Sunday, July 26, 2009

A morning on the White River


George and I went for a little fishing this morning. The river was so foggy that you could bearly see to navigate. I had wet hair by the time we motored from Red's Landing to the Norfork Trout Dock....but the first cast produced a rainbow trout...followed by the second cast repeating that..... of course we didn't have that result everytime...but it was a nice day on the river...

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Here in the real world

I'm suffering badly from vacation envy....several of my friends and co-workers are beach goers this summer....I know...what can I be whining about...I just got an awesome new truck.....and I'm happy....but I sure am envious of those people that are enjoying the beach.

I was sitting in the dentist's chair yesterday listening to the sound of her drill and I kept thinking how much more relaxing and fun it would be to hear the sound of the ocean...I was green with envy of Betty and her trip to Hawaii....and my friend Kim's trip to Destin...you can see how beautiful Destin was at www.kimwhitten.blogspot.com

Oh well...It's not like I'm not having a great summer....riding horses, going to the lake and doing a little fishing on the river.... :-)

Maybe I'll save my vacation time for the winter and go do something then.... :-)

Sunday, July 19, 2009

The move to Nashville

Friday we drove to Nashville to move Russell to begin school. It was a beautiful day and an easy trip there...everything went so well....you feel it coming don't you....here it is......UNTIL we went to the the appartment....it really wasn't an AWFUL place in it's own right...it had new furniture, a decent looking neighborhood etc....it was just the million other residents already inhabitating the place...I really had no clue where the boys would stay because the apartment was crammed full of roaches. I don't think I've ever seen that many roaches in one place.....completely GROSS..... The boys sucked it up though and after being assured by management that the apartment had been sprayed decided to stay.....as the afternoon wore on the bug population seemed to diminish (probably from the excellent "hunting" skills of George and his can of RAID)..... but after dark....the swarm began again....Russell called us (at our roach free hotel) to tell us that he wanted out in the morning.......So, Saturday morning we picked up the 2 Calico boys that were there and headed in to collegiate housing to get them moved to another apartment.....oh...more fun than anyone could ever want for a Saturday morning in a huge town with a great mall and tons of shopping...what better way could I be spending my time than sitting in a classroom that is being used as an office waiting for someone to decide that it's the right thing to do to move these boys into a room that didn't have a million roaches crawling around in it....oh...I forgot to mention that we came armed with ziplock bags full of roaches that the boys had collected as evidence.....along with several photos.....we met lots of NADC people.... the District Recruting Manager, the VP and the President herself.....it seemed that the only people the didn't think the boys should be moved was the "boss" at collegiate housing...the lady working with us was great and trying hard to get something done....finally over 3 hours later we finally had a new apartment.... no furniture for it until Tuesday but hey....we had the apartment....so we checked it out, finally got some lunch (and those of you that know me know that feeding me lunch at 2:30ish isn't the best idea if I don't get snacks in between...but I was being nice still)..... then we moved the boys out of Roach Haven and into The Cove. After we got them moved in we went shopping for their food and other supplies.....and finally we took them to dinner at about 9:00......but we got it all done.

Now they are all settled in and waiting for furniture.

When we were leaving this morning I made the observation that here's these redneck boys in this very nice attractive gated community of apartments with beautiful landscaping and retaiing walls ......I'm sure the community is wondering what just happened :-)

I'd post some of those photos but they gross me out still.

But, after all is said and done...I think things are good.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Happy Birthday to George.....hum......

Well, today has been a very interesting day....it started out bad and got worse but then it got really great!

Today is George's birthday. He's not really big into celebrating his birthday but we always make a big deal about mine....so....today for his birthday, he bought me a new truck....go figure...aren't I a lucky girl.

It's a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado 4x4 Z71 with the LTZ package... white and a crew cab.... It has cashmere colored leather seats that are heated, dual air and remote start!!! I am so spoiled!!!

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Weekend activities

This has been a weekend of celebrating or sorts.... Russell had some friends over for a fish fry on Saturday and on Sunday we celebrated Geroge's birthday since the boys were both here. Leah came to visit this weekend too.

