So Temera asked Kevin to write the blog, but him being a boy and all, he didn't really know where to start. So I'm back. Me being Christina, if you didn't catch that. Kevin will probably end up telling you all about the gun range, but i can tell you about all the jam and stuff we made today.
This morning started out great with a wonderful breakfast of farm fresh eggs, sausage, english muffins and potatoes. All four of us were sent on a wild goose chase of a sort because John couldn't find some of his gun type things. After hauling everything out of a section of the barn and Temera sifting through a bunch of his stuff in the barn, she finally found what he was looking for, just behind where John had stopped looking (go figure). So Temera and I set off to go pick blackberries to make jam with and we got back to empty our buckets right as the boys were leaving. I had to run and find John's saftey glasses, and soon the boys were happily off to the range to shoot. Temera and I wnt back out, we got a bunch of berries and I went to get more when she went off to get some pectin stuff. She told me how to make the jam and stood by as I made it. By the end, she would go off doing something else and I was making the jam all by myself, which is awesome cause I had never made jam before. MOST AMAZING JAM I HAVE EVER HAD. Temera's an amazing teacher. I told her that before I get married, I"m going to come here for like a month to do a housewife internship, haha. So we went to get mochas and chicken scratch, and got back right before the boys, made dinner and temera taught me how to make this certain kind of cake, and now we're all kind of hanging out, trying to figure out a way to convince Kevin's mom to let us stay longer =)
So now that I've had my say, Kevin's gonna join in on the fun and tell you all about the fun he had at the gun range.
So John and I arrived at the range around 12 pm, we signed in and then got to our booth. We started off by using the SKS ( Shoots a 5.56mm caliber) we were shoot down range at 100 yards. We had some trouble shooting with it due to the fact that we were unable to change the site. We eventually got bored of that then steped it up a bit with the M14 rifle, this shoots a 7.62 caliber round. This has more kickback but was a lot more, so after we were done destroying the target we moved to the pistol range. There we shot a .41 magnum and a Glock 19, I had fun blowing through the 9mm. After that we headed for home, we did some dudies around the house, ate dinner then unwound. John however went downstairs to play Halo!!
Saturday, August 19, 2006
All Smiles
Now there is several ways to keep teenagers out of trouble....one is to learn a skill and Kevin would love to be a sharp shooter....He is a great shot and hubby has been teaching him the safe way to play with them......
Friday, August 18, 2006
Alpaca Wrangling
So Temera has requested that I, Christina, who is the nephew's girlfriend, write the blog today. Why, you may ask? One word: ALPACAS. Today, as you may already know, was the day that the alpacas got sheared. THAT was an adventure. Temera got repeatedly spit on and kicked and stepped on, on the ankle, the stomach, the thigh, even on her pretty little face. She is currently lying on the couch with ice on her back. She's got some pretty good bruises, the poor woman.
So back to the Alpaca Wrangling, today was interesting. It took a total of 4 hours and 7 people to do it. None of the boys were happy about being shorn, least of all Moses. Despite his beautiful wool, he was the one that beat up Temera the most, he was jumping and rearing and just in general being a butthead. The little guy has hard too, he kept slipping out of the halter. Buster Brown was actually the best, he was very patient and just stood there, despite having to be shorn with hand clippers because he was last and the clipper blades died. He was the one that I was helping hold. Before, I was keeping the rest of the herd wrangled, and with Buster being the last to be shorn, I gave Temera a break. She was excited, thinking that I was gonna have to do an alpaca throwshown, but Buster just kinda sat there, much to her dismay, haha. So now, Temera and John don't have a herd of Alpacas, they have a herd of Q-Tips.
