What a ride

Sorry, folks, I've been MIA, I know.  Life's been pretty brutal lately and I just haven't had time to be online too much.

I pulled the jalapenos finally and dehydrated the last crop of them.  I still have onions in the ground, believe it or not!  I pulled one yesterday and it wasn't as big as my fist, but it wasn't far from it, either.  I have no idea what the carrots are doing under there.  There are some baby broccoli growing and my lettuce is still doing OK.  It's been raining all day and it's going to get close to freezing tonight so I went out and covered them up.

I know I'm going to have to call it done here pretty soon, but I'm enjoying seeing how far I can stretch the growing season here without hoops or a green house.

Sorry, forgot the picture!  lol

Where do you sew?

I've got several projects that are works in progress, so to speak.  It's hard to find the motivation to work on them regularly when I know working on them involves making sure the dining table is free of any other projects (or, say, dishes), getting the machine out of the box, setting it up, sewing for a bit - only to know I have to pack it all back up whether I'm finished or not, because, hey, people around here like to eat every now and then.

So

I've decided that for a combined b-day/Christmas present I want a sewing table/area/something.

Will you please show/tell me where you sew and what you have your machine on?  Or if you've seen something wonderful lately, I'd love a link or a brand name to look up.

Thanks!

Last hair update

OK, hubby got to see my hair today when he ran home at lunch.  He said it's different, but he likes it.

*Smart man, huh?*

Mawmaw happened to be standing there when he said it and I could see her looking at me.  Now, she's been in the same room with me about a gazillion times since I colored it and I KNOW she never noticed.

So, she loooooookkkkkkkkssssss at me then waits until hubby starts to leave the room and says:

Now, Tina, I have to say something.  I see you changed your hair.  I liked it better the old way.

I told her that that was fine, it's not her hair.  She walked out.

Then I turned to hubby and said this:

I made her a hair appt. for next week with Sheila.
Remind me afterwards to tell her she looks like a surprised poodle.

(She gets a TIGHT perm and her eyebrows colored super dark brown and every hair on her head is gray,
so her eyebrows are QUITE noticable.)

The truth about water

OK, short diversion with info. just so you know the back story.

I teach the Truth and Training section of the Awana program at our church.  What you really need to know about this is that I have a room of kids that range from the third grade to the sixth grade.  So, kids that are roughly 8-12 years old.

We have a portion where we play games in the gym (read that as we burn off energy so they can then sit still and study for a while....lol) and as we are leaving gym I always remind them that THIS is your time to get a drink and go to the restroom, so take advantage of it because I know you just played hard and need it.

Last night another lady brought snacks for the kids and she brought in a big pitcher of ice water for them to  drink.

One boy asked me if he could go get a drink at the water fountain.

One, you had the chance to do that earlier and, two, you're about to get some water in 5 minutes with snack.

He told me he didn't like "THAT" water, he only likes water from water fountains because it's filtered and tastes better.

I told him that, no, it's not.  It's cooled, if needed, but otherwise it's the same water that comes out of the faucet in the kitchen.

He really didn't believe me.

I asked the rest of the kids and only a few stated it was 'regular' water.

FIELD TRIP!  (OK, really, we just went back to the gym, but work with me here.)
Stopped at the supply closet and grabbed a small tool box and then we went to the water fountains.

Ours are very similar to these, but older in styling.
http://www.drinkingfountaindoctor.com/elkay-ezstl8c-water-cooler-refrigerated-drinking-fountain

So, I showed them all where the water line for the fountain goes to the wall and attaches to the same water supply that the rest of the water goes through.  Then we popped off the side of the fountain and showed them the cooling parts.  I asked them to find the filter.

Right, can't find what's not there.

We put the side back on and went back to our room and talked about it some more, about how we often think things are true because we've heard it somewhere, but just a bit of investigating can help you find out for sure.  Great group of kids and I'm glad it came up.

That boy?  The one who doesn't like "THAT" water?  He drank two glasses with a big ole smile on his face!

Makes me wonder.....

Either this hair color change ISN'T as drastic as I think it is

or

I have the most unobservant children in the world!




So far no comment from any of the three kids.
Will see if it gets by hubby unnoticed later tonight.

Tina's Truth

The phone will not ring all day.

Unless you are putting dye in your hair, then it will ring twice in the few minutes that you need to complete that task!




I went from a medium brown with highlights to solid dark brown, in case you are wondering.  Will report back on what the older kids and hubby say later.  So far youngest doesn't seem to care (or notice??) one whit....lol.

Found him!

Three of our buddies got bucks in the last week in a half.  Two ten points and an eleven point.  The eleven had an interesting story.  Another hunter (not one of 'the guys') called range control to report he'd hit a big buck but couldn't find it and needed some help.  Hubby and several of the guys went to help him look.

When they showed up he was telling them how there was 'great blood' and he thought it would be an easy trail, but it was fast getting dark, so he thought it best to call in help.

Well, to make the story shorter, he was the ONLY ONE that thought it was a good trial.  Hubby said there were a lot of white hairs where the initial shot was.  There shouldn't be, in case you didn't know.  White hairs on are from the belly or underside of the legs, both of which indicate you did not get a good shot.  They were worried that there was a gut shot deer out there, which no one wants, to they did their best to track it but hubby said they were just finding specks of blood and they were very far apart.

After literally two hours, the guy finally mentions that it was odd because after he shot him, the deer LIMPED off.

Yes, he shot it in the leg, apparently.  They looked some more but eventually the blood droplets stopped.  Hubby and the guys reported to range control that the guy, despite what he said, made a bad shot, they all figured he hit it in the leg and, once again, they all felt there should be some sort of bow qualification shooting required before you just let people out there to hunt to avoid stuff like this because now there's a big wounded buck out there potentially suffering, which ticks all hunters off.

So.....a full week goes by.

We have one buddy who only shoots a buck if it's a big, mature buck.  He won't shoot 6s or 8s, he feels they  still have growing to do.

Well, he called.  He had a big buck on the ground.

If he says it's a big buck, I believe him, because he's very particular about this issue.

The brought it to the house because the taxidermist is a friend and was on his way to our house to cape it out for him for mounting.

Beautiful deer, big bodied and by his ground down teeth we knew he was quite old.

As the taxidermist (also a friend) is skinning him in the lighted garage, several of us see, at the same time, that he's got a mark on his front to inside of his left side front leg.  Everything stops so everyone can look.  It's not a mark, it's not dried blood from the drag.....it's a scab/forming scar/wound.

That idiot that made the bad shot?  Well, our buddy found his deer!


(Side note:  The last three deer that have been skinned/cut up here have had MASSIVE amounts of fat on them.  Think we're in for a hard winter, folks.)