Here's George opening his cards...then his gifts. Oooh...Presents...we love presents. He got all sorts of new tack for his mule (a felt saddle blanket, a Billy Cook cinch, and a new snaffle bit) and some camo Croc flipflops and a drill bit sharpener.


Ryan and George went for a little ride about this morning too. Ryan had not seen Hat yet, so he rode him and we saddled Goldie for George to ride.


Russell watching George opening his gift.


Here's Ryan and Leah after the ride.... Cute couple. It was nice to have them in to visit. Leah was lots of help and she's a really nice girl. We miss having Ryan around so it's nice to have him come visit.


Everyone has gone home now and Russell is at work.. George has been running the bush hog and I've been doing more dishes and doing the laundry.... our dish washer got a real workout this weekend since I can't cook without making a mess....we had good food and good company....what more can you ask for.


Thursday, July 9, 2009

A Horse and A Mule

Well, I'm down to 1 horse and 1 mule.... Wink sold yesterday. We delivered him to Norfork last night....he has a nice new mommy that only has one horse (him) and she plans to love him and feed him and ride him every day (or so she says). If not, he can always just watch her Mercedes drive by as she spends her days of leisure not working...haha...just kidding. She has big plans for Wink and I think he will enjoy all of the attention.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

July Journey Daily

I'm joining my friends Kim and Joan in doing a July Daily mini book. This book has something in it for each day of July....sometimes it is just words and sometimes it is kind of scrapbookish. These photos are not the best but here's a little idea of what I'm doing. I hope to improve my skills with this daily project and make a little book of memories of my life.

Here's the cover....


July 1 - The first day of July...The Dawining of a Brand New Day for me in many ways... a new day in general...and a new beginning for Ozarka as the new President arrived.


July 2 - My life is simple. I enjoy a quiet simple life most of the time. I've become much calmer in my nature and enjoy things that I never would have thought that I would like. Such as picking blackberries....a yearly thing for me now.


July 3 - Picking Blueberries....like I said...I enjoy lots of things that I would have never thought about before....I picked Blueberries for the first time this day with some of my friends from work. It was a nice morning and we were done before it got good and hot. I also went for a ride on Goldie that afternoon with Fred and Karla Rush. George was supposed to go but he wasn't feeling good.


July 3 continued - Spending time with friends ....it's just really nice.


July 4 (this is a clear page so the color showing thru is my table) - I must have got what George had....I was sick until noon...then spent the afternoon in the house watching movies.....


July 5 - Today I felt good...so I worked in my garden....picked it, hoed it, tilled it and watered it....then Imade a trip to Wal-Mart for groceries ....and then George and I rode for a while...He rode Hat and I rode Wink....Goldie went along for the trip.


July 5 continued


July 6 - I'm doing a little/lot of reflection....all of the changes in my life at this moment cause me to think....I'm definitely not saying the changes are a bad thing but they are CHANGES.


Well...that's all for now...I'll post more as the month goes on.....

Monday, July 6, 2009

How we change


This is me and Wink.....

I've been spending a little time most days (but not all) riding the horses.... Wink and I have been enjoying each other's company (haha...don't ask him about this) quite a bit lately. He's such a beautiful horse and can be such a sweetheart too...then there are the other times...but hey....no one is perfect.
I've also been playing in my garden and finding some fruit patches...I picked blackberries and blueberries over the weekend...why this intrigues me so much is really beyond me because now that I have the fruit...I don't know what I want to do with it....I think I'll make a cobbler out of the blackberries...but the blueberries....well....I gave some away and I froze some...and I'm eating some each day.....but the odd thing is that I didn't know I liked fresh blueberries (blueberry muffins yes...but fresh?) until after I went and picked 2 gallons.... I think it has something to do with the hunter gatherer urges that we are all born with....but....if you had told me 20 years ago or so that I would be doing this and enjoying it, I would have been laughing at you to your face.....my my how we change.