So after that whole traumatizing ordeal, Kevin (nephew) hosed the alpacas down, so all is now forgiven. The rest of the day was nice and calm. Temera left to go to the chiropractor, john got home and promptly went downstairs to play Halo with Kevin. Temera got home, we made dinner, ate, the boys went outside to clean a gun and Temera and I went to scour books to find pictures worthy of her necklace-making. Currently, The guys are downstairs attatched to the XBox again, Temera's sleeping on the couch, Buluga is laying happily on her bed and I'm watching Law & Order. Buluga is wonderful, as cute and sweet as ever. She's finally calmed down around me, the first time I came here in April, she would shake and cower and freak out when I was aorund, now she wags her tail and comes to see me. The animals are all bedded down and and all is calm on the Halley Ranch. OH, speaking of the farm animals, after John scared the poo out of the chickens and them laying their eggs in an undisclosed location, we found them. Temera and I went on an egg hunt, and finally found them in a giant pile of wood and dirt. Somehow, the chickens managed to climb like, 4 or 5 feet onto this pile, find a nice little patch and lay eggs. We grabbed them and counted 16. FINALLY, we get farm fresh eggs again.
I love it here, I wish we lived closer. Mukilteo is way too far away. I found a new home away from home. Temera and John are exactly like me and Kevin, and they make it so fun for us here. I wish we didn't have to leave so soon, I would have loved to stay for a few weeks. I miss living in the country. I really love everything about this place, the people, the animals, the atmosphere, even shoveling horse manuer =) I'm excited for tomorrow, John is taking Kev to the gun range tomorrow, which Kev has been VERY excited about. While they're gone, Temera is gonna teach me to make jam, and we're gonna make jewelry, and make dinner, and goof off and have girl time and it will be awesome! =)
pictures of cute Q-Tip-ness will be posted later, because the computer is being tempermental. Hang tight.
So back to the Alpaca Wrangling, today was interesting. It took a total of 4 hours and 7 people to do it. None of the boys were happy about being shorn, least of all Moses. Despite his beautiful wool, he was the one that beat up Temera the most, he was jumping and rearing and just in general being a butthead. The little guy has hard too, he kept slipping out of the halter. Buster Brown was actually the best, he was very patient and just stood there, despite having to be shorn with hand clippers because he was last and the clipper blades died. He was the one that I was helping hold. Before, I was keeping the rest of the herd wrangled, and with Buster being the last to be shorn, I gave Temera a break. She was excited, thinking that I was gonna have to do an alpaca throwshown, but Buster just kinda sat there, much to her dismay, haha. So now, Temera and John don't have a herd of Alpacas, they have a herd of Q-Tips.
So after that whole traumatizing ordeal, Kevin (nephew) hosed the alpacas down, so all is now forgiven. The rest of the day was nice and calm. Temera left to go to the chiropractor, john got home and promptly went downstairs to play Halo with Kevin. Temera got home, we made dinner, ate, the boys went outside to clean a gun and Temera and I went to scour books to find pictures worthy of her necklace-making. Currently, The guys are downstairs attatched to the XBox again, Temera's sleeping on the couch, Buluga is laying happily on her bed and I'm watching Law & Order. Buluga is wonderful, as cute and sweet as ever. She's finally calmed down around me, the first time I came here in April, she would shake and cower and freak out when I was aorund, now she wags her tail and comes to see me. The animals are all bedded down and and all is calm on the Halley Ranch. OH, speaking of the farm animals, after John scared the poo out of the chickens and them laying their eggs in an undisclosed location, we found them. Temera and I went on an egg hunt, and finally found them in a giant pile of wood and dirt. Somehow, the chickens managed to climb like, 4 or 5 feet onto this pile, find a nice little patch and lay eggs. We grabbed them and counted 16. FINALLY, we get farm fresh eggs again.
I love it here, I wish we lived closer. Mukilteo is way too far away. I found a new home away from home. Temera and John are exactly like me and Kevin, and they make it so fun for us here. I wish we didn't have to leave so soon, I would have loved to stay for a few weeks. I miss living in the country. I really love everything about this place, the people, the animals, the atmosphere, even shoveling horse manuer =) I'm excited for tomorrow, John is taking Kev to the gun range tomorrow, which Kev has been VERY excited about. While they're gone, Temera is gonna teach me to make jam, and we're gonna make jewelry, and make dinner, and goof off and have girl time and it will be awesome! =)
pictures of cute Q-Tip-ness will be posted later, because the computer is being tempermental. Hang tight.
