The Most Exciting Morning!
December 2, 2009 at 9:05 am | In Great Outdoors | Leave a CommentTags: cold, snow, texas, weather, winter
The weathermen have been telling us for a few days that it’s going to get cold. This is very exciting to me – I’ve always loved cold weather for some reason. You know what I like even more than cold weather? Snow! So I woke up this morning and turned on the morning news. The weatherman was on there telling us all about how it was snowing in Denton. The radar only had green (rain) showing in our area, though. I got out of bed and came into the living room where my hubby was working. He works from home on Wednesdays. I started complaining about how it was snowing in Denton, and why can’t is just snow here? Then I went to the back door and pulled the blinds back to let the dog out and said “It’s snowing!!!” That’s right, it’s snowing in Texas, and here’s the proof!


It’s even sticking, but it’s supposed to get into the 40s later today, so it won’t last long. We’ll enjoy it while we can, though!
My Favorite Blog – Vote For Suzanne!
December 1, 2009 at 9:47 am | In Just for Fun | Leave a CommentTags: chickens in the road, contest, sam-e, suzanne mcminn, vote
A while back my wonderful mother-in-law told me about this blog she thought I would like. She said “She’s got goats and chickens. You’d like it.” This blog quickly became my very favorite website. It is one of the first places I visit on the web in the morning. The blog I am referring to is Chickens in the Road. If you haven’t seen it before, you should go check it out now! It is the blog of a romance author, Suzanne McMinn, who went from suburban life to farm life in rural West Virginia. I won’t tell you too much, in case you want to visit her blog and read all about it yourself!
I have learned alot from Chickens in the Road, with my favorite things being about about canning and bread-baking, and other yumminess in the kitchen. I think my husband is glad I found the site, because there are so many new things I found there that I just had to try. Canning my own hot sauce, soups, chili, jams, apple butter, and so many other things makes for much tastier meals. After reading so much about homemade bread, I just had to try that too, and it’s just so good that I can’t imagine going back to store bought.
Suzanne’s blog is not just about cooking, though. There are posts about crafts, gardening, the antics of her farm animals and just country life in general. There is also a forum, just in case you can’t find anything left that you haven’t read on her blog but you just can’t bring yourself to leave yet. There are some wonderful people who participate in the forum, and there is even a community cookbook with recipes contributed by forum members. It is an active forum, and the people who participate are there because Suzanne’s blog has meant something to them.
So now I will get to the point of this post. Suzanne is a finalist in the Sam-e “Good Mood Gig” Talent Search. She has already gone through one round, and for the final round she submitted a video about why she would be perfect for the job, along with some info you can read. If she wins, she gets to blog for Sam-e for 6 months. It is a paying gig, and it would mean a lot to her and her family. It would only take a few seconds for you to vote for Suzanne on the Sam-e website, and if you would like to help her out, please CLICK HERE! Voting ends on December 7th and you can vote once per day, so be sure to bookmark her page so you can go back and vote each day. Voting is only a small part of winning, there will be judges looking at the finalists’ applications as well, but it doesn’t hurt to get her as many votes as possible!
Zoey’s Sad Day
September 3, 2009 at 10:43 pm | In Our Pets | 2 CommentsTags: blankets, dog bed, hot dog, panting, stinky
I’m pretty sure I have probably mentioned before that Zoey likes blankets. If I haven’t, I’ll tell you now. Zoey likes blankets. Actually, she is blanket obsessed. She has three of her very own blankets in her bed, and she tries to appropriate our blankets into her collection. Her blankets are in her bed over in the corner of the living room where she can surround herself in fluffy blankety goodness as she gazes out around her kingdom.
One day, when I went over to her bed to pet her and giver her a proper belly-rubbing, I noticed a stench. I meant to wash the blankets, but I got sidetracked and forgot about it. A few days later, my husband walked over to the fish tank and commented on the foul odor. He wasn’t even leaned over near her bed – He could smell it standing up. You see, blankets aren’t just for warmth and softness. They are also for licking. Perhaps she has saturated them in nutrients to sustain her until her next meal, or maybe that is just her way of loving them. Whatever the case, her breath is far from a pleasant fragrance, and she had spread the odor to her blankets through her licking. It was time to wash the blankets.
The next morning, I took the blankets and the cover for the bed and put them in the washer. The foam bed form was put away for the time being so she wouldn’t try to lay in it and lick it and get it all stinky. It was a very sad day. Just look how sad she was without her blankets!

She waited and waited for her blankets to return. All day long she moped around, mourning the loss of her blankets. Hours went by as she suffered. A little while after my husband got home from work, I remembered that they were still in the dryer, so we turned it on to warm them up before we put her bed back together. She likes it when the blankets are warm.
First came the bed cover. The blankets stayed in the dryer fluffing so they would still be nice and warm when we put them in the bed. Little Zoey could hardly wait until hubby finished putting the cover on the bed to get in it!

Zoey was so glad to have her bed back – Now if she just had some blankets!

Here come the blankets!


Aah… the world is right again… A nice soft bed with warm blankets fresh from the dryer!

Here was the really fun part. Zoey got herself all buried in her warm blankets to take a nap. A little while later, I was working in the kitchen and my husband was sitting in the living room. He suddenly said “What’s wrong with Zoey???” She had stuck her head out of her blankets and she was panting. She never pants, because she’s just to prissy to do anything that would bring on panting. I went over there and stuck my hand in the blankets and it was HOT in there! She just didn’t want to get out of the warm blankets! I pulled her out and made her stay out until things cooled off a bit. She fought me on that, but I put my foot down. I think in the future we’ll let the blankets cool down a little before we put them back in the bed.
Construction
August 8, 2009 at 10:53 pm | In Great Outdoors | Leave a CommentTags: backhoe, construction, dsl
Boy, when that guy said they would be sending a construction crew to fix the main phone line, he wasn’t kidding! I was sitting on the couch when I heard “beep beep beep”. I thought “Is that on TV or is there a big truck backing up outside?” Here is what I saw out the back window.
I’d say a backhoe qualified the group that was out working in the alley as a construction crew! There were 5 trucks and a bunch of workers out there. They got their work done, so we are crossing our fingers that we’re permanently fixed up now. That is, unless the neighbor decides to build another new fence.
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