Amelia's Menagerie

    I really don't know why I wanted to write this, but it felt right, so here goes. Why are we here? Does anybody know the reason? I do. I even know our purpose. Our purpose is to glorify and enjoy  God forever. Have you ever gotten out of bed and thought, "I need to glorify God in all I do today"? I thought not. I struggle sometimes with thinking that God isn't real, and then I look outside and laugh at myself. How could He not be?     Look at that flower. It is very small, yet so intricately made and it's perfect. God knew that this flower would make me smile. This tiny speck of a flower was made uniquely by the Creator of the entire universe. For me. And probably for someone else, too. If God were not real, it would be impossible for anything to be. At all. And then, how would we be here? And how would we appreciate beauty while everything else ignores it unless it needs it to survive? I appreciate beauty, a lot. I love to just sit down and marvel at it...

     Soooooooo, I am actually alive! I am so sorry for not posting for a while, and I hope this makes up for it. Lots of things have been going on lately, and you guys probably want to know about them. Okay, lets get to it, then.  I am hatching several chicken eggs, 20 to be exact, and some of those are going to hatch on Monday and Tuesday. I have some other eggs that will hatch in a few weeks, as well. The chickens are back to laying again, but the ducks are still not giving us any eggs. I had soccer practice for the first time this season, and it was great, although a lot of my old team went to another team. I am happy to be getting back into soccer, and we have our first game this weekend against some friends from church. I am really happy right now, as flowers are popping up everywhere, and if you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that I really like bouquets and such. I love writing on this blog, as well, so I am in a pretty good mood. That explain...

     I love you, Mom and Dad! Happy twentieth anniversary!

           Today, I want to change things up a bit. I will give you some quotes from a book you might of heard of, but I have not given it the credit it deserves on this blog, or really at all. First, I would like to start off by saying, no one can evolve into goodness from something that has a "do what you have to do to live" instinct. It logically cannot happen. An ape, for example, cannot evolve into a human physically, but, even if it could, it would not have the basis for right or for wrong without a greater good, or something that taught it that some things were right, and some things were wrong. If we evolved, we could look the same way, think the same in some ways, but really, nothing would be right or wrong. If you did what you had to do to survive, no guilt, you would be an animal. But you are not. Here is where the quotes come in.      " 1  In the  beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.   2  The eart...

    Sorry I haven't written in over a week, guys. Things have been pretty  REALLY busy around here. First of all, I acquired that etsy store I have been wanting to set up for a while, on which I have already made one sale. It has been mostly for rat hammocks so far and has been really fun to run. I will be making lotion bars and other homemade cosmetic things soon, so people who don't have small animals can purchase things. Okay, second of all, I have gone skiing successfully without   falling down, although I came very close last time. Third of all, I got my science fair project approved. Nobody knows about this unless they know me personally, but I am entering our local science fair. My experiment is called Evidence of Voice Recognition in Chicks. I am testing to see whether chicks can hear before they come out of the egg. I will be hatching chicks in an incubator and splitting them into two groups, group A and group B. I will take them o...

    Sniff, sniff, It has already come. I can't believe it is the last day of my daily blog post challenge! I really enjoyed it and am surprised I did it everyday. The purpose of this challenge was to get other bloggers writing again, because I love reading your posts! Also, I have gotten some pictures of the newly christened Emil the rooster, who seems to be having a good time with his new family. He is a very sweet boy, but we had way too many roosters. The snow is halfway gone, and the chickens are actually getting out and about now. My sister finished applying for a scholarship last night, and it seems quite surprising that she will be in college soon. She also drove home from our church today! She is learning to drive, which is going very well. I am having some people buy eggs from me, which is really cool that I finally have a proper business. For the sake of my business, I am hoping to build a larger coop out of pallets and order more ducks and chickens at some point in ...

     I am almost done with my challenge! Tomorrow is my last day. The snow is starting to melt, resulting in tons of gigantic icicles. The ducks are trying to catch drips out of the gutter, and they are quite happy to have some bare ground on which to stand. The chickens are still a bit wary of the snow, but they will come out and stay out now. No more eggs from the chickens, but I am hoping for some soon. Fingers crossed! I have a very small scale duck egg business at the moment, which has been going very well. I am hoping to expand our coop and flock at some point. I am getting back into a schedule with school and getting up a bit earlier. I'm really excited about our fig tree, which is putting out some baby figs right now. I hope that you enjoyed reading this! Thanks! Emily inside awaiting the arrival of his new owner. Normally, he is outside. Zoe at a nearby park. A picture of me jumping over a small cross rail on Chessie.