Kali's Graduation Weekend - Pt 2 The Zoo

This photos is the newest cutie that my Dad had born the day before we arrived.

I worked hard on my photos from this weekend yesterday and got them ready for flicker. Some of them I uploaded so only we can see them till I get permission to post them, but for the most part I'm done. I'll still divide up posting about our trip into parts, for more than one reason...one is so I don't have as long a post.

Anyway, about "the zoo". When we arrived at my parents house, I swear we could have been in a zoo, with all the animal noises we heard (mostly birds). My brother has been collecting some different animals so now it sounds totally different from what I grew up with around there. I heard chickens and goats of course, but there are also two different kinds of ducks...



some guineas, pigeons, peacocks & turkeys...



Dogs & Cats...



Sheep & a couple of Donkeys.



I've never liked the donkeys to well, they have had them for 2 or 3 years now I think, and frankly I don't think they are worth it. Especially the one in the above photo. She likes to run the goats now and then, which I wouldn't tolerate, and she ran Minqua who wasn't used to Donkeys, back into the barn, when they first met. Hopefully they will learn to live with each other, but till then I'm sure it's going to be rough. Poor Minqua. Dad did take the donkey out and put it in a separate pasture, so Minqua could get used to her new surroundings and herd before she has to try to get used to a donkey around, but eventually he will put her back in with her and they will have to learn to get along, hopefully they can.

The things that I dislike the most, because they are the noisiest (they woke me up the last morning I was there at 5:30, an ungodly hour if you ask me...except I was trying to get some early morning cool photos so I didn't just go shoot all of them! *giggle*) are the guineas. They are ugly but that I could live with, its the almost constant noise they like to make that would annoy me to death. The only way I would let one on our place, is if we were going to put it in the freezer QUICKLY! Ok the only way I would let one on the place, if I had any say so, would be that way. *giggle* I like the peace and quiet of our country life, and while yes we have animals that make noise now and then, it's not as constant as the guineas do, so to me it's peaceful and quiet with an occasional baaaaa or crow or cluck with a bark thrown in here or there and maybe a meow or two. LOL Heaven on earth is what it is. However I'll have to continue to call Mom & Dad's the zoo, least as long as they have all those noisy animals. Neat to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there...although they do have beautiful scenery.

To each his own I guess, I don't care what animals other people have as long as I don't have to live with them. LOL I do love my animals...just not some of the ones that now live at Mom & Dad's house. In fact I think I am better at taking photos of animals than people...I think I actually pretty much suck at people photos...but that's the way it goes I guess, when you are an animal lover. I love my family, but that doesn't mean I can take good photos of them. LOL

Well I think I better get off here for now, supper is almost done, have a great evening!! :)