Milk is amazing stuff

We just got on WIC, and they give us about twice as much milk as we can possibly drink, so I have started making yogurt.  It is very easy, and I don't understand why more people don't do it, as it is much tastier than the store kind, and you could even make it with powdered milk if you wanted, and then it would be REALLY cheap.  But anyway, this last batch I ran out of room in the cooler, so wrapped a tupperware full in towels and put it on the stove to keep warm... and then promptly forgot about it and used the oven to make dinner.  Needless to say, it did not set (note to self: find bigger cooler).  No problem, I thought.  I will cook some lentils in it for lunch.  Lentils, a little mushrooms, yogurt, what could go wrong?  Well, it turns out that yogurt (or even liquid yogurt) CURDLES when you heat it.  So now my lentils are cooking in very, VERY runny cottage cheese.  We will see how it is, I suppose.  Never know what milk will do next.

Sometimes, paranoia pays.

We spent Sunday night in the emergency room!  Extreme back pain and a fever, no fun at all.  But you know, we have good coverage for me right now, so the midwife said "go if you want, can't hurt anything and might be a good idea if it hurts that bad... definitely go if it gets ANY worse!"  So off went the paranoid pregnant lady!  Good thing too because it turns out I have a RAGING bladder infection.  Had?  Been on antibiotics since then, and am doing much better, but I do not feel well yet.  I slept all day yesterday though and that helped.  And the morphine they gave me wore off all the way, and the pain didn't come back.  And we got to have another ultrasound!  He was so active in there, even the tech was impressed -- "look at that baby go!" he says.  "Quit pushing on my head, that's what that baby's saying."  We got some great pictures, he's got all his limbs, and a cute little nose and a round little tummy, it was absolutely fantastic, and ALMOST worth spending a night in the emergency room.

So, yeah, paranoia really does pay off sometimes.  =)

Mice!

Or at least mouse.  In our house.  I've seen a mouse on two seperate occasions now, the first of which could have been a hallucination ("it was brown and oblong and moving fast and I think it looked like a mouse!"), but now I'm SURE.  I mean, there I was, minding my own business, and it just wanders out into the MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR, looks at me, then wanders back.  YUCK.

Guess what?

Guess what?
Originally uploaded by Driggs family

Third time this year. But, I have a really good feeling about this one. I am optimistic and everything. And hey, the chances of having three losses in a row are one in a thousand, so I think I deserve a little optimism!

Never Run With Grain

This absolutly cracked me up. Hehe, goats.

Look what I found!

Eggs on the glass
Originally uploaded by Driggs family

Snail eggs! I am very excited, I've never had brigs eggs before. I'm reasonably certain that the parents were a striped yellow and an ivory, too, so I may get some red and whites, and more purples. I'm incubating them in one of those Gerber bottle liners with paper towels, using badflash's plastic bag method, for anyone who cares to know.

More pictures

Found an ax!
Originally uploaded by Driggs family

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