Monday, April 20, 2009

Weekend Pics...



Heres a snip of the supercrazybusy weekend...

RRC works on his creation..
one step closer.... GAWD ITS GOING TO BE UGLY...
His assistant is overcome...
His backup arrives to lend a hand.
Boredom with the CREATION overcomes me so...
I wander off and build a small raised bed. Yep its not so pretty but the only thing that cost money wast the plants so I aint gonna complain.
Then plant all the peppers from the first shopping trip.
And the camera dies so I cant get more pictures for the day.
Oh well I have lots to plant today and lots of pictures to take.
More to come!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Busy Busy Weekend LOOONG!

Saturday:

-Bought dogfood at TSC

-Hubby took me to Ivey Gardens - one of the few places withthe multipacks of veggies.  Got Peppermint, Spearmint, Mint, Roma Toms, Sweet 100 toms, Yellow pear toms, Tam Jalapenos, Black Beauty Bells, and Cayenne peppers I think.   $32.00

-Tilled garden

-Built raised bed from Cinder blocks(free!)  to plant Peppers in... pics to come.

-Shoveled a zillion pounds of Bunny poo from the barn into the raised bed.

-Planted peppers

-Moved ducks outside

-Released oldest chicks into barn

-RRC got the back of the cab partially installed on the Suburban... pics to come. Jeff Helped... Wyatt occupied Jeffs girls playing in the yard.

-Delivered Wild thing to The Grandparents for his Saturday sleepover and then went to Walgreens for Aloe...

-Drug inside and lazed around and finally took a shower... came out to find RRC crashed out on the couch asleep.  Coulndt wake him up even yelling at him... so aloed up and went to bed.... He NEVER woke up.. Slept ont he couch all night.  The only time in 11 years!!!!   

SUNDAY:

-Super cleanedliving room and part of kitchen...

-Rearranged house... Much less cluttered looking now.   

-Cleaned some more and started sorting clutter and getting rid of it. 

-Ran to home Depot and got 2 Tomatillos, 1 Yellow bell, 1 Orange Bell, 1 Gypsey Sweet Pepper, 1 Red Bell, 2 Early Girl toms, Cauliflower(RC picked those)  Veggies were BUY ONE GET ONE!   YAY!  $16!!!

-Stopped by RC parents house and FIL gave us 2 Sweet 100, 2 Celebrity, 1 Super Fantastic toms.  FREE!

-Came home and created beds and planted all the Home Depot plants expect the Gypsey and Yellow Bell.   Found Saturdays tomatoes dried up and wilted.. looked dead... soaked with water and revived half of them.  Planted FIL Toms, half the Romas from Sat.   

-Just came in a little while ago and discovered the incubator CHIRPING!   New little yellow featherleg chick.    

-Now we are heating up leftovers from lunch and being lazy!   

Tommorow I get to plant all the rest of the surviving toms (2 packs of romas and 2 Sweet 100's, Haul out more cinder blocks and block around one of the beds and start another.   YIKES I need a vacation!   

** I will be editing this to add pictures.... The camera battery died so it will have to be tommorow.

Saturday, April 18, 2009

OUCH!

Lots to talk about... but it will have to wait until tommorow... hopefully.. Its late and I am so sunburnt and windburnt its scary... We just got home from a run to drop kiddo with his grands and stop at Walgreen for aloe with lidocaine.  I am going to take a ton of tylenol or whatever painkiller I can find first,   take a shower and get all the garden grime off me and take my cooked ass to bed.   Its been a productive Saturday..... hopefully I survive sunday.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Stormy Thursday... Bright and sunny weekend ahead.

Nasty nasty storms rolled through last night. Tornado warnings and actual tornadoes ina few areas. Hail in massive amounts... 4-7inches up near Tulia.... yes 4-7 INCHES! They had to use snowplows. It was pretty scary at our house for alittle while, rotation over us, hail in the bucket loads.... Wind howling. One of the windows leaked.. I hate that. Cant figure out WHERE its leaking either.. but when the wind is blowing sideways things that dont leak seem to leak. I started blogging about all of it last night but we ended up bailing out and heading to the in laws to deposit Wild Thing at their house for the night. They have a basement and we dont. He loves it.



