OMG!!!! THE ROYAL WEDDING!

That is right folks... we got up to watch the royal wedding at 4:30 AM! yes AM! Now I have no problem waking up at 4:30 AM for something useful but the royal wedding does not quite fall into that category. Katie, Amelia, Megan and I got up to watch all the hullaballoo about who wore what and what they rode in on and blah blah blah blah blah. Normally I LOVE weddings! I don't really know anyone who doesn't love jamming out to sweet caroline on the dance floor and eating cake, but I prefer to know the person getting married. And to top it all off the royal wedding was out of control! Her dress alone cost $400,000!!!!!!! The cake cost $80,000!!!! and security... a couple million dollars!!! NOW THAT IS JUST INSANE! but we were up with the other 2 billion people in the world watching the royal wedding... Not to worry though we all went back to bed at 6:00 for a couple hours before class. The only downside to this royal wedding business is that that is all that is on tv today... we could have gotten up at 11:00 in the afternoon and still be able to watch it not to mention that is all that is on the internet gossip sites (not that I visit them them that often :)) With that being all that is on besides role models Katie, Matt and I are forced to watch role models.... it is teaching us many valuable life lessons, mainly that we have a rocking good halloween costume planned for next october 31! hopefully we remember it when the time comes.

Tomorrow we have a full day planned as well
1. Maurices
2. JcPenny
3. homework... maybe
4. other fun activities like creeping on our teachers

#4 reminds me of a story.... yesterday Katie and I were on our way home from the grocery store when we happened to see our old chemistry teacher biking on by. He was definitely not one of our favorite teachers and we definitely were not one of his favorite classes to teach, so the feeling was probably mutual. So anyway, Katie and I had the bright idea to follow him for a while to see where he was going. So we whipped the car around in the street and sneakily followed him through a neighborhood until he got to his apartment and rode down into the parking garage. We were being so sneaky he probably didn't even notice us following him particularly since we even turned off the music and made sure to stay at least one stop sign behind him so we didn't blow our cover. Needless to say we now know where he lives... yeah we know we are creeps, we might even do some more creeping this weekend, our last weekend in the great town of Brookings, SD for 4 months...


HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE! (hopefully we don't get the snow they are projecting for tomorrow)

(who couldn't love that loveable bunny E.B.?)

P.S.If you are looking for a good movie to go see we all recommend the movie Hop!

P.S.S. thank you for bearing through with this extremely long and random blog

A Day to Remember...

So, I told Eric that I was writing this blog about how excited I am to see him, so ERIC!!! I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU!

Anyways, I just thought it was time to update you all on the busy day that was April 16 for me, mary liebenstein. Let's start at the beginning shall we?
5:30 am: wake up feed calves and make myself all beautiful, but then again i'm always beautiful so it didn't take long.
6:30 am: leave home to meet the dairy quiz bowl team at the big steer and leave for Foley, MN for the competition
8:45 am: arrive in Foley at the high school for dairy quiz bowl competition
9:00 am - 1:30 pm: sit and study and go to competitions. we lost our first round to Wright county, good thing it was double elimination
2:00 pm: go against wright county again for the championship round, we lost by about 115 but we still get to go to world dairy expo in october for that competition.
2:25 pm: run to the car, jump in and we're set for home.
4:00 pm arrive at home
4:07 pm: leave home for town to meet the group at the high school
4:30 pm: arrive at the high school
So, as you can see it was quite a jam packed and a bit stressful for me. Freak out mode didn't start until I plugged in my straightener into my adapter in the car and apparently its only a 75 watt converter and my straightener needs 100 watts. But I calmed down and got over it. I got ready in 7 minutes and was at the high school just in time to take a few pictures and get on the party bus. Now let me tell you, this was very sketchy, especially with the stripper pole (pretty sure it was a safety pole but we treated it as a stripper pole) and when we stopped at a stop light and heard a big crash, and thought we had been jumped. luckily the bus driver responded with 'i'm still here.' We then went on a side trip to kmart because we had a little extra time and one boy wanted a toy gun. We then went to Bucca's for supper which was delicious. then made our way back to northfield for the dance with johnny holm's which was awesome!! then we proceeded to the bowling alley, bowled, ate some food, and then came home where my mom made us some breakfast. We played 3 songs on guitar hero, put in Toystory 3 and were all passed out. The inner farmer kicked in at about 8 am and I was up! I was the only high schooler at church on palm sunday.
Needless to say it was a very stressful day but completely worth it! hopefully next year the same conflict won't occur, but when i can get in the top ten at the state fair for dairy showcase it will all pay off (literally when I earn some money).
have a lovely day. :)

How to Properly Scrape Out a Moldy Gravity Wagon Filled with Corn

So, this winter we had our feed shed collapse as you may recall. With this came a whole roof full of snow being funneled into our corn bin. Then we moved the wagon into our hay shed, only it wasn't in the shed far enough so when it rained more rain and water got in the wagon. So the other day my dad and I moved it in further into the shed so now all should be good. But before we could put more corn in we had to clean out the almost 6 inch layer of mold that cover the bottom of the wagon. So here's a step by step guide of how to clean this layer of mold out.

