modern day cowboy at the bar

Braden came walking in the kitchen all ready to go find the last bunch of sheep out on the mountain. I couldn't help noticing the belt full of bullets.

"Uh....What ya hunting?" Says I,

"Coyotes and rabbits." Came his slow drawled out reply as he picked up the computer to check his grades. When he sat down at the bar I couldn't help but grab the camera for a shot.

Incidentally, His nickname on the high school basketball team is.......Redneck. I LOVE my cowboys.

The true story!

Chance and Oaklee were in Oaklee's room playing Rapunzel When I heard Oaklee/Rapunzel announce to the Handsome Eugene/ Chance,

"If you be nice I'll let down my hair.

Hm.....Thinks I, they must be playing the happily ever after part of the story. Somehow Oaklee already has the true story figured out.

Where DID she learn that????

First dogies have arrived

Dogie season has arrived. We started out with a little lamb. I don't think it knows how to shut up. If it's hungry it carries on and on if we just fed it it carries on and on if we go outside it jumps up and carries on. Yesterday the little thing lost it's voice for about half the day. But, this morning he'd found it and was right back at it. The little calf had a bit of a ruff start, I had to belly feed her with this contraption so that she would have enough nourishment to get up and eat. You just have to get the milk right into her belly and by pass the sucking being careful not to drown them.
She seems to have made it, though, and now she'll take a bottle. I think calves are the cutest baby animals ever!! She also got a night in the heat box.
So, now I'm almost to the point I can mix the milk up and send the little ones out to feed the dogies
I got a kick out of Oaklee's lamb feeding outfit. Typical little country girl (princess)
Notice the shoes. They're called Mucks, They're winter corral boot's She tried to find her cowboy boots to wear but these were a little more convenient. I LOVE country girls!!!

Procrastination

Something I'm guilty of, That Durn Procrastination bug. I've been meaning to Blog about Christmas and New years and all but I just keep procrastinating. Plus it's Basketball season, no I don't watch the Jazz, all though I'm always happy when they win, but my interests are in the Wayne High Badgers and the the Wayne Middle School 7/8 th grade teams. My two oldest boys are each on a team and we've been Busy running here and there and all over the place, and sometimes back and forth from here to a small town two hours away and back only to have to turn around and drive back down to the town two hours away the next day for the other boy to play.
So I've felt a lot busier then normal. But I love watching my boys so we go =). I've discovered, surprisingly, That I'm the type of Mom that yells at her boy to foul out if he get's treated to ruffly on the court. here's what happened.

My 8th grader is one of the taller boy's on the floor so he covers the center, The team they were playing was a great little basketball team except for the fact that they played a little bit dirty, we were playing on their court with their refs and at the end of the 2nd period the foul ratio was us 12 to there 1 or 2 or something like that. It was a big enough margin to figure out that the calls were a little lopsided. all the parent's and the coaches were a bit flabbergasted but the boys seemed to be taking it fairly well. Caib, was guarding under the basket trying to keep his opponent from getting the ball and scoring When the kid put his arm up on Caib and shoved him about ten feet and dropped him to the floor. the kid then had the ball passed into him and Caib Jumped up and swatted the ball HARD twice as the kid tried to shoot. Of course the foul was called on Caib and I found myself shouting at the top of my voice."CAIB, YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION TO FOUL OUT OF THIS GAME IF YOUR GONNA BE TREATED LIKE THAT!!!" I was so mad. of course after I yelled I was amazed that I had let my feelings get so out of control. We lost that game, go figure. I was pretty quiet the rest of the game but one of our other boy's mothers wasn't, boy, she yelled at the top of her lungs at every foul the refs called whether it was legit or not. Roger thought it would have been more appropriate if they had just given the other team a twenty to zero advantage to begin with. Aw well, The boy's learned a lot
and we had an exciting ride home as it snowed pretty heavily for 3/4ths of the way home. GOTTA love basketball!

This is also that horrible time of year where I start putting things off until spring time....Now if any of you know anything at all about Loa you will know that Springtime never really comes to this little town. Nope, we jump from Freezing cold winters in May to Summer in July, June seems to be a mix of winter and Summer it's either ice on the sprinklers or a nice summer day.

So when I put things off until Spring I guess I'm just in a state of denial. Or else I'm trying to cushion the idea that I may just never get some things done. And so Life moves on with somethings never getting done.

Chancee's chatterings, again

Chance, being in Kindergarten now, loves to make cards. Typical of a kid who is finally learning to write. This is his Christmas card to me this year. As he sat at the table he, of course, had to make sure that his spelling was all correct. But not only that, he decided to add a little punctuation.

He started with the typical, "Dear Mom, then he sat there for a minute and says, I think I want to put an exclamation point at the end of that because I don't want it to just say Dear mom, but I want it to sound exciting. so he proceeds to put an exclamation point after his opening. "There," he say's and reads it again with as much exclamative excitement as he can muster. "DEAR MOM!!" he then adds "I Love you" "hmm" he says I think this one needs an exclamation point, too. It's so easy to write one, it's just an upside down i" He finishes his card and again reads it out loud getting every bit of exclamation out of his upside down i's as possible.

I think this is my favorite Christmas card this year.