Apr. 23, 2008 - This and That
Wow! I can't believe that it's been this long since I've posted. How the days seem to fly!!! We have been busy, to say the least.
For our daughter's birthdays (April 4th & 5th) we bought them a nice little piano and when we went to pick it up and bring it home dh Steve put his back out. Also in the midst of that, his doctor changed his medication (he's bipolar) and for 2 weeks he was out there in the twilight zone (as he called it). He really was messed up between the pain meds, muscle relaxers, and the new medication. The new meds made his blood pressure skyrocket and he was sick and pretty much unable to function for the two weeks he was taking them. He's off of those now, thankfully and getting back to his old self again. Whew!! It was terrible.
We have also been looking at rental property for our business. We had been talking for some time about putting our office somewhere other than here at home. Steve has a terrible time being able to concentrate and our little guy Eli (who's 4) loves and wants to be with his daddy all the time. And while there's nothing wrong with that at all, we do need an income. 
We've decided that we definitely need stronger boundaries between work and play time so we have pretty much narrowed our options down. The building we've settled on is just 10 minutes away from home and in our little town on the "main" street where all the cute little shops are. We will have space for each of us (Steve, myself, and our oldest son Stevie) to have our own offices, which is so cool. We also have a spare room to put all of our exercise equipment that we don't have room to use here (thus sitting, collecting dust wherever we can find a place to stuff it). We will have a big area for a showroom--something we've never had before in our 15 years of business but have always wanted. You can't imagine how excited we are!! The best part --to me--is that I'm going to convert our office here at home into a schoolroom. I'm a bookaholic and have shelves and shelves of books. But I also have boxes and buckets of them that I store when we aren't using them. The new schoolroom will allow us the room to have everything on shelves. Which means of course that I need to buy some more shelves!! And to not have school stuff strung out thoughout the house... Heaven! I'm so excited!!
In March we traded our big "box" truck (like a moving van) and an extra little pickup truck we had for a Jeep Sahara with 4 doors. We've been having lots of fun with that. We like to take the 3 little boys out for fun rides through creeks and climbing hills and such. They love it. Every time we splash through water Eli will yell "Do it again!! Do it again!!. On Monday I took our oldest daughter to a dentist appointment and when we drove past Bagnell Dam we saw that they were letting out lots of water. Later that evening we took the little boys out to check it out. It was really cool. They loved it.
Daddy and little boys with dam in background.
A closer view of the open floodgates.
A view from the top.
The "Jeepsters"
We had a bit of excitement earlier this week here at home. Steve and I were going to run to town to look at another rental unit and I was kind of standing there outside waiting for him to get off of the phone. I heard this strange noise like a horn honking. It just kept going and going. After he finally finished his call we hopped in the Jeep and headed down the driveway only to discover there was a car on fire a little down our gravel road. From what we gathered from the neighbors, a couple of guys stopped their car on the road and then hopped out and tore out across the field that borders our property. Not too long after, an SUV (possibly a Bronco) was seen roaring off down the adjacent road. The sherriff said that there was a call about an hour afterwards of a reported stolen car. He thought that it seemed a little fishy and we agreed. We had quite the show though as there were policemen and firefighters all over trying to get the fire put out. The fire had caught dead grass and trees ablaze as well and that was dealt with first. Another neighbor had an interesting theory about the whole thing. He said that he figures that the guy's bank payment and insurance payment must've been rubbing together pretty hard and the friction of the two caused the fire. 
Our concern though was that the men had ran off toward our house so Steve and the older boys kept a vigilant watch over the house and our outbuildings. The police even brought out dogs to see if they could sniff their trails. Interesting. After a couple of hours they all left and things got quiet again.
We still haven't been able to work in the garden with all of the rain that we've gotten. Every time that the ground almost dries up enough to get in there it rains again. Our tiller has been broke down anyway so I haven't been too upset. And now that we do have the new parts in I'm starting to get a little antsy. All of my seedlings are growing huge!!
We had a nice surprise this morning when the kids went out for their farm chores this morning. Two adorible little goat kids had been born (probably in the middle of the night) and were hollering. They were dry, standing up and nice and strong. They had obviously helped themselves to their mommas yummy milk. Not that we're opposed to that but all the experiences that we've had with kids raised by their mommas haven't been all that great. The kids are really skittish and the mommas are more ornery. So we like to bottle feed them--and they let us join their herd. 
And that's what's been going on around these here parts!!
Comments
Apr. 23, 2008 - Untitled Comment
Posted by 4sweetums
MY Goodness! You sure are having alot of excitement around your way. I am afraid there will be more stunts like the car incident with the economy being so poor. Things are getting rough for alot of people and unfortuntatey some of them decide to do stupid things.
Glad your husband is getting back to normal and you are all safe and sound.
Blessings,
Dawn
