Maybe Spring isn't here after all
A few days ago I wrote a really nice post then as I was getting ready to publish it tBlog ate it... honest it did!
So I will try a lame attempt to recreate it, except I have one small issue. In the post that got eaten I was sure Spring was finally here. On Tuesday, March 13th the temperature went up to 65 degrees, it was clear and sunny and just beautiful outside. Another one of the cows had a calf last week, and a baby goat was born on Wednesday, the chickens are starting to lay eggs again. And even though it was cloudy and dreary outside it was warm, 54 degrees, so I was starting to be convinced that spring is here. I guess jinx things by thinking like that.
Wednesday night we had rain and thunder storms all night, and by 5:30 a.m. Thursday there were roadways in the area that were under water so they had to be closed. By 7:30 a.m. the rain changed to sleet, then by 9 a.m. the sleep changed to snow. The water did not stop raising until about 6 p.m. By then there was one way into and out of our town, all the main and most of the secondary roads had been closed off completely. Most of the towns in the area were like this.
The water came right up to the end and back of the barn but didn't get in the barn. This is the closest it has come to the barn in the 7 years I've lived here.
By yesterday morning the water level had gone down about a foot from the night before, thank God. We got about 8 to 10 inches of snow during the day and another 4 to 5 inches overnight. Thankfully the temperature has dropped down (17 degrees this morning), so that it has stopped the water from rising, but by the middle of the week the temps are to be back up so we will probably get flooding all over again.
Good Morning!
I've been awake since 4:00 a.m. but have not gotten anything done... unless drinking coffee and surfing the net count as getting something done!
It is 7:20 now and the sun is just barely starting to come up, the sky has no clouds in it and the temperature outdoors is 15 degrees. The forecast says that we are to have a high temp. of 52 today, but we'll have to wait and seen.
I just noticed that the geese and duck are sitting out in the yard under the bird feeder in apple tree... they chose not to go into the barn last night before dark and got shut outside for the night. I think they are waiting to see if the little song birds drop any of their breakfast.
Speaking of breadfast... I need to make myself something to eat too. I also need to get the clothes out of the washer and put them in the dryer and get some more dirty clothes into the washer. I worked all weekend and didn't do the laundry as I usually do over the weekend. The only things I washed were SO's coveralls, coat, and sweatshirts that he brought home from the drilling rig on Friday. I didn't even get any of his other work clothes washed... good thing he has like 10 sets of everything 
I gotta go... the dogs are bugging me to go outside.
where does all the pain come from?
Over 5000
Another one gone
Where did the weekend go? I went in to work for a few hours today... which upset the SO because I told him I didn't punch the time clock. I know, I know I shouldn't do that, but I do. SO got a bit testy about it but got over it (or at least quit yiping about it) after I cooked breakfast. LOL... what is it they say, " the way to a man's heart is through his stomach"?
We had two meetings to attend tonight, and BM was suppose to pick the kids up at 4 pm so we could attend both meetings and of course she was last ... again.
We were late to the first meeting then had to leave early to get to the second one on time. During the second, I was getting hungry and was wondering what I could make for dinner real quick when we got home... I hadn't eaten since breakfast. Well after the meeting was over they brought in pizza and wings for everyone..... :-)
Seems like just a few hours ago that I got out of bed... so how can the day ( or both saturday and sunday) be gone already? I think someone changed the clock 
Finally Home
I worked 10 hours today... no, not by choice! I had to do inventory today so that put me behind, and I still was not done so I'll go in tomorrow and finish. It has been a couple of years since Ive had to do the inventory... I don't miss that at all. The manager took this weekend off so that is why I had to do it. I guess I shouldn't complain, because this is the first time since she took over that I've had to do inventory.
*T* had already fed the boys dinner when I got home. That was nice, I thought I'd have to come home and make dinner too. See sometimes he does good things and doesn't even know it :-) He just put them in bed, so the rest of the night should be peaceful. Not it wasn't before... *T* and I played a game on the computer with the boys right after I got home from work, then they had their baths and played for a while before bedtime .... no ornery little tempers at all today :-D They go home tomorrow... :-( I wish we had them more, especially on weekends like this one when I have to work .... I don't get to see them much at all.
I've returned
We survived!!!
