It was a Saturday and I had just won my jiu jitsu tournament.  My dad had promised me that I would get to invite anyone over that I wanted to and I chose Amelia.  Amelia couldn’t come for a Saturday play date but she could come to the ranch on Sunday if that worked and it did. We picked her up at 8:30 and when we arrived at the ranch we stuck our heads out of the window while my mom opened the new gate.  Once it had closed behind us my mom drove up to the ranch house where we saw two cars parked out front.   When we got in the house Amelia and I said “hi” to my Uncle Jud and little cousin Porter and then Noni. 

After we greeted them and had gotten a snack we headed to the turkey coop with my uncle and Porter.  We had left some food inside the turkey coop to encourage them to go in but sadly we saw that they had just eaten all the food from the outside.  When we left the turkey coop my mom got the Can-Am out while Amelia and I caught grasshoppers.  When my mom had pulled around Amelia and I hopped in and stuck our heads out the door windows.  After a few minutes suddenly my mom jolted to a stop and said “Get out! Get Out! Get out!” It scared Amelia and I so we jumped out quickly. My mom ran towards some bushes and we saw a turtle!  Amelia picked it up and my mom took some pictures.  At first I was a little scared but eventually I picked him up and he was a nice little guy.  I put him down after a few minutes and he scurried into the brush. 

Once we got to the other side of the property Amelia and I jumped out of Can-Am  and ran towards the chicken coops.  I could not believe my eyes!  One of the bantam hens was running around the coop and the other one was with the bantam roosters in their tractor.   It’s like they can’t make up their minds where they want to live!  Amelia and I chased the hen that was out and finally I pinned her to the ground, took a deep breath and put her in with the other bantams.  The chickens in the other coop were making a huge racket but when Amelia and I brought over some chicken scratch they quieted down.  While all of the chickens were eating we grabbed their eggs from the nesting boxes.  The bantams had laid ten eggs while cash had laid three.  

Amelia and I decided that we would go see Dancer and grab her food and water buckets.  When we had gotten back to the shed we were panting because we had run the whole way there and back.  When we got Dancer’s food ready we gave her a lot so that she could have dinner too.  Once all of Dancer’s stuff was in the back of the Can-Am we drove out to her and her friends.  While my mom had gone to take care of the chickens’ water, food, and fresh bedding, Amelia and I decided to explore.  We walked across the property until we got to a gate but we didn’t want to go any further.  So we started to look for stuff when we found a hole and figured it was probably where the neighbor’s bull got out.  We decided to dig in that spot just for fun but a few minutes later we were not very far.  A few more minutes later we fortunately found a glass bottle and a brush and that helped us dig deeper. Suddenly my mom came and said that Dancer needed some love so we ran back to Dancer, leaving the brush and glass bottle behind us. 

Once we had brushed Dancer we started to mash up her food and when we were done it was almost gone and our hands were very dirty.  We headed back towards the chickens hoping that Dancer would lay down so we could get her new cloud boots on her.  Cloud boots are boots for horses that help the horse walk if they have severe laminitis in the front feet.  Luckly Dancer was laying down.  Quickly my mom put some Equi-Spot on Dancer while Amelia and I tried to get a boot on.  Sadly we could only get one boot on Dancer and that was because she was laying on her other foot.  Hopefully the boot we managed to get on her will still be there next time!