I went to Amish county last Monday, and first we went to a store called Keim Lumber. It was really funny to see amish people try to work a computer and jump whenever on of their phones ring! But anyways it was really fun, I got to see this old tree cut-off that was alive when Christopher Columbus found America! My camera was dead so I couldn't bring it... but it was fun! We also went to Lehmans (A amish store, for yankee doodles) and I wanted to buy a giant jaw-breaker (Perfect thing for braces) some butter mints and two packs of skittles! The ingredients for the jaw breaker (In order..) are as follows (Remember the company is Pennsylvania Dutch Candies and they are "Old Fashioned") Dextrose (Which is Sugar) with Maltodextrin, Corn Syrup, Malic ACID, Artificial colors (What happened to old fashioned) Yellow 6, Red 40 Lake, Yellow 5 & 6 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Titanium Dioxide, Natural and Artificial flavors (Not colors), Calcium Stearate, Carnauba Wax. And then it says "Made in a factory that processes Peanuts and Tree Nuts" Well I would love to try some of those Peanuts and tree nuts! What are they made with "Sugar, Mercury, Uranium, Acid, Poison, Milk and flour." Poor Europeans missing out on all this great food! (As I write this I have the delicious jawbreaker in my mouth.) Gag- Choke.... Yummy! Well, I have enjoyed this delicious, mouth-watering, jaw dropping, tasty, DEATH BALL!


The Moral of this post, Please... Don't put stuff in your mouth if you don't know where its been...

 I just realized that I showed you how to fish for my dog but not my dog! Here she is!

Libby and me on the first day we got her!

This was right before she came into our house for the interview. 

Gabriel playing with Libby during the interview.

Libby grown up (This picture is a courtesy of Gabriel)

Libby eating a baby groundhog. WE HATE GROUNDHOGS! 

                                                                         (This picture is a courtesy of Gabriel)

Libby looking out our window. (This picture is a courtesy of Gabriel)

Libby on our old furniture!

Libby falling asleep on our old furniture.




Well that is all for today!

This is my ADORABLE brother proudly displaying his first fish! I found this picture (And many others from Gabriel's  5th surprise birthday party at Lake Erie) on my Grandma's laptop! She gave it to me because She got a new one for Christmas!



Do you remember the Bible story where Jesus told the fishermen (I am giving away Brownie Points for their names!) to cast their nets to the other side of the boat. Well since God is the Creator of the universe I am sure it turned out with WAY MORE FISH than this...

Notice the Carp's open mouths. The place that me and my Grandparents went was in Pennsylvania and people would toss bread to the fish. (I wanted to attach a hook to the bread but fishing wasn't allowed)

There were thousands of fish!

See the fish in the top right corner that is on top of other fish? They do that all the time! Once I saw a couple of Catfish in with the Carp! (Ducks don't dare get near the feeding frenzy!)

Well this is the end of my current post... Bye!

I was looking and I have 2 german readers!?!? So I just wanted to say "Hallo Deutsch-Leser, ich spreche in Ihrer eigenen Sprache oder lesen Sie Englisch?"
"Danke für das Lesen Country Life mein Name ist Jacob"
"Ich hoffe, dass wir freinds geworden sind ein wunderbarer Tag!"
Ill be back.... Mwa Hahaha

As I have mentioned I have the fishing blues, and yesterday after school I was sitting around thinking what I could fish for. Then I decided, instead of fishing for catfish I will fish for dogfish.

First take your victims favorite toy, in this case Libby's dragon.                                                                                                  

Wrap the fishing line around tightly (Libbys dragon has two squeakers side by side so I just did it in between squeakers) 

Then attach the swivel to the line.                                                                                                                                                     

The result: 

Pros: A "dog"fish that fights harder than a Smallmouth bass!

Cons: My poor doggy wouldn't touch the toy for a while! :)

I have the fishing blues... But in that aspect I will tell 2 funny fishing stories! So... one day I was in Mount Vernon competing in a Fishing Contest! After my first couple casts I landed a 19 3/4 inch trout! Well turns out in the last 5 minutes (The judges were literally weighing in the fish)  this little 2 year old (I was watching her from the judges tent) had one hand on her Dad's pole while her Dad reeled casted etcetera. He caught a 20 inch trout and I lost!

I won this pole in a raffle at the fish competition! Which was nice considering I walked away with a funny story and a pole!

                                    My other funny story is (in my mind) the coolest thing that ever happened during fishing. Gabriel was fishing on the erie isle dock (Where we go to vacation) and caught bottom. So Dad walked over and tried to yank it out, and he did but when he reeled it was like there was a HUGE fish on the line! Gabriel had been catching "bad" (Not good eating) fish all day (Sheepheads) well after he reeled the line in there was a pole attached! He set it down to untangle it and the pole started moving! He had a fish on! He reeled it in and it was a....................................................................................................... SHEEPHEAD! He ended up catching no good fish but had the best story ever!

So today me and Gabriel made my Mother breakfast! He made ham and I made a egg on toast! It is usually hard to make it before she woke up but this time we took advantage of her sleeping in. So that was a surprise to her!