A Weekend at Home

This past weekend we got to stay home and do... nothing.

That's right, we laid around the house all day and watched TV and played video games. It was terrible. No I mean like terrible that we did it, it was actually very enjoyable.

Well, I didn't lay around the house all day.. We tried to go garage saleing, but when Alpine only has five garage sales it's hard to find any good deals. I did find a cute little table and chairs for K when he gets old enough to do crafts and stuff! It was only 5 bucks! I'm going to clean it up and I'll take a few pictures.

Other than that, we didn't find anything else. We did go to a place that was basically a dump and a lady was selling the junk that people had to dig out of piles of trash. I guess it was her house but it was in pretty bad shape. Like, really bad shape. Anyways, my mom had a pile of stuff! An old wooden chair, and can of oil that was from like the 50's that hadn't been opened yet! and some silver pales and other little knick knacks. Well, the lady wouldn't sell her the pales, said she needed them for her rocks...? Whatever lady. Talk about crazy!!

After our sad attempt of garage saleing, my folks wanted to keep K, so we left him and went home and started our day of nothing. It was so grand that I decided to should fold a basket of cloths and before I knew it was using a pile of t-shirts as a pillow and taking a nap on the floor. Haha!!

Ok, I'll quite bragging about our wonderful day of nothing!

I have been stuck on my other blog. I have about eight drafts started but I can't figure out how to end them. On this blog I can just speak my mind and not have to worry about who I may offend or say something wrong. I have been putting a lot of thought into because if I want to make it a book I feel like it should be correct in every aspect.

That has always been my problem though. I can't finish stories. I have all these wonderful ideas of what to write about but when it comes time to end it, I get stuck. Oh well, I'll figure something out. Maybe on my next day of nothing that's what I'll do, if I ever get another day like that.

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures to share, I umm... yeah... can't find my camera... I have an idea of where it's at though. K has been taking and hiding things. He has a little stash of stuff in the kitchen. I guess I need to go look there..

I guess that's all I have for now. T and I are watching Pocahontas, without our little monster..

Talk to ya'll later!!

Round' The Homestead

 

Would you believe me if I told you we owned a rabbit?

 

It's true.... some neighbors of my folks raise rabbits and they wanted to give K man one, so we are the proud owners of Bucky!

 

I have been busy, busy, busy today! Did I mention busy? I mowed the lawn today, all of it! and did some landscaping as you can see in the above picture. 

 

I really needed cleaning up and I guess I got a wild hair and decided to do it! Glad it's done too...

 

My sad little garden... I spent an entire afternoon weeding it and plucking all the dead plants out of it. I think most of it survived, but time will tell...

 

My chicken coop!! It is finally finished! I think T was more happy to see it finished than I was. I think it took about a month to complete... whew!

 

My chickens were sure happy to have more room to roam too.

 

 

My goats!

 

Some more landscaping :)

 

 

Well, not much else has been going on around here. Friday we leave for Abilene for the Western Heritage Classic. Saturday is the horse sale and T will be sporting his new official 06 ranch shirt! Haha, he's really riding for the brand now.

 

I guess I will talk to ya'll after this weekend! Adios!

Spring Works

 

Roping out horses!

 

The gather

 

I was sent up on the ridge, what a great view!

 

Sortin' out bulls

 

And the dry's

 

Branding Time!

 

Nice Shot!

 

Brother-in-laws

 

Swingin'

 

Draggin'

 

 

 

The ground crew

 

Lunch Time!

 

 

Did ya'll like that? It was short an' sweet because I'm so very tired after just 2 days of helping on the works. My poor hubby has been at it for 2 weeks now, tomorrow is the last day though.

 

I feel very privileged to have gotten to help out, it was a nice to be around a crew who aren't women haters.. awhemm.

 

I did have to ride ramuda horses, which, just between me and you, if I never have to ride those horses again that will be just dandy with me. The first one, Juroo, liked to prance ALL THE TIME! And the second one, Gus the white whale.. well, I could barely get my saddle on him he was so big, hence his name.

 

Well, I'm headed to bed now, have a rodeo tomorrow evening that I need my rest for!



Random things

Howdy ya'll, been a while hasn't it?

Lets see here, tomorrow morning brings the first day of the spring works here on the ole ranchero. Luckily, out here it will only last about 3 weeks, instead of 3 months... so it should be a breeze! But why do I have this tingling in my tummy about spending eight nights alone, just me and K man? Maybe it's this huge house that creaks like crazy at night, or the fact that we haven't lived here but four months... I guess I should stop being a big baby about it.

I've been told I could stay in town, but I will still be alone. Everyone is out of town this week and I would rather sleep in my own bed if I'm going to be alone anyways... I think a house full of kids would make it all better... Ok I'm done with that now.

