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• Jul. 26, 2008 - All the Pretty Horses
Posted By FarmMom
Not sure why I chose that title. Gotta update since my last entry:
1. we had a housefire. DH woke up to the sound and, with God's help, put it out with a garden hose. Even the firefighters were surprised. Started with a motion sensor light and some pieces of wood he put up against it. Guess the light stayed on. We were about a minute away from losing most of our house (about the difference in time from when DH woke up to the window burning out, smoke coming in, and the alarm going off) and about 3 minutes away from losing the whole house. We praise God for his protection.
2. 4-H continued on and we did our first local fair as a new club. It was awesome and crazy fun. Our 18 or so kids in the club are the best! I spent a lot of time sewing curtains and putting together signs.
3. I really wanted a rosette - never had one so I entered many "Special classes" to get a rosette : ) I won for the bread and a special blueberry apple bread that is sooooo good! I also got the Sr. Aggregate award. I wish they'd call it something else, it makes me feel old.
4. The weeds are overtaking. I think we'll have to cut the corn patch in half next year and not do so much. Sigh. We just can't keep up. I hear that it takes one person full-time (that's farmer full-time, not regular 9-5, weekends and holidays off. Farmer full-time is sun-up to sun-down 7 days a week!) to look after an acre of organic garden. We have about 2 acres and DH still has cows to milk, things to fix and hay to make and while admittedly I don't go weeding as often as I should, I don't have a lot of free time to get out there in the not-so-hot time of day and weed.
5. Our income tax changed by about $3000 on paper, not in reality so we lost our cheaper medical/free dental for the kids option. I really had to try not to cry about that one! This is the year for braces for DS. I know it'll work out, God's always provided but it was a shock.
6. It's been 2 months since the fire and I just got my kitchen nook back, unfinished, so in DD's b-day pics you can see studs and drywall-less walls in the background. Oh well.
7. Back to the fair. DD showed a calf and goat for the 1st time and did so well! The goat was a bit of a handful but she got 3rd out of 5 for her first ever show in Dairy! I was beaming! DS didn't show too well but that made him give his all in a fitting competition (where you make your calf ready for a show) and he won! A huge rosette and a bag of show supplies! He was tickled.
8. Realized I've gained probably 18 lbs since my biological father died. ack, if only I could get ride of the hole I fill that way!
So that's my update. I've been pretty good not complaining about the construction but I'm tired of it now. I can't find anything and that, in itself, causes stress.
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• Jul. 25, 2008 - We'll Put Her in a Pumpkin Shell and There We'll Keep Her Very Well
My mom is nearing retirement age and the closer it gets the more she talks about moving in with us. We've joked around about it for years, like how I'll keep her in a high turrett where her grandchildren can throw food up to her through the window.
My mom claims she will be very cranky and a pain to live with because she will be old, tired, and in pain. She'll be angry that she can't do all the things she wants to do. In one way I can understand that but in another I keep telling her she's just going to have to accept it. It's a fact of life and I don't know why she has to make all of us miserable to boot.
While Dear Man likes my mom he wonders if he might lose his sanity living with someone who chooses to be a grump. He decided we would be a little house on wheels so when my mom is good we'll park her house next to ours and when she is being a pain we'll park her in the back forty.*
Actually my mom will need to have a house on the ground floor so a two or three story house with ground floor apartment would be best. We could also go with a house that has a ground floor mother-in-law house on the property. Either of these could be hard to find in our price range and in our neck of the woods.
So we've been looking to see what kind of houses are out there that we could add to our property. Here are some possibilites. Some are just fun, some are ugly, and some you just have to look at because its there.
Tumbleweed Houses - It's a house, it's on wheels, it's cute!
Eco-Pod House - For the bee in your family
Micro Compact Home - It's ugly and one might be called in to social services if you actually housed your mother in it.
Just a house pod - Might work if we lived in the arctic.
Shell house - Since my mother says she'll be a crab...
Simon's Eco-house - My mom would actually like this even though she doesn't have hairy feet.
ICOSA pods - You could always hope Han Solo might stop by.
A Yurt - You want a reindeer with that?
Loft Cubes - I'd be worried that an alien ship might mistake it for a spare part.**
Pumpkin House - To prevent it from decaying would you have to shellac it?
* I hope you know we are just kidding and that we would take good care of my mom. Maybe.
** I don't believe in aliens but that's what it makes me think of. |
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• Jul. 25, 2008 - Bridal Shower
Posted By God Keeps His Promises!
• Jul. 25, 2008 - Here comes the weekend ready or not!
Posted By Babyrach91
Hey people! I know your shocked another post! And its not even been a week! LoL! Anyways.. mmm.. O yeah quick update on my mom. We`re moving. yeah... Actually we`ve been trying to sell our house for a while but not like.. really really tried. But now we have too. The doctor told my mo that the reason she felt so bad when she was at home was because of some chicken houses down the road (and they are quit a ways down the road) that they used some kinda chemical that my mom is allergic to. They told her we have to move or it will end up killing her. Wasn`t that encouraging. Sooo if you would please pray that our house will sell.. fast! We`re moveing about 15 minutes down the road to were we actually used to live next to my grandparents house. But we`re going to rebuild the house or something. Its to small and we`re going to build on.. or maybe we`re just going to start over idk.. So yeppers be praying for that.
Okay let me see.... what else is going on. O yeah! I`m actually sitting here trying to decide if I`m going to go upstairs and pack. See there's this youth thing in Tn tomorrow and the girlz are going up there tomorrow and spending the night. Idk if I`m going to go.. I`m.. well I`ve got some stuff going on and I don`t know if I really feel up to it or not. So anyways.. Here I am trying to decide. LoL! Actually I don`t think my mom really wants me to go because I`ve been.. *cough* a bit weepy *cough* *cough* Okay that's a lie. I`ve cried over EVERYTHING this week! its been terrible! I even cried when I watched Sisterhood Of the Traveling Pants. Talk about stupid. But I did.. So yeah. LoL! Me and my emotions.. don`t know if I wanna take them to Tn with me or not. So other then that......hummmm.. O yeah. I`m still addicted to these christian/romance novels about cowboys. What can I say? Who don`t want a tall, dark and gorgeous guy to come riding in on a horse and take you away to paradise. LoL! Okay maybe I`m just being my normal hopelessly romantic dreaming self. But hey.. whats life without dreams ;) hehehe so anyways.. thats about it. No more burned pop-tarts. O but I did almost set the clothes dryer on fire. I didn`t realize that the timer had messed up so it was like on extreme heat for over 4 hours. The clothes kinda had a slightly.. toasted smell to them but nothing was ruined :) So yeah.. Keep me away from hot stuff ;) LoL! Love you lots ♥ |
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• Jul. 25, 2008 - guess wat
Posted By Broccolidude
| ok so we went 4 games and out during allstars. but we made it to the championship game. but the team we lost to is now in the section finals game, winner goes to western finals winner of western goes to the juniors world series game!!!!!!!!!!! |
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