Lazy Day ....

Today is a lazy day. I spent most of my day yesterday in the garden.  My head is sunburned as is my arms. But I got a small part of my garden done.  It is gonna take me forever!! LOL  But it will be a nice garden when it finally gets done.

We went to watch Austin (Daren, Scott's cousin's son) play soccer on Sunday.  Daren had come into town from his job to visit his family and was there to watch Austin play too.  It was a lot of fun.  Austin plays for a team called Crawford County Chaos. They lost their first game but won their second day.  Addison, Daren's girlfriend's daughter and his step daughter, was there.  She took a shine to Scott and by the end of the day decided she needed to come stay at our house for the night.  So instead of two of us coming home, there was three of us!!  Not long afterwards, two more were added to our bunch.  Daren and Lacey brought Addison's stuff over and ended up staying for supper.  They had brought their two boxers, Boomhauser (Cracky) and Bailey (Fat) to play with our guys.  That was fun to watch!!  And they are sooo goofy anyway!! LOL But it was an enjoyable day.

Then the next day Lacey came to pick up Addison to do some errands but Addison wasn't ready to leave yet!! So she spent the rest of the day helping me and Scott around the house.  She came out and played in the garden with me.  Found out she hated getting dirty but yet she was out there burying her legs and feet in the dirt while I planted my garden!! LOL  Then she would come up to the house and help Scott do whatever it was he was doing up here.  Apparently she doesn't like her shirt wet either.  If she gets a drop of water on it, apparently she likes to change her shirt ... not a word was said to us about changing her shirt when it got wet several times!! LOL  And she is suppose to be a picky eater and won't eat anything ... she ate a half a can of Macaroni and beef for lunch and for supper 2 whole pieces of pizza by herself!! So she did real well.  Lacey came back over around 5 pm and we had some homemade pizza for supper.  It was good. Had really hard time with my dough last night though!!  Was driving me crazy! But it ended up turning up good.  I like cooking with gas too.  It is easier and faster.  And more even too.

Today I am tired.  Don't feel like doing anything but I do need to do something.  Still have a butt ton to do.  And I am tired of the house looking the way it does. And not being able to know where anything is at.  So frustrating!! LOL

Anywho ... gonna get off of here and do something productive for the time being.  So until later!! :)

"Big City" visit ...

We traveled to the "Big City" (Terre Haute, IN) today!! Actually Terre Haute has done a lot of growing since I last went there many moons ago.  We went to the Pet Food Center and bought the animals food today.  The dogs, cats and cockatiels needed food. Then we also had to pick up cat litter. While there, they had a Moluccan Cockatoo named Andy there.  Poor Andy was needing a new home because the previous owner was afraid of the bird and could not handle it.  Apparently he is good in his cage but when you go to bring him out of his cage, he can become quite the terror.  We told the girl checking us out about dropping him to the floor when he is nasty and not letting him near his cage.  She was not aware of that fact ... ahhhh, the things I could teach people!! LOL After the Pet Food Center, we went to Herbs & Heirlooms and Homebrew too!! That was a REALLY cool store with all sorts of neat stuff.  They carry incense, aromatherapy items, herbs, precious stones, and wine/beer making stuff. There is a lot of other things too but that is the short list.  I am sure you will hear more about it as I check it out in my future visits to Terre Haute!!  After that store, we stopped by Lowes and window shopped. Then we came back here, unloaded the car (Scott's) and took my truck to Rural King.  Scott was gonna get fencing to do the Dogs permanent fence but decided not too.  We ended up buying chicken feeders and waterers for the chickies. After that, we went to Walmart and picked up some groceries and a new steam mop for my floors!!  A mop just does not get it!!  It leaves a nasty water mark and film on the floors. It is quite frustrating to clean your floors only to sit down and they still look nasty from an angle.  Once we got home and unloaded the groceries, I went out to the garden and made 12 4x4 sq's for my sq foot gardening.  It is gonna rain sometime tomorrow so I think most of my work will be done inside tomorrow.  Besides, I think 12 sq's are a good start for me.  It is gonna take a few days to clean those out of roots and prep for the seeds, which I still have to find tomorrow!! LOL  Once I got that done, I sat down for about 20 mins and we decided to go enjoy some DQ. So we got shoes on and met Grandpa and Mom at the DQ and enjoyed some down time with them. The Carmel Brownie Blizzard is good!! Now I am back at home, my feet kicked up and my eyes feeling heavy!! LOL  Awwww ... it feels good to feel tired. I sleep like a baby now a days after working my butt off!! LOL That was my day in a nutshell!! :)  Not so bad!!  LOL