Kids
Well the kids ( nephew & girlfriend) arrived and we got to work on some chores...Getting the horses back in , fly masks on and fly spray on each of the horses....Jezzy still has to be babied along with the spray going onto my hands while Christina hold him and I rub him down with my now fly free hands...Such a good scardie cat boy...Jezzy is the horse in the photo below....
It is foggy this morning and the house was aflutter with bats while I opened up the gate for hubby to go off to his job....He is at Boeing building the new hanger for the dream liner...A good change for him to be inside but a little to slow for his speed....He has told me he gets lost in dreaming about the huge ceiling in the hanger...Who would know that a hanger would excite him ....Not the Rocky Reach Damn or the chief Jo Damn but BIG is good.....He is use to BIG & DANGER and the adrenaline is just not there currently...
Ang is finally finished with the mass paper chaos she took from here...I do not have the heart to tell her I found yet more....Sorry honey....I have promised myself to be a good girl and keeping her repair work of our life in order as she will instruct me as how to do that. She has no idea that she has motivated me to SIMPLIFY our lives. Half the barn has been ear marked for g-sale and if it is not sold will be donated. We have tons of stuff that has to go...Thanks honey for lighting that fire under my hiney....I have become ruthless and hubby asked " who are you and what have you done with my wife?" I could only snicker as he has pled with me for 2 years to reduce the huge pile of books ( some 2000+) So I kept only 123 books.....Lives of Saints, Father Vahns books from the 1800's and some antique books that I just could not part with as well as the Tarzan books that my Grandmother would read to us and later we would read to her....I WAS RUTHLESS.... I am hoping someone will give them all a good home and enjoy them as I had for the last 20 years....It is amazing what has come to me in 43 years of life....And what I have come to want vs what I have.....How funny that I now love something more (hubby) then things that kept be busy while waiting for the love of my life too show up and play... I am grateful for the changes that we are doing.....Clearing out , etc ...
Inkling is well and she was able to touch base with farmwife and has resigned herself to the steps she HAS to take....I still ache for her as I know how homesick she must be...I lived in Hawaii and Japan for 12 years and recall a time when I did not see my family for a 4 year period.....Oh how sad it was how on Thanksgiving I wanted to be home....How I was homesick feeding 112 U.S. Sailors I'll never know. But I was, even with them all being grateful for a "Real Thanksgiving" dinner. Funny, huh?
So say prayers that Inkling will magically be home with her family and hubby enjoying a wonderful gathering around her...Come Thanksgiving supper....
My mum will be coming over after a doctors appointment ( yes she is fine , check up only) and will need coffee as she has to do the blood test thing, thus meaning no food or coffee prior... I can not not have coffee am not fit for the public without, heck I don't even what to be near me....Thus being the reason I have to be up first...To save anyone who might be about. Our friends who have stayed here are aware of this and I try to be a good host and save them from me ...By being up and coffeed up before they awake..
Okay today is the day in which the Alpacas get the shearing that we are a month late on.....Our first year with them....Yes we will be posting photos of them and the wild chase they will naturally do....Wish us luck....Oh boy!!!!
It is foggy this morning and the house was aflutter with bats while I opened up the gate for hubby to go off to his job....He is at Boeing building the new hanger for the dream liner...A good change for him to be inside but a little to slow for his speed....He has told me he gets lost in dreaming about the huge ceiling in the hanger...Who would know that a hanger would excite him ....Not the Rocky Reach Damn or the chief Jo Damn but BIG is good.....He is use to BIG & DANGER and the adrenaline is just not there currently...
