Saturday fun

Aaah, it's a looong weekend!

How nice to have three whole days off.

Yesterday was laundry and floor day.

Gotta get the heavy stuff done this weekend since my Dad

is coming on Friday.

Sure wish we had a new couch.

Ours is just disgusting!

We've had it for over eight years,

add three kids and three indoor dogs - plus a cat or two

and you can imagine how it looks.

Think I'll be putting quilts over it in hopes that they

will pass for couch covers..

What the hell, right?

Big bonus with my Dad coming next weekend is

our town is having it's annual Fireman's Parade and

both Colton and Chyann will be marching in it!

(Caden will be gathering candy)

Having lived away from my Dad for so long he has only

once managed to make it to one of my kids' school

functions. So, this is a big deal for me, having him to see

the kids march with their bands in the parade.

After the parade at the fair grounds will be a penny hunt

and small pedal tractor pull.

Caden is very excited!

Got myself a new phone yesterday too.

Same number, but I've lost all my contacts.

If I had your number please email it to me

because it is irretrievable from my old phone.

New phone has a mp3 player so I can listen

to music at work. Now if I can figure out how it put

the music on the phone I'll be good to go.

Was hoping to make more salsa this weekend, but my

tomato's are done. Bummer. I'll have to buy them if I

want to make more I guess.

Got lots of apples though.

Chyann showing the most perfect apple she's ever seen

from our trees.

Chyann ran in the house yesterday saying she and Caden were going to go riding. I think that's great they are playing together and enjoying the horses, so I said have fun. Didn't realize they were riding double on Cowboy till I looked out the window.

I think both of them together are too heavy for Cowboy so I told them to quit and ride a bigger horse double.

But they rode off , up and around the yard once more. Cowboy did just fine and can probably do it with no problems, but why take the chance when they can ride Scotch.


Found a stick bug on the van the other day.


The black walnut tree is putting out nuts for the first time in seven years.


With the horses out mowing there is a lot of crap to clean up and that is Cadens job. We've sure got a good compost pile going this year.

Rode horses with Chyann last evening. We had a great time, until the sun began to set and the skeeters came out to eat us alive! They were horrible. We couldn't get home fast enough!

Note to self: Lots of bug spray when we ride today.

Also our weather has turned cool. I'm closing the windows and have an extra blanket on the bed at night. I'm glad this cool weather is only going to last for a few more days - I love the heat!