Green Beans!!!

I actually think I am getting the hang of working everyday-well, some days!! Jeff & I picked green beans up at Mom's on Sunday evening-their's are growing like crazy-ours aren't doing much of anything :(. So-when I got in from work yesterday-I got a canner of beans going. Don't they look good?? I got 10 pints and enough for supper, then put 2 pints in the freezer to add to soup stock later on. YUMMY!

We also got part of the yard mowed and some weed-eating done. We fed the grass clippings to the cows and chickens-what a feast for them! And poor Jeff-they have him working 12 hour shifts this week! He said he was fine yesterday-but 5:00am to 5:30 pm is gonna take a toll on his back real soon! My job is going great-the school year is starting to wind down-but there is still LOTS to do.

We had some pretty bad weather here on Monday-nearly an hour of hail-and some of it BIG! I really don't know how my garden didn't get some damage from it! But I couldn't tell that anything was hurt. Jeff moved the tractor under a big tree-but it and the trucks didn't receive any dents. It was SO loud you couldn't stay out on the porches.

Gotta go to work! Have a great day!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Me, Hailey, Mady and Cay Cay on the beach-Mother's Day 2009! (I'm on the phone with Alana!)

The girls hamming it up for the camera! They had SUCH a good time this weekend-they didn't want to go home! (We didn't either :( !!)

Hope all you Mom's out there had a great day! I know I did! We spent the weekend at the beach and it was just beautiful! Jeff, Hailey and I went down on Friday night and Julie came down Saturday morning with the other 2 girls and a friend from work and her 3 boys. Needless to say-all got at least a little sunburned! Saturday morning we got a phone call from Pat & Randy-our neighbors there at the beach and they drove down for the day! Pat had not been down yet-so it was a little tough on her-but she said the not knowing was worse and it wasn't as bad as she was thinking. Also Carolyn showed up-we hadn't seen her since before the storm-she lives in Dallas. She had a camper moved in up in High Island at a park there-so she wouldn't have to find someone to move it for her when a storm was coming-she lives 6 hours away. Pauline and Ricky got their camper moved in Friday also-Duane and Ann are working on theirs- so it won't be long before it's a little back to normal. Can't wait til Memorial Day weekend-we will really have a good time!

The farm and garden are doing well. I have little cucumbers and tomatoes-so it won't be long! We sold 1 pig last week and 3 rabbits and had another litter of bunnies-life goes on in the Spring!

Well-I need to go get ready for work-not too much longer for that either! I only work 11 days after schools out-so that gives me a little time this summer to get some things done around here! Have a great week!

Good Week!

Well-we've had another busy week. Jeff's job has had him working strange hours-seems some days his schedule changes daily. On Thursday, they moved him to a place in the plant where he had never worked before. That area works 10 hour days-the extra 2 in the afternoon-so he didn't get home til 6:00. I did all the feeding for him and tried to get as much done as I could to help him out. Same thing on Friday and he had to work Saturday-but got off at 1:30. We got rain again this weekend-so we have gotten about all we want to handle for awhile.
We went to Conroe yesterday-we thought we were going to go to the Trade's day -but they had it the weekend before. But we went on and bought the rest of the tin to finish our roof. With all the rain-we've had several pretty bad leaks in the house! So-it was time to finish what we'd started a few years back.
The swine flu outbreak has not affected our area-hopefully it will stay away. None of our schools or any closely surrounding us have been closed. I still can't believe that so many pigs are being killed unnessesarily.
Stay well and have a great week!

Tractor!!!

Jeff & Jordan spreading the last of the dirt at the beach on Saturday afternoon.

All 5 of the grandkids-they aren't proud of the new toy-are they? Mady is the only one who hasn't "driven" it yet. We have come up with a WHOLE list of chores for the new tractor to do-boy is it gonna be busy for awhile!

Well-we finally bit the bullet and bought a new tractor! We got a Montana with a front-end loader and a brush hog. We took it down to the beach on Saturday afternoon and got the last pile of dirt spread and the grass planted. It's looking better down there. We had to come back home early- Jeff's mom had a slight heart attack and was in the hospital. Thank God-she's OK!!! She has to follow up with her Doc this week.

