End of Summer Update

What a summer it has been!

I knew it had been quite a summer, but looking back through photo’s to post really brought home just what a summer it has REALLY been!

Lets start with first things first.

I am going to be a GrannyMa.

Yes, you heard that right, a GrannyMa.

To a real live baby, not a sheep or a pig or a donkey baby, a real live person baby!

Wendy has been very busy this summer making a baby and she should be done sometime around the end of February.

Can you even believe that my twenty-seven year old baby is having a baby... I know, I can’t either!

So with the biggest news out of the way we can move on to the other stuff.

Maddy came for her summer visit the last week of June and it is AMAZING to me how much she grows each year. Six see’s her throughout the year, but I only see her when she’s here for her summer visits so the change is DRASTIC. 

Seis and I have been together since the kids were two years old so I have obviously seen a lot of change in Matilda but this year pretty much knocked me on my money maker. 

Seriously amazing.

As soon as she got here we got busy with all the usual stuff.

Swimming...

 crafts

 and cooking. 

But the biggest thing for Maddy this summer was Bruno.

Wyatt aquired a few parakeets that he is nutso about and Maddy was really into how into Wyatt was over his bird and she developed quite an interest in  birds too only her interest leaned towards cockatiels so before you know it Bruno came to be Maddys new best feathered friend ♥

Bruno was a little hand trained when he came to us and that made Wyatt a little more nutso, so it wasn’t long before he had his parakeets all hand tamed and since then has become known as the Birdboy of Beavercreek. 

I can tell you all about the visions I have of him living upstairs with thirty five hundred birds drinking MiO and eating donuts when he’s thirty.

Our shoer Randy took a big flake on us and all of his other clients this summer and fell off the face of the earth.

It turned out to be the best thing ever though because we got Butch the new shoer who is now the new neighbor and we LOVE him. You know I love him because we cleaned out and fixed up the little house for him and we had pretty much agreed to let the little house fall to pieces around all the crap that was being stored in it because the last people we rented to turned out to be one f’d up mess away from a reality show.

But then came Butch and he changed our minds the minute he asked us if anyone lived in that little house next door.

He moved in two weeks later.

This part is very hard to say and I’m only going to say it once and then we’re not going to talk about it anymore.

There was an accident in the driveway and Butch’s brother did not see Pepper and of course since Pepper was blind he did not see Butch’s brother and that's all I can say about that.

Rest in peace beautiful Pepper bird.

We sold of all of last years sheep except Belle and Judy and found a new little brown ram Gary.

Gary is great although it seems he has some kind of magical powers as we discovered him on the barn roof late one night.

What's up with that?

We sold Molly to a home for young women with special needs and they LOVE her!

They will use her as a "therapy mule" and she will be ridden and worked with daily and really that's what it's all about right, having a special purpose.

This is Molly the special purpose mule the day she started her new job.

After Molly left I talked VI into to getting llamas again.

We talked to enough people to be convinced that we don't have the "M" worm that is fatal to llamas because there are a gagillion llamas that live around here.

Meet Tony and Dolly, aka The Llamas.

I super love The Llamas.

We adopted six Sepastopol geese.

Fluffy Butts.

But Lucy had problems with her legs and couldn't walk.

So she slept in the dog crate on the porch and would come inside a few times a day for "hydro therapy" in the bathtub and hang out and watch T.V with us.

Within a week or so she was good as a brand new goose and back out with the others.

Lady Bird and Lyndon had two healthy ugly babies!

A boy and a girl.

They have their feathers now and are almost ready to leave the nest.

Wyatt and Maddy had to help pull tansy ragwort weed in the pasture.

Maddy learned to crochet and made baby booties and a baby hat for her Aunt.

And we got a new peacock Blu.

I think that's all, but I know that it isn't but for now it's all I can think of.

OH!

I'm having the worlds biggest casserole swap!

So far there are only three entries.

Post your recipes here in a comment, on facebook in discussions or email them to me.

I will choose a recipe at random at the end of the month and the winner will get a brand new thirty year old Sears and Robucks rag rug made out of BRAND NEW thirty year old sheets sent to me by Megryansmom and some soap and a candle too!!!

In October I'll make a special section of the blog devoted just to casseroles.

Chicken casseroles, beef casseroles, vegatable casseroles, rice casseroles, noodle casseroles, hot casseroles, cold casseroles, dessert casseroles, fruit casseroles, NOTHING but casseroles, so hurry up and get your casserole recipe in!

Peas.