Posted in TBT on November 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
This is my Grandpa on my mom’s side. He passed away in 1985 after a long battle with cancer. He left my Grandma a young widow at 55. When he was going through treatments the doctors wanted him to get exercise so he’d walk down the country road to our farm (a mile west of his farm). He’d come for coffee and tease me he’d go fishing in our fish tank. He was pretty fond of me and would sit on his porch and watch while I put on a radio (rodeo) for him.
Posted in Animals on November 27, 2013| 1 Comment »
Sorry about that dirty title, but I just couldn’t help it!
Mildred’s BF StoneArms (as he’s known on my blog) got up early on his day off work and went with her to take the kitties to the vet for their annual checkup. Now if that isn’t love then I don’t know what is. 🙂
As we near Thanksgiving I am so thankful that my sister has found such a great guy. He makes her smile and once again there is a sparkle in her eye! Love you Sister Sue!
StoneArms and Sopher’s.
And this picture just kills me!! ![IMG_3072[1]](https://carrielt.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_30721.jpg)
Posted in week in pictures on November 26, 2013| 1 Comment »
*My favorite snack, but they have to be dried out and hard. Weird I know! *Molly waiting for TNT to come home. *I had crazy hair going on. *While we waited for TNT to come home on Thursday night Tails snuggled with me and Molly kept waiting. *Close up of Molly’s snoz. *Christmas cards are ready for the mail. *Homemade pistachio fudge! *Watched a kid that was in Mildy’s class fight in the MAA. I don’t like those types of sports, but knowing someone kind of helps. By the end TNT and I were both using our legs to give Danny a boost. He did lose those. 
Posted in Friends, Me on November 22, 2013| 2 Comments »
A week ago Wednesday we had co-ed vball. Before the game my teammates and I were standing around gossiping. There was a boy and his dad playing catch with a mini football. I was jabbing away when I heard the kid say, “HEADS!” I looked up and realized the ball was about a foot from my face traveling at a high rate of speed. Since I was standing with my arms crossed I had no time to put my hands up so I screamed and did a weird thing with my body to shield my face. As I’m sure you can imagine my teammates about died laughing. So the rest of the night they imitated my weird movements and the yelp I did.
This past Wednesday it was volleyball again and my teammates (you know how boys are) still hadn’t forgotten about me making a fool out of myself. One of the boys said, “It was like you had T-Rex arms.” So now that is our new saying for vball.
Posted in TBT on November 21, 2013| 2 Comments »
If you notice I took being a farm girl very serious. I loved helping with the cows and here I’m riding on my dad’s tractor. He used this one to move bales to the cows during the winter. One time we had a very mean cow. I’ll do a post on her later in my Growing Up Rural, but she hated me!! I mean I couldn’t be outside if she was in the corrals. My dad finally had to sell her because if she got out and I was out in the yard she would have trampled me. Anyway I had gone down in the pasture with dad to feed a new bale. He left me on this little tractor when he got down to cut the twine that held the bale together. He heard an angry moooo and me scream. He thought the cow was chasing him, but she was trying to get on the tractor to get to me. She was head butting the tires. Scared me to death. It was then that she was sold. 
Posted in week in pictures on November 18, 2013| 2 Comments »
*Molly and I were playing run around the brick wall. *Was making Xmas cards for clients and thought I’d do one with my nephews. *Friday night we met the inlaws and our friends from CO at the dive Mexican place. My FIL said he does not want to be on FB. So I didn’t put him on facebook! *The fourth pic is of TNT. See he can smile! *Saturday morning I had a session with a 4 month old little girl so he was the first set up I had. *I bought this super cute Minnie Mouse hat just for this session and the mom didn’t want to use it. 😦 So I guess I’ll be selling it since I’m getting out of the newborn/baby sessions.
Posted in TBT on November 14, 2013| 4 Comments »
I loved to snuggle kitties way back when too! I’m even wearing Morris the Cat t-shirt. Remember Morris the Cat?
Posted in Animals on November 13, 2013| 3 Comments »
Tails is in excellent health and acting like a crazy kitten every day. Hard to believe this is the same cat. 
Posted in week in pictures on November 11, 2013| 1 Comment »
*Made me a “healthy” snack of choc dipped mangoes. *Look who I found while searching through scrapbooks….Cassie @ The A-Days. *Wednesday night brought another round of volleyball. Happy to say we beat a team we have never won against in our 4 years playing. *Senior session Saturday night. *After the session TNT and I went over to the inlaws house for supper with our friends from CO. *This is their dog Remi tuckered out after a long day of pheasant hunting. *Their other dog Dakota snuggled up with TNT. *I was editing pictures (extremely busy weekend with 3 big sessions so I had to edit Sat night while visiting with friends.) while everyone else visted and watched TV. *My favorite pic from this girls session! *TNT took this of Molly and I last night when he came to bed.
My cousin is a football coach at a big school in Dallas. And Mr. Buddy Garrity of Friday Night Lights fame came to watch their practice. Thought it was pretty cool!
Came up on a Kansas roadblock yesterday on my way to a session. These hens were out scratching in the freshly graded road.
Posted in TBT on November 7, 2013| 1 Comment »
This is my third cousin Aaron. The thing about my family on my Dad’s side is everyone is pretty close. We see each other quite often and us kids grew up together. Which is fun!! However, when you bring a city kid to the farm things get interesting!
It took a long time for Mildred and I to confess this to our dad, because we thought we’d get in trouble since I was supposed to watch him. We’ve never told grandma about it, but my dad about died when we told him. So I was probably 12, at the time, Mildred was 8 and Aaron would have been 13. We were out in the pasture riding ATV’s. Mildred and I were on our four-wheeler and Aaron was on my grandpa’ 3 wheeler. Back when my Grandpa use to cut silage (chopped up corn plants) for the cows he had dug into the side of a hill. You could drive in one side and the other went into the hill. He would pack the silage down in there and when winter would come he could use the tractor loader and feed the cows with it. Well my Grandpa had stopped doing that long before i came around in 1980 so they used the pits to throw trash. Not trash that would blow away, but lumber, tree limbs or stuff that would burn. once the pit is full you burn the big pit. Sometimes my Grandpa would also throw stuff in there that wouldn’t burn….like an old car.
Okay so now that you have the background here is what happened. We were ATV’ing in the pasture and Aaron decided to jump one of the pits. Stopping again to explain that these pits are a good 20-30 feet wide. There is no way you can jump these pits without some kind of ramp and even then I wouldn’t try it. So Mildred and I are going along and we notice Aaron isn’t around. We back track and sure as heck Aaron is in the bottom of this pit. If he had “jumped” the other pit he could have just driven out the east side, but this pit had an old car at the end. No way to get around. There was only ONE way to get this darn thing out of the pit….to lift it up over the edge. The 3 wheeler probably weighed 250 pounds and with me being stronger than Aaron it was heavy lifting. I think the adrenaline of getting in trouble gave that extra boost get lift that darn thing out over the side.
It hasn’t been that long since we told our dad about this incident!! Funny that Aaron never tried to jump it again.
Life in the Slow Lane 