The garden is looking better. We have a few tomatoes blooming and the cukes and squash are really growing! Jeff's nephew, Jason, brought us 11 baby chicks Saturday morning. His wife, Leigh Ann is a teacher and the class had hatched them out as a class project and I got to keep the babies! Hopefully the coons won't be able to get these! I've put them in a different cage this time!! Have a great week!

Wonderful News, but Bad, too!

We had the greatest pleasure to get to welcome our best friend's oldest son, Travis, home yesterday! He has been gone for 7 years and it is SO good to know he's back were he belongs! His Mom, Sheila, also has a blog here-so I'm sure when she comes down off the clouds-she'll post some of her beautiful writings!(Just The Burt's)And as it sometimes seems-with all good news-comes some bad. We found out on Saturday that one of the kids that grew up down the road here from us was found dead by his wife. Phillip was always smiling around us. And he was the one person Trav was most waiting to see. Tough times during such joy!!

Boy, did it rain here Saturday! Pat & Joe-sure hope you got some of it up in Trinity!! We had NO pasture for quite a while-it was totally water! We lost one of the baby pigs, too. We assume she almost drowned-by the other pigs piling up on her. We gave her a shot on Saturday when we found her-but she died Sunday. We heard some places had 4-6 inches of rain! I thought my garden was gone-but when the water drained off-it just needs some minor repair! I have to wait til it dries up some to get in there!

Well-I better go-gotta get ready for work!! Have a great day!

Bunnies & Beets & Brocolli

Jordan & Cayden with the beets they pulled from the garden!
Kaytlynn & Jordan helping me sell the bunnies near Conroe. They kept wrapping the bunnies up in their jackets-as if they were cold!

Well, we did set up Friday evening and sold 5 of the 7 bunnies we took! Saturday morning we set up over close to Conroe. I took 7 more bunnies and 3 of the adults-I HAVE to get rid of some! I sold 1 doe and 5 more of the bunnies! Still have 2 of the oldest bunnies and 3 more that will be old enough to go this weekend. Alana may try to sell those for me!

Jordan , Cayden and me pulled some of the beets Sunday morning and I cooked them for lunch. All the grandkids tried them-but no one but Jeff and me will eat them!

Yesterday we cut the first of the brocolli-some of the heads were huge! I put 3 quart bags in the freezer! We had to cover up all the tomato and pepper plants-it was supposed to get a little to close for comfort to the freezing mark this morning!It's 33 degrees out now and it's almost 6:00am-it'll drop a little more before daylight!

Guess I'll finish for now-gotta get ready for work! And everyone-Have a Happy Easter!!

LONG TIME!!!

MeMe and Kaytlynn planting Burgandy green beans!

Hailey with the carrot harvest!

The camper in place at the beach-FINALLY!!!

I CANNOT believe that this much time has gone by without me blogging!!!I have been SOOO busy and with working on computers all day @ work-I really don't want to or have time-to get on it in the afternoons!

Well LOTS has been going on around here lately! We finally found us a camper-and made some new friends in the process! Thanks Pat and Joe for everything! We took the camper down to the beach and were able to spend all of Spring Break there. The weather was wonderful-except for the day we pulled in and that night. We worked WAY too hard for what was supposed to be a week's vacation-but we are able now to get back to our little bit of paradise!!

The farm is doing well. We have 6 pigs left-they were weaned and wormed on Saturday. I have baby bunnies coming out my ears!!! Anybody looking to buy an Easter Bunny? I have some REALLY cute ones!! I'm planning to sit on the side of the road close to Conroe Saturday morning and try to sell them-probably close to 20 of 'em!

We've been busy working on the garden the last few days. Been eating lettuce for weeks now-it's SO good. It will keep in the frig for so much longer than the store bought stuff without wilting! Jeff & Hailey pulled the carrots the other day-got about 2 lbs or more. I was surprised-I cooked some the next night for supper-SO good! I put 2 packages in the freezer for later. We have planted green beans, lots of tomatoes, peppers(bell, salsa, and jalapenos!), cukes, squash and onions. Still have a few things left to put in.

Guess I'll go for now-I'll try harder to keep up!! Have a great day!