I'm still alive everyone - just been really busy! I'll get back to posting soon.
:)
6/22/2012
3/05/2012
Monday
Well, its a nice quiet Monday after a very busy weekend! I'm kinda glad to be in at work today rather than at home...
Gus's birthday was a couple weeks ago and due to schedules we waited until this past weekend to hold his birthday party. He likes to have friends come for a sleep over. We've done this before, down in FW, but it was never as much of a success as this one was. Gus decided to do a camp out (because we're out on 80 acres its got PLENTY of room!) so we built a fire pit for the bonfire, put up tents, and had a wienie and marshmallow roast. In between the boys running out to play at the camp site, they were back at the house having nerf gun battles. Wow, we're going to be finding those darts for the next three months! What originally started out as him having two or three friends over turned into eight boys between the ages of 10 and 13...eeek! It was hectic, but everyone had plenty of fun. My sadness for the weekend? Most of the boys were as tall as me, sigh. Its all downhill from here I guess. ;)
Chickie update: all fifteen chicks are still alive! I'm beginning to think my flock is going to be fifteen full grown chickens. Not that I want any of them to die, but I kinda thought it must be harder to raise them from chicks. Of course, they aren't even a week old yet, so I can't really claim success at this point! I think where the mortality will come into play will be when we start to transition them to living out in the coop and their chicken tractor. I think we'll find out how predator proof the tractor is pretty quick.
No pics for you today, sorry. I do like to include them where I can. Stay tuned on Thursday for a special blog day and post.
:)
Gus's birthday was a couple weeks ago and due to schedules we waited until this past weekend to hold his birthday party. He likes to have friends come for a sleep over. We've done this before, down in FW, but it was never as much of a success as this one was. Gus decided to do a camp out (because we're out on 80 acres its got PLENTY of room!) so we built a fire pit for the bonfire, put up tents, and had a wienie and marshmallow roast. In between the boys running out to play at the camp site, they were back at the house having nerf gun battles. Wow, we're going to be finding those darts for the next three months! What originally started out as him having two or three friends over turned into eight boys between the ages of 10 and 13...eeek! It was hectic, but everyone had plenty of fun. My sadness for the weekend? Most of the boys were as tall as me, sigh. Its all downhill from here I guess. ;)
Chickie update: all fifteen chicks are still alive! I'm beginning to think my flock is going to be fifteen full grown chickens. Not that I want any of them to die, but I kinda thought it must be harder to raise them from chicks. Of course, they aren't even a week old yet, so I can't really claim success at this point! I think where the mortality will come into play will be when we start to transition them to living out in the coop and their chicken tractor. I think we'll find out how predator proof the tractor is pretty quick.
No pics for you today, sorry. I do like to include them where I can. Stay tuned on Thursday for a special blog day and post.
:)
3/02/2012
Chickies!
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| Gus: "Take a picture of my chick, Mom!" Chick: "I'm a very serious bird. Cheeping, eating and pooping... very serious things..." |
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| Gus: "Okay, now take a picture of ME Mom, while I'm holding the chick. Ignore the cheetos goo on my lips..." |
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| Austin: "Now its my turn, get my chick Mom." Racing stripe chick: "Sigh, so sleepy... bullying my fellow chicks, its so hard." |
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| Austin: "Now me and my chick, but I do it better than Gus!" Racing stripe chick: "CHEEEP!!" |
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| Isaac: "ME! PICTURE NOW MOMMY!!" Mommy: "Is that yogurt around your mouth? I really hope so..." |
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| Mommy: "Okay Austin, hold your chick up again." Racing stripe chick: "chp, sleepy, chp, chp..." |
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| Isaac: "Mommy, take a picture of MY chick! See my chick?! Take a picture Mommy!" |
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| Gus: "Mom, take a picture of this chick I just picked up, its different! This is the one Isaac dropped on its head this morning!" Chick: "Oiy, such a headache!" |
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| Eight of our very active fifteen chicks - even the potentially brain damaged one is very active. By the way, how would one tell if a chicken is brain damaged? Hmmm... |
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| More chicks, with marbles in the water so they don't accidentally drown themselves. Don't know if they really would drown, but I didn't want to find out that badly. |
2/28/2012
Just living...
Well, it looks like I haven't been doing very well on keeping up with everyone on here. So much for my resolution to write more! Ah well... If anyone has any topic suggestions I'm game!
There really hasn't been a whole lot worth blogging about. I'm just living right now.
By the end of this week I'll have something for you though - chicks! We're going to get our first batch of chicks to raise for eggs this week. Michael has a little home set up for them already and now we just need to wait for them to arrive. I've ordered 15 chicks in the belief that not all of them will survive to adulthood - heaven help me if they all survive! Hopefully we'll only end up with hens (that's what I've ordered) but I've heard that cockerels will sometimes be included. I guess if there are a few males we'll have fresh chicken to fry up - yum.
