Rain rain, go away...come again some other day...LIKE IN ABOUT A MONTH, IF YOU DON'T MIND! Okay, I know, we have short term memory, BUT where I live, we have had enough rain. We have truly gone from one extreme to another. We have had LOTS of rain in the past two months or so, so much rain that the fields cannot be planted, the hay in the fields cannot be cut and baled, and most of the fields we expect will just lay fallow for the winter. Our neighbor Michael came and baled the hay that he had cut a couple weeks ago (to try and get that done before it rained again) and this photo is of one of the fresh bales and the cattle looking weak and starved...neither of which they are in reality. If we could get one good dry week, with a little (okay a lot of) sunshine, and some good breezes, we could maybe cut the rest of the pastures and bale the rest of the hay. See what you can do for us on your end, we will appreciate it greatly! AND, places in Austin (50 miles south) really need the rain, it is CRAZY!My friend Diane (who I have not talked with in a couple years) gave me a call this morning. We have been stalking each other on FaceBook, but had not had a chance to talk. Anyway, Jody and I are going to a preview party for the Empty Bowl Project tonight (and I am a volunteer for the event tomorrow) and she has her eye on a couple of the celebrity bowls, and I am bidding for them in her stead. She has a limit, but I won't divulge that here, in case we (whoever you may be out there in blog-o-land) are pitted against one another. I will let you know how it all works out next week. So, we will be leaving the house this afternoon about 4:30, and work our way into Austin, with a few side stops here and there. The event starts at 6, so we should have plenty of time to get everything done, and arrive about 6:30.
Jody and I went into Georgetown this afternoon, and stopped at the Collector's Market, made a few changes to the stock, and then headed off to the Dairy Queen for our weekly spoiler. Stopping by the Collector's Market was really just a thinly veiled excuse for getting anywhere close to the Dairy Queen. REALLY!
When we got home, Michael came back over and we went and looked at some things that he may try to get started for us in the next week or so...running a water line out to the back pasture, and running electricity out to the pasture (for an electric fence connection) and to the feed barn and to the big barn...as long as we are running electrical cable, you might as well do it all at once. Then I went over to his grandparents house with him and visited with Pauline and Hubert and Michael's wife Abby, and of course, the main event is the baby, JACKSON. He is just six months old, but he is a really sweet and a really cute little kid. I held him for about three or four minutes (breaking my old record of child holding by about twice) and then we headed over to the house he is building across the street. It is a great place, and I know that he is proud to be able to say that he did almost all the construction by himself (with Hubert's help, too). Quite an accomplishment. They want to be in the house before Christmas, and I think they can get there. The house may not be 100% finished, but is any house ever really finished?
So, time for me to get up and start getting started to get started. Kindness, Deeds, Whirled Peas, Actions, Changes, FUN!
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