we need a goat

Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007 | 11:47 AM

i can't sleep again. this really sucks. darn it, that's why i didn't want to get rid of the pills.

i'm just laying in bed, thinking. i have a lot of stuff on my mind. like the website that i should be working on, and the backyard, and goats, and a metal chicken feeder, and my angora ferret, and i hope that bryce is on tonight.

i really need to work on this website. sometimes i have a hard time getting myself to get started on things like that. then once i do, then i obsess over it and work on it and work on it and work on it until i'm done. i ignore the animals, don't eat, and lose sleep. i like, turn into a zombie. my mom will walk by my door and say something, and i'll say, "uh huh," but not really hear anything she says. it might go something like this...

"i'm gonna let the dogs out, will you let them back in?"

"uh huh... (pause) ...what?"

she repeats, "i'm gonna let the dogs out, will you let them back in?" to which i still didn't listen.

a half hour later, "bark! bark! bark! bark!"

and i'm all, "SHUT UP!! why doesn't someone let those dogs in?"

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i've come to the conclusion that we're not gonna be moving any time soon, so i'm gonna try to make this place more livable, as far as the animals. we're gonna turn the back deck area into a um... cat/dog/ferret room. off of the deck, there's stairs leading to a little fenced in gravel area. from there, there's a gate that leads to the rest of the yard. so they can have the deck and the gravel area. we're gonna put walls around it, and a roof on it. on the deck, we're gonna build a nice ferret cage. ferrets can be kept outside, they're hardy animals. the natural light is better for them anyway. not to mention, it wont be completely outsidish, with walls and a roof.

my closet leads right to the deck, so we can put a cat door in my closet, so they can come in and out of my room. i don't want them to be stuck outside all the time. they like it in here, and being in here, they get more attention. so they can still be in my room, but i won't need a litter box in here. at night, or during "my night," i can put them out and close the door.

i will be able to sleep without animal noise, and without animal smell!

and the dogs, they can just go out like normal. i think lolly is big enough now that she can be around them.

so i'll trade spending an hour cleaning the litter box and frisky's cage, with going outside with the "pooper scooper" thing and a hose. (which i already do anyway.) i think it'll be much better.

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i also think we need a goat. our yard has a tendency to get very overgrown with grass and stupid blackberry bushes. a goat would solve this.

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at the moment, the chicken and pigeon food is stored in the chicken coop in plastic garbage cans. the problem with this is that i always have to go out there and fill their bowls, and the rats chewed a hole in one of the cans, so it actually doesn't hold food very well.

i want to get something like this. we get 50 pound bags of food, so two of those would hold all of the pigeon and chicken food. but before ordering it online, i want to look at what they have at the feed store, because i'm sure they have something like that.

we also need to get some rat repellant. not only are they destructive, but feeding them is a waste of food. and it's gross when they die.

we were working outside yesterday, moving a pile of garbage out of the gravel area, when we smelled something terrible. it smelled like something had died. as i was walking through the yard, i came upon the BIGGEST rat i have ever seen. it was enormous. it was like as big as frisky, except not as long. it was laying there, all huge and dead. it was really gross. my dad buried it.

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i'm really excited about my angora ferret. i'm getting a female, and she's gonna be cinnamon colored. it sucks waiting for her to be shipped. she's gonna get her spayed this week, but she won't be able to ship her until the weather cools off. oh, the anticipation!

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so, that's all that is on sarah's mind, for the most part. actually there's probably hundreds of things on my fast moving mind, but i guess those are the main things that i've been pondering while laying in bed. now that i've written about it, maybe i'll be able to sleep some.

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