jake the escaping Bull

Jake, our Bull is notorius for escaping. Eric and I turned the cows out to pasture yesterday afternoon, and I got home from work today, with a sick baby in tow, and low and behold.. Jake is out!

Anyone have any ideas of how to keep a gentle, brangus bull from escaping?

new phone number

we got a new phone number htrough MagicJack and it works awesome.. seriously, for only 19.95 a year its worth it! It doesn't slow your internet down and all you do is hook it up to a USB port. so... here is my new number for all of you... 928-387-3175

free as a bird

no more landline for me and eric, we got fed up with our local service, so we only have our cell phones for awhile. Here we come magic jack or vonage!

camera happy

Kind of a scary picture, but we had fun playing with the camera!

Case has decided the camera is a really cool thing to play with.. I can't ever get cute pictures of him doing things because he always wants to be playing with the camera! ooh well! we had fun anyways!

NATIONALS... here we come!!!

So I found out just now that my poultry judging team (they judge chickens, eggs, chicken carcasses , ect.) OFFICIALLY gets to COMPETE at the 2009 National FFA Convention... this will be the first time since 1967 that Duncan FFA has competed in poultry judging! woo-hoo! my kids deserve this, they have worked really hard!!!

Green Thumb Gardener

Morning Glory (aka Vinca Annual)

Wild Rose.. started from seed

Yummy Mint

Koi and Fancy Goldlifsh swimming in the pond.. it was dinner time!

This is the old pond, drying out currently, it was too overgrown with lilies

delicious onions

lovely rosemary

No so lovely bell pepper.. I don't think its going to make it...

Cilantro and Garlic.. more yum yum!

Cute little Okra plant

2 rows of Okra, some covered in homemade cloches, for wind and weather protection

Gladiolus Bulbs coming up

So I posted 2 of the same picture, oh well!

Needless to say, I am quite happy with my gardening abilities so far, I really am enjoying being self sufficient. Case is still under the weather, he has a snotty stuffy nose, nasty cough and really cranky. Not fun.

exciting news!

NO, IM NOT PREGNANT.... I know some of you were secretly wishing I was... I have been in close contact with the DEAN of Eastern Arizona College, as he has asked me to teach a COLLEGE welding class this fall. I haven't said yes or no yet, there is still quite a bit to be discussed, but its pretty cool that I am a GIRL and they want me to teach a WELDING class!

woo-hoo!!

loves

Case LOVES animals, here he is with Clyde, my jack russell terrier

need I say more?

Baseball

Eric is now coaching baseball at the high school so there is always a loose baseball in my truck, as well as all over the house, outside, well, you get the point. On the way to church Case was ancy, so I gave him a baseball and he had a grand time with it!

toys are sooo over rated

who needs toys when you have sprinklers and horseshoes and rock walls? Case doesn't need toys! This afternoon after church, the weather was actuallly nice for the first time in a week, so we took advantage of it and played outside.. err, Case played outside and I cleaned the front yard. Here are some fun pictures of Case enjoying himself!

discovering the horseshoe (after knocking off the railroad nails and sprinkler, which lay beside his feet)

yes, it really IS a horseshoe.

MMMMmmmm... it tastes goood too! (Cases' idea of a teether)