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YES SHE CAN!

Posted in Me, Way Back Wednesday on July 30, 2014| 3 Comments »

This story ALWAYS comes up and I think we laugh harder now than when it first happened.  Let me just say before I start this story that it takes a lot to make me mad.

I’ll take you back to Mildred’s Senior year of basketball at Grinnell High School Gym.  Grinnell was a good team but had a bunch of bitches on their team. I’m being nice by calling them that. The Grinnell team was just one of those teams that you hate. Just happens that way.  Every year the teams would trade wins and would  always be a very intense game. So for me sitting in the stands my adrenaline was already pumping. I should also mention that in those days I reffed a lot of bball games so I knew the rules and 99% of the time I’d take the refs side even if the call was against Mildred’s team

Mom, Bruce and I were  were sitting at the half court line about 5 rows up.  The Grinnell crowd were just as bad as their players with arguing and just being unsportsmanlike.  Well the clock was winding down in the second quarter and Niki comes dribbling the ball across half court.  Now the rule is it is only backcourt if all three points (Two feet & ball) cross over into the front court then go back to the backcourt.  Well even though Niki had her two feet in the front court the ball was still bouncing in the backcourt when she stepped her foot to the back court.  I know confusing.  Anyway, the Grinnell crowd went completely crazy about it.  For a little town there was a lot of noise in that gym.  As I sat listening to them I got angrier and angrier and finally I snapped.  I looked over at the idiots sitting close to me and yelled, “YES SHE CAN” then turned my head back to the game.  That shut up the Grinnell crowd quickly.  Then my mom who was sitting right next to me leaned forward to look to see who was sitting beside me. She didn’t see anyone so she leaned back to look behind me and still didn’t see anyone. So she leaned over to me and whispered, “was that you?”  I said yes.

And that my friends is the story how I went ape shit crazy at one of Mildred’s basketball games.  Just so you know I had to wipe tears while typing this.  I can still see my mom lean forward and then lean back to look around me.

So here is my mom’s commentary about this incident:

 

I still remember thinking, “now who the hell said that?”

Lean forward, no one.

Lean backward, no one.

I looked at you and you had the funny look on your face when i asked if it was you.

You didn’t even look at me as you snarled YES.

I looked at Bruce and his eyes were great big.

He had the questioning around his mouth and I nodded and said it was Carrie.

He laughed.

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Wheat Straw

Posted in Farming on July 29, 2014| 2 Comments »

Since we don’t have the equipment to make a bale we have to do some manual labor.  If you don’t know what a bale is find out more here! I don’t use very much so it would be silly to have a baler just for the little I do need.  I use it in my garden, flowerbeds and in my tree row.  During harvest my FIL made windrows with the wheat straw so I could go in and pick it up.

Last night TNT and I finally got around to doing this.  I was going to do it on my own, but TNT decided to help a little.  Mainly he grumbled the whole time.  Anyway, the left picture shows the windrows and the right picture shows TNT using the skid steer and grapple bucket.
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He gets the straw into a big pile then loads it on my redneck dump trailer.  Which was an anniversary gift! lol

Check out that sky! ❤

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I then back the trailer up to the opening in the barn and dump the straw out.5

 

We did three loads of straw.  TNT used the skid steer to push up the straw as I pulled it into the barn by hand with a pitchfork. There was a LOT of straw.  The most we’ve had since we started doing this. I think this is my 3rd time.

Here is the barn before I started putting straw in there.  I think this building is around 25 feet long.6

 

And here it is full of straw.  I stacked it almost to the roof.

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Week in iPhotos 29 of 52

Posted in week in pictures on July 28, 2014| 1 Comment »

Crazy busy is what June 30 until last night has been.  Harvest then jump into photo sessions.

 

*TNT told me he doesn’t like clients coming into our house (which I don’t blame him one bit) so I started looking for alternatives and found this super cute 10×20 cabin. However TNT said we’ll come up with something else.  By the time we insulate, wire and sheetrock we could fix up a building for the cost of what this would be.  But it’s so darn cute! *Molly got her Bark Box. *Sunflowers in bloom. *Thursday night I went to my bff’s son’s baseball game. They put on one hell of a show.  With 6 outs left they came from 8 down to win 13-12.  It was awesome! *Friday night TNT and I went to the demo derby.  *Afterwards we went to his buddy Bob’s house and this was hanging on his garage. It’s dirty, but made me laugh!  *Saturday  morning took a 6 month old’s session. *Sat night my niece’s senior pics.  These are all shots of my computer so they look much better in real life.1

 

Favorite pictures of the week.  My friend Lacey taught me about back focusing and it has changed my sports pictures. I’m in LOVE!  I would have missed some of this if I didn’t use back focus.Legion2_0379

The kid on top is a 220 3rd place state wrestling finisher and  the pitcher might weigh in at 150.  Luckily both were unhurt.
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Blooming Time

Posted in Life in NW Kansas, Pictures on July 26, 2014| 1 Comment »

I have a little project going on for the company I work with. We contract sunflower acres so I started taking pictures weekly. The first time I visited the field the seeds were beginning to shoot up a little seedling.  Then last night when I stopped by the field I found it in bloom!
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Artichokes/Avocados….Same Difference

Posted in Me on July 24, 2014| 2 Comments »

Mildred came out last Friday night for supper and I made a new recipe.  It called for artichokes, but I kept calling them avocados even though I bought artichokes.  Mildred was all confused because to her avocados should be green and these are not green.  She even asked me a few times what they were. Mildred was just so confused as to what I making with these items that don’t look like avocados.  Finally she looked at the can and said ARTICHOKES!!!!!!!! Then I felt stupid and she told me I had to blog this!IMG_5271