Mushroom hunting

I got to go mushroom hunting for the very first time today!  It was tons of fun!!  It was in a very hilly place so I did a lot of climbing!!  It reminded me of my days in Georgia climbing Kennesaw Mountain or even Stone Mountain (without most of the trees, etc!! LOL).  Was thinking being part mountain goat would have been a good thing to be during that time!! LOL  I guess the mushrooms we were hunting were called Morel Mushrooms.  Suppose to be really good eatin' if you enjoy that kind of thing. I found the first mushroom and I found the most mushrooms!!  And I was the newbie!! LOL Everyone kept asking me if I could smell them.  My nose does work VERY well.  I think I could probably train it to find them. They have a very distinct scent about them. I found a really nice Morel Mushroom hunting guide via Field and Stream Mag online.  But I enjoy my time out in the woods anyway.  I love trees and feel very connected to God when surrounded by trees full of life. It was lovely listening to the birds throughout the trees and the little frogs jumping when you rustled through the dead leaves on the floor of the woods.  The only tough thing about it was climbing through the rose bush thorns.  Apparently the Young Farmers of America decided that a certain rose bush (I cannot remember their name) made wonderful natural cow barriers and they used them for such.  Worked out fine and dandy until the birds started eating the fruit on it and then pooped the seeds out and the stuff started sprouting up everywhere!!  And apparently the only thing that kills those suckers are goats eating it!! They love the stuff Uncle Gary said.  I know I don't!! LOL I have tons of scratches on my arms from those nasty little suckers!!  Another draw back is the ticks!!  I pulled about 7 or 8 of those little boogers from my body after hunting.

Altogether though it was a nice day!

We got some plants from Mom and Grandpa today too!!  Was tickled pink to see those!!  Got 3 Goji berries, 3 Honeyberries, 2 Giant Blueberries, 3 Nanking Cherry bushes and 2 Japanese Maple trees!!  So excited!!  Have never had any of those fruits (except maybe the blueberries!!) so I will be excited to see the fruit on those within 1-2 years!!  Re-planted our Blackberry bushes today too.  Between our fruit trees, our berry bushes, the couple grape vines and the garden I want to grow, we shall be pretty set at some point!! LOL

Ahhhh, we are so blessed!!  Getting to use the land that God blessed us with ... ahhhhh!!  Life is great!!!

Been here for a bit now!

Sorry! I wanted to actually post from day one but with the move and trying to straighten things out, I am terribly behind.

All in all, the move was crazy!! LOL  It actually took two trips that Scott's mom actually helped with bless her cotton picking heart!!  She has been so good to us.  No one could have a better mom in law than me!!

After everything was here, it was a total mess!! LOL I did manage to get pics of the house before the "tornado" hit!! LOL The room here is amazing!!  6,000 sq feet!! 3,000 sq feet upstairs (the main living qtrs) and 3,000 sq feet downstairs.  A total of 11 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, two kitchens, two living rooms (the second one is fairly small though) and tons of room!! LOL  We are also proud owners of 13 acres of land!  We are so tickled pink.  We cannot believe how much God has blessed us in this move.  He is soooo good to us.

The house is slowly coming together.  Still have a lot of boxes to unpack and things to organize but it is all beginning to look much better than it did!!

Even got my garden plowed!!  Uncle Gary came over with a big tractor to mow some more of the yard for Scott and while he was here, he plowed me a big plot.  So I have plenty of space to grow my garden in now!!  Yea!!!  My seedlings did not make the move though.  I would say 75% of them did not seed and the 25% that did, I probably lost 15% of them.  So I have to get on the ball and get my garden planted so I can save that last 10%!!!

We purchased 10 chicks to get our egg laying begun as soon as they are old enough.  I have two Amercauna's, two Golden Laced Wyandottes, two Rhode Island Reds, two White Crested Black Polish Chickens, and two Buff Cochins!! I cannot wait to see them as older chickens!!  They are adorable as chicks!  But two of the breeds, the Cochins and the Polish, are ornamental birds.  The Cochins are good egg layers too.  I have to do more research on the Polish but I think they are good egg layers too.  But I have no doubt we will have plenty of eggs to go around!! LOL  We have our eye on a Chicken Coop but it is gonna cost us $1600.  It is large enough for 12-15 chickens. Pretty nice coop too.  I am hoping we can get it when we get the rest of our moving money back.  But we shall see.  There are a few things that money has to take care of!! LOL

That is the news in a nutshell thus far. I am loving living here. I will write more later.  I have been wanting to drop by and update this website for awhile but have been inundated with things to do. So I have finally stopped by to at least update the website!! We are here!!! LOL