Test-phones... A few nights ago Rayna was telling Darcy all about how Jesus had healed a blind man. Darcy replied, “Oh, is that the time Jesus spit on the ground and then put the mud from His spit and the dirt in the man’s eyes?” Thoroughly taken aback, Rayna declared, “NO! Jesus doesn’t SPIT…He has a BRAIN!!!”

Earlier this week, the dogs were savoring raccoon remains. Asking WHAT they were eating, Darcy explained to Rayna that it was “intestines”. Rayna likes to re-use all newly heard words again as soon as possible. Later that afternoon she was telling her daddy all about the “test-phones” the dogs had been chewing on...leaving her daddy totally baffled. He might never have figured out what test-phones were if Darcy hadn’t been around to translate!



About six weeks ago, we found two abandoned puppies by the side of a seldom traveled dirt road. They were pretty wild and tangle of burrs. They cleaned up nicely, though, and tamed down over just a matter of a few days. We found a home for the one that looked like an oversized Border Collie (a fuzzy Panda-bear-of-a-dog) with Doug’s first grade teacher. (She lives way out in the country, has four children, and her husband has cows.) We had named the little guy “Rohan”…Mrs. Yanhig’s children re-named him “Napoleon” (in honor of Napoleon Dynamite). Meanwhile, we kept the little girl…the solid black pup. Her name is “Rivendell”. The vet says she probably has quite a lot of Australian Shepherd in her. She weighs 20 pounds and we are guessing that she is probably 14-16 weeks old.

One last tidbit to mention…Rayna spotted a huge, wild turkey strutting across our front yard this morning. She thought it was a “goose” and begged me to go catch it so she could “keep it”! She could not be convinced that a wild turkey wouldn’t make a great pet! And she was absolutely certain that her mother could surely catch that turkey for her, if she would just TRY!!!  ¶ 4/28/2006 06:25:00 PM