squish them, and I didn't really want new born kitten goo in my bed, so one by one with a plastic bag over my hand to hide my scent I carried the kitties back down to their box in the basement. Adam followed with Puff.

She grabbed one in her mouth and made a run for it. I caught her and started to take them back to their box and the baby kitty fell from Puff's mouth on to the floor. I am afraid that was the kitty who doesn't look so good today. I hope it wasn't my fault.

Four kittens

Puff actually had four kittens last night. There is one that we're not sure is going to make it. It doesn't seem to be doing very well. :(

The kittens are here!

This evening Puff was acting really whiney. She was following me around everywhere. I was watching her and noticed that her back half look like it was contracting. I told Adam she was having contractions. I really didn't know. Only a few minutes later her water broke. Tiny was running around crazy so I took him upstairs and Puff stayed downstairs with Adam. Adam came up about a half an hour later and said Puff had two kittens. I went down right away to see them. Within 15 minutes she had another one! There are two blackish and one orange. They look like little mice. For as big as she was I'm surprised she didn't have seven. I think that Tiny was so excited because he knew he was about to have baby cousins.

I caught him sleeping with another girl...twice

No Nuts

We have a little orange kitty who's name is Tiny. On Tuesday Adam took him to the vet to be neutered. When I got home that evening Adam let me know that every thing had gone okay saying, "Operation no nuts was a success."

Oops

I'm a facebooker. If you're familiar with facebook then you know that there is a little box after your name where you can type something describing your mood, the day you've had or anything really.
Example: YOUR NAME: needs a haircut.
Well the other evening after I had felt Puff's kittens moving around in her belly I happened to check my facebook. In that little status box I put. LGB: Felt the babies move. It wasn't until the next morning I questioned whether I had used the word "babies" or "kittens" fearing that babies might give some the wrong impression. I signed on to facebook to check and it was too late. I had a very sweet congratulatory message from an old family friend. She was telling me how I was going to be a busy mom just like her. She questioned whether it was twins or more.
How embarrassing! Not only was it not me that is pregnant, it's not even a human. I wrote her a message right away to try to explain what happened. I felt so stupid. I changed my status to make it clear that I was not pregnant.
A short time after I signed off my phone rang. It was Erin. She had signed on and seen Diana's message to me and was feeling more than a little left out. (No worries Erwin! You won't find out through facebook when it's for real.) For some reason she couldn't get past the opening page to see any kind of explanation. Oops. I hope no one else saw that.