WOW

WOW (World of Warcraft) is the reason I have not been online lol  The guys are hooked! lol  So now it takes my computer time away so adding pictures is more difficult if I have to use my son's computer.  Cory also just got more ram for Stefan's laptop so he could play wow on his computer while Cory plays on the apple SO I will be lucky to get an entry in when I can!  

Today I have been cleaning so this is the first time I was able to get on to add an entry.  That's one thing good about the computers being busy...the house is staying pretty darn clean ;)

My plants are going nutso!  They are growing like weeds!  I got a few pics...we also got MORE snow!  UGH!  Got pics of that too!  And then I got some pics of the boys from Saturday.   Going to add all that now.  Still can't believe it's STILL APRIL!  LOL I thought it was May 1st two days ago.  Now it seems like April is taking forever. 

It's been so cold here...last night it was 21 degrees!  Today it's suppose to reach 50 but I doubt that since right now it's only 42.   I liked last week when it reached 70!  Where is spring???? 

Lets start with this picture from a few days ago.  Nic is laying in our bed and he is always covering up his head.  Here he is sound asleep! 



Here are the boys getting ready to play World of Warcraft.  They had four computers going...the guys two and the boys two.



The guys had to take the Apple to work to download the game...our internet was just to pokey.
My empty desk!  I really felt weird not having the computer sitting there ready to check mail!



Time out for Nic!



Nic is telling Devlin about the game :) So cute!





They had TONS of fun playing with the mountain tracks.  This was Stefan's set when he was just three yrs old!  He is now almost 18!  Little tikes really lasts!



TV has their attention!  But not for long. 



Poor Cubby was afraid of the boys...he was hiding. 



And inch or more of Snow fell!



And it stayed on the ground all day and night.  The next day it did melt off for the most part at least. 



2 hours later it's still coming down. 



Check out our plants now! 



There is one crazy pole bean that has gone insane!  We have to get something for it to wind around very soon! lol



Check out the colorful farm fresh eggs from the egg lady :)  Gotta love the colors!



OH guess what!  I am now registered as a livestock farm :)  WOOHOO!  How exciting.    I hope you all have a great day today...don't forget to keep an eye on Hangin Wit My Peeps  for news on my incubator in a few days.  It should be delivered soon :)  And eggs will be sent on Monday :) 

Interesting Weekend

Well our weekend went pretty good.  The guys played WOW (World of Warcraft) and the boys (Devlin and Nic)  played Nic's VTech while I tried to keep up with the cleaning lol.  I also went to bed at 8pm last night.  I didn't plan on it but I told Nic a Bella story and fell asleep with him in our bed lol.  I heard Cory come to bed a little after 1am and then I woke up and could not fall back to sleep.  Again, what was I thinking of?  Chickens! lol  I lose so much sleep thinking about those darn chickens. 

The boys got along good.  I did have to give both of them a time out at the same time(Nic got two additional ones later in the day too for not wanting to share his "cars" cars) they got into a disagreement and would not even consider solving it so I took the problem away (a ball with a light that flashed when you threw it) and gave them a little time out.   That worked :)  I have pictures to share and will on my next entry. Right now I am on Stefans laptop and don't want to put my pics on here. 

Now the interesting part of my weekend.  My sister called today and she says to me..."It's your turn to take dad he's driving me nuts! lol"  she said that before and I told her he could come stay if he wanted to but she told me today that she just thought I was joking before lol.  I told her no i wasn't joking... Cory and I had talked about it before and he's fine with my dad coming to live with us.  He's 80 but still gets around just fine and takes his daily walks too.  SOO she is going to talk to him today about it and get back to me.  He has been living there with her for 11 years now and so she said it's my turn to take him for the next 10 years lol.   I told her she was going to be calling me after the first two weeks telling me "I MISS HIM, bring him back!"  lol She says no but I bet she will.  So if all goes well he will be coming here to stay in June. 

This is pretty cool because I have never really been close to my dad at all growing up...like I said before he used to drink often and he was never home really.  He has not drank for YEARS...he quit so many years ago that I lost count now so I look forward to getting to spend some time with him and "getting to know him" as a person.  I mean I do see him when I see my sister but not any amount of time.  PLUS he likes gardening and he likes chickens ;)  Maybe he can give me some pointers.  He always had chickens growing up and he had to do everything for them. 

