Wow, What a week

Well, I haven't blogged in a couple, and it has been eventful!!
So, lets go back a few days....
Monday, finally make the noodles, for that YUMMY Rooster Noodle Soup... MMMM, wheat noodles, homemade with our own eggs! (BTW, I don't use the white bleached flour - EVER) I usually use Hogdson Mill or Pauls (love it, but I usually don't pay attention enough to have extra on hand).

Tuesday, stayed mostly at home, some running errands to see how much postage for our fabulous Beef Expo Sale Catalogs. A BUCK a piece, for 12 pages, cause the president (hubby) won't let me fold em in half. Oh well, they look pretty good! Lacy did a great job!!

Wednesday, now that one was FUN!! I had a ME day. I went and had an eye exam, so I could get new contacts. You see when you are pregnant, and after your eyes might change, and mine REALLY DO. So, no more glasses. They are quite the pain in the cold steamy weather, with fogging and such. Then, I (GASP) got my nails done. I havent done this for at least 4 years, and back in my queenie days, I was never without acryllic nails. I had gel nails put on (for strength), and yes, I know I am very oxymoronic with all my green things and FAKE nails. But, every once in a while its ok, right??
THEN..... Are you ready for it??

I CUT OFF ALL MY HAIR!

Yup, In total I cut off about 15 inches. No, not a typo. My hair was down to my pants, braided. I have had long hair since about 5th grade. The shortest it has ever been, was just below my shoulders. So, I have an updated bob. That is, its a little longer in the front and shorter in the back. I can feel AIR on my neck. How wierd is that?? REALLY wierd if you never ever remember feeling it before.

Today, I hauled my baby pigs, and picked up my GROUND BEEF. She made over 500 pounds, and it is all fresh, not frozen. MMMMM, I've been browning some to freeze as taco meat, and going to make a bunch of thick hamburger patties later to freeze. If you're local and want some great beef, let me know.

And, I haven't forgotten, but I haven't figured out what to do with some WONDERFUL Lemonade I recieved, and I need to share.

My Day on the Ranch

This post was supposed to go up last night......Here you go, a day "off" for me on monday.



Well, today was another one of those "Days Off". Meaning that I took Squeak to school (daycare, but its at the school, and that just sounds good). So, first thing, I dropped him off, yes, I got the girls on the bus (different school) and fed cows. We were supposed to get a blizzard. It was bad, but not that bad. ~4 inches of wet, fluffy, snow and still coming down.



I had just rec'd my final copy of the Beef Expo Catalog to proof that AM. But, I wanted to get some outside work done. Feed was supposed to be delivered today, so I set out to ready the barn. (Remember my fitness goals, they'll work their way in here) I started at the SouthWest End of the Indoor Arena, cause that's where I want to park the two gravity wagons.



OHHH, forgot to tell you, CARPENTERS are MESSY!!!! They left me with an entire barn full of TRASH and SCRAPS and good wood EVERYWHERE. (And this barn is 56x104 with two 18foot lean-to's on each side) So, I had my work cut out for me cause all of the trash/wood/tin has been thrown to the west side.



But, I DID IT!!! I piled ALL of the good wood in one section, and put the mid-sized sheets of tin on top. I picked up all of the small scraps of wood and paper trash and put them on the flatbed (read-10000 squats). I moved the chicken pen (a dog kennel) to the 2nd bay in the SW corner, and made them a pretty new nest (thank you Carrie). I hung up all of the extension cords nice and neat (6). I fed new cows in lot, Pet cows in lot, calves in lot, i gave them all new hay bales. I watered everything, and then I had luch with my honey.



Came back from town, and finished all of the little stuff. This entire time, I was working fast. I couldn't have kept up any conversation, so I think I was doing pretty good. I kept chanting, no panting "round pen". I will get a round pen set up in here this month to start working colts!



As I was doing all of this work (AND LOVING IT) I was thinking of excuses, reasons, why I didn't NEED to walk to the mailbox. "I did like 5 million squats picking up this stuff" If I have walked the entire length of this barn 250 times today, how many feet is that?" and "I really have gotten a workout today". But then I kept thinking how, if I make an excuse today, I will want to make an excuse tomarrow, and so-on and so-forth.



So, I didn't get the mail. I didn't drive to get it, but I didn't walk either.



Oh yeah, and when I went to get a load of hay @ 2:30, I got a Dr.Pepper and Peanut M&M's. Bad deal. Had to do it. You see, I'm hypoglycemic, and I knew I was going to crash after all that physical work, and needed the sugar (yes I should have had my trail-mix with nuts and sugar, but I didn't). Anyone have any suggestions, for after workout ways to not crash??



I still had tons of fun, and I did get a good workout. My, feet, butt, calves, and arms, say that I did a GOOD job!!

A Day OFF the farm, kind of

Well, early this AM, we did chores and loaded up the beef. Then, I met the bus at another family's house, and ran the beef to the locker about 45 min away.

Then, I got to have some fun. I ran to the DesMoines Cloth Diapering meeting (playgroup). I haven't got to go for about 4 months. Fun, talking with other like minded mothers.

Then, I stopped by the Gateway Market in Downtown DSM. I wasn't that impressed. I don't think I will return.

Then I had lunch with my dad. Squeak had tons of fun!! So did I. Dad decided that he would follow us to the Dodge dealer, and run around while my oil change was getting done. We picked up some new PVC to try on 7-Up's leg. Then we drove to some parks around Indianola. We went down to Aquabi. We wanted to drive down to the lake. We pulled into the park and stopped before a big hill because the road was covered in ice! Well, we stopped the car a little too late. We were 20 feet past the dry pavement on a hill, in a car.

Tried to back up. Slid farther down the hill. WE WERE STUCK...... We were still having fun!!! You see, when I was little Dad & I got stuck everywhere. Dad says we weren't stuck, cause you could still see the top of the car. We squirreled the car around, and Dad ended up pushing, and we got onto the dry pavement.

Picked up the truck, (won't be going back to the Dodge dealer, ongoing customer service issues), ran to Osceola and picked up my pig trailer for Thursday (early, cause it needs some modifications). The girls were off the bus (@ home)when I was 1/2 hr from home. They did okay and didn't kill each other.

After I got to the house we had a good night and made some Potato Bread. We'll see if it turns out good, and I might try to remember what I put in it, and post the recepie for y'all.

Whew!!!! That was rambling, but that's what a blog is for, Right??
Night, wish me luck tomarrow. I'm going to take Squeak to daycare, and work on ranch stuff.