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"About Us"
Everybody needs a page named "About Us", so here's ours. My name is Lynn my husand is Jacob. I moved here to Pinedale, Wyoming after we got married Feb 22, 2003. I lived in DeLand FL before that, born and raised in the same town... almost the same house the whole time (think I was 3 when we moved to the house I grew up in). I have one older sister (Jennifer), one younger sister (Jean), and two younger brothers (Mike & Mark). My parents have a 5 acre lot almost right in town that allows all sorts of farm animals. So as kids we had every type of pet you could imagin. First of course our parents started us off with fish (if you accidently killed a fish it was not so bad... it was just a little worse then killing a bug). The fish were placed on the kitchen counter right next to the phone... you know we were always giving the phone to the fish to talk. Once we got over that we could get a "real" pet.... and they got us a rabbit... a Netherland Dwarf/Florida White mix named Buttercup (which they had found at a yardsale). Next came the dog  Branden, he just showed up one day and never left. We did find his owner who lived just down the road from us... she picked him up a few times then just said "keep him."  Then came the cat Purrr-fect which we got from the local animal shelter. Then my older sister got a pair of parrakeets (her friends raised Cockatails and she wanted to raise birds too, but hers never laid eggs or anything). Right about then my dad mail-ordered 25 Ringnecked Pheasants. And so we started raising them. Then we found another cat Bootsie, she was a wild kitten that we found in a woodpile in the backyard... we called everyone we knew and couldn't find where she came so she stayed. Next dad got my mom her 8 "Little Ladies", 8 Rhode Island Red hens. Friendliest chickens ever. Then came the Lovebird... then people just started dropping things off after that. We got a couple Guinea Pigs... which in turn turned into a huge flock of Guinea Pigs... we kept all the local pet stores in supply. Then came the Gerbil, then another Gerbil... then they had a few litters and the pet stores were never in short supply of those either. Then my older sister got into Mini-Rex, then into Holland Lops, and English Angoras. Which the rest of us bought from her and started our own rabbit flocks. While we were trying to sell some at our yardsale an old woman came by.... "you look like the perfect pet owners"... she left and came back with 3 more parrakeets and a dove (you can't say 'no' when she was crying... "I have nobody to leave them with, I am too old to take care of them anymore"). Then came the hampster, then came the hedgehog, a Painted Turtle. A couple more dogs, a few misc chickens (Salmon Faverolle, Barred Plymouth Rocks). Of course all this time people are giving us all the orphaned wild animals they found, 2 litters of Opposums, a Squirell (which was named Rimshot, he would come and sit on your shoulder whenever you walked outside), dozens of hares, a Bluejay, a Mourning Dove, a turtle that had a chunk of shell missing that we patched. All wild animals were released with instructions from the local Wildlife Rehabilitator, or by her... depending on how busy she was. Which, if we ended up with them it was because people tried the Rehabilitators, and Busch Gardens (or Silver Springs?) and they were all swamped. We took care of dozens of kittens for the Humane Society in Daytona Beach (kittens without mothers who needed care until they were old enough to adopt). I could go on a lot...
THANKS MOM & DAD!!!!!

   Jacob came from a little bit of a different backround. His parents did trucking and construction jobs that kept them moving around a lot. They had a house here in Pinedale but mostly lived at jobsites in their trailer. They basically NEVER had a pet. A dog for a couple months, and fish for awhile... but that was it. They claim to have once owned a horse but it was only on paper as other people cared for it. His large extended family runs Babcock Builders out of Pinedale. They are known for their log homes but also build regular houses too. All of Jacob's Aunts and Uncles (on his dad's side) live right here in Pinedale (at least half the year). As well as his Grandparents, a Great Aunt, and many cousins.

   "How we met"  Jacob's family has connections in the two places my family spends their time, Cheboygan Michigan, and DeLand Florida. The Babcocks are very much into family sticking together. His extended family (grandfathers brother and sisters and all their decendents) live in the Wolverine area (20 minute drive from my parents summer house). As far as DeLand goes, Jacob's Great Grandmother lives right in DeLand... my parents have known of her for several years... but never met her great-grandkids. Jacob's parents have a little place in Astor, FL... which was about a half hour drive from DeLand. Astor has a restaraunt and gas stations. So people go to DeLand which is where the bowling alley and miniture golf... and anything fun to do was at. So he met my friends and sister bowling (which I wasn't there that night... I remember I had a really bad stomache ache the night Jacob met everybody) and she invited the group over to our house to play basketball. And that's how we met. Guess that was when he was 16... so it took a little while for us to decide we liked each other and get married.

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