Sweet Pea
19?? - July 30, 2008
My beloved Sweet Pea passed away during the night and was gone by yesterday morning. I honestly don’t know what was wrong with her - something internal. She had an appointment at the vets, but went down before we could get her there. We buried her with appropriate ceremony out past the second Mesquite bush on the left, here on the ranch. She is survived by her daughter, Cinnamon, her human Summer Foovay, and various other friends in more than one species.
When I originally bought Sweet Pea and her daughter, Cinnamon, everyone assumed it was because of Cinnamon. Silly girl is the ditzy blond of goat-dom, and just knows that everyone is her friend. But as time went on, Sweet Pea became “my favorite goat”.
She was savvy. When the water spigot made rattlesnake noises, she pushed her way between it and Cinnamon, and shoved Cinnamon to the other side of the pen. When dogs loomed on her horizon she took immediate and aggressive action. When allowed to choose between grazing free or being fed, she always headed for the pastures. She took her job as head goat seriously, never wandering far from Cinnamon or the other goats when we had some goat company and always keeping a close eye on how they were doing - even though she found “those boy goats” very annoying. She quickly took the boys, twice her size, in hand (hoof? horn?) and taught them who was boss goat.
She loved to be near me, and if I was outside and she was not confined, could be counted on to be within sight. She really only wandered for two reasons. She thought she still belonged on the big ranch next door. And she had to keep an eye on that ditz, Cinnamon - who believes the whole world is her home. Left to herself, I suspect she would have slept on the back porch as long as she could see me through the window.
One of our favorite Kodak moments (when no one had a video camera, of course) was the day the goats followed me over here - before we moved here - and strolled onto the porch. Of course, the dogs went crazy and went after them. Around and around the house they went - but it would be one round with the dogs chasing the goats, and then a round with the goats chasing the dogs!
Sweet Pea and Harry had an ongoing relationship that I can only explain as that one between the little girl and the boy who pulls her pigtails. Every time she saw him, she went after him. Every time he saw her, he’d run right at her. The day she was so ill, her last day, Harry would not come into the house at all. I had moved her up into the yard so I could keep an eye on her. He lay in the shade beneath the back porch, not close enough to bother her, but close enough to be able to see her. He refused to leave that spot, even when it got quite hot in the afternoon, and his buddy Klyde retreated inside. I think he knew, and was just keeping her company.
We buried her yesterday morning, and then I had to go to town - my biweekly food buying trip. We simply were not able to put it off. I did the bare minimum, and that did not include much in the way of Twitter, Plurk, email, or blogs. Don’t expect much above the minimum from me for the rest of the week, please. I don’t have anything with a hard deadline that I can think of, but if there is something you must have, remind me.
The update on the coloring pages website is all done but the shouting. I have a couple of tweaks, and I need to finish scanning through the pages to make sure all got updated properly. I’ll start adding new drawings again next week.
And if you’d like to do a little something in memory of an old goat - hug your critters today and go by and donate some free kibbles here, and here. Or if you know of a goat rescue who could use a few bucks, donate to them or to your favorite charity.
Sweet Pea probably arrived at the bridge, ran crazy for a few minutes, then settled down to graze until I arrive.
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
Sorry - no new coloring pages today. I’ll be working on updating the rest of the “old” pages to the new look - and possibly trying out a little software that just might make it possible for <a href=”http://color-your-own.com”>Color-Your-Own.com to offer printed coloring books.</a> I spent two long days in town last week. A lot of work built up around the house and ranch that needs to be done - some of it quite urgently.
I know so many of you are animal fans, that you will be sure to want to know about FreeKibble.com and FreeKibbleKat.com. You can drop by daily and answer a little pet trivia question. Regardless of if you are correct or not - some free kibble will be donated to shelters that are dealing with a major influx of pets caused by the current foreclosure rate. This was the brainstorm of a 12 year old girl! You kids make me feel so inadequate some times! 
Blessedbe
Summer Fey Foovay
I couldn’t resist drawing some Dachshund coloring pages after hearing about the Weiner Nationals and watching this hilarious dog videos! Hey - here’s a Weiner Winner now!
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Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
It happens every time! Someone requests a pony - and I fall in love with them and end up doing three, or four, or…
Okay, I held it down to “just” three drawings of these wonderful little Newfoundland Ponies.
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Newfoundland Ponies are a Rare and Heritage Breed, which means there are very few of them left today - although they were once a popular and thriving breed in Newfoundland. You can read more about them at The Newfoundland Pony Society website.
These were done by request - thanks for the request!