I've been working my butt off lately. Good thing I love my job or I'd be miserable with the kind of time I'm dedicating. With my long commutes from Stillwater (67 miles one way) my days run about 12 hours on average. I'm often out of the office to visit with clients as well, which is nice in a way, but makes the day a bit longer. I'll be visiting a client tomorrow morning in OKC, then on Thursday I'm off to see a client in Tulsa, which is a two hour drive from OKC. That's a long day - one hour in from home, two hours to Tulsa, meet a client, take 'em to lunch, two hours back to OKC, then an hour drive back home. Ugh, I'm tired just thinking about it! Its all good though. I'm really trying to cultivate a market for our business in Tulsa so I'm just doing what it takes to get our foot in the door.
If you've seen my previous post, I don't really have much of an update on Max. The racing season hasn't yet started but I do know that they've got him up at the track in Tulsa (he was down in TX). I'm just waiting to see how he does on his first race of the season.
Gus just turned 12 last week, can you believe it?! He's been getting into Boy Scouts with his Grandpa lately and really enjoying it. The troops are run better up here than they were down in FW - what a soap opera down there! None of that nonsense up here, so the boys can really get into earning badges and completing levels. They already had their first camp-out a couple weekends ago. I was really glad I was at home in my cozy house while Michael, Gus, Austin and Grandpa were freezing their butts off in Yale! They didn't last the whole weekend but still had fun despite the weather.
Austin is getting into scouting as well, though he is currently a Webelo (last level of Cub Scouts). He'll be old enough for Boy Scouts this summer. The Cub Scouts have their own camp-out coming up later this spring and all the boys are really excited.
Isaac has been driving Michael to distraction, just by being hisirritating sweet self. I can't imagine why Michael can't find the time to search for jobs, clean the house, make meals, etc., with such a wonderful helper around. ;)
I took the pictures below with my phone from my office window when a storm passed through OKC. Enjoy...
There really hasn't been a whole lot worth blogging about. I'm just living right now.
By the end of this week I'll have something for you though - chicks! We're going to get our first batch of chicks to raise for eggs this week. Michael has a little home set up for them already and now we just need to wait for them to arrive. I've ordered 15 chicks in the belief that not all of them will survive to adulthood - heaven help me if they all survive! Hopefully we'll only end up with hens (that's what I've ordered) but I've heard that cockerels will sometimes be included. I guess if there are a few males we'll have fresh chicken to fry up - yum.
I've been working my butt off lately. Good thing I love my job or I'd be miserable with the kind of time I'm dedicating. With my long commutes from Stillwater (67 miles one way) my days run about 12 hours on average. I'm often out of the office to visit with clients as well, which is nice in a way, but makes the day a bit longer. I'll be visiting a client tomorrow morning in OKC, then on Thursday I'm off to see a client in Tulsa, which is a two hour drive from OKC. That's a long day - one hour in from home, two hours to Tulsa, meet a client, take 'em to lunch, two hours back to OKC, then an hour drive back home. Ugh, I'm tired just thinking about it! Its all good though. I'm really trying to cultivate a market for our business in Tulsa so I'm just doing what it takes to get our foot in the door.
If you've seen my previous post, I don't really have much of an update on Max. The racing season hasn't yet started but I do know that they've got him up at the track in Tulsa (he was down in TX). I'm just waiting to see how he does on his first race of the season.
Gus just turned 12 last week, can you believe it?! He's been getting into Boy Scouts with his Grandpa lately and really enjoying it. The troops are run better up here than they were down in FW - what a soap opera down there! None of that nonsense up here, so the boys can really get into earning badges and completing levels. They already had their first camp-out a couple weekends ago. I was really glad I was at home in my cozy house while Michael, Gus, Austin and Grandpa were freezing their butts off in Yale! They didn't last the whole weekend but still had fun despite the weather.
Austin is getting into scouting as well, though he is currently a Webelo (last level of Cub Scouts). He'll be old enough for Boy Scouts this summer. The Cub Scouts have their own camp-out coming up later this spring and all the boys are really excited.
Isaac has been driving Michael to distraction, just by being his
I took the pictures below with my phone from my office window when a storm passed through OKC. Enjoy...
1/16/2012
Recent pics from my iPhone
Its so great to always have a camera on hand with my iPhone. The vast majority of the pics I take now are done with my iPhone because usually I just want to capture a quick shot of the current action (or cuteness).
The view from my office window this morning. For a January day, its quite warm. It was in the 50's on my drive in and we're expecting a high in the 70's this afternoon. Hopefully the strong winds from the south will last until my drive home - they have to help me offset the extra gas I had to use battling them to get to work this morning!
Its amazing that this little turd can look so innocent at times. I guess that's why we keep him around... ;)
The view from my office window this morning. For a January day, its quite warm. It was in the 50's on my drive in and we're expecting a high in the 70's this afternoon. Hopefully the strong winds from the south will last until my drive home - they have to help me offset the extra gas I had to use battling them to get to work this morning!
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