Funny Farm

Author: Laurie Zaleski
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125027284X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Zaleski never aspired to run an animal rescue; that was her mother Annie’s dream. But from girlhood, Laurie was determined to make the dream come true. Thirty years later as a successful businesswoman, she did it, buying a 15-acre farm deep in the Pinelands of South Jersey. She was planning to relocate Annie and her caravan of ragtag rescues—horses and goats, dogs and cats, chickens and pigs—when Annie died, just two weeks before moving day. In her heartbreak, Laurie resolved to make her mother's dream her own. In 2001, she established the Funny Farm Animal Rescue outside Mays Landing, New Jersey. Today, she carries on Annie’s mission to save abused and neglected animals. Funny Farm is Laurie’s story: of promises kept, dreams fulfilled, and animals lost and found. It’s the story of Annie McNulty, who fled a nightmarish marriage with few skills, no money and no resources, dragging three kids behind her, and accumulating hundreds of cast-off animals on the way. And lastly, it's the story of the brave, incredible, and adorable animals that were rescued. Although there are some sad parts (as life always is), there are lots of laughs.

Funny Farm

Author: Mark Teague
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 043991499X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Cousin Edward visits Aunt Judy and Uncle Earl on their farm and tries to help with all of the chores.

Tales from Hoot Owl Hollow: Life on the Funny Farm

Author:
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 143495353X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description

On the Farm, At the Market

Author: G. Brian Karas
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250116511
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

Book Description
On the farm, workers pick vegetables, collect eggs, and make cheese. At the market the next day, the workers set up their stands and prepare for shoppers to arrive. Amy, the baker at the Busy Bee Café, has a very special meal in mind-and, of course, all the farmers show up at the café to enjoy the results of their hard work. This informative book introduces children to both local and urban greenmarkets and paints a warm picture of a strong, interconnected community.

The Cow Said Neigh!

Author: Rory Feek
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 1400311888
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

Book Description
From New York Times bestseller Rory Feek, one half of the singing duo Joey+Rory, comes The Cow Said Neigh!, a fun and humorous tale of farm animals who wish they were like the other animals . . . which leads to a farm-full of confusion! Children will laugh out loud when the cow wants to run free like a horse, the sheep wants a snout like a pig, and the dog wants to be inside like the cat. The Cow Said Neigh! will teach children: Animal sounds with clever rhymes How to celebrate the unique strengths in each of us This delightful book is perfect for: Reading out loud at home or in classrooms Ages 4-8

The Dirty Life

Author: Kristin Kimball
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416551611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
After interviewing a young farmer, writer Kristen Kimball gave up her urban lifestyle to begin a farm with her interviewee near Lake Champlain in northern New York.

Welcome to the Funny Farm

Author: Karen Scalf Linamen
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441235760
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
There is no end to the sources of frustration, challenge, disaster--and humor!--in a woman's life, and there is no one more skilled at finding the merriment and wisdom in these everyday foibles and events than award-winning author and popular speaker Karen Linamen. In her newest humor-packed release, Linamen (author of Just Hand Over the Chocolate and No One Will Get Hurt) guides readers on a side-splitting, hopeful, and entertaining tour of a woman's life, and in true, tongue-in-cheek Linamen style, no topic is off limits! Welcome to the Funny Farm covers everything from baby showers to cell phones, chin hair to Hamburger Helper, defrosted turkeys to Barry Manilow, and dumb blonde jokes to well-woman exams. Linamen's collection of hilarious observations, originally posted online at www.women-of-faith.com as The Funny Farm columns, will inspire and entertain (though not necessarily in that order) and ultimately shed light on principles of spiritual wellness and Christian living that will enrich the life of every reader.

The Funny Farm

Author: Jackie Ellis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446465292
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
How often have you thought you might like to chuck it all in, leave the steaming metropolis and its noise and dirt behind and make for pastures new, to begin your life again? We often talk about it but people rarely do it. Jackie Moffat is one of those who did. In 1982 she and her family - armed with a bucketload of optimism, stout boots and a highly developed sense of the ridiculous - upped sticks from London (where she'd lived all her life) and went North, to Cumbria. Their destination was the Eden Valley, and a small stock-rearing and dairy farm called Rowfoot, and there they have spent the past twenty years getting to grips with the practice of running a working farm, keeping sheep, cattle, pigs and horses, becoming part of the (often eccentric) community, coping with the ups and downs (Foot and Mouth devastated them) of farming life. For the past ten years, the author's written a regular column for the Cumbria and Lake District Life magazine, and it was this that inspired her to write about her life in rural England and the trials, tribulations and pleasures of running a farm.

Inspirations from the Funny Farm

Author: K.K. Hodge
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 1098035550
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
Laughter, Encouragement, and Inspirational Devotions for Every Day Inspirations from the Funny Farm is a collection of funny, heartwarming, true stories of life and adventures on the funny farm of Hodge Critter Lodge. Farm life can be tough on the body and the mind, but with Christ, joy can be found in anything and everything. This funny devotional full of crazy critter chaos and fun family traditions will inspire you to look forward to your daily quiet time with Christ. "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness" (Lamentations 3:22-23).

Intellivision

Author: Tom Boellstorff
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262380544
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
The engaging story of Intellivision, an overlooked videogame system from the late 1970s and early 1980s whose fate was shaped by Mattel, Atari, and countless others who invented the gaming industry. Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogame system, sold by Mattel Electronics between 1979 and 1984. This system was Atari’s main rival during a key period when videogames were moving from the arcades into the home. In Intellivision, Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman tell the fascinating inside story of this overlooked gaming system. Along the way, they also analyze Intellivision’s chips and code, games, marketing and business strategies, organizational and social history, and the cultural and economic context of the early US games industry from the mid-1970s to the great videogame industry crash of 1983. While many remember Atari, Intellivision has largely been forgotten. As such, Intellivision fills a crucial gap in videogame scholarship, telling the story of a console that sold millions and competed aggressively against Atari. Drawing on a wealth of data from both institutional and personal archives and over 150 interviews with programmers, engineers, executives, marketers, and designers, Boellstorff and Soderman examine the relationship between videogames and toys—an under-analyzed aspect of videogame history—and discuss the impact of home computing on the rise of videogames, the gendered implications of play and videogame design at Mattel, and the blurring of work and play in the early games industry.