After twelve and a half years a friend of mine, from High School just called me and wants to come visit. I have only seen here a total of maybe 4 times (at most) since the day we graduated. Now all of the sudden she calls me, out of the blue, and wants to come see me. Okay, not a problem, but I really am not sure about this, because not only does she want the friend that she is living with now to bring her to my house this coming Saturday she says that she will be spending the night and I can take her home the next day .... I have no problem with taking her home, but why can't I take her home that same night? The more I think about this plan I don't like it. She never asked if she could stay, she just said she would be staying. Something about this is NOT right. I could see it if she lived hours away but she doesn't its maybe a 30 to 40 minute drive from my house. Maybe I'm just freaking out for nothing. But just have a feeling and I don't like it.
So now what should I do?
The question of the day
I just got asked THE question... When "T"'s name came up during a phone conversation with my friend "AE" this morning he asked me "What do you call him? Do you call him your boyfriend, acquaintance, friend, lover,..... Or...???"
My answer to this question should have been, "T"... "After all that is his name, so why would I call him anything other then that?" Okay, I know that would have been my smart ass answer to that type of question. Instead I just said "Well....... (long pause).... I'm not sure yet".
Lets face it after one date, several meetings in town, a few phone calls, and another date planned up for tomorrow evening .... What would you call him? Come on people, be honest, I can't technically call him a boyfriend can I... Or can I?
And why does everything have to have a label anyway? Can't something just be what it is, what ever that may be?
What is your opinion on how I should answer this question?
Good Morning
Why was I out of bed, showered and dressed with coffee sitting in front of my by 5:30 this morning? That is a very good question. I'm not even this awake and ready for the day on days that I have to be to work at 6 a.m. Today is my day off and I have an appointment with the eye doctor this afternoon, but other than that I really don't have a lot to do. Well... there are about a million and one things that I SHOULD be doing but I don't want to. For now I'm going to go turn on the TV and see what has happened in the world overnight. I know I could look it up on the net but I am feeling lazy this morning and don't want to even make the effort to search.
Have a good day everyone!
Here I sit...
Wow...
We are Finally Getting the rain
Rodeo Day
Why Me?
Why am I the one he calls late at night?
Why am I the one the one he can talk to for hours and still not run out of things to say.
Why am I the one who will listen and talk to him for hours on end and enjoy the conversations.
Why am I the one he invites out for drinks ... or for a late night drive?
What did I do in the first place that made him think that he should call me? Was it something I said or did? .. or something I didn't do?
Was it a look that he misread?
What did I do?
Don't get me wrong I have always liked and respected this man a lot. It's not that I wouldn't have fun on a late night drive or have fun if we went out for drinks ... the cold hard truth is ... I'm having a very hard time dealing with the fact that the very same man that is asking me to do these things is a very well known man in our community ...... A VERY MARRIED man of our community to be exact! And I once even defended him against comments made by a co-worker of mine that he cheats on his wife! I have known this man my whole life and NEVER thought he had it in him.... I am just so shocked, it is beyond belief. Am I that blind or has this behavior just started?
I can't even tell for sure when the calls actually changed from "farm related" business to "just wondered .....". He if a farmer and I have called him on different occasions to ask for help with things here and also for hay for the animals. The first actual Red Flag that I got was this past Monday night when he called me at 10 pm and didn't seem to want anything related to farming and didn't even seem interested in talking about it when I said " I assume that you called because of ..." Somehow he turned the conversation into talking about going out to the bar. When I told him that I don't do that anymore he started asking why and told me I'm too young to not be having fun. Then somehow the subject of him buying me a drink came into play and told him that he could buy me a drink the next time he sees me out at the bar... in my mind I"m thinking "i rarely go out so what are the chances of me seeing him there anyway. Even when I used to go out every weekend I rarely saw him out"... He then started asking "We are going to do this right?" "When".
Now remember.... he has been a family friend my whole life and I have NEVER had any reason to think that he would ask me or anyone else out for anything but a friendly social drink... "among family" sort of thing. So at that point I still wasn't thinking too much about it, until at the end of the conversation I said I had to go and he said "Well now that you have my cell number you can leave me a message anytime."
HELLO!..... Those words were like sirens going off! I have known his home phone number by heart probably since grade school when I was in his sons class. So why all of the sudden is he thinking that I need to call him for anything that I can't leave a message with his wife or on his home answering service?