Ang is finally finished with the mass paper chaos she took from here...I do not have the heart to tell her I found yet more....Sorry honey....I have promised myself to be a good girl and keeping her repair work of our life in order as she will instruct me as how to do that. She has no idea that she has motivated me to SIMPLIFY our lives. Half the barn has been ear marked for g-sale and if it is not sold will be donated. We have tons of stuff that has to go...Thanks honey for lighting that fire under my hiney....I have become ruthless and hubby asked " who are you and what have you done with my wife?" I could only snicker as he has pled with me for 2 years to reduce the huge pile of books ( some 2000+) So I kept only 123 books.....Lives of Saints, Father Vahns books from the 1800's and some antique books that I just could not part with as well as the Tarzan books that my Grandmother would read to us and later we would read to her....I WAS RUTHLESS.... I am hoping someone will give them all a good home and enjoy them as I had for the last 20 years....It is amazing what has come to me in 43 years of life....And what I have come to want vs what I have.....How funny that I now love something more (hubby) then things that kept be busy while waiting for the love of my life too show up and play... I am grateful for the changes that we are doing.....Clearing out , etc ...
Inkling is well and she was able to touch base with farmwife and has resigned herself to the steps she HAS to take....I still ache for her as I know how homesick she must be...I lived in Hawaii and Japan for 12 years and recall a time when I did not see my family for a 4 year period.....Oh how sad it was how on Thanksgiving I wanted to be home....How I was homesick feeding 112 U.S. Sailors I'll never know. But I was, even with them all being grateful for a "Real Thanksgiving" dinner. Funny, huh?
So say prayers that Inkling will magically be home with her family and hubby enjoying a wonderful gathering around her...Come Thanksgiving supper....
My mum will be coming over after a doctors appointment ( yes she is fine , check up only) and will need coffee as she has to do the blood test thing, thus meaning no food or coffee prior... I can not not have coffee am not fit for the public without, heck I don't even what to be near me....Thus being the reason I have to be up first...To save anyone who might be about. Our friends who have stayed here are aware of this and I try to be a good host and save them from me ...By being up and coffeed up before they awake..
Okay today is the day in which the Alpacas get the shearing that we are a month late on.....Our first year with them....Yes we will be posting photos of them and the wild chase they will naturally do....Wish us luck....Oh boy!!!!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
My oh My
There are things in life that seem just to happen...And lets just say I think maybe God uses our little Halleyville as a testing ground....Yes, I am honored to be trusted with such things.....
Well I finally got to get one bedroom under some control...(maybe)
Hubby had requested pizza, a rare thing around here and it is always better in our minds then in reality.Last night was no exception...We ate half of it and reserved the rest for hubbies lunch...
Anyway I came in from the barn and started dishes and fed all the creatures that adorn our little ranch upon my return to the house I found my great hubby sound to sleep with blanket and cat on his chest. I tippy toed around and got the trash to the gate..I tried repeatedly to awaken the zombie from his location and roused him to bed...After sometime he was up and showering . I had tried to make him go back to sleep but a book he had was calling to him....Lest we say he did not want to awake and could have stayed in bed for another several hours.
I did the quick breakfast and stashed his lunch box and got him out the door . All chaos still flinging towards his head...Lost keys, missing shirt with check and I.D. Pass as well as who knows what else...Dashing back in for a cup of coffee, yadda yadda go...
I would like one work morning when all has not been flipped on it's head and we have received enough sleep...Dream on farm fairy....
The lawn was mowed a three hour chore ...Along the driveway I found yet more deaths from the cats thrill killings and the slugs eating again...The debrie. I hooked up the irrigation and found the chickens eating the slugs that where eating the dead rodents. With that sight I decided it was a good thing that I could not find the eggs....As while I love farm fresh eggs the thought that a mouse part was in the creation of such eggs made me rech....Hence God playing tricks with the eggs...Thank heavens!
I was able to tackle Buster (Buster Brown the Alpaca) and fed him by hand as well as pet his sweet fleece. I figure after Friday ( shearing day) they will not let me too close for some time.
