It's spring!

Every horse owner loves this time of year:

we could be brushing all day and never be done. When we do decide to quit, we are covered in HAIR! Not only on our clothes, but on our face, mouth, lungs and bra (how does that get in there?).

But it's the sign that something good is to come: longer days, warmer days, more time spent at the barn, slick and shiney horses, greener grass and tan skin.

HAPPY BRUSHING!

Free Puppies!

This is the bossy one

Above: The smalles and quietest one: my favorite

They love to sleep.

Here you can see the brindle colored one really good

Look at these cute puppies that Lora has been fostering!

Their mother was killed by a car and the animal society took them in. Lora has agreed to bottle feed them and nurture them until they are about 6 weeks old. Now they are 5 weeks old and it's time to look for homes. We have been wondering all this time what kind of breed they are. We see resemblences of boxer, lab, pit bull. The light colored one is the biggest and the feistiest one. He likes to growl and be bossy. There's one in a brindle color and the smallest and quietest one has white paws and white on his face. He is my favorite. They have not been named yet since they have to be given away and so no one gets attached to them at this time.

Bewitched by Twilight

So I just started reading book 4 last night of the Twilight series and it seems every book is getting better. I read till 11 pm and I had to force myself to put the book down! It is so "spannend", how we would say in German. It is very captivating!

I started wondering about this whole vampire thing. Do they exist? If they do, are they just people that are demon posessed? The book focuses on this "vegetarian" vampire family who only feed on animals, not on people. So, they are really the good guys, if they can control themselves. In fact, the whole story is about this vampire falling in love and then being in a relationship with a human. In philosophical terms: "The lion falls in love with the lamb". He considers himself endangering her life, but their love is like magic to his self control.

Vampires are described in the book as "immortal", in other words, their bodies function differently than our human bodies: no blood, pale, eye color is black if in need of feeding, no heart beat and thus no body heat (ice cold to the touch), no breathing, no eating and thus no potty breaks, mouth is filled with venom, no tears, extreme physical power as in speed and strength, their body is rock hard as if made from marble, as well as phsychiological assets, such as mind reading, future telling, mood making. All of them seem extra-ordinarily intelligent and musically inclined. I guess you learn a lot when you live and try to blend in over 100 years?

Here comes the interesting part: They finally get married and she is pregnant.

First question comes to my mind: How does the male part work without blood flow? Maybe it has other fluids? Must have sperm to create a pregnancy, however.

2nd question: Since obviously a sperm fertilized an egg will the baby a, make it to birth; b, be human or vamire or hybrid?

My theories: Assuming the vampire still has the same DNA as before he was converted, the baby would be human. However, if the dramatic change over to a vampire has also mutated the DNA, the baby would be a hybrid, at least.

3rd question: When the baby is born as a vampire, will it likely kill its mother? Breastfeeding is obviously out of the question. And who wants to bottle feed blood? That's definitely not going to work.

Comments about these theories? Remember your biology class!