Soo Sexy! Man Makes Cookies.....

Usually I am the one cooking.....   

unless it comes to cookies, thats the MANS JOB in this house.  

I just love those tough muslced arms... doing something so sweet...hehe.

See that pretty Kitchenaid stand mixer... He bought that for me... I think....

Maybe it was just a conspiracy...

Here I am! Things are always changing!

SO here I am... again

I neglected this blog for quite a while.  Life was busy and things are changing .  

I had high hopes for raising baby Nagansette turkeys (yes I cant spell it today )  but sadly our Sweet old tom lost his life after stupidly flying over the fence into the dog run.  I am hoping his breeder has an extra tom for our girl so I can still work on babies this next spring.  It wont be the same as OUR TOM though.  He was sweet and came running when you whistled.   Now much more has been happening and our paths are changing once again.  After a 2 year hiatus I decided to purchase some show rabbits again.  This is my project with Wyatt.   Though I was strongly eyeing mini rex and still might get a pair I  settled on some Holland lops for sweet huggable personality.  Mainy for Wyatt to work with.  (I really want Velveteen Lops and hope they are accepted for show this November...)   So for the first time in 2 years my barn is powerwashed clean and holding bunnies AND in about a month I am hoping for my first litter from the broken chestnut brood doe I bought.   I will be posting pictures as soon as I get them taken.  Now I need to decide if I want to use our previous C&C prefix or not.  I had and idea for name and logo... Twisted C Rabbits...  With a barbed wire logo.   Not sure yet.   Now the first show I can go to conflicts with my Downtown Art Market booth in November but I think the show is going to win out on this one...   So life is full in my crazy world.   This blog will probably change to reflect a lot more bunny stuff now.  Cause thats what I'm into right now! 

HOT HOT HOT!

I've heard it hit 102.....  holy smoley its hot.
I am not ready for hot, I'm so sluggish and sleepy.
Today is kinda not going well, Last night was night #1 and today day#1 of the baby chickens being outside in the pen with the older two chickens and the young ducks.   All were still alive but one White leghorn roo is all pecked up and bloody.. bad bloody. Possibly going to have to be put down...Ok... one chicken and a roo at that I can handle that... bloodthirsty little buggers...  All the ducks were fine and accounted for.. they have been outside for a while and been fine..  An hour later Mike comes home and goes out there and hollers theres a duck down... one little brown hen cant get up... he sets her up and puts her by the water and she drinks...  seems to be reviving some... but what the heck she was FINE a little while ago.. has the swimming hole to swim in and drink out of... Now one of the black ducks is limping and resting a lot...  Geeze...  
all are eating and drinking and walking around so we shall see what tommorow brings..
I need a dang nap~!

Not too talkative....

Here I am...
Not so chatty this last week or so...  Realized the last time I blogged was April 20th so figured I would post something.   We had 9 chicks hatch on the 21st.  Mike has been getting crazier with the sawzall.  That suburban is looking crazier....  I cringe when I look at it.   He hauled it home today from the shop and people stared....  glad I wasnt with him.   Wild thing came up sick last night while spending the night visiting his mimi.   Pretty much a nasty cold, but with him coughing and congestion aggravate some reflux issues he has had occasionally and he ends up wheezing and puking and miserable.   If we can keep medicine down him without him going projectile with it he clears up fast.  Poor baby.  He slept for a couple hours on the couch in Mike's office because he refused to be 10 feet from his Daddy wihthout having a hissy fit like only a sick kidlet can and working himself up and getting sicker.    I picked up a few things yesterday and today for my jewelry makeing.   Bought myself an early mothers day present...  3 small nautilus pendants.  2 cut in half and one whole.  Suspended them on a chain along with a silver coral branch that I have.  Its pretty awesome.  Now this is a farm girl blog so I better get some farmy stuff on here I guess.   We got ALL the tomatoes and peppers planted and Mike's cauliflower.  I noticed the onion seeds I had given up on just started coming up.  I planted radishes and the cauliflower where they are since it was weeks ago that they were planted.  We shall see what comes out of it.    The ducks are getting big.  I am overrun with little bitty chickens.   Need to weed through and get rid of roosters and the breeds i dont want.  I have some adorable mixed breed bantams and layer chicks I figure I'll sell.  I have someone bringing me Blue and Green Americauna eggs to hatch.  we are going to split whatever hatches 50/50.   Full sized breeds I plant to stick with Buff Orphingtons and the Americaunas.   THe Bantams, I think I will keep the silkies, the polish and the cochins,  though I'm undecided.  There are 2 sultans, a hanfful of Brahmas and a few mystery breeds.  The mystery chickens will go for sure.     The ducks are driving me crazy.  They are disgusting!      I plant to get some more rows tilled out for squash and zucchini and a few other things,  I need to figure out where to plant birdhouse gourds and the snake gourds.    I also want to look for some louffa seeds.  Cant remember what else I wanted..... We are hearing thunder,  and its getting late. Tommorow we are doing major house cleaning.  Battery is dead on the camera again so pictures will come later.
Night y'all!

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!

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.

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.