Thanks for all the prayers for Trav...He went to work yesterday and seems to be on the mend....
Inkling too is better and now has to challenge the paperwork of the Canadian system....Which I am thinking is just as bad as being ill....She is homesick and had dreamed of going home to her family for Thanksgiving...Funny her Canadian hubby can come and go across the boarder yet Inkling can not return home and then come back to her hubby!!!I just think that it would not be fun for Henry David to go in her place without her..Does anyone else see this as strange or is it just these two redheads...Inklings red is far redder than mine (I am more grey now) but I do have the Gemini thing too...
The photos of Inklings hubby are wonderful....If you'd like to see some photos check out her blog!!! Her hubby had to drive past our location on his way to the Seattle airport( we are just one mile from I-5 he was on)....And had I known he was passing by I would have asked him to stop by so I could send off my famous Strawberry jam to give to Inkling as well as a bookmark that I have been working on that I think she would love to have tucked into her lastest book she is reading...Again keep her in your thoughts and pray that she has the paperwork in order and on time to go home for Thanksgiving...And maybe if her hubby has to go back to the airport he could stop...And get Jam!!! He is a good hubby and LOVES this girl!!!! He even suffered through a movie trying to get her to stay put while on the mend...
I have been up for two hours and still not awake! Have a very good day...
Well I finally got to get one bedroom under some control...(maybe)
Hubby had requested pizza, a rare thing around here and it is always better in our minds then in reality.Last night was no exception...We ate half of it and reserved the rest for hubbies lunch...
Anyway I came in from the barn and started dishes and fed all the creatures that adorn our little ranch upon my return to the house I found my great hubby sound to sleep with blanket and cat on his chest. I tippy toed around and got the trash to the gate..I tried repeatedly to awaken the zombie from his location and roused him to bed...After sometime he was up and showering . I had tried to make him go back to sleep but a book he had was calling to him....Lest we say he did not want to awake and could have stayed in bed for another several hours.
I did the quick breakfast and stashed his lunch box and got him out the door . All chaos still flinging towards his head...Lost keys, missing shirt with check and I.D. Pass as well as who knows what else...Dashing back in for a cup of coffee, yadda yadda go...
I would like one work morning when all has not been flipped on it's head and we have received enough sleep...Dream on farm fairy....
The lawn was mowed a three hour chore ...Along the driveway I found yet more deaths from the cats thrill killings and the slugs eating again...The debrie. I hooked up the irrigation and found the chickens eating the slugs that where eating the dead rodents. With that sight I decided it was a good thing that I could not find the eggs....As while I love farm fresh eggs the thought that a mouse part was in the creation of such eggs made me rech....Hence God playing tricks with the eggs...Thank heavens!
I was able to tackle Buster (Buster Brown the Alpaca) and fed him by hand as well as pet his sweet fleece. I figure after Friday ( shearing day) they will not let me too close for some time.
Thanks for all the prayers for Trav...He went to work yesterday and seems to be on the mend....
Inkling too is better and now has to challenge the paperwork of the Canadian system....Which I am thinking is just as bad as being ill....She is homesick and had dreamed of going home to her family for Thanksgiving...Funny her Canadian hubby can come and go across the boarder yet Inkling can not return home and then come back to her hubby!!!I just think that it would not be fun for Henry David to go in her place without her..Does anyone else see this as strange or is it just these two redheads...Inklings red is far redder than mine (I am more grey now) but I do have the Gemini thing too...
The photos of Inklings hubby are wonderful....If you'd like to see some photos check out her blog!!! Her hubby had to drive past our location on his way to the Seattle airport( we are just one mile from I-5 he was on)....And had I known he was passing by I would have asked him to stop by so I could send off my famous Strawberry jam to give to Inkling as well as a bookmark that I have been working on that I think she would love to have tucked into her lastest book she is reading...Again keep her in your thoughts and pray that she has the paperwork in order and on time to go home for Thanksgiving...And maybe if her hubby has to go back to the airport he could stop...And get Jam!!! He is a good hubby and LOVES this girl!!!! He even suffered through a movie trying to get her to stay put while on the mend...
