Answers to Monday's quiz

Okay I knew it... four days have passed and I had forgotton all about it until the impatient man of the house who wanted answers reminded me. :)

Answers To Quiz
(If you haven't taken the quiz, see previous post first)

1. boxing

2. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. asparagus andrhubarb (personally I always thought it was a fruit)

4. strawberry

5. It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. dwarf, dwell, dwindle

7. period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, bracket, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. lettuce.

9. shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, and stilts.

Pop Quiz

Life has been really busy here at the Hen House, which is why I haven't posted in awhile. We are in the process of buying a new house, and I will share the details when things come together more.

I got this quiz via e-mail today. I actually did pretty well on the questions. I will post the answers tomorrow (or in about three weeks if I forget).

These are not trick questions! They are straight questions with straight answers.

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters "dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."

Moving Day for the Chicks

Today the chicks are three weeks old, and dad says they stink too much in the house. So yesterday, we prepared their shelter and fenced in an area for them to live. Today they moved in. There is a heat lamp in the playhouse to keep them warm when it's chilly or rainy out.

They LOVE their new home! It was so much fun watching them scratch for bugs the way a chicken is supposed to! They have seven more weeks to enjoy themselves (and entertain us in the meantime).

My Baby Turns 7!

Today is Zach's 7th birthday. Where have the years gone? He loved his new blanket that mom crocheted for him (in Steelers colors) but his favorite gift was the Peyton Manning Super Bowl XLI jersey.











Tonight some friends came over for cake and ice cream. One of these friends shares a birthday with Zach so we celebrated with him, too. Here they are at opposite ends of the table, blowing out their candles.

One of my favorite jokes...

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"

He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too!"
Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over.

Summer science project

We just received five baby chicks from a friend, and we are raising them as meat birds. This is somewhat difficult when you live in town, but we have a spot all figured out for them in the yard.

They will live indoors with us until they are three weeks old, and then they will be moving to their chicken yard, which is tucked into a corner where the house and deck meet. We are getting a Little Tikes playhouse which will shelter them at night.

Their names are:

KFC

Extra Crispy

FLG (Finger Lickin' Good)

Fricasee

Cacciatore

You get the picture. This is so we don't get too attatched to them!

Grant's First Job/Party

Today was the first day of official employment for Grant, who just turned twelve a couple weeks ago. He has a paper route, six days a week. I didn't get a picture of him heading out on the job (dragging his little brother along to help ease the workload).

We went to a really fun birthday party yesterday. A dear friend turned 50 last week, and her husband, siblings, and eight children planned a surprise party for her. There were probably 300 people there, and boy was she surprised! Her children wrote and sang hilarious little ditties to her and about her.