I know I am very trusting ... but I honestly thought our community still had at least one true gentleman left...... I GUESS I WAS WRONG :-(
Farm life is sometimes quite disgusting!
This $th of July didn't turn out the way I had planned it!
Saturday night I worked until 8pm and I was planning on meeting a friend and her daughter here in town to watch the fireworks, but just before I left work I got a massive headache so I just came home instead of going to watch the fire works. About ten minutes after I got home my mother came in the door and asked me if I could help her... one of the lambs had fly eggs in its wool. I really didn't feel like I was going to be much help because by this time my head hurt so bad. I rarely get headaches but when I do .. look out!
Good Morning!
Hopefully you are all having a Happy and Safe July 4th Weekend!
I just returned home from delivering a baby goat to the one of the local 4H groups. The leader called me yesterday to ask if they could borrow a baby goat for the parade today. I took one of the baby pygmies. He wasn't very happy about getting taken away from the rest of the herd this morning, though I'm not sure he understood what I was saying, much less believed me, I tried to reassure him he'd be back home before lunch time.
Everything else here on the farm is quiet this morning. The Aussie made his rounds to see if there were any groundhogs out that he could chase, but when he didn't find any he came back in the house and is now laying on the floor by my feet sleeping. The other dog is in "her" chair in the other room watching TV... what a life! The cattle are leisurely milling in the barnyard ... I guess they are enjoying these cooler temperatures, 60F so far today.. beats the near 95F that we had a few days ago. I noticed that one of my hens has decided to sett on her nest of eggs... so maybe I'll end up with a few baby chicks this year. Earlier this spring one of the other chickens sat on a clutch of eggs, but none of the eggs hatched. So we'll see what happens this time. The bottle fed piglet is getting used to the idea that he has to live in the barn with the other animals, instead of in the house with me, but he just can't get used to the idea that not all pigs get their tummies rubbed on command... I fear he will never be a "normal" hog...LOL!
I received more info about the Food Matrix Committee, and they are having another meeting this week. One of the topics of the meeting will be the Incubator Kitchen concept that we are currently working to develop within our community. This would be a commercial kitchen open to food producers within our community at large to bring their ideas and ingredients to an “Up to Code” environment, with assistance from professional chef’s available, where you would be able to create and market your product through a retail store in conjunction with the Kitchen. I am very interested in this Kitchen because I for one would never be able to get a certified kitchen in my home, because I have animals in the house (the health inspector would not overlook a pig in the kitchen LOL). This group is in it's beginning stages so it will be exciting to watch it progress and help area craftsmen start selling their products.
I have to go get ready for work.. yes, I have to work all weekend. I do have Monday off though and that is the day my family is having a picnic, so that works out well.
Have a good day :-)
I'm Back...
I"m back from the land of the unknown... meaning I have know idea where I've been or what I've been doing that has prevented me from writing. Let's see when was the last time I wrote ... Oh yes, I remember now...
First I want to say that Little *Rachael* continues to do well, and has competed 6 rounds of chemo. It is almost time for her to go to Philly for her last big dose of chemo and her stem cell transplant.
Another great accomplishment here is the siding on my house it FINISHED :-D I'm so happy with the way it looks. There for a while during the early stages of the projects I was worried that things were not going to turn out the way I wanted. Now I know why Ty Pennington sends the homeowners away on vacation while is working [ to keep them out of his way ;-) ], In the end it all worked out and looks GEAT! The only problem now is, because the outside looks like a brand new home it makes the inside look that much older... or at least I think so. But what do you expect from a one hundred and fifty year old farm house?
On April 25th me beloved Great Dane, Dayna, passed away. I got her six years ago, when she was three and a half months old. Since her passing my home feels like empty, even though I have two other dogs. While living in this house I have never been without her, she moved into this house with me and at the time I had no other dogs, so I think that is why it feels so different.