Another good thing about this...the kids will get to spend some quality time with grandpa too :)  My mom is gone so I would really love the fact that they will get to spend time with grandpa before he is gone. 

I hope he does decide to come over here...I know it will be a big change for him...he's been living in the middle of the city for 11 years now and he has his designated walking route which he has made many friends.  He talks to everyone he sees on his route and I'm sure he will miss that.  We don't have a whole lot of people around here for him to bond with.  We do have my husbands parents right next door so he can hang out with hubbys Father. 

That was my weekend...I will let you know how the later turns out...should hear more tonight.  At least I will know kind of what he's thinking about doing. I will need a few days to get his room together if he decides to. 

Our Thursday

First off...LOOK what popped up yesterday! 

Our seeds are starting to spout!!  Kale came up first like superman blew on them!  lol

This is them on the 24th:




This is them ONE day later...were using organic soil




As you know..Thursday was No Tech Night and I thank god I read Linda's "greys" entry AFTER we had it! lol Or I would have wanted to watch Greys!  So anyway, we played this....Nic played too :)  It frustrated him a bit but he did ok.  He did get sent to bed for being disrespectful of the game.  That is not tolerated.  He wasn't a happy camper but I could not go back on my word.  I told him if he did it again that he would have to be sent to bed.  And he did so I did! lol 

Were playing Sorry



After this we put together our chicken coop on paper and got ready for our shopping trip.  That took a while!  But it was fun.  That was pretty much all we had time for but I really enjoy that we are finding family time for games and stuff like that. 

Tomorrow we will have company so not sure if I will get online or now ;)  So hope you all have a wonderful weekend!!! 

Ignoring my journall!

It's been so many days since I updated!  I have been addicted to the darn BYC forum! lol  So anyway...we will start from where we left off...Monday night.
Monday night was No Tech Night...by the way...the WINNER of last No Tech Night was LORI!  Congrats Lori!  LOL Nic was kind of disappointed that he only had ONE name to pick from in his little hat :(   Lori I will send out your No Tech Gift this next week ;)  Thanks for playing :) 

So what did we do on our Monday No Tech Night?  We did more work outside, we talked and we played this...



Jack enjoying time outside on the patio.  He LOVES it out there.  Poor jack is getting fixed on Monday :O  I'm not telling him!  He's starting to get "bossy" with Aspen and he's six months old now so it's time!  So Monday he will spend the night at the vets office! 



Max was out watching the trail the whole time Nic was at grandmas house...OH YES, grandma is out of the hospital and doing just great.  Lets hope it stays that way.  So Nic runs up the trail and grandma meets him and he comes home the same way.  Max did not like him leaving without him! OH my I just noticed Nic put his bowl out for the dogs to lick up (behind Max)!  Silly kid...it's my china!!!  :O  GRRR



Ok now...I need to post my video.  This is Nic coming home from Grandmas house.  He loves having his trail there.  AND if you have not checked out my chicken journal you should ;)  Click here ----> Hangin Wit My Peeps

You gotta go check out what Linda gave me there ;)  TOO CUTE!  The above tag was also given to me by Linda too :)  I always think of Nic and I when I see that.  Thank you Linda!  Well gotta go get something done around here...were getting company on Saturday.  Cory's friend and his kids are coming over :)  Nic can't wait!  We have not seen them in a long time.  Stefan is pretty excited too.  

My appoligies!

I totally forgot that Lori's journal was private!  Sometimes you forget that your reading a private journal ;)  Someone tried to go over there and send their condolences and reminded me that she was private. So anyone wanted to send her a note go ahead and send it through my comments, I will be sure she gets it.  

Off to make bread and do dishes this morning...then I think were going to head outside again for another 70 degree day!  :)  Were sending a loaf on over to the neighbors today...they loved the last 1/2 loaf we sent them. 

What did we do over the weekend?

FIRST thing I want to do is ask you all to go over to Lori's journal (you may know already) Bonez, Lori's furbaby died very early in the morning.  Please send condolences her way.  I am so sad for her family today. 

Next...what we did over the weekend.  Oh it was painful but enjoyable all at the same time.  We were outside almost all weekend cleaning, raking, planting, digging and raking some more!  My knees are killing me.  I did take pictures.  Nic loved planting veggies with us.  We let him put all the seeds in the tiny little cups.
 


