Molly spotted a bunny.
The mess with her all the time.
Just when she thinks this time I WILL catch you it takes off.
This is a never ending game with Molly and the bunnies. 
Archive for July, 2015
The Struggle is REAL!
Posted in Animals on July 30, 2015| 2 Comments »
Glue Gun to the Rescue
Posted in House on July 29, 2015| 3 Comments »
What do you do when you have this picture to hang on
this brick wall?
Pull out the glue gun of course. I had no idea if this would work, but I tried it anyway.
After my first round of glue I let it set just a little so it would hold up the screw.
Then I used a whole glue stick (mini sized) and just filled in the cracks around it.
Even though the canvas is 4′ tall it is very light weight. I wouldn’t try this with an item that was heavy. For now it seems to be holding and TNT scares himself every time he turns around. So an added bonus! haha I think it looks great.
Happy Birthday Mildred!
Posted in Family on July 28, 2015| 3 Comments »
Today is my wonderful sisters’ birthday. Long gone are the days of her “bothering” me. It’s been a few years since I’ve hollered, “MOM, Mildred is breathing my air.” Last Wednesday she became a fiance. I can not express how wonderful this news is to me. I love my sister more than anything in this world and to see her happy and to know she will be walking down the aisle to her beloved makes my heart so full.
It’s different to hear that your sister is getting married than telling her you are getting married. When I told Mildred I was engaged its like no big deal. Maybe because I’m the bride and it’s all about me. lol But waiting Wednesday morning for my sister to call me and to hear the pure joy in her voice. It’s indescribable! Their engagement story isn’t for me to tell, but I did know about it since TNT’s bday party back on June 20th. I have been keeping this a secret which hasn’t been easy either since I tell Mildred everything. She stayed at our house two weeks ago and all I wanted to do was hug her and tell her what a beautiful bride she will be…..but I kept a lid on it.
The Thursday before they headed off to their vacation in Florida she signed off Skype and even though I knew this news was happy I couldn’t help but be sad too. My baby sister is growing up. She’s going to be a fiance, and a bride, then a wife and one day a mommy. This is such a joyous time for our family, but there is sadness also. Sadness that Brucie isn’t here to partake in all of this and then the sadness that things are changing. I’m sure this is normal for all sisters who are close. But I can not be any happier for her! She has waited a long time for her one and only and here he is!
Love you Sister Sue and I hope you have a most wonderful birthday every!
2015 Week 30
Posted in week in pictures on July 27, 2015| 2 Comments »
*Another round of harvest from the garden. Onions and Potatoes. *Starting the second batch of drying onions. *Sonic gave me the stink face. *Bought this adorable little hat for a session. *Ran over to the inlaws place to check on their kitties. Here’s BG (aka Pet Cemetery). *While I was watering the MIL’s garden I found a nest of bunnies. *Saturday cleaned the fish tank and Sonic was amused by the fish. *Finally hung up my cow picture after 2 years.
Storm moving in.
Watching this storm out my kitchen winda. I was a little nervous.
2015 Week 29
Posted in week in pictures on July 23, 2015| 2 Comments »
*The county fair started Wednesday in the town just east of us. Since I am a member of their chamber of commence I “sponsored” the talent show. I would have rather have stayed in the show ring and watched the kids showing their livestock. The mom of this kid is a very good client of mine. He won Grand Champ Heifer. *Thursday night I found this tiny little dude in the house. *We were planning a little trip to CO and I thought I’d be able to separate Tails and Sonic. I used a screen window….didn’t last long and we ended up not separating them. *Molly “heard” we were leaving and she couldn’t care less. *Molly got to stay with the inlaws and their kitty BG loves Molly. *Saturday after a 2 hour traffic delay to get into the mountains we finally arrived in Granby, Co. We took the RZR out for a few miles. *One of the trails that we went on. *The only wildlife we saw was cows. *After our trip up the mountain.
*We have friends who live there and we just park our pickup and trailer in their yard then head up to the mountains from their back yard. They normally go with us, but they are building a new shop so we stayed and helped with that. Here I am with Debbie and TNT. *View from the top of the mountain. *Monday morning we stopped at the “yuppie” place and had breakfast. That’s what all the locals call it. lol *Trail and creek pics. *Came up on this little cabin. *Deb and Carl have 3 dogs and Morgan loves me. But she also now loves TNT since he lets her sit on his lap. I sent a pic to my MIL and told her not to show Molly. The MIL texted back and said I showed Molly and she’s outside pouting now. lol *Morgan carries around her food bowl when it is empty. She brought it to every one of us hoping we’d fill it.
*Friday night at the Demo Derby. TNT and his buddies built this car. Didn’t do so well…..
Sunday night we had supper at Grand Lake. Beautiful and of course I didn’t take my big girl camera.
Monday our trip up to the top of the mountain. There are always a lot of wild flowers, but this year it is amazing. So pretty.
Drying Onions
Posted in Garden on July 17, 2015| 2 Comments »
Since this is the first onion crop that I’ve ever had I had no idea how to dry them to store. So I asked my friend Janet at afarmwifeslife. She was super helpful and said once you pull the onions you dry them for a week in the sun. The stems will dry up and you clip them off. Then you clean the dirt off with your hands and store them in a dark dry cool place.
