Please just leave us alone...

This is a message for Brian.  I am assuming since you are keeping tabs on our other web activity that you are also reading this blog.  Please just leave us alone.  You were like family to Shane and we did everything we could to try and help you over the years.  Please just leave us alone now.

You need help.  We are not your enemy.  We just want to have our quiet life and for it to not include you or your family.  Ron was a wonderful man and I am only glad that he isn't here to see how low you have sunk.  I am so sorry that it had to come to this.  I don't want to have to keep calling the authorities because of your violations of the no contact order. 

I have no ill will towards you Brian, but, you do need to leave us alone.  I hope you can pull your life together.  Maybe go back to school?  You need to take responsibility for your actions and stop blaming everyone else.  Time to be a man Brian.  Time to re-build your life, if not for you then for your daughter.  Give her the opportunity to be proud of you when she grows up.

I wish you the best.

Lisa

Ahh so cute...

Look look look!  I got a rutabaga out of my garden!  Ok, it is small but I planted them kinda late, hoping to get a fall harvest, obviously that isn't going to work around here.  I will just plant them in the spring and should get lots of big beauties!!!!

We dipped below freezing last night so first thing in the AM I am going out to check and see if I can salvage any more beets for pickling.  I have been leaving them in the ground until I needed them, the carrots and potatoes but now I guess I need to clean them out.

I let the girls out of the chicken run yesterday and let them wander around the yard for a while.  They kept close to home except the turkey girls, they ran around and I had to keep herding them back together.  Today when I got back from town the turkeys went crazy chasing each other and making all kinds of noise, when I stopped and looked at them all 3 ran to the door, I think they wanted to get out again.  Unfortunately I was too busy today to play with them, maybe tomorrow.

I have been trying to take some good pics of my turkeys but they are camera shy and never stand still long enough, this is a bit blurry but this is Christmas and you can see New Years in the background.  I am really hoping to add at least a Tom soon and would like to maybe get a couple other Jennys once we get the turkeys their own home.  Thanksgiving is not nice to Fuzzy (one of my white chickens with feathers on her feet) so I want to give them some space. 

I know what you are thinking...Christmas IS the most beautiful turkey EVER!  When the other turkeys are not around she still lets me pick her up and give her lots of hugs and kisses, but if another turkey comes by then her head turns all red and she will start to protest...Same thing happed if I kiss or hug Sky at school!

Well, that's about all for now, I have a huge todo list so I better get working...

Catch up

Ok, I am only almost a month late...

Sky didn't like the wig and beard but still wanted to be a wizard

Our little Willy Robertson.  Don't worry the BB gun stayed home.  By the way, B added a 2nd BB gun and his own 22 rifle to his collection for his birthday.  He has also added this fancy scope to this BB gun and is becoming quite a good shot and loves getting to practice with various weapons at our neighbors range.  He even joined Shane and Vic on a hunting trip.

Another Halloween in the books!  I can't wait tell they outgrow trick or treating!
 

what is wrong with me?

So I am sitting in my office.  Boxes stacked around, I have not put anything away yet.  One problem I have is most of my free time is at night and I have no lights in this room.  I have one desk lamp but not really enough to do much.  I spend all my days in the kitchen or doing laundry or re-cleaning the living room and bathroom.  Just one day I would like to not have to do the entire list from the day before again.  Ya know the saying, 2 steps forward and 1 step back?  Well my life is 1 step forward and 2 steps back!  I can't get excited to do anything.  Right now I just want to crawl into bed and pull the covers over my head.

This office still smells like...I don't know what.  But it smells funky.  I need to make this my space still.  The boys have half days all week because of parent teacher conferences.  I should start each day with AT LEAST 1 hour a day this week organizing my office.  Once this room is done then I will re-organize the pantry and clean the freezers out.  If I focus on the little things I can do maybe I won't feel so overwhelmed.  easy to say, hard to do.

My girls are molting.  They look so sad!  big balding areas and just an overall shabby look.  And we are not getting many eggs.  Some days we get 4 but normally we get 1 or 2 a day.  The idea of adding more chickens next year has to happen.  Still waiting to find out if the turkeys are girls or boys.  None of them have given us any eggs and none of them have gobbled yet.  We are pretty sure they are all the same sex just not sure what sex that is yet.

Oh gross, apparently the funky smell is Romeo, he has gas!  What in the heck did that dog eat?!?

Chickens and pumpkins

So I was roasting my pumpkin seeds and started thinking about those big jack o lanterns on the front porch.  I hate to waste them every year and I have read that it is a real no no to make pie out of them so I thought...CHICKENS!  my girls so loved their water melon this summer so I did a little digging and not only do chickens love pumpkins but it acts as a natural dewormer for them!  Hot damn!  So now I am going to try and convince the boys to let me toss their works of art into the chicken run for the girls to enjoy. 

Here is my before:  Brady's on the left and Sky's on the right.  We actually have a 3rd one that was part of Brady's science class this week.  Oh and I got 1 tiny sugar pumpkin from my garden, I have steamed it and I am hoping to have enough to make a pie.  If it turns out good then next year I am going to attempt sugar pumpkins again in hopes of a good crop of pie for my boys.

I have to find the time to can pickled beets!  I have left them in the ground but time is running out and I need to get started.  Sky LOVES them! 

My life is so strange these days, wouldn't trade it for the world!