Let's talk gardening shall we? I did my research and planned my garden at what I thought was a decent time of the year, but this crazy west texas weather has had two below freezing nights and lets just say my poor tomato plants have been replaced... with alive ones. Oh and not to mention my pepper plants, or, should I say T's pepper plants. Everything else seems to be doing great though! Oh, except my watermelon. They died last night I'm pretty sure. It rained on us pretty good and last night it decided to freeze, again. I tell ya, this weather is crazy! I am thankful for the rain though, it was much needed. Thank goodness my mom started a ton of watermelon plants in the house and she gave me some new little plants to replace the dead ones.

This year my hubby plowed me up a big spot for a garden, in the perfect area too! And we loaded it up!! Lots of corn and strawberries this year. Probably the most eaten around this house... I even planted some pumpkins! One year, my mom planted giant pumpkins and she took one to the county fair and placed 1st for her pumpkin being nearly 150 pounds!

I love watching things grow! I also planted some flowers and decorate grass around the house, since it's so bare. Can't wait till everything grows up!

Speaking of growing up, ya'll should little K man now! He looks like a little boy more than ever with his curly blond hair. Crazy kid, this afternoon I made cushion of pillows and blankets on the floor in the living room and he loved running to it and plopping down! Until he slipped and hit his head on the hardwood floor. It didn't deter him for long though, he was back at it in less than 2 minutes.

If I posted a picture of K on here, ya'll would think I abuse him. He has a bruise in the middle of his forehead where he fell off the porch; a bruise under his nose where he tried to stick a stick up his nostril; a scratch on his belly from another stick; a fat lip from falling on his face numerous times.. None of this seems to bother him though! He keeps doing the same things that get him hurt! Oh well, his a little boy, what did I expect? The bad thing is, if we had a little girl I could see her doing the same things.. (Oh is that the second mention of more kids? Oh I'm sorry.. Ahem Ahem..)

So by now ya'll probably know that I am involved with Advocare now and I'm on the 24 day challenge, and folks, let me tell ya! First of all, I don't have weight to loss, but so far I'm on day 6 and I've lost 5 pounds. That's not a huge number but to me its great! I've also noticed that my belly is flattening out.. hmmm.. I may try and sport a bikini sometime this year.. maybe...

Well, tomorrow I will try and get some pictures up to go with the post :)

Easter

I know I know, do not give me any grief about this being late... it's only April 3rd! Only!

Sorry bout' that, I've been wanting to sit down and blog but have I had time for that? Nope..

Right now I'm sitting on the couch listening to music on the tv and watching K man navigate the front steps. I have the door wide open so I can keep an eye on him and its such a beautiful day not to have doors and windows open! T is out working on my chicken coop too! It's a wonderful day :)

Well this year we made the trip up to Matador to spend Easter with T's folks. It was nice to get away but on the last day I proceeded to get some sort of stomach bug and felt terrible all the drive home. And... it's the second time that's happened to me while staying up there.. I think there's something in the water...

 

I like this pictues, it looks like K man took it himself!

 

Fishing!

 

Uncle N makes a good pillow. Poor K man was wore out.

 

Like his Easter egg basket? Yeah, it's a lard bucket..

 

He actually enjoyed hunting eggs, then all he wanted to do was eat the eggs..

 

Cutie!

Well, I think that's all I have time for.. the phone is ringing "sigh"

Have a good one ya'll!

Monday Morning Suprises

I went out this morning to do chores, my chores, and look what I found!

 

I didn't really take any good pictures because I was having to balance a squirming munchkin in one hand and the camera in the other.

 

Aren't they cute though?? Last week one of my dad's hay customers asked me if I wanted a goat. I said sure why not, thinking "never look a gift horse in the mouth."

My cousin and I went to get her and realized she was a rather large goat and getting her into the back of the truck was quite a chore, but we managed.

The lady said she may be bred but I never thought she was that close! The black n' white one is a male and the little red one is female. We will probably keep her, and sell the little billy when he's old enough.

It's mornings like this that I love living out here on the ranch :)

 

Anyways,

Not Much Going On

That's actually a lie, there has been a lot going on lately. Why I choose that as a title... I have no clue.

Anyways... Little K turned one the other day, March 6th. That was actually a while ago. It was a Wednesday I believe but I haven't had time to sit down and talk about it. We had a party for him Sunday the 10th after church. Lots of peeps showed up and had fun watching K dig into his custom made cake. Please note that I did take pictures and they are on my computer I just don't feel posting them, but maybe I should.. Ok, I will.

 

Keagan's banana cake!

 

The cake for the rest of us! 

 

At first, he didn't know what to do with cake. He just kept playing in the cream cheese frosting.

 

Then he went nuts! Oh, but before all of that, we sang happy birthday to him and he got scared! He never cried but he sunk back in his chair and was looking at everyone like we were crazy!

 

 

K's buddy R was there to help him open his presents. R is 5 and K really got along great with him!  Ranchin' Mama and her crew were there too but they had to leave early. Sad day!

 

My cousin from Colorado came to stay with us for a week also. She needed a trip away from home and I convinced her to come down and hang out. I don't know if she will ever come back but it was lots of fun! She's thinking of coming to school down here next year!

 

Well that's about all I want to share for now. I want to write another blog about the crazy ultimate trail ride I did the other day!

 

Good night ya'll!