Come one come all!!
When you first visit the Talley Family Petting Zoo we encourage you to stop across the street where the two goats and sheep are located. The goats are quite friendly but you must watch out for the black one; he likes figs so much he'll head-butt your hand just ask my father-in-law. The white goat will eat just about anything but the black one doesn't care much for apples.
The sheep is very dumb and looks quite evil. I didn't realize that they had such long necks. This little guy who happens to be named Tyson after Mike Tyson puts his head as close to the ground as he can get it and stares up at you thus making him look evil. Apparently the owner names all of his sheep after boxers and this happens to be his 3rd one. Foreman and Muhammad were the other two. Interesting, very interesting. Twice now I've been getting out of the car and nearly jumped out of my skin because the sheep lets out this low but loud moan that sounds more like a sick cow than a sheep.
As far as farm-like animals go that is all we have. Unless you'd like to track down the rooster that cock-a-doodles every morning at 5:30am or the pit bull who frequents our neighbors across the street with his owner daily.
Moving inside now you will most likely find a few roly-polys, an earwig or two, small flying beetles, moths and the occassional house spider. All of these I can handle.
I can even handle two of these little guys running around in Delia's room (I'll share that story later)
or this little guy climbing on my wall
close up
But then when you're going about your business and you happen upon one of these spiders shown above times oh I don't know let's say about five; that my friends is where I draw the line and call Jake!! 
This "little" gal was hanging out in my closet. I was putting clothes away and had just hung something up right next to where she was sitting. That's when I saw something move and about peed my pants!! I called Jake and he came home from work early to get her. There was no way that I was going to let that thing roam around the house or my bedroom any longer. I wanted to make sure Jake caught her before we all went to bed! So Jake got home and started carefully taking everything out of the closet because at this point I didn't know exactly where the spider was. It ended up on the last piece of clothing hanging in the very back of the closet. Jake then put an empty Rubbermaid container underneath the sweatshirt and proceeded to shake the shirt until the spider crawled down the sleeve and was relatively close to the bucket. That is when he hit it with a hanger and then covered it with a small bucket. When he covered it it was still alive but when we took the container outside and removed the bucket we noticed some yellow goo all over and the spider was dead. I'm sad to say that I wasn't sad...is that bad?
I'm already looking forward to our next move....hmm I wonder why!
Admission to the Talley Family Petting Zoo is free!!
