Funny Farm or Animal Farm

This post has been in "draft" status since January 2010!!! We no longer have any of these critters. :(

In June 2009, we adopted (rescued) two cats (one white and one black) from a woman who worked in the same building in Hartford. She was a nice enough lady, but her house was so much of a mess that her disabled inlaws were put into a home, the health department threatened to condemn the house and she was warned that animal control would confiscate most of the 10 cats she had. Plus one of the cats was pregnant again. Her tales of woe led me to adopt two of the kittens. I brought them to Vermont and scheduled an appointment the next day to have them de-flead and de-ticked. After that, we planned to have them neutered and spayed. Well, the groomer called me and said that she had cleaned them several times and they still had fleas. Plus the little sniffles we were told the white one had was actually a possible viral infection. So we took them to the locate vet to have them treated and to schedule their neuter/spay appointment. And someone was pregnant with kittens...

My Pagima

My Pajima  (NSFW)

While Skyping with family, my beautiful 3 year old niece was being taught to clean herself after she “had bowel” with wipes. She proclaimed to her mother that her pagima was clean!

That reminded me of a puberty lesson last year with my eighth grade students. 22 of them!  Lots of laughter, lots of jokes.  After a lecture and discussion about puberty and pictures showing the changes from child to adult, students were asked to list changes that occur during puberty.  As you can imagine, the boys were rude, crude and obnoxious. Several of them were blurting "penis" throughout the lesson – I’ve been reminding them since the first day to use the correct term for body parts…  Here are some examples of their finished product.

One of the mail teachers checked in because we were so loud. When he realized what we were discussing he made an immediate about face.