In This Crazy Life...

Let me begin by saying I hate snakes, like deathly afraid of them, like I don't even like looking at pictures of them. So I freaked out when I opened the coop one morning to get the eggs and this snake greeted me with an egg in it's mouth. Yes I know it's not a poisonous snake and I probably should have tried to relocate it, but I was scared and it was eating my chicken eggs. I was wondering why they all of a sudden weren't really laying eggs anymore. This is why. They were getting eaten before I could collect them.     I purchased this day bed frame from Wayfair for the office. I managed to get it put together.  

My sweet god-sister graduated High School! And because she is so cute....  

I finally got chickens!! A friend gave them to me because she moved into the city limits and could not take them with her. I volunteered to take them since I've been wanting some.    This is the picture she sent of the coop. I told her I needed the coop too because I have way too many projects going to add building a coop to the list. I will need to level it and add to the run, but it's a good start. Mom and dad came up to help me move it. He had to take the egg box off along with the doors and walls of the hen house. Once most of the weight was off we used the dolly to roll it out of the gate.  My first egg! She couldn't even wait until the coop was put back together.       They have plenty of room to roam and bugs to eat.  I'm excited to see what the chicken life is all about.  

Planting the garden. Making sure my rows are straight with a little help from Indy Lee. I looks like this is the year I added the second 12x12 bed, not last year. Oops. It's hard to remember all the details of the last four years. One reason I am trying to go back and put words to all of these pictures.      Cody brought the tiller over so I didn't have to do it by hand,  

Heather and I drove to Bentonville to run the Half-Marathon. We had a great run and perfect weather. We said we would run this one again and we haven't. I had a hip issue a shortly after this and haven't gotten back to distance running. I want to at times.  

These are some quotes that really spoke to me on Pinterest. I obviously didn't crop them and can't now, I could but it would be a process and I'm not willing to do that right now. I just want to get all of these drafts published. I was going through some of Kev's old papers and found some drawings he made. I found this. I guess he never finished it but it was supposed to be a Phoenix. I finished it with this quote, the date of his death, and his initials. My plan was to get it tattooed on my side. I never went though with that plan and I probably won't. I think I may clean it up a bit and blow it up and frame it. It is still special to me, but I just don't see myself getting another tattoo. 

Introducing Indy Lee (the Lee came later in her life. It was Kev's middle name. I didn't want her. We already had two dogs and a cat. That was enough for me, but this man right here wanted a puppy. Our neighbor's dog had them and he talked me into going down there to see them one night. I may have already written about this. (Insert "I don't know" emoji). Anyways... we got one of them and let me just say four years later, she is the most ridiculously spoiled animals ever! Action shot with that tongue. She can twist and turn her body all sorts of ways and sleep. Those ears! Water bottle fun! Drinking out to he rain chains.