I found an old screen in the garage and used it. I figure the air circulating completely around them is okay…Janet didn’t say no so hopefully I’m doing it right.
This is only 1/3 of them……I think I over did it.
The biggest one I’ve pulled so far. I’d say a women’s softball sized!
Garden 2015 Update
Posted in Garden on July 16, 2015| 3 Comments »
My tomatoes are full of blooms and a good number of tomatoes, but they are still very green. I was surprised by this watermelon. I’m not sure how I’ve missed it, but I spotted it last night. Almost volleyball sized.
I am picking 2-3 cucumbers a night off my 4 plants. The plants are pretty scrawny, but as long as they are giving me nice cucumbers I don’t care. *My potatoes are just about done and I need to dig the rest of them up.
I have live out at TNT’s for 9 years now and this is the first year that I have raised onions that have grown. Normally they don’t get much bigger than a golf ball, but this year they are awesome! I have 8 rows of 10 feet and I have them coming out of my ears. *My zinnia’s are starting to bloom also! The attract the good insects that eat the bad insects.
Here’s my mini pumpkin and a view of the different color pumpkins.
Over view of my whole garden. Next year I’ll go bigger!! The straw helps so much when keeping the weeds out. The ones that do come through the straw are much easier to spot and you just pull as you see them. No hoeing which I hate.
2015 Week #28
Posted in week in pictures on July 15, 2015| 2 Comments »
*Monday night I took the tractor with the big mower to the old place to mow. It was too windy and I was tired of eating dirt. *That night I dug a few potatoes. SO GOOD!!! *Wednesday night I headed down to the cabin to help the inlaws paint and since TNT wasn’t there I was in charge of the remote! *Thursday we painting and painted. *Friday after work this guy was all about snuggling. *Auntie Mildy came out and Molly always forgets she’s a 60 pound dog and becomes a lap dog. *After supper we lit some firecrackers! *I dug more taters and picked a few cucumbers.
Saturday morning I scraped the foundation on the house and painted. It was way too hot out there, but I got it done.
Then I snuggled with these two.
There was a pattern this week of snuggling with the fur kiddos.
Cabin Painting
Posted in Family on July 10, 2015| 4 Comments »
My Mother-in-law texted me on Wednesday that they were heading to the cabin to paint. I told her to wait until the weekend and I’d go down to help. But she said no since it was supposed to be nice and cool and the weekend is supposed to be super hot. Well the thought of her doing it on her own kills me. I mean come on family we all enjoy the cabin so we ALL need to be down there helping. But what the hell do I know right?
I went down Wednesday night and shocked my inlaws. My FIL kept saying I was such a sweetheart to come help. I guess I just look at it like it’s what is expected when you are family. Anyway, the MIL was painting the trim around the garage so I helped her get the second coat on. By the time we finished it was getting pretty dark and we couldn’t see.
Thursday morning we were up by 7:30, had breakfast as I was tying my shoes I noticed my FIL had very short shorts on. I was thinking man Caitlyn Jenner would be jealous of those legs. We headed out to paint. It was misting so we started on the porch area. My FIL was up on the step-stool taking down the porch light when all the sudden my MIL starts laughing so hard she had tears rolling, but she wouldn’t tell us why! Finally the FIL went into the garage and my MIL tells me he has her shorts on. Which is why they are so short. Which means I then have tears rolling. You could see his boxers! How did he not notice?
Okay back to painting. If you look on the porch you can see the hunter green trim. That is metal and goes around the whole house. They wanted the only color to be the hunter green and then the color of the walls. So that meant we had to paint under the roof hang and then all the trim around the windows. We got this side done and the inside of the window on the porch. MIL is painting the window trim.
Now she’s painting the overhang.
Then we started on the south side that has a peak. I climbed up and got that done. Then we moved to the garage and did both sides with the peaks. While we were doing that theFIL started on the shutters. I now see where TNT gets his..uh…”talent of painting”……good thing I’m a good painter or our house would look horrible.
We just finished for the evening and noticed one gallon of paint was mixed just a little lighter than the rest. So the MIL will have to redo this today. 😦 At $40 a gallon she better get a gallon to replace it…
Here is the finished side with the shutters.
Love the it turned out.
Goodbye lake. I’ll come back when I can enjoy you….
Molly Girl
Posted in Animals on July 9, 2015| 2 Comments »
Sonic had a post all about him so now it’s Molly’s turn.
Last night I got home from work and let Molly inside. She went right to her place on our bed and curled up. I laid down beside her and told her I missed her and how pretty she is. Molly reached for an inch on her back hip and farted. I said, “Molly, you farted.” When she turned back to me she was “smiling.” I almost died right there on the bed. So freaking funny.
The only way I can get her to look at me when I have a camera is to hold treats. So she is smelling the treats which is why her nose is to the side. 😉
She sure is pretty, but she is mean. 😦 She nipped my dad pretty good at TNT’s bday party. She has a happy face like the one below so you think oh we are bff’s then just as you reach out to pet her bam she snaps at you. I have told people over and over do NOT TOUCH HER. Even if she acts nice leave her alone, but NO one will listen. Makes me so mad.
Life in the Slow Lane 