I plan to try to get part of the garden done this weekend. Tomatoes in. A few other things maybe too. Haul cinderblocks out to the garden for a new bed I am making. Hunt down some giant sunflower seeds. I think I will plant a big row of them on the south side to shield the garden some. Need some potting soil for my big metal tubs that are going to be planted with herbs. I bought an oregano, parsley, globe basil(new to me) , and something else I cant remember. I want mint and a few other herbs. Need to convince RRC to finish another section of his picket fence around the front so I can take the cattle panel fencing thats there and use it in the garden.
We also get to clean house. Yikes the rain makes a mess. Muddy paw prints etc. There is so much to get done. I think if theres no chance of storms the baby chickens will go out for the first time and the ducks will spend the weekend outside. Maybe move the house chicklets out into the brooder. I swear some of the eggs in the incubator were chirping this morning. It think hatch day is the 20th or 21st. Since one egg hatched 4 days into incubation I am expecting anything...haha.

I am trying to come up with a low budget way to pen up RRC's heeler outside. He wigged out during the storms again and this time destroyed the tray to his crate. Chomped it to peices. Destructive nuerotic beast. Cant leave him loose in the house, cant leave him outside.

So much to do an the weekends are so short...
Yikes.

Mike & Wyatt...

Mike hates having his picture taken.
Oh well I say to bad so sad....
He is my favorite subject besides Wild Thing Wyatt.
Easier too... He sits still a LOT more than Wyatt.
Mike is no pretty boy.
I managed to snap some rare pictures of him at the last 4x4
run in Post.
Waiting and Watching

That hat sure was scary. Its gone now.

Woman will you stop with the damn camera.
So you met Mike... the love of my life...
Then there is the center of our world. The boy...
Wild Thing Wyatt... 
The dismantler of things
No screwdriver is safe he WILL find it
He will take something apart.
He is fascinated by trucks and tires..
and horses
and anything cowboy
he will tell you HE is a cowboy.
He has cowboy boots
and cowboy pants (aka wranglers)
and his cowboy jacket( a wellworn used carhart thats 2 sizes to big...)
He will tell you he rides horses... and rescues them(um we dont have horses....)
He has his own lasso
and his cowboy wallet.
And momma loves every second of it.
See I'm one of those women that always dated cowboys...
but somehow married a NOT cowboy...
But still got my own little cowboy out of the deal...
Presenting:
Wild Thing Wyatt

Yeah yeah... you'll see more of him later...
this is about all anyone gets though..
He never stops moving...
Unless hes taking something apart
or putting something where it shouldnt be
or creating some kind of horrible mess.
He loves dirt and rocks and mud puddles and water
and flooding the bathroom.
I need a nap just thinking about the chaos he can create...


Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The man and his crazy ideas....

So I mentioned yesterday that Mike was working on a new crazy ass project. Heres a little background: December2008... a friend tells me he needs to rid himself of a 4x4 suburban, how much I ask thinking of my dear RRC... $200... Mikecant get the thing home fast enough... With a little tinkering and some huge ass tires added we have a running monster on its way to Post, Texas to play with the 4wheel drive club. Its ugly, its HUGE... but it works and was cheap. 




Who needs a jeep anyways?




Here it is on its first Post run Valentines day of all days...




Happy Freaking Valentines day to me...




it was Cold...




It Thunderstormed




and




instead of rain it was ice pellets....
But there are some problems with running a beast like this rockcrawling.... The long wheelbase can get you into binds like this:




Where the jeeps can just toodle on around and get out... the Beast ended up jammed up good... So RRC decides modifications are needed to improve the BEAST.




Oh crap says I... as the sawsall comes out.




Yesterday he went to work....





At this point I got bored and the horendous noise of cutting metal annoyed me so I wandered off to attack the garden with the tiller after making Mike stop and show me how to start the tiller for the MILLIONTH time... 




Then RRC starts hollering at me and I look up and see this:


See why I wasnt so happy about the thought of the sawsall?

Yesterdays final product was THIS:

But Mike isnt done yet..... 

From what I caught before I slip into a psychotic coma listening to him

he intends to cut off the back behind the rear tires to shorten the length...

and he has aquired the cab of a pickup to weld behind the rear doors.

Esentually making it a crew cab pickup but shorter ala Chevy Avalanche

Why BUY one when you can MAKE one

I just shake my head and walk away...

I think I need to go buy some more chickens to calm myself....

Just wait hes not done yet

I told you you were in for a wild ride?




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