Please note that you are welcome to send more than one request - but I will not do them all at once. I will do one, maybe two, go to the next persons request, maybe do several more, then come back to your list. I want to fulfill as many peoples requests as possible, so I don’t want to get hung up on doing ten or more requests for one person. I will get them all - no problem - but it will be over time. K?
Thanks!
Summer Fey Foovay
Yes, today I uploaded the 300th coloring page at Color-Your-Own.com! Woohoo! That’s a lot of pages for one person to draw!
I also added another section - by request - rainbows! Here’s the first one of four:
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Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
After seeing this article about a house cat adopting a red panda to raise I couldn’t resist adding:
a fat, fluffy, and very happy mama kitty. Cats are such good moms, and they will adopt all sorts of babies to raise. So as long as I was on the subject, I also added a red panda coloring page.
In response to a request, I also added a moose family coloring page. They were really fun to draw! Thanks for the request!
Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. In a world older and more complete than ours they move
finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have
lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They
are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations,
caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners
of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
–Henry Beston
A beautiful article in the Orion online magazine, Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants inspired me to add some African Elephants to the coloring pages. There is a bull elephant, upset and about to charge, a mother elephant and her baby, and a walking elephant that looks like she is in a real hurry to get somewhere. Once I started looking, there were elephants everywhere! There is even a blog devoted just to elephants! I hope you enjoy the coloring pages - and do take time to read the article at Orion, too.
I have a really exciting announcement today! My friend the Savvy Auntie has her website up and running - SavvyAuntie.com. It is devoted to women who love children, but have none of their own - the aunties, great aunts, god mothers, and others who have children to love. Among many other wonderful things - you will find some exclusive coloring pages by - yes, me! The coloring pages up at Aunties are NOT on the Color-Your-Own.com site - and they are also in the form of printable PDF files, unlike the ones on my site. Go check them out - and enjoy the great new website, too!
I am still updating old pages - but everything on the new domain, Color-Your-Own.com is up and running. Just means that some pages will have the new look, and some won’t. It takes a bit of time to update almost 300 pages!
If you have any bookmarks that start “http://demented-pixie.com/”, be sure and update them to the new pages! If you want, you can just change the part that says “http://demented-pixie.com/color-your-own/” to say “http://color-your-own.com” and they’ll work just fine as I did not change any of the page names. If you have links to me on your webpages, please update those also! The new site will have some nifty new “link to me” buttons soon, and you can put the blog widget on your own site or start page, too.
Enjoy!
Summer Fey Foovay
Okay - if you haven’t updated all your bookmarks to Color-Your-Own.com you should start working on it! But it is all up and working and to celebrate I did three new pages!
Doesn’t this bichon frise puppy look like he is having the time of his life?
Every now and then my cat gives me a wink - makes me wonder what they’ve been up to now!
All three new coloring pages:
- Cat coloring page - Winking Kitten
- Dog Coloring Page - Bichon Frise puppy
- Horse Coloring Page - Arabian stallion headstudy
I just wanted to do a few for fun today before I got back to work updating the old pages. The old pages are working just fine on the new site - they just don’t have any ads on them right now - which isn’t necessarily a bad thing *wink*
Just one more thing - I know so many of you are animal lovers, will you drop by real quick and see if you can help out a little for the pets that have been affected by the flooding in the Midwest? You can find out more and donate here. Thanks.
Enjoy
Summer Fey Foovay
At the moment, all of both sites are working - so you can get your coloring pages at either the new domain or the old place. Updating almost three hundred pages takes a little time - but I think you’re really going to like the new look and navigation.
At the moment I am punch drunk and cross-eyed from making tiny adjustments - LOL. I’m going outside to piddle around and water my chickens I think. I’ll come back in when I can see again.
I believe I will have the update finished in time tomorrow to start adding new coloring pages daily again. I will be deactivating the old location probably tomorrow - so be sure and remember to update your bookmarks to the new coloring pages domain.
You may not be able to access various parts of Color-Your-Own.com for an hour or two starting now. I am finally moving the site - really moving it - to it’s own domain at Color-Your-Own.com. I have owned the domain for over a year, but had it set up to redirect to the original location - a folder on my Demented-Pixie.com domain (thus the URLs addresses you see with http://demented-pixie.com/color-your-own/blahblahblah). I did not want to mess up anyones bookmarks of particular pages, and of course there are a million links out there to the former address.
I think the time has come, though, as Color-Your-Own.com has grown in size and popularity, to move to the domain and change all the advertising and links. You’ll notice all the drawings now have the new URL on them (when they come back up).
Remember if you have particular pages and the index bookmarked, you will have to update your bookmarks. I hope this doesn’t upset anyone too much. Nothing else at all will change, just the URL, and this blog will be staying right where it is.
Thanks and sorry for the mess.
Summer Fey Foovay