ppl really eerrk me some times.

I will never understand how people really think. I mean you can help someone to the best of your abilities in every possible area you can think of that they would need help.....then once they have your trust....prove out to be just the opposite that you were hoping for...FREAKIN DUMB ASS LYING FOTHER MUCKERS. and what errks me even more is when they are considered FAMILY.! I cant stand to be lied to or decieved like that. I can handle the truth 1000 times better than a lie ANY DAY FOR ANY REASON....all I can say is I've learned my lesson here.

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So excited about tomorrow evening! I will finally get to spend some time with some family I haven't seen in awhile! Lots of yummy food....lots of activities and games...face painting for the hethians.....*sigh*....wish it was time already! 4:00 Monday here I come!
Not to mention I havent seen my youngins and Sexy Hubby in 4 days......... :( missin them too):

Holly Made it!

Holly made it back from NC with our new puppy and he is cute as he can be a big too.  But it is nice to have her home safe and sound.

Perfect vacation..

Perfect vacation is an understatement! I was Absolutely amazed at how well behaved everyone was (including the hubby) ;) *wink wink* We had a really great time . This was our first family vacation. and the kids are already planning the next one! lol. I wasnt very pleased with the great wolf tho. I mean, they are an awesome hotel, but for the price I really expected more. but Kings island made up for the small disappointment. But all in all, I was glad to be home.

Family Trip

Well we leave on our family trip in the morning.  Just going to be gone for a couple of days, I can't bring myself to leave the homestead for any longer then that.  I have managed to be able to get in a little farm stuff while on the trip.  On our way back home I am going to be stoping and looking at a MaCormick Deering #  7 mower.  The guy says that it is in great shape and pretty much field ready.  I hope so since his asking price is good if it is and I think that there maybe some room for me to talk him down just a little.  I think that the kids will really enjoy this trip.  At least I hope and I hope that I can deal with all the people good enough not to ruin the trip for the rest of the family. 

  When we get home I hope that I can get my late ass corn out since the seed company did not tell me that they were out of the seed that I wanted untill it should have been here so I am having to wait a whole nother week to be able to get it out.  But it is a 120 day max corn which will still let me have enough time to harvest.

weather broke

Well the weather has broke and we are getting back to work thank God.  Only thing though is that it went from piss pouring the rain to be freakin hot as hell.  But at least we can work just gotta make sure not to get to hot and to drink a lot of that nasty stuff the call water.

The Wonders of Nature.

Me and Mike have been doing a good bit of root digging here lately.  The woods are full of roots that can bring a few extra bucks to the house hold.  Been digging blood root, yellow root, Black Coewash, and wild yam.  We are spotting Ginseng as we dig and will be going back this fall to dig it once we are allowed to.  It is shocking but we are making about 40-60 bucks a every day that we dig.  The best part is that we are not actually gone all day we are only out for around 4 to 5 hours.  The woods this year are loaded if yam and yellow root.  Blood is abundant in a lot of places too.  The only down side is we are not seeing very much Ginseng.  Right here close to home people have just dug it to much and have really hurt the amount that is around.  Most start digging it in June and sell it illegally to people for like 40 bucks a green pound just to get money for pills and that is not letting it go to seed.  We are going to take a day and go dig an area that we figure as has been hit and see how much Ginseng is there while digging the others.  I am saving my money up and going to get a good milk cow this fall if I don't have one before then and if I have already gotten one then that is just some more money for the farm in general.  The rain is still keeping a lot of the farm work from taking place and it is starting to get to me but that's life in the country and I should be use to it by now.

A day or two is all we need..

We finally got those ditches dug for the footer to drain. Took over a month and ended up having to hire someone to help out, but with alot of man power Chris and my brother dug them, By hand. Hopefully we can get it dried out enough over the next week to finish our foundation. All we need is a day or two..I thank God for the rain, but too much rain is hurting alot of people. We haven't been able to finish the garden, Heck, We haven't even been able to START the garden! Between all the rain, and animals digging up our seed or destroying our seed pots, theres a good chance we may not have one this year.I do know that the raised garden beds are out of the question now, just don't have enough time to get it done before its too late to have out the crops. This year is gonna be a test for Chris and I. I can just feel it. Farming wise I mean. Everything has been falling into place too easily. I Knew there would be bumps in the road getting there, but I guess I was a fool to think there wouldn't be pot holes big enough that we would have to literally CLIMB out of. I just have to keep reminding myself that there could be worse things in life happening. Because God knows there could be. I am just thankful that I have Chris , my kids, and a willing brother. Wouldn't be able to make it without em.

Bad weather

This bad weather and all the rain has us pretty much at a damn stand still.  Got more going on right now and going to last till thursday night so not looking like much is going to happen in the next few days.  Need to finshe garden, get the garden finished, do some sawing, do some logging and get corn out not looking like any will be going on in the short term.  Looking like the lord thinks that we need rain so that is what we are getting.  I just hope that it dont completly dry up when it stops raining and dont rain any all summer.

