So I forgot to post this picture earlier...kind of hilairous huh? It's from a few weeks ago in Colorado. I never claimed I was the most experienced skiier on the course that day...but I will say I was the most fashionable.
Welp...can't say that I have too much to say, but it's been raining for about 8 hours and I just finished complaining to my mom on the phone about how bored I am....and she scolded me for not writing on the blog. She was right...so I'm gonna take this opportunity to blabber. Thanks for reading.
I finished reading a cool book that I am ready to recommend to anybody ready to learn about something they probably know nothing about. Enough suspense? Okay...the book is called All the Shah's Men. It's about the US-backed covert coup and overthrow of the Iranian prime minister Mossadegh in the 1950's. Now it may sound like a relatively particular situation that you could go on with your life without knowing the details of. But....the things is, this book explains so much about the current situation in Iran and the middle east and why there seems to be a lack of understanding between middle eastern and western cultures. It sheds light on how extremist governments have come to power in Iran and other developing countries and why the US is not viewed as the friendly giant. Anyway...it's good.
Ummm...also I want to make a general call to see if anyone would like to travel in Central America any time between immediately and May. Even as little time as a week is welcomed. I am stirring the idea of going back to the Nicaraguan area since I have some unfinished travelling business and a free airline ticket. Any takers?
So something I am learning out here on the ranch is how brutal nature is. It's true...and it's something that really has to be experienced to be understood. Today Julia went to check on the goats and she found a mother-goat giving birth to an infant. It was pouring down rain and the process wasn't going so well. The kid had been stuck with only its head outside of the mother for a long time (maybe hours) and its head was swollen to almost twice the normal size. It's eyes were swollen shut and the tongue swollen and hanging out of its mouth. Julia pulled the kid out and later John and Ben went back and carried the mother and kid to a drier area under some trees. Picture this...Ben with the adult slung over his shoulders and John with the kid in one hand and the placenta in the other. The mother was "completely stressed out" according to Ben and seemed to have another kid inside of her that will probably come soon. We'll see if the shade of the trees will help things pan out in favor of the baby and mother both. Julia's the real goat expert though and she didn't seem too optimistic. Nature can be cruel....but I guess that's the way it has to be. Yesterday we found one of the dogs chewing on an aborted deer fetus. Hmm.
So on a lighter note.....I ate a whole box of graham crackers today in one setting. I had forgotten how good they are.
Alright....I gotta run, I have to pretend like I am helping to cook dinner. Mostly that consists of moving things around in the kitchen while other people cook. It's not easy being this smooth.
Bree
2 comments:
yes, you are my idol. i could never eat as many graham crackers, be so interesting with my book choices and look so good on the snow trail. but, i can relate to watching dogs eat deer parts and that has to count for something. i might be down because no one has called to give me the job yet, so monday i might be making a radical decision to visit central america with my far more fashionable, couth and generally amazing friend (you).
yum graham crackers! and deer fetus! if you come to central america, you should visit me, as chiapas used to be part of guatemala, which counts as central america. anyway, at least go to guatemala, its lovely.
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