My latest and greatest Adventures

So, to give a quick update on my life lately. Work, school, school, family, work, friends. I absolutely loved getting to go home last weekend to see all my family and a couple old friends. Even if it was only two days. We had a surprise birthday for dad's big 5-0 and boy was he surprised :D Sadly I don't have any pictures of the party, but we had a great turn out with lots of friends and family that came. These are some more pictures of my life lately. Most of them are of school stuff that I thought was particularly memorable, but not all of them. If you don't want to read everything that's fine, because this is a rather long post, but for those that find it entertaining, here they are :) And I have even added a couple fun videos at the end of one of the girls in my class, Molly, dehorning a giant cow with rather large horns. And just for you mom, I made the pictures larger like you requested.

Scrubbing in for surgery

We had a guy come to AI our goats that is an internationally known reproduction specialist. He gets hired by people in other countries to come and AI their animals, and we got lucky enough to have him come give us a demonstration. He gave a very good presentation about general reproduction, and how the AI works and everything. This is a picture of the laparoscope in place. He used a camera to look inside the abdomen and actually inject directly into the ovaries. I thought it was very fascinating....and I'm sure you all agree with me :) JK.

I love pictures of sleeping babies....especially when the baby is my nephew!

Haha, such dorks :)

This was at our large animal anesthesia lab, we got to put our pony Astro to sleep for a few minutes, and roll him around on the ground a little bit, and practice different positioning techniques. It was kind of nerve racking at first to be so close to his legs when he was on his back, because being around an awake horse like this would probably be death....or at least a few broken bones.

floating teeth...say "AAAHh"

Gretchen a little loopy from the sedative...I sure do love my classmates :)

Doing blood draws on a pig...just be glad you can't hear this picture.

So Dr. Rockett (standing on the table with a camera) and one of the other Ag teachers has a my-horse-is-bigger-than-your-horse competition going on at the moment, and Dr. Pate (the guy in the purple gloves) told Rockett that he could milk anything with teats. So she took him up on the challenge and brought our mice to class one day. He won.

This was a sign we passed at the caft fair...me and Richelle stopped told vendor what we thought about this sign. Haha, he said that he actually is a BSU fan, but signs like those sell like crazy, so he makes them. That guy needs to have a little more moral courage I think.

This is our new adventure at breeding mice. We are trying to raise them instead of buying them already dead to feed to our red-tailed hawk. We have about 14 babies at the moment and 3 adult females. They all like to spend most of their time in this little tube in the cage, and here is a picture of about 7 of them trying to all come out at once. One of the moms is on top of the tube. It actually is pretty cute, they're so small, I wouldn't mind them if they didn't stink so darn bad. To give you an idea of size, the babies are only about as long as my middle finger from nose to the tip of their tail, and the mom is only as big as my palm from tip to tip.

So the truth finally comes out....this is really what our program is all about....slavery. Haha, jk. We are trying to clean everything up because we have people from AVMA coming next week to renew our accredidation. So everything has to be cleaned up and ship-shape. This chariot needed moved and we didn't have anything to hook it up to a truck. So we pulled it :) AFter this picture, Allie got out and helped me pull while Kelsey got in and took more pictures.

We had to bring some buckets full of dirt to try and dry up the horse pen where there was standing water by the trough. I got to drive the tractor for a few loads and then I switched with Ally. This is where I rode on our way to the dirt pile. I love tractors :) And I do have to say that I'm a natural at driving those things.

So here are the videos I told you about, they were taken less than 1 min apart, and the horn came off about 3 sec. after the second video ends. Glad it was her and not me.