Cattle Business

There is never a dull moment when I head home to see my parents. I had a doctor's appointment in Houston on Friday, so I spent the weekend with my parents. On Friday night, we received a phone call from a neighbor to some land where my parents have cattle. Apparently a tree was split/broke when we had all the storms at the end of the week. Well half the tree fell on the barb wire fence creating a potential escape for cows. So what do we do at 10:30pm after we heard the message? We load up the truck and race after my dad. My dad never speeds, but boy when it's his precious cattle at stake he could work for NASCAR. Well he also gets so frazzled in stressful situations. We inspect the fence in the shadows of the trucks' headlights, and my dad grabs his chainsaw to cut the tree off of the fencec.

Dad: "Stand back. I don't have much gas."

He cranks it. Sputter, sputter, roarrrrrr, sputter, spit, spit, and dies."

Dad: "(Insert swear word here,) Out of gas."

Me: "You mean to tell me you knew you were almost out of gas, and you didn't bring the extra?" See what I mean by "frazzled?"

(This is when my mom gives me a "watch your smart mouth look.")

So being helpful, I said, "I'll run to Exxon."

Did you know you need to have chainsaw oil to mix in your gas? I didn't even know they made chainsaw oil.

So off we ride back to the house on the other side of town to pick up the extra gas and oil; now it's 11pm.

We fix this fence (well actually I watch and start the truck up every 10 minutes or so to not have the battery die out.) And my mom and I head back. Well of course my mom is speeding because it's close to midnight, and she wants to go to bed. What happens next? We get pulled over. I immediately started laughing because this is such a Weimar story. I knew she wouldn't get a ticket because she's Miss Congeniality and knows all of the cops in town.

Mom: "Hi Mr. (insert cop name here). I'm sorry I was speeding. I'm so tired, and we were fixing fence." Who has this excuse at midnight on Friday nights?

Cop: "No worries Mary."
Mom: "Do you need to see my license?"
Cop: "Nah." (at this point he's blinding me with his flashlight)
Mom: "That's my daughter."
Cop: "Where's MOPAC?!!!"

Ummm see it's not just my imagination. EVERYONE (even cops in my hometown who I have never met) loves my little girl.

Cop: "I see she's not a cow dog."

We all chuckle and off we go.

Mom (when we get home): "I'm going to give Mr. (insert cop name here) a jar of pickles I canned since he let me go."

Of course.....

Salivating!

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Do I need to say much more in this post? I think the picture pretty much says it all.

July Business!

Happy 7th of July! Well I'm a little late with the patriotic post.
We had a great 4th of July. A huge thank you for all the brave soldiers (past and present) who serve our country. (Here would be a great opportunity to insert Philly pictures-you know our nation's birthplace, but yah I still haven't gotten to those yet.)


We were dog, I mean puppy sitting for my mom the past week. Her Westie, Molly, is a cutie patootie. She's six months old and quite the little "pisser." And I don't mean that she always does her business outside if you get my drift. Oh how nice it is to have Molly back in Weimar with her mom and dad. I am also loving my clean floors.


She's so sweet. It's just those ears. Come on facial hair, keep growing!

















"Oh I'll chew on this and then swallow it." You should see this puppy's poop, it's about twenty different colors because of all the toy parts she swallows. I could charge for the poop show. I have no idea why I'm talking about this. It is pretty interesting if you can stomach it. (hahaha get it, stomach....poop.....)



We also celebrated Landon's first birthday. Landon's parents are our cousins through Randy's side. He's such a cutie. He had a shirt on that said "I'm Mr. Independent." HAHAHAHA I love it! What a great shirt for the 4th and a one-year old.



We also did other typical "Fourth" things. We grilled out! I made honey glazed chicken kabobs (to die for, recipe follows), grilled corn on the cob, steamed rice, and frozen lemonade pie.














Randy also went swimming in our new backyard pool. Randy is obsessed with the water. He has been wanting a big swimming pool for sometime now. We went ahead and got an estimate and said "what the heck? it's only money. you can't take it with you." So we splurged and risked taking away Mopac's backyard. We think it's worth it. Anytime you want to swim, come on over. Here's Randy testing out the waters over the 4th.























Hehe! Yah I had ya going didn't I? This is actually Molly's swimming pool. She loves to dance in it and then come up and jump on you. Nothing smells better than a wet dog! You can see how much Mopac likes the h20.















After we ate, and Randy changed out of his swim trunks, we watched a fireworks show with our good friends. When we got home, we watched all of our neighbors waste hundreds and hundreds of dollars on fireworks. Hey, it was nice for us. We got two free firework shows. The dogs on the other hand weren't donning their Uncle Sam hats for the show. They were under our bed shaking. Poor little buggers!

The link for the chicken kabob recipe!
http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/yummy-honey-chicken-kabobs/Detail.aspx


Hope you had a great holiday weekend!

Busy Day Ahead

Yes, me teacher turned counselor with this long summer looming ahead, has a full day ahead of her.


I'm going to lunch at Chuy's with two of my best girlfriends. (Shout out to Leslie and Kara!) Then, we are going to sit in the a.c. and watch movies. Oh I also made blonde brownies last night for a snack. What movies, you ask?

Well....I am the most behind person in the world. I have never seen the Twilight movies. Why? Because they look terrible.....