He was SO proud! :) 


 

We started out the day eating breakfast (turkey slices with potato and mixed veggies) and then we were outside by 9:30 getting started.  First thing we had to do was move our nursery trees (10 of them).  We had them in our mini nursery we made for them until they were big enough to transplant in their permanent home.  That took us a while and I didn't bring the camera down until after we were done but I took some of them this morning.



It's out by Bailey and Sheba's resting place and seen out our bedroom window...if you look at the bottom left you can kind of see the tree.



Then after that was all done we brought in the big guns!  And we got the ground all broke up and ready for spring planting of our veggies.  While they (Cory and his dad) were working on that I was working on the left side of our driveway...If you remember Stefan and I did the right side last year and that was a CHORE I tell ya!  We saved this side for this year and I"m not liking it!  We had dirt dumped there and it was so hard we could not rake it so we had to shovel it around and dig, dig, dig! 







Here is what I'm working on (below)...I got from the where you can see at the bottom of the picture to where you see large brush and crap... done...that was the easy part as it didn't have huge chunks of hard dirt packed down that had to be chopped up and moved and raked. 



Here is what Stefan and I did last year (below)...looks good now that it grew some grass over the spring last year :) 
You can also see another baby tree where the white stick is sticking up.  We got one on each side of the drive.



The dogs were loving hanging outside with us!  They were both very good and stayed home.  Well MAX did anyhow! lol  Cubby started his way to the neighbors but we had to yell at him several times to get home.  He is my stubborn dog that only listens when he wants to.



I also got Nic's slide up and working for him.  He just loved, loved, loved being outside the last few days.  AND I also got my perennials all clipped down and the new stuff is coming up underneath the dead stuff I cut off...along the pole shed.  Back behind where you see the trees is where our chicken coop will go.  We can see it from our living room window and we want to be able to see it and see what's going on.  Were thinking of putting a light back there.



We went in around 5:30 to get Nic in for his bath because he was really yawning up a storm!  He took his bath and Cory took his shower and when Cory was out and Nic was ready for bed I went back outside and enjoyed another hour of quiet time just for ME!  It was SO very peaceful and all you could hear was an occasional moo from next door and a lot of happy frogs.  I went back by the chicken coop area and began preparing the ground for our new chicken coop.  You can see the huge pile of dead grass and weeds I raked up. We were going to just use the dog kennel but I didn't want to do that because when my sister comes and stays the weekend with us she uses that for her dogs so they don't run off.  So were building the coop to the right of that. 




After I had my fill of working and enjoying the weather now that it cooled off a bit lol  (HA, here I am complaining of the "hot" weather already!) It got up to 70 today but the sun was HOT!  I was uncomfortable out there working in it.  So anyway, I went into the house and got the chick heater up so we could test it and see if we could keep it at a steady temp for the babies.  We got this awesome thermometer to use that tells the temp downstairs in the brooder, upstairs!  And where the main control is, is where it will give the temp to that area.  I will take pictures of that tomorrow.  We were able to keep the temps steady so that was a good thing! And we can keep that control by our bed so if we wake up in the middle of the night we have to just look at it to see what the temp is in the brooder :) Otherwise I will be running downstairs in the middle of the night!  Or whenever I happen to wake up!  lol
 




Jack is licking the wall for some odd reason! LOL  He's such a clown! 



Stefan cleaned the basement before he left for the weekend :)  That was NICE to see!  HA, I say that like he WANTED to clean it...umm NO, I had to make him clean it or he didn't get to leave the house ;) He wanted to spent the weekend at his friends house in town.  It was pretty messy down there though.  I even made him clean HIS bathroom!  OH THE TERROR!  OH BTW...Stefan and his girlfriend broke up a few days ago.  He was pretty sad about it but knew it was for the best I think.  He said he still misses her ALOT!  I am relieved to tell you the truth. She already found a new guy so she didn't care a whole lot about Stefan obviously! 



Well folks that's all I have...we just got done eating breakfast...pork chops, baked potato and green beans and then I got a text message from  our bank saying our taxes were in!  YIPPEE!  That is the money we were waiting on to make  the chicken coop. Well, a small portion of it anyway...the other money gets to pay off two credit cards!    Have a nice day all! 

Hangin Wit My Peeps it is!~

Ok I have done it!  See it here! 