• Pick up your dust mask to make sure that you don't inhale any deadly toxins


• Climb into the wagon on the ladder (unless your legs are to short to climb over like mine are then you have to have your dad lift you up in the skid loader bucket to get in


• Have dad position the skid loader bucket under the door of the wagon and hand you the shovel up in the wagon


• Begin chipping away at the corn and push it down into the bucket


• Listen to father's instructions (even if he doesn't understand what you're trying to do or your thinking)


• Have your father dump the bucket and leave you in the bin to continue the laborious drive


• Make sure to fall at least 4 times while in the bin.


• 1 of these times, make sure that you have corn go down your butt crack, it feels real nice!


• Finish scraping off all the edges and such


• Discuss how you will get out of the bin you have two options: 1. try and climb out over the top (since I can't get in with a ladder i probably wouldn't be able to climb out without one so i had to resort to option 2) 2. slide out the bottom as if you were corn yourself, make sure you suck it in or you won't fit

I hope that this can help you in your future endeavours of cleaning out moldy corn wagons. Have a wonderful day! I will update you on our results of dairy quiz bowl in a couple days as well as prom.

completely worthless information

so, in honor of the state dairy quiz bowl competition being this weekend on saturday, i have decided to share with you some completely worthless information about cows and dairy goats that I will never use in my life but it's always good to know random stuff right?

• the third week in June is national dairy goat awareness week


• the three sections of the small intestine are: duodenum, jejunum, and the ileum


• la mancha goats have two types of ears (they don't look like ears to me just flaps but whatever): gopher and elf


• the winner of the Indy 500 drinks a glass of ice cold milk


• fat soluble vitamins: A, D, E, and K


• water soluble vitamins: B and C


• BANGS disease or Brucillosis also known as contagious abortion or undulent fever in humans


• diseases that can be spread between animals and humans are zoonautic diseases


• there are 2 sisterns in a cows udder: the teat sistern and gland sistern


• beta-carotine is a precursor for vitamin A


• an animal that can be tamed is domestic (isn't this obvious)


• an experimental goat is the equivalent of a cross bred in cows (not sure why they would be called experimental...)


• each straw of semen containes 10 to 30 million sperm cells


• optimum manure consistency is given a linear score of 3 on a scale of one to five


• the primary use of cow hide is to hold the cow together

I hope you can find some of this useful but if not it's always fun to have some random facts that no one knows, especially on a really awkward date or something (I wouldn't know in this department but I'm sure that it would work)

So anyways, this weekend is state dairy quiz bowl, hopefully we will be in the top 3 so we can go to nationals. Then in a mad rush I will make my mother drive 100 mph from foley to northfield so that I can go to this highly overrated thing called prom. I'll let you know how that goes.

Little I/I'm Too Fat to Workout with a DVD

While I seat here writing this I am currently in South Dakota at SDSU for Little International, which is a livestock showmanship type thing that the university puts on. They have people showing pigs, sheep, beef, dairy, and horses. They have fitting and showmanship competitions. The fitting consists of making the animal look good and showmanship is showing the animal to the best of its ability. Then there's novice and experienced. The novice are the people that haven't shown that animal previously and experienced is well...it kinda speaks for itself. It's quite interesting to watch actually, except the horse part cause no one knows how to judge them in the first place and no one likes horses anyways.
So I have met some of Grace's friends, well only introduced to like 2 but i can just gather from other people who they are.
On a side note, i have been using a workout dvd. It's something like 6 week six-pack or something to that effect with jillian michaels. Which for those of you who don't know who she is, she is one of the trainers on the biggest loser. Now let me tell you it's hard! i have only successfully completed the whole workout once in 4 days because i'm sweating and breathing so hard i can't even do anything else. Then I go to eat and I can't even lifta fork or spoon to my mouth! it's exhausting. it better pay off in the end, although I'm not sure I can do it for 6 weeks everyday. we'll see how it goes and i'll keep you posted.