Now I love the Twilight saga. I did the old fashion thing to obtain this opinion....I read! I very hesitantly took Leslie's recommendation last year and picked up Twilight. "Les, I hate sci-fi/fantasy. I don't want to read about vampires sucking blood. I'm not going to read it." She told me that you soon forget it's about vampires. Well then why read it? It's like the whole "it tastes like chiken." Why wouldn't I just eat chicken then? Anyways, we have very similar reading tastes, so I humored her.

And.....I am on Team Edward to this very day!!! I pretty much "devoured" (hehe) Twilight and New Moon. Then Eclipse was my favorite of the whole saga. Breaking Dawn (the 4th) was just plain weird. Everyone can make it to book 3. Book 4, come on Stephenie Meyer, this is just too weird. I tried to explain to Randy what was happening. He gave me the "I married such a weirdo look." Warning: Don't explain the plot out loud. People will stare.


So Leslie has insisted Kara and I see the movies. I have mixed emotions about the whole thing. I heard the first one was terrible with a capital T. That's why we're watching Twilight and New Moon back-to-back. I never really like movies that are based on books. The books are way better.

And why on earth does Edward look as white as the guy in that old 90's movie "Powder?" Oh well, this will keep me busy for FOUR hours. Whoo hoo!!! I'll let you know how it goes. Who knows, I might like the first two enough to go see Eclipse, maybe even in Imax where things jump out at you. Because who wouldn't want Taylor Lockner jumping out at you? Seriously!

Gimme! Gimme!

It is so difficult to sit at home! Now I know most of you do not feel any sympathy for me. But being a stay at home wife is hard work. It takes lots of self-discipline. I'm referring to my incessant need to shop. Oh my goodness, I am in love with spending money. I can find something to buy in every store I walk into. Heck give me a website, I'll purchase something. Well you can imagine how difficult it is to control my spending urges when I'm sitting at home with nothing to do. I need to get back to work and stat!


Since I'm refraining from getting into my car and driving to any store, I'm shopping online. I haven't purchased anything yet, but man am I tempted. It's even worse when amazon has my credit card information stored. It's so convenient to hit submit order without even having to find your wallet. It feels kinda free this way. Here's what I'm pondering over today.

The first items are Westie items. Oh my gosh, I'm becoming that old cat lady.







How cute would this magnet be on my file cabinet?









Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking. But look, it's Van Gogh and a Westie.



It's not like I want these. (Basically it's too late because these are cake toppers! Hold the phone. They are precious I know.)


Just making sure you're awake. I do NOT want this Westie pot holder. Well, I don't think I want it. Maybe I do. I might buy it :) Just call me the cat lady.







EEEK! moving on!





Double EEK! Do these come in pet sizes for the meantime?

(Side note: Randy hates skater SHOES that's why I'm going to buy skater SOCKS. You know when the time is right.)



ha!ha! What a fun door mat!









I love these stamps! Makes me want to buy new stationary as well. I think I'll hold off on these.

A Little Over the Top!

This is my third post today....sigh.....


What's wrong with me? Why am I so bored? Why am I (gasp) ready to go back to work?

Well I have 2.5 more weeks so until then happy blog reading.


So we all know, (if you don't visit some earlier posts) that my husband is a little (hmm, how do I say this nicely?) tight with money.

Apparently people love it! These types of posts are the most commented on. Jana told me today that her favorite thing about Randy is the fact he's cheap. She was laughing so hard when I told her this story. So maybe it's the fact we can all laugh at him. He doesn't take offense to it. He's very proud of his frugality. So it's more like we're laughing with Randy and not at him.



Tell me what you notice about the following picture?














Besides the fact it's a picture of toilet paper, what else do you notice? Look at the circumference of the paper roll. Notice anything? It's squished. Now who would have squished all of the toilet paper rolls in our house?


















Aww look it's my handsome hubby.

Randy is guilty of squishing all of our toilet paper. Why? Now what a great question.

He read somewhere that if the circumference of the actual toilet paper roll is narrower and not such a complete circle, people will use less paper. The squishing factor allows you to have access to the toilet paper without it spinning out of control. So now when you use our toilet paper it sounds like a flat tire. But hey this is saving us a whopping 3 cents per roll. Try it today! Randy swears by it. He also says it's easier to squish the rolls when they are all intact inside the plastic wrapping so you can just give it a big ol' Charmin bear squeeze as opposed to annihilating each individual roll.


Just thought I'd relay the tip. Hey I'm happy to help you save money in your restrooms as well.

This Just In.....

Are you kidding me?


I can't believe it!


So remember that house we built last summer? More importantly, do you remember me complaining about the most awful chore/labor intense duty we had to do? Yah, it was laying that sod. I seriously will complain about this for years. Not to mention, I haven't seen that Tiffany's bracelet. Leslie and I won "Wives of the Year" awards based on this sole activity. It was hot, humid, and not to mention wrist throbbing and back aching kinda work. Well we made a lot of mistakes on that first house. It was the first house we built. What do you expect? But I wasn't expecting this? This mistake needs to be in all caps.....MISTAKE!


Do you know how much it costs for the company who delivers the sod to install all of that grass? Yah here it comes....


$10 a pallet.....

We had 7 pallets.


I'm no math major, but this is easy to compute. This equals "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"

70 measly bucks! So yah it was a mistake to assume it would be cheaper to do it ourselves. Derryk and Randy this is forgivable but barely. Rands will forever be hearing the following, "Did you ask how much it costs for them to just do it?"

Leslie told me when she just called, "I've been dying to tell you this" with a little chuckle. Hmmmm....boys I think we just earned ourselves another dinner out because of this....