We are going outside to get our garden ready for planting but I will read tonight when I get in :)  Thanks everyone for the feedback on the name!  We really like it too! 

New Journal?

I may be making yet another journal! lol  Like I don't have enough!  I was thinking of starting a chicken journal to keep track of the day to day life of them and just for our own records.  And that way If someone doesn't want to read about the chickens they don't have to ;) I have to realize not everyone likes chickens.  I need some hints at what to name it tho.   My first pick so far would be

Hangin wit my Peeps! 

One word

Cory is in the bath so I thought I would do this quick.  Got this from Linda.  

You can only type a ONE Word response.

Not as easy as you might think.

It's really hard to only use one word answers.

 

1. Where is your cell phone? couch

2. Your significant other? Cory

3. Your hair?  blonde

4. Your mother? Gone

5. Your father? Home

6. Your favorite thing? KIDS

 7. Your dream last night? none

8. Your favorite drink? pepsi

9. Your dream/goal? thinner

10. The room you're in? computer

11. Your ex? married

12. Fear? die

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? here

14. Where were you last night? home

15. What you're not? thin

16. Muffins? LOVE

17. One of your wish list items? chickens

18. Where you grew up? Wabeno

19. The last thing you did? clothes

20. What are you wearing? clothes

21. Your TV?  Loud

22. Your pets? Adorable

23. Your computer? on

24. Your life? wonderful

25 Your Mood? happy

26. Missing someone? mommy

27. Your car? Honda

28 Something you are not wearing? underwear

29. Favorite Store? Target

30. Your summer? Warm?

31. Like someone? Hubby

32. Your favorite color? lavender

33. When is the last time you laughed? afternoon

34. Last time you cried?  days

 

I had to really force myself to only use one word on each one.  Can you do it?

OMG TOO FUNNY!! HAHA

The funniest thing happened just a bit ago and I can't stop laughing!   I was on the computer reading, Cory was in his office in the basement along with Nic, and Stefan (who is 17) was in the bathtub.  Well, I hadn't put any clean towels in the bathroom yet and Stefan never bothered to check to see if there were any in the basket.  So when he got done bathing he was screaming for one. I told him oh darn...you have to get one yourself..I told him to check before he took a bath LONG time ago.  His own fault right?  lol  SO he runs through the house upstairs holding his privates, soaking wet...runs downstairs through the entry way and family area to get to HIS bathroom where there WAS towels.   Now remember...Stefan is deaf....as he was coming out of his bathroom he noticed people standing at the glass SEE THROUGH door downstairs!!!!! LOLOLOLOL   I had heard a knock as he was running down the stairs but I couldn't warn him because he can't hear me! PLUS he was running like a bat outa you know where!  I thought Cory would have answered the knock but he hadn't heard it either! lol  So Stefan continues to come up stairs and didn't even bother to get the door! Complaining to me that someone has seen him NAKED! lol  He was in a towel by then...they had already seen him naked so why not answer the door!!!! LOL    OH THAT just made my day today HEHE  THat will teach him to bring a towel with him huh?

Ok were going to watch a movie or two so I will talk to you all tomorrow...just had to give everyone a laugh! 

Clerify/ No Tech Night

I think I had some of you confused about Grandma. I was wondering why everyone thought she was my grandma and then I went to reread and said OH DUH!   LOL My fault!  I always call her grandma for the kids sake and if they read this later on.  She is actually my MIL and the Kids grandma.  My grandparents I never got the pleasure of meeting :(  They were all dead before I was born.  Anyway, she is doing a little better...they still have her at the hospital but hopefully she will get to come home today.  :)  Thanks for all the comments  and the prayers!!! 

No Tech Night!  It was great!  Did anyone else do it?  If you did I have to put our name in our hat for your surprise :) Please comment and let me know...no one said for sure if they would do it besides Lori so I hope some of you got a chance to reunite with your "family" and enjoyed a project or a good book! 

  Oh man I have SOO many pictures to share...I hope I can put them all in ONE entry! lol  Here we go!

First we start out with a cute one...this was take a couple days ago.  The dog adores Stefan. This was early in the morning...Stefan had slept on the couch.



