Germy Wednesday

Dave and I are still fighting to get healthy. I am 80% better, I would guess Dave is about 30% better. He has this nasty cough that keeps him awake most of the night. I am fighting a combination of stuffy, then runny nose.

Today Harvestland picked up 5 loads of corn for us. In between loads Dave would nap in the hammock, poor guy. I got busy and mixed up my bread machine mix for the week. I line up 8 yogurt containers, then measure all the dry ingredients for 1 loaf of bread, or 10 buns. Then when I need bread or buns I just add 1 cup of water and 1 Tbsp butter to my bread machine pan and dump in a mix. Easy Peasy.

I also got my head of cabbage from the garden made into cole slaw, my green beans snapped, an onion chopped and took pictures of it all. I started downloading to Istock again. I all takes time, but hopefully I will make some money on my pictures. I am also trying to get my best pictures loaded into winkflash. They have a deal now where you can make up to a 100 page book for just 20.00. I am so ready to make a book of all my favorite pictures. I would like to get this all done in the next few days, so I want to get all my pictures uploaded tonite. It is taking a long time to get this done. I went and made the mistake of deleting all my flickr and whcc folders. Figured I wouldn't need them as I had the original, not thinking that these were the pictures I really worked on. Crap.............

It was a beautiful day today. No humidity, and the high of only 80. I could take much more of this weather, but I know for the crops to get caught up we need more heat. We did catch an inch of rain last Friday night. They are talking more for tonite. It would certainly be welcome.

Baby Shower for the twins

Today I got to take pictures of the twins for Jason and Caaryn. So much fun, they are so tiny and adorable. Then LaVonne had a baby shower for them. Got to visit with Jeannie, Terry, Vonne, the whole gang. Didn't get home till 4:00, missed Adam which made me sad. He was home for the weekend, and I didn't hardly get to see him at all.

Did chores, then Ry, Robyn, Griff, and Addisyn stopped for a visit. She is getting to be such a cutie pie. What a little chatter box she is getting to be. "Grandpa, sell the naughty bull".

Got in the house at 8:30, supper, play on the internet a bit then to bed early.

Had a quarter inch of rain again last night. No rain today.

Stormy Thursday

Today was my go bumming day. I love go bumming day almost as much as I love digging up the yard day. After chores and a quick breakfast off to Marshall. First stop truvalu, where I have to get Dave a dollars worth of stuff. I have a 5.00 off 25.00 coupon, so all I need to do is spend 24.00 more dollars to cash in my coupon. Mission Complete, I am now the proud owner of a floor fan, a neat thing to screw on the end of your hose to water things, and 3 more pkgs. of flower seed. You just got to love those coupons, all that for only 20.00.

On to Shopko, where I run into Marlys, Tom and Spencer. Have a little visit with them. Note to self, have them over some night to grill. I have baby presents to buy for the twins, then I find a shower curtain I like, buy 2, cause they are marked down and I can make curtains with the second one, 2 rugs, and I am 100.00 dollars poorer, but my bathroom sure will look nice!

Next, Walmart, take back all the brown I was going to do my bedroom in. Now it is Taupe, it is hard to find Taupe, what the hell is Taupe??? I found Taupe material, will be making the curtains for that room too. Got fun stuff in Walmart, like dog food, cat food, decongestant for my poor sinuses, oh yeah, and paint for the bathroom, so I can have a whole new room. Don't worry, there will be before and after pictures.

I hear the thunder in Walmart. All day long they have been saying look out for severe weather. After talking to Judy for 40 minutes in the store I figure I better high tail it for home. I made it and so far all we have gotten is a lot of rain, a lot of wind, and gloomy skies. Over an inch of rain. Oh, all those flowers I planted yesterday are going to love this weather!

Of course my shopping trip wouldn't be complete without more flowers. I got 8 more impatiens, just because you can't have too much of that beautiful vibrant color. 8 Salvia and 8 dusty miller for around the light pole. I have to hide them from Dave, he is threatening to hide my spade. I have orders, "no more digging up the yard."

Today my chickens are 2 weeks old today. They have eaten 100 lbs of feed, so it took l lb a chicken for the first 14 days. I will post a picture of them tomorrow. The pictures today are just to prove we got an inch of rain today. The other is my flower basket in front of the house. I love red and purple.

Gloomy, gloomy weather

I missed a day, computer acting up yesterday. I didn't get much accomplished yesterday. We had three tenths of rain Monday night, enough to stop my working in the flower garden. Today I am going to clean out my compost from last year and get my bins cooking with some new compost. I did do some laundry, though the basket with clean clothes is sitting on my dining room table, so I didn't finish what I started. I am good at that, though I am getting better. I try hard to finish my projects now. Last night I made my low carb shepards pie. I love that recipe! Today I start my walking program. I have to start exercising more, that is all there is to it. Well, better get my day started. I didn't take any pictures yesterday, and I'm sure nobody wants to see a picture of my laundry, so I will post an old favorite, or two.

Yeah, no rock picking today!!!

Woke up this morning to rain. I love the sound of rain, especially if we were going to pick rock all day. As of now, we have a half inch of rain. Perfect timing for my garden again. This will give my strawberry plants the start they need. Plus I planted the sunflower seeds and muskmelon, so I just couldn't ask for anything better.

Chores were done, then Dave and I went down to the chicks and took their little brooder away and gave them more space. They are 7 days old today, and are learning they have little wings. I lost my first chick last night. He must have tried to fly over his pen and cut his wing. I guess I should have moved them out yesterday.

I had a dream last night that Dave was very mad at me, then I figured out it is because I have a bunch more flowers coming in the mail, which means I will be digging up more lawn. I am excited about the flowers, but not about Dave's reaction to me digging up more lawn.