Epic Awesomeness

After a late morning final dress fitting, my friend Jessica and I headed up hwy 65 to Bangor.  We made good time and stopped in at the Bangor Bake Shoppe and picked up some chocolate chip cookies for dessert.  We fired up the gas BBQ and grilled up some hot dogs and snacked on chips and salsa for lunch.  After we were good and full, I showed Jessica around the property.  We walked most of the five acres, the grass is getting tall and it was a little soggy from the morning dew. 

Jessica and I got a nice bon fire going in my firepit.  It turned from a baby fire into an epic amazing fire.  We got all the brush that Dad and I piled up there burned with the exception of a few long pieces that wouldn't fit and I didn't want to start the chain saw.  Then came the rains!  It wasn't too bad at first, then it started coming down! 

The clouds did break for a while (with some ominous ones coming along behind them).  We made BBQ burgers for dinner and had our cookies for dessert.  We were in for an epic stormy night!  The tarp over the trailer was flapping and one of the tie-downs snapped, rain pounded against the trailer all night long! 

I had a wonderful morning sitting on the big rock, talking to the neighbor's horses and thinking (dangerous, right?)  For breakfast we had scrambled eggs and salsa.  After just hanging out for a while we headed for Primetime Pizza in Marysville before we headed home.  And let me say, Primetime Pizza was amazing as always.

Snakes and Toads...

Well, I can say I've officially encountered a Western Rattlesnake.  Yup!  It was around two feet long and too young for a rattle.  The scariest part is that I have no idea how close my hand ever got to that snake.  I was moving the black plastic tarps we are using to control some areas of weeds and  I turned around to grab another and there it was!  That was the end of moving tarps for the day.  On a less dangerous note, I found a Western Toad.  Unfortunately I had no success in capturing it. 

We are currently in the process of renovating the trailer for me to live in while I go to school.  It is looking better, still wishing I had a barn to live in....oh well.  Dad is going to hopefully get the water heater hooked up this week, so there will finally be hot water in the closet that is called a shower.  I'm going to make an oak pull-out cutting board for the trailer to have a little more counter space.  Mom is painting of the 1970s infested wallpaper...I can't say the color is much better. 

After the wedding we will finish the pump house...hopefully no one gets hurt on that venture and I'm pretty sure that is why we are waiting until after the wedding.  It would be bad if any of us got laid up in a hospital before that major event of the year.

Next minor two projects for me are a chicken coop and a dog run.  I'm hoping to take the majority of my animals with me while I'm in school.  But like the pump house these projects have to wait until after the wedding.

Thursday we are going back up with plans of hooking up the water heater, tilling the garden, planting some sunflower and pumpkin seeds (just to see what happens), beginning the never ending task of weedwacking, and working on the road.  Ummm, that's just one day...want to take bets on how much actually gets done?