I have been up for two hours and still not awake! Have a very good day...
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Here kitty kitty
I finally got my chance to hold the baby kitty....he managed to entangle himself on something and I was there picked him up and the hissing I received was worth it...the poor boy was shivering so bad and guilt got me and I returned him to momma... I thinkI may not get another chance to hold the sweet boy....Any idea of names?????please pass along as you please......NO MORE "BUSTERS" please we already have too many in the family....
Ranch Chaos
Well yesterday WAS an adventure to be sure....I fed the horses and proceeded to the Alpacas to find them in combat with each other..4 of the boys need to be "fixed/altered" soon.... They are to be sheared this week...We'll see just how they adjust to being tackled and groomed....Ha....
I proceeded to the barn shortly after 9:45 am at 10:15 I was in the walk in clinic with swelling face....Hornets went up my nose and down my wide open mouth....I have been known to call 911 after being stung ..... So off I went to have liquid shot into both cavities....Yes I'm fine if not annoyed by the fact that 4 hours of barn time was spent in the clinic. Thank heavens it is a short 3 miles away. By the time I returned home I started the meatloaf.....
I then put the irrigation on and found a killing field full of dead rodents...Oh Thomas you are a great killer...A curious sight was that the slugs ( Hubby says they are hideous) where eating the back ends of the dead field mice.....It seems the cats no longer think to eat the entire animal just the lush warm organs and leave the rest for the chickens and the slugs...I too have wondered what these darn things eat other than my new tender plants....Sometimes the plants do not last a day....I am hoping that they will eat all the goods from the cats...
I finished up a new design of necklace and was hoping to do a few more "tests" on them....Like abuse and water resistance and what not....
Travis is planning on returning to work today and Inkling is doing better as well. I'm hoping she will take it easy and not PUSH HERSELF....We redheads tend to do that.. Buluga ate all her raw burger last night and I was pleased she did not walk away from it. Bondo's daughter is off to school in Idaho and will beginning her adult adventures....Have fun and stay safe honey....Ang is going to have a day too, worrying about her honeys return to work.....
Today I am going to the barn and will finish as much as I can.....I too will be getting ready for our nephew and his girlfriends visit for 4 days starting Thursday....My friend will be out tomorrow to assist in the g-sale stuff and then come Friday we will have a part day of hard work and the boys will do some fun stuff.....
Hubby worked on counters in the garden shed, which it seems will be his tool workshop before it will ever be a garden shed at least the Alpaca grain, chicken scratch and halters will all remain.....
So finally some photo updates for you all...
I proceeded to the barn shortly after 9:45 am at 10:15 I was in the walk in clinic with swelling face....Hornets went up my nose and down my wide open mouth....I have been known to call 911 after being stung ..... So off I went to have liquid shot into both cavities....Yes I'm fine if not annoyed by the fact that 4 hours of barn time was spent in the clinic. Thank heavens it is a short 3 miles away. By the time I returned home I started the meatloaf.....
I then put the irrigation on and found a killing field full of dead rodents...Oh Thomas you are a great killer...A curious sight was that the slugs ( Hubby says they are hideous) where eating the back ends of the dead field mice.....It seems the cats no longer think to eat the entire animal just the lush warm organs and leave the rest for the chickens and the slugs...I too have wondered what these darn things eat other than my new tender plants....Sometimes the plants do not last a day....I am hoping that they will eat all the goods from the cats...
I finished up a new design of necklace and was hoping to do a few more "tests" on them....Like abuse and water resistance and what not....
Travis is planning on returning to work today and Inkling is doing better as well. I'm hoping she will take it easy and not PUSH HERSELF....We redheads tend to do that.. Buluga ate all her raw burger last night and I was pleased she did not walk away from it. Bondo's daughter is off to school in Idaho and will beginning her adult adventures....Have fun and stay safe honey....Ang is going to have a day too, worrying about her honeys return to work.....
