This ‘n That Saturday

Not a whole lot going on this week at all. I’ve been mostly working outside, taking advantage of our gorgeous summer this year - I only have boring things to blog about…

• I’ve been enjoying some nice bonfires…

• Cocoa is definitely over her broodiness and is back to laying eggs

• I came home one day this week to find a couple of Mama turkeys and their broods hanging around the chicken coop. I wish they weren’t so shy and had waited around until I could get my camera and take some pictures…

• I am sooo happy with my garden this year. Right now seems to be cucumber season – I’ve been picking tons of the beauties. I’ve given away over a dozen and I still have bunches…

I’ve made a bunch of bread and butter pickles and have been eating a lot of creamed cucumber slices. I was going to make some cucumber sandwiches, but when I found the cream cheese in the back of the drawer in my refrigerator was dated November 2009, I put that idea on hold until I go grocery shopping…

• I’m glad I didn’t tear out my green bean plants – they put out a ton of new flowers and I’ve been picking beans left and right. I’ve frozen a ton for the winter and hope to freeze a whole bunch more. What a difference when there aren’t any Evil Baby Bunny Rabbits eating the stuff in my garden!

• I’m trying something new – someone told me that Brussels sprouts are easy to grow… my Mom likes Brussels sprouts, so I put in some seeds in some of the bare areas I have around my strawberry plants and around my watermelon plants. We’ll see what happens…

• I don’t know why I didn’t notice earlier, but I had a pumpkin plant mixed in where I put my watermelons…

Pretty obvious, huh? They’ve pretty much filled in the bed since this picture was taken. They aren’t producing anything, but they are keeping the weeds down in the bed,so I’m happy with that.

• The inspection for the Jillmobile is due. I have an appointment to get it done this week, but who knows how far it will get. I’m having ‘Check Engine’ light issues, which are always a pain and expensive, plus my ‘Service 4-Wheel Drive’ light went on. I am not anxious to find out how much this is going to cost me and how long it’s going to take to fix. Not having a second vehicle, I have to rent a car every day my truck is in the shop

• On the brighter side of things - I’m not a huge fan of Geico, but I do enjoy some of their commercials. I like Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel and couldn’t help but laugh at these – I thought they were great!

  

And then there was this one that I couldn’t embed – it’s short and definitely funny! I’ll bet the Hillstrands never saw insurance commercials in their future when they signed on to their TV show

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

     

Socks

As I may have mentioned before, I am not a big fan of shopping.  It might even be said that I dislike despise hate shopping (except for Home Depot – LOVE Home Depot  )

Out of all the kinds of shopping that one can do, I think that clothes shopping is my least favorite.  The whole process of finding something I like and then hoping I can find it in my size… and even if they have it in my size, there is still only a 50/50 chance that it really fits.  And when it doesn’t, then you have to look some more and try on some more.  Ugh.  I’m tired just writing about it.  And even when I do find something I like and it fits, I don’t get any huge thrill out of wearing new clothes - not like getting a pile of 2 x 4’s or a new drill… now that’s fun!

But as with most rules, there are exceptions and there is an exception to my dislike of clothes shopping:  Socks.

Nothing feels so nice as putting on a brand new pair of clean, fluffy socks.

I wish I could afford to wear new socks every day.

Wordless Wednesday

Broodiness Update

For those who aren’t up to speed, I’m dealing with my first broody chicken…

Well my hopes are up.  It looks like 40 hours of solitary confinement may have done the trick for our little Cocoa.  I let her outside today and she did not head straight for the coop.  She was not all puffy and clucky.  She actually played nicely with the other Ladies all day (it was really nice seeing all five Ladies together again)    And as far as I can tell, she doesn’t have any hard feelings towards me.   And when she turned in for the night, she perched on top of a nesting box – not in one 

Now we’ll see what happens tomorrow.

Hopefully she’s given up any ideas of trying to hatch the nothing she was sitting on and she’ll start laying again this week!