This week

It's been a busy week and it's only Wednesday.  Our mornings are packed with running errands and doing yard work, usually all before 10:30 in the morning.  Today it's supposed to be 103 and it's already 86 and it's only 9:15.  Yikes!!

So far this week...

...Peach/plum freezer jam

Made a small batch because I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out.  Not super impressed with the way that it set, but it tastes good.  I'm going to switch back to Sure-Jell instead of using the Ball instant pectin.  Just doesn't work as well.

...Showmanship practice at our local high school

3 of the lambs are ours, the rest are from 2 other local breeders.  Almost 1/2 of the students are incoming freshman, and for only having had 3 practices so far, they are doing pretty good.  Chris is critiquing each of them individually in the picture.  He runs showmanship classes and I work with them individually to fine tune bracing, hand and body placement on the student and leg placement on the lambs.

...Weeding the front yard

Our actual front yard is looking really good.  The grass is green, mums are blooming.  This is our half circle driveway.  Looks awful.  We can only weed in the morning because it's just too blasted hot to do it any other time of the day.  Slowly but surely it will all get cleaned up.

It's been a while

Ok, so it's been almost 2 weeks since I blogged last.  Sorry.  I know I have been taking pictures with an intent to blog them.  I will probably still get there.

We have been super busy lately.  Harvest will happen in about a month from now, maybe less.  We have started showmanship practices with the local high school, so that is taking up 1-2 night a week.  We have some fundraisers and functions coming up with the Ag Boosters, so that is taking up even more time.

I promise, I will get to the pictures soon, they will be a little outdated, but better late than never.

Love me some new boots!!

So a few weeks ago I posted about my recent SCORE on a giveaway that I entered.  It took about a week to get everything settled with the rep from Boot Barn through emailing back and forth.  I had to give her my first choice (black & teal) and a second choice (brown & teal), just in case my first choice wasn't available.  She was nothing but pleasant to deal with.  Props to Boot Barn for hiring quality people!  I knew I loved that company for a reason.

Anyways, in the final email she sent me she told me it was going to be 4-6 weeks before they arrived.  I was totally fine with that, after all they are free, so no complaints here!

I got an email 2 days ago saying that my boots had been shipped.  I was shocked that it happened so fast.

And look what came in the mail today!

Can you tell I'm excited?? We are going to an informal wedding tomorrow and I have the perfect shirt to match!

Thank you to Boot Barn for providing fun boots that us aggies can wear outside the barn!  Check out the Shyanne line of boots if you want some super cute ones too!!