Looking back over this week I find...wait, still looking..........................still looking..........................wow! It has been a looooong week! I look back at all the pictures of things that happened this week and think "That was really just one week?" It seems much longer than that. A long week in which nothing, and several things, have happened. At least this week was a bit calmer than last week, I do have a few more bald spots, but at least the crazies are staying in my ears now.
"I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind...At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from ones mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one's leisure."
Oh, Dumbledore...I would love to borrow your Pensieve!
Let's talk about the weather this week. I feel I could sum it up pretty good with one picture.
Hold onto your hair ladies!
Show of hands, who is done with the rain for a while? 
Except for the few sunny spots we had this week, I believe its safe to classify this week as completely dreary, and a bit depressing. Which is perhaps why this week was so dreadfully long.
I'm a summer girl! I need my sunshine! Please don't take my sunshine away!
Lets not forget the hail storm early Friday morning! That was fun! I thought for sure our farm truck was a goner. Luckily not too much damage was done. We had some big branches down from the storm, and a lot of things got blown over by the shop (the Bunny House remained intact, only a bit soaked.)
So, rainy week, right? Rainy days call for rainy day movies! Let's go for a round of Hannah's Top 3 Rainy Day Movies!
1. Singing in the Rain (in A flat!)
Best musical EVER!
2. Julie and Julia
Hey, its a good movie ok? Makes me want to bake!
3. Harry Potter
Nuff said.
But now, let's leave the rain clouds for a while, and return to a day when there was some sun!
Lookit! I actually got in the pool this week! It was nice too. The day was over 80 degrees and it was very humid, so that helped, otherwise I'd still have been too cold.
Yes, that is a terrepene with me, he wanted a ride. I wasn't going to say no to him, little guys need to cool off too.
Baby girl also got to get in the pool for a few minutes.
She wasn't sure what to think of it. I think she liked being in the water, but the floaty bobbing up and down kinda freaked her out.
This week on the farm...
We had a few special visitors!
This is Bigfoot. A rather extra large grey squirrel who has been coming and visiting us every day. He saunters across the porch, looking in the windows, looking around to see if we've left him something special. I've always wanted a pet squirrel! Here Bigfoot, Bigfoot, Bigfoot, come let me love you!
And this is Backstrap! Or Dinner. I haven't decided yet. Come hunting season this guy and his larger male friend had better keep away! "Trespassers will be shot on sight!" They've been crossing our yard at random, this time was in the middle of the morning! So cool!
Something else that's pretty cool, Vanilla Dr.Pepper in a can! Umm YES! I'll have a whole case (but don't tell the Health page I belong to on Facebook. I'm supposed to be cutting back.)
I love this sign! I need it in my life. It is so true. I can prove it...
...Because I have a following. And this is only some of my birds.
My C.Q pullets are big girls now! They all got to start free-ranging on Monday, and I about had a coronary when I couldn't find them for a while. But they were just at the bottom of the hill exploring. Started out with ten, and if my count last night was correct (which I hope it wasn't, maybe I just over looked one) I'm down to eight. Not too bad, all in all. They should start laying end of July.
Perhaps its a good thing my computer wasn't cooperating last night so I couldn't post, because I had planned on a little section dedicated to...
...the only chick that Black Momma hatched out that lived. (Eight eggs, 4 hatched, 3 died.) But she went missing yesterday so I guess there's no point in saying anything else, other than GRRRR!!!
Meet our new additions!
This is McGonagall! This little sweetie is gonna help us take care of our mouse and mole problem. She gets to stay exclusively outdoors, because I'm allergic to cat hair and flea bites. But she is a doll, and is doing very well adjusting so far.
Meet Jack Harkness. (That is not his registered name but in keeping with our Whoven theme that's what we'll call him.) He is an American Blue and he is a sweetheart! I prefer him over both of our Doctors. (I know they aren't pets but if you gonna hang around them might as well like them!)
This is Martha Jones, also an American Blue. She came with a litter of four, they are about three weeks old I think.
Little dusty grey baby!
So, lets see. We have five mini Rex (they were supposed to be half New Zealand buuuut...) six California Blue babies, River Song (who is pregnant,) Jacky Tyler and her six, Martha and her four, The Doctor and Jack Harkness. That makes twenty-six rabbits! Don't worry, only five of them are a permanent residents.
Quick check in with Jacky, and you can see that her babies are getting big in a hurry! They are obnoxious little guys!
Let's move on to other things. One of the best things about this week was a double birthday partay! Actually a triple. My hubby and brother share a birthday and my brother-in-law's birthday is pretty close to theirs, so we had a big dinner at Mom's and there were presents and delicious food, fabulous desserts and oh so many laughs!
Big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to some of my favorite guys!!
Yummy brownies for dessert.
Because I sometimes don't think things through very well, I didn't get my own husband's gift ordered until the day of the party, so it's just now on its way. No hints though! I'll show you guys when it gets here!
Let's check in on Baby girl and see what she's been up to!
Yep. That's what I thought. Trouble!
It's crazy how, in just a very short amount of time, she's picked up so many new things! She's started trying to climb the stairs, she can make it up two all by herself. She's pulling up (and letting go!) on everything. She's started saying "Up" in context, and she is always waving or blowing kisses to someone. She's started giving REAL hugs (which are the BEST!) and tells me she's ready to take a nap by coming over and laying her head on me. Oh, and she can mimic the kitten as well as the chickens now.
Update on sleep training, can I get a round of applause? She is sleeping all night now, and 80% of the time she goes to sleep with little or no fuss, and no body's brain exploded!
(Always check your mirrors, guys!)
She's obsessed with trying to drive. Sometimes we let her, but only down the driveway.
I don't know if its good or bad, but she uses her womanly wiles to get things, and attention. Mostly from older gentlemen. For instance, on Thursday we went to the little restaurant here in town. We were the only people there at the time, so we were eating and talking and enjoying ourselves, when the owner of the place came out to wipe down some tables. She took a fancy to him immediately! She started making eyes, and waving until he finally came over and talked to her for a bit, and they flirted back and forth. Then he went back to work, and she didn't like that so she turned around in her seat and yelled "Hey!" at him several times, so he came and got her and she got to go push buttons on the cash register for a while. It was pretty cute.
(Corn cobs are YUCKY! But she kept putting it back in her mouth so maybe it was the texture she didn't like.)
Just a few quick random things.
And proof that I am an impulse buyer. Its a miniature flower pot! And it has its own dirt and seeds and everything. Do I need it? Probably not, but it was so cute! The store suckered me in and I had to buy it. Dave Ramsey would be so embarrassed of me. Haha!
Long post for a long week. (Guess what! It's pouring down rain!)
I'm pretty sure my house will be fine, but the Bunny House might wash away. Hopefully y'all are avoiding the flash floods and enjoying your indoor time! Before I go I just have four things to say nitwit, blubber, oddment, and tweak.
"Ta, Tay, Te, Toe, Too!"
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