Now I have to tell you what I did!  I went to Wal-Mart hoping to find a cheap pool ( I know!  I should not shop there but when I needed cheap I have to go there) it was the only thing I was going to buy there...well it turned out that the pool was to short for what I needed...I was afraid the light was going to be too low and burn the chicks.  So I said I will look someplace else.  I did get bedding there since I didn't get the pool so I was checking out and the lady from back in gardens ran up to me and said "We just had a great idea for your chicks"  She said go to produce and ask for a watermelon box!  I did and they happened to have one!  It was prefect!  REALLY thick and strong. Also notice we still have SNOW...lol it was 65 degrees and it's still hanging on.  Here is the box: 48" X 40" and it's 25" high. 





As you can see the bottom has a hole. lol  We are just cutting plywood to fit the floor and I'm going to tape around the edges with duct tape so the chicks can't fall through the edge crack.



Ok I also went to get feed today:  Had already picked up a light and bulb.  Kelly, look what the lady said was "NO ANIMAL PROTEIN!" lol  Did she just guess at this?  lol  I returned THIS bag and went to another feed store who would actually go read it for me when I called and asked about it. Now when I read this...under ingredients it read "animal protein products" do you see it?? Sorry it's sideways!  I forgot to turn it before I exported it. Anyway, wanna here what she had to say when I showed her where it said 'animal protein' on the ingredients?  She says..."OH I'm so sorry, I must have read the wrong bag"!  I said...oh then lets go look because I will buy the one that says no animal proteins. I believed that maybe she did look at the wrong bag and I would then BUY the right one!  HUH we could not find one that didn't have animal protein.  Looked at the wrong bag my foot!  More like you didn't look at all!  GRRRR That just erks me when people don't bother doing their job and then I wasted gas to go out there to pick this up for nothing! It was a 15 min drive out there!   Gas is not cheap!!  I told her that retailers need to start reimbursing gas money too for their mistakes! I usually keep my mouth shut when it comes to this sort of thing but I was disgusted that this lady was talking on the phone to what sounded like a friend while I stood at the counter waiting to be served so I thought what the heck! lol Look under ingredients:




Here are some other products I got...the OLD "animal protein filled" food is under the waterer and light.  The bag I returned.










Here is the right bag!  I called my ol trusty pet/feed store where I get my dog food...why I didn't try there to start I don't know!!!  Anyway when I called the guy says hold on I will go check!  I didn't go there for nothing!  I took Max with us and he LOVED everyone but he especially loved the girl who worked there lol.  He wanted to sit at her feet and when she turned away from him he barked at her to get her attention.  He NEVER does that!  lol  It was cute.



Ok here is what we did on No Tech Night...We built a brooder top and floor for our chickens.  It was fun.  We are in Cory's parents basement here.  His dad made a nice work room.  Had all the tools handy.





Here is Nic doing HIS job of cleaning up.  He did a great job! LOOK HEATHER, I'M LINE MIXING AGAIN! lol 



The first part is done...now all we have to do is screw the other part onto this part (look just like it but no screen) to make it stronger. You can see it in the back right...Cory is drilling holes in it so it pulls tight to the one with the screen.




Here is the finished product...Nic is already making use out of it by driving cars on it. lol  This is one tight fit so there will be no jumping out of this!  Nic can even stand on it! It's strong. 




We now have a floor in it too...



So there you have it!  OUR accomplishment for the first NO TECH NIGHT!  It was fun and then after we were done it was about 9 ish so we sat on the couch and just talked.  By 9:30 we were in bed.  I woke up at 3am cuz Nic come crawling in our bed and for an hour he drove cars quietly on my back and then he finally went back to sleep.  I never let him know I was awake.  I woke back up at 5:30 and got up and turned on the computer.  I wanted to update all this last night but I forgot that we were in the middle of No Tech Night!  I have to get used to this! lol  So I patiently waited till today. 



Thanks for reading and I hope you all have a great day today :)  OHHH I ALMOST FORGOT!  Guess what! When i went in to pick up my feed I heard baby chicks peeping in the back room...I asked the lady "Are those baby chicks i'm  hearing?" She says YES would you like to see them?  LOL I wonder if she could hear excitement in my voice. I got to see baby chicks and for the first time I got to pet one!  OH I wanted to take them all home!  There were 100 of them...feed chicks.... :( So they only have a few months of life to look forward to.  The guy who purchased them was suppose to pick them up that morning but it was 4pm and he was still not there.  The lady had to pull out lights and feeders so they would not die!   I wonder what happens if he didn't come to pick them up???