Today I am going to the barn and will finish as much as I can.....I too will be getting ready for our nephew and his girlfriends visit for 4 days starting Thursday....My friend will be out tomorrow to assist in the g-sale stuff and then come Friday we will have a part day of hard work and the boys will do some fun stuff.....
Hubby worked on counters in the garden shed, which it seems will be his tool workshop before it will ever be a garden shed at least the Alpaca grain, chicken scratch and halters will all remain.....
So finally some photo updates for you all...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
peace maybe
It is morning and we slept too late and I rushed to get hubby breakfast and lunch and out the door. Buluga ate her Veal livers and is happily sleeping.....I on the other hand have had one cup of java and waking slowly. You would think that I have been up for two hours at least and would be further along to being civil but hence I am just barely awake. Results may very today...
Now we are all keeping thoughts and prayers for Trav and too for Inkling who it seems is ill and has started her antibiotics....Poor dear....The newly weds seem to be getting up to speed on the care for part of married life...What a treasure Henry David is for our Inkling. Hope you are feeling better soon....
Now my day involves my second attempt to get to the barn and finish a little bit up. The books seem to double daily and I have been ruthless in severing my ties to them....It is a real challenge for me as I WANT to just sit and read them all ....
Hubby tried to get fresh apricots for me when he returned home Sunday from visiting Bondo.....so much for put up a case of jam....At least I was able to get the Strawberry jam up this year. Pickles are next this week sometime I would think....
Well it is off to feed Alpacas and horses.....hope all is well with your world today...Keep Inkling and Trav in your thoughts today.
Now we are all keeping thoughts and prayers for Trav and too for Inkling who it seems is ill and has started her antibiotics....Poor dear....The newly weds seem to be getting up to speed on the care for part of married life...What a treasure Henry David is for our Inkling. Hope you are feeling better soon....
Now my day involves my second attempt to get to the barn and finish a little bit up. The books seem to double daily and I have been ruthless in severing my ties to them....It is a real challenge for me as I WANT to just sit and read them all ....
Hubby tried to get fresh apricots for me when he returned home Sunday from visiting Bondo.....so much for put up a case of jam....At least I was able to get the Strawberry jam up this year. Pickles are next this week sometime I would think....
Well it is off to feed Alpacas and horses.....hope all is well with your world today...Keep Inkling and Trav in your thoughts today.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
trying for normal
Well my normal I am certain is no place close to anyone elses. Good or bad it is what it is. Hubby went to visit his best friend in Eastern Washington. And I finally had the drive and motivation to face the chaos in the barn, no easy task on it's own...But would be impossible if hubby was here ......I went through box after box and cried when I found photos of Uzi ( cat) and laughed when I found photos of me in Hawaii young, fearless, thin, tanned minus grey/silver hair........oh the thought of being a size 4 again!!! I managed to dive in and tossed out the useless, boxed other stuff to sale at g-sale and boxed yet others to save for later....We have been so busy, hubby dove into putting up cabinets and counters in the garden shed....I am hoping that by the end of the week to have the barn done and have g-sale next weekend....I do need help that day and may beg my mum to come out and lend a hand ( just for the sale day) our place is too large for one person to try and control that many folks....They start early and life is crazy when you put the sign up.....I finally realized that it was time to feed and get in myself..... I'm up and eating breakfast and will return to the mess shortly....right after I feed the horses. It is suppose to be 79 degrees today andwill prove to be useful in putting stuff outside so I wont trip on the stacks of whatnot.
UPDATE: on Ang's hubby Travis........He is home being taken care of by his family....Thanksto you all who said prayers that he would be home soon...
UPDATE: on Ang's hubby Travis........He is home being taken care of by his family....Thanksto you all who said prayers that he would be home soon...
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