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Bark Box Month 2

Posted in Animals on July 23, 2014| 3 Comments »

Molly’s Bark Box showed up on Monday and as soon as I set it on the floor she was all over it.
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Something is in there for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!IMG_5310

 

Another toy that I can destroy! Loopsies Fish Bones Toy $15.IMG_5315

 

Mr. Barksmith’s Pina Colada Smoothie $2  You freeze this and pop in a bowl for your pooch to eat on a hot day.IMG_5318

 

Bixbi Daily Essentials Chicken Breast Jerky Treats $10IMG_5319

 

Healthy Dogma Coconut Flavor Barkers $8IMG_5316

 

Etta Says Duck Chew $4IMG_5317

 

The goods!IMG_5325

 

This Bark Box couldn’t have arrived at a better time!!  Mildred and I were playing with Molly on Sunday and I accidently poked Molly in the eye.  By Sunday night she couldn’t keep it open and it was watering really bad. I felt horrible.  You can see in this pic that her eye is still not open all the way, but by Tuesday she was back to normal.
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Week in iPhotos 28 of 52

Posted in week in pictures on July 21, 2014| 4 Comments »

* didn’t take my first picture with my phone until Thursday  night when I went to a HS baseball game.  That isn’t to say I wasn’t clicking my camera non-stop for my Xmas in July mini’s all week. *Friday night after work TNT let me use his mini tractor to mow the 2 acres at the old place. A 4 hour job was cut to 45 min. 🙂 *Saturday I helped TNT replace an O ring on his sprayer.  *I hear the guy who drives that big rig is H-O-T-T! *Sunday I rode with TNT in the combine while he finished up the terraces.  The ground along the terraces was way too muddy when they did the field the first time.  *View from the cab. *TNT and I! *After the combine ride he put me to work driving tractor.1

 

Sweeping fields when I should be sweeping my house.

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Took Becca’s senior pics on Saturday night and worked on them Sunday.
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Husbandisms

Posted in My husband on July 16, 2014| 3 Comments »

It’s been a while since I talked about my husbands’ husbanisms.

To say the last two weeks during wheat harvest have been trying is an understatement.  My husband has been super grouchy. Sometimes it’s best just to leave him alone than to poke the bear…you know what I’m saying.  Anyway, on Friday night a storm was moving in and we were putting the wheat into a bin on the farm rather than take it to town because that wheat will be our seed wheat when we drill in September.  It takes longer to unload a semi trailer than if he went to the elevator to dump.    This job takes two people since one runs the auger and another person has to spray malathion on the wheat to kill all the bugs since it’ll be stored in a bin.  TNT’s parents were finishing up cutting the wheat in the fields so I helped TNT with spraying the seed wheat. We unloaded 5 semi trailers and finally got to the house at 11:30.  You think bedtime right? NOPE! Since I’d been out in the field I couldn’t do the stuff I needed to do in the house. I still had a lot to do to get ready for my Senior Rep sessions on Saturday and then a few things left to gather for the Xmas mini’s that started on Sunday.  Plus clean my lenses and camera.

You know what my husband did? He helped me….he unloaded the dishwasher, cooked the sausage for the cheese dip, cleaned up the kitchen and even cleaned up a place where Tails had puked.  I couldn’t believe it.  While I was running around cleaning house and getting things ready my husband actually helped me.   I didn’t realize it but he even assembled the cheese dip in the crock pot WITH a crock pot liner.  The next morning he even plugged in the cheese dip and it was almost all melted when I got out of bed at 8.

He made dealing with his super bad mood the last two weeks much better with just a little bit of effort to help me.

 

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Pine Cones Strike Again

Posted in projects on July 15, 2014| 2 Comments »

Did you know that when pine cones get wet they close up? Well I didn’t. 😦

I made this wreath for my Christmas in July mini’s.  I painted the initial of each family’s’ last name and placed in the center of the wreath then placed it on the front of Jeep. Looks super cute.  Here you can see the cones are starting to close up.  When they were fully open you could barely see any pink.

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Monday morning  it was OMG what happened to my wreath.  I was very confused.IMG_5238

I started with one like the cone in the center.IMG_5239

 

And most closed up like this.  I had to hurry home after work yesterday and make another wreath before my clients arrived at 8:00.IMG_5240

 

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Week in iPhotos 27 of 52

Posted in week in pictures on July 14, 2014| 3 Comments »

Between harvest, getting ready for my talk with a group of 4H kids, Senior Rep sessions and then the start of Christmas in July mini’s it has been one crazy week.

*Thursday night TNT picked me up in our driveway. He didn’t want to pull in the yard with the semi so I met him on the hwy.  I was a hitch hikin.  *The MIL unloading her grain cart on the semi.  *TNT and I.  *TNT looking over yonder at his Dad cutting wheat.  *Molly wanted to play fetch but wouldn’t let me grab the ball.  *Friday night after my 4H talk I headed out to the wheat field. My hiney got put to work. As TNT unloaded the semi’s I would spray malathion on the wheat as it came out the semi hopper.  This is our seed wheat for drilling in September and we have to spray it to kill all bugs.  *Saturday was my FIL’s 65th birthday. All of us went in and got him binoculars.  *The Jeep pickup is ready to be used in the Xmas in July mini’s.

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Saturday at noon my two Senior Rep girls came out to the house along with their mom’s and sisters.  We had such a great time. It was an exhausting day, but it was perfect!
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*Sunday I was trimming trees with a garden shear and pinched my hand. OMG I wanted to cry but it hurt too bad.IMG_5236

 

My friend Adriane (we’ve been friends since 6th grade) and her family were my guinea pigs for the Xmas in July.  We got a few pictures in then Mother Nature dropped 0.30″ of rain on us.
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