Viper

   My cousins from Mexico came to visit. They came to the farm and are staying for two and a half weeks. They enjoyed gathering the eggs and watching the cows (albeit from a distance). They went into the forest an swung from vines.

   Then one day we saw the snake. Maria (my cousin) and me were going to the storage to get something when we saw an enormous snake, three and a half feet long. I took a picture, since my cousin wouldn't get thirty feet from the snake.

   Maria swore she wouldn't step a foot outside ever again. Just the next day, though, she was running outside again.

I'll Think Up A Name For You In A Second

   A friend gave us four more cats than the two we already had (we had three beforehand but the first one we had disapeared). My dad wants these cats to eat the mice so he dosen't let them eat in the house, but instead we only dump them some food in the morning so they don't starve, and we leave them water outside. The only problem is that our miserable goat loves cat food for some reason, and so when we leave them food outside he comes and eats it. The only solution is to tie the goat up until the cats finish eating or to put the food where the goat can't reach.

   Remember that the goat is lonesome 'cause his brothers where killed by the coyote. Some crazy idea came to the it that me and my brothers had horns like him and we liked to headbut. Oh oh. Almost all of us have been nearly mauled by the deranged goat. Of course, he usualy stops just before he reaches us, but now we're not so sure.

Animal Revolt

   A coyote ate two more keets today. (A keet is a guinea fowl). They havn't told me how they found out, but I think my dad just counted them and there wasn't 21. We havn't actually seen anymore coyotes since last time, and we think its becase my dad scared them away with the rifle (he didn't hit them, though)

   A couple days ago, our neighbor's cow got into our property, while our own cows escaped. We let our cows out every morning and afternoon to another area, since they have absolutely no grass were they usualy are. The new area is bordered with electrical strings. One time, my dad forgot to turn on the electricity, so the cows ran out. it took forever to get them back in. A day later or so, a neighbor's cow got into the land around our house. He got in becase the fence over the creek is loose. We had to drive the cow to the other side of the fence through the gate. 

   The hens are running everywhere. Sometimes it means they laid an egg, and sometimes it means they are trying to annoy us. By the way, if you see the picture of the keets on the  entry called COYOTE, you'll see there is a yellow bird. That is a rooster. It crows every morning. At first, the cock-a-doodle-doo sounded ridiculous, like a deranged frog trying to sing. Eventually, he got better at it.