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Hey guys I have updated a couple of pages here to include a new thing in the shade tree take a look please.

birthday party blues...

well, on the 24th of this month I will be 28 years young. And on the 22nd I plan on having me a lil shin-dig of a good time.Been needing to pull me one for awile anyways, Only problem is that every year for the past 12 yrs now, I have been trying to have me a good shin-dig....but something usually goes wrong and... hardly no one shows up. Kinda bothers me some. Everyone expects something from me all the time. And I dont expect much from ANYONE at any time. I have invited several 30 something ppl to this thing. I know all will not show, but I wish some of them would.I just really miss out on alot during the year due to working every weekend. I would just like to have one weekend where I could be with some of my closest family & friends that I dont see often. But I guess who ever shows, we will make it one HELL of a good time with a lil music, open fire , and some of my babys AWESOME home brew.
Happy birthday to me.

A little bad news

The person that had the horse that Holly wanted I was cutting lumber to trade for it back out on the deal today.  Not really upset with them since they need the money for the horse cause they are having a baby like any second now so I understand.  Just sucks cause Holly really wanted it and trading is most likely the only way that we was going to be able to afford it right now.  They did still want to buy the lumber that I have sawed already but not going to sell it since it can go to our house and the only reason that the deal was sweet enough for me to do in the first place was my wife wanted it.  I will do a lot more to keep her happy then I will for money.  Her being happy means it all, and well I hate money.  That is one reason we want to be homesteaders.  The less of that crap we have to have the better.

rain, rain, go away!

Come again another day! lol. It has been raining alot lately, so I havent been able to do the things I want to do . ie: finish the garden! I hope to see about a week of pure sunshine soon then the rain can come back and assist my garden in growing! :)
We've got so much to do. It is almost overwhelming at times, but I know we will get 'er done soon enough and in Gods due time. Working weekends some times puts a hold on things when I have to do them alone. But Chris is working as we speak. Sawing and filling in the footer. Looks like we are gonna need LOTs more rock.
I've got to get things more organized and scheduled out better so that I can help out more. Hoping that my new vitamins help to aid with this. so I do not always feel so crummy. anyways,

On another note, We sold two more puppies. So we only have 2 left! If you want one better jump on it cause we have one male and one female!!

Jacked up shit

The house page is jacked up half the post on it disappeared and all the pics went small and I can't change it and make it stick friggin this is why I hate the net some times

What about that....

I have been looking online just about two weeks now and done LOTS of research on vacations and vacation ideas. Well, I found something very interesting. Home- Schoolers and their parents teaching them get MAJOR DISCOUNTS in almost all Historical Museums, (Including Williamsburg VA) science and nature museums, and surrounding hotels. Aquariums are starting to give these discounts as well. I just find this .. awesome. Encouraging people to teach their kids the correct history, science, math, and geography is a must in this country. Chris posted not to long ago on schools teaching our kids fictional crap because it sounds nicer. Well crap sounds nicer than shit but it still has the same damn meaning. But, my point being, I think that Places like the Live Indian Villages in TN and VA, the Historic Williamsburg VA, Yellowstone National Park, and many other places doing this is a GOOD thing. I give them prop's for trying.

Holy Shit now they are attacking great american books

On 60 minutes tonight I saw a thing over the term nigger in the book Huckleberry Fin.  Some teachers will not say it, some schools have band the book others are buying edited versions.  Boy what a way to shit on Mark Twain, freedom of press and free speech.

They way that I was raised nigger could be good or bad.  Mostly just meant you was black.  Working like a nigger was a good thing cause God knows that slaves worked.  But on the other hand it was used to refer to the bad of any race.  The part that gets me is that this book is an a American icon a truly great piece of American lit. and they want to change it all because it may offend some one.  Well folks grow some skin while you are growing some balls and the world would be better off.

Hey guys sorry it has been awhile since I updated anything on here but just been doing so much that I have been to tired to even get online when I come in.  Anyway went to a mushroom growing workshop yesterday.  I learned a good amount and have 3 shiitake logs and like 4 golden oyster logs working and should get a couple of shrooms this fall but most will be around next year.  Gonna get some portabellas going before to long also.

I am getting a lot of feed back that people are not able to follow me right now and I am not sure why.  I will be looking into it and trying to figure out what the hell is going on. 

awesome week....

we have had an awesome week this week. Several feet of lumber have been cut, footer dug, kids started cleaning out the loose dirt, one of the pups went to their new home, and took a trip to Lexington with the kids to Chucky Cheese for their reward for doing all their chores this month. I am very happy. And am soo blessed to have such an awesome hard working husband and wonderful kids.

Tired As Hell

Well it is 12:18 and I just got off the excuvator.  The footer is dug the cellar is dug and where I but hay out for the horse is as clean as it gets without an actual dozer or hours with a shovel.  Gotta few more thing gonna hit in the morning yippy yippy.

march 12, 2011 best day ever.

Happy birthday to my darlin hubby!! He is so wonderful!! He spent today digging our foundation and even found time to dig a place for our cellar as well.! I feel like I am in a dream and if some one pinches me to wake me , I promise I will slap you! lol. I am just so happy and so grateful. I feel bad though that he has done most of the harder labor lately alone... I even feel a little guilty. Its not that I havent wanted to do it, just been a little preoccupied with other things ie: our 6 puppies.... and I'm not one to go working in the freezing rain and mud either. I HATE COLD AND WET WEATHER. Not to mention that some of those stones are as big as our children. But I know that Chris knows that if he would have asked me at any given time to help him, I would have.... without question. I want this as bad as he does. We are in this together.