On May 27th my maternal Grandmother passed away. I never really had a grandmother/granddaughter relationship with my Grandma and I always felt that when she passed I'd have a guilty feeling because I had never gotten to know her. I was with her for the last two days before she passed and I was also with her at the time of her passing. I don't know what it is about being with her at that time, and witnessing the transition from this world to the next, but I am totally at peace with her passing and the fact that I had never knew her better. I feel that I knew of Gramma what I was supposed to know. Sometimes there are circumstances in our lives that prevent us from doing what we think we "should" do, and we sometimes regret not going ahead and doing what ever it was that we thought we should have done. but in my case [ I know a lot of people would think it terrible that I never knew my Grandmother as such, but those people do not know the chain of events that lead up to the reason our family is not close ] I am certain I was supposed to be with Gramma when she passed into the next world. Me being there actually help me as well. I feel, had I not been there to say goodbye I would have forever felt guilty.
Gosh I hate when I get so far behind on this blog ... It takes so much time and effort to remember everything that I need to catch up on ;-) So I'm going to close this for now and come back later, after I've had a chance to think of something else to write..... Hopefully it will be something brilliant ... but don't count on it.
Update on my niece
Spring ... Is that You?
I think spring is finally coming. The temperature this morning is at 37* and it is sprinkling, not really raining but just a light mist in the air. I'm not really liking the mud that comes with spring but it is definitely better then the 4 inches of snow we received last Wednesday morning. That was awful.
Coming in like a lion
Is Spring coming any time soon?
Oh I just can't wait til warm weather now. I GOT MY NEW SIDING :-D
I ordered the siding for the house on Wednesday the 23rd and they said that they should be able to deliver it within a week, if that would be okay and not too late. Of course it wasn't too late I figured it would take longer because I didn't think they would have it in stock. When I got home from work on Thursday the 24th (the very next day) all the siding, J-Channels and Corners were neatly stacked in my garage. OMG.... I was SO excited! I knew that it would be here soon but not THAT soon. The only thing that was missing was the insulation and nails, but they were delivered the following day (Friday the 25th). So now we are all set except for a little warmth. Well I know we could start now, but it would be a little more comfortable to work in a bit warmer weather, since the highs for the day have been like 32*F lately.
I decided to go with Pebblestone Clay in the Brentwood series, for the color of my house. I'm still not sure what color trim I'll use. I am thinking maybe a dark Green (hunter or spruce) or maybe a Burgundy or maroon... or a combination of both... like I said I'm still not sure.
I have been looking at other people's houses with those color combinations and really like them but just can't imagine MY house any color but dark grey, the color it has been for decades. I just can't imagine this house any other color. But you have to remember that I was raised in the house across the road from this one and this house has never been any other color. I'm not even sure that it's former owner and his parents ever saw it any other color. In a way it is sad to change it. I have a hard time with change, especially if it takes away from something's original look, and this definitely will, but I know I will LOVE it when done and wish I'd done it yrs ago.
Maybe once the outside is done it will be easier for me to redo the inside. As it is it still looks like "Ernie and Fern's house". Ernie and Fern were the older couple that owned the house when I was a child and they were like grandparents to me and my siblings, so I think that is one reason it is hard for me to change a lot of things about the house, because I have a lot of memories here. If I had moved into a house that I knew little about it's previous owners it would be different. I'm hoping with the outside being something I want and something I chose then it will be easier for me to go ahead and change some of these other things that I would like to change in the house without feeling so guilty. I am terribly sentimental .. can you tell?
Cold and Windy
It is cold and windy here in Northern Pennsylvania today. The temperature is 25*F and the wind is blowing at 10 to 15 mph so it feels like about 15*F outside.
I am definately ready for Spring. Okay maybe not, because warmer weather means the grass will start growing again and that will need mowed... ggrrrrrrr. LOL..... Honest I am USUALLY a happy person :-) But this winter just seems like it has dragged on forever.
I'm in the beginning stages of planning to put new vinyl siding on my house so that has been kind of fun. I just can't deside what color I want, I like too many color combinations..... anyone have any suggestions? I think I'm going to go with a neutral color like beige or tan, that way most any color trim will match.
Today is one of those days where the dogs just can't decide where they want to be. I let them out then a few minutes later they want back in, and vice versa. They are so bored it isn't funny, but it is too cold for them to want to be outdoors for any length of time. Other then the dogs not knowing what they want to do, everything is pretty calm here at Seldom Seen Acres. No more new babies of any kind yet, which is a blessing because it has been so cold the poor little tykes would freeze.
Well, I'm off to look for some websites to help me choose a color for my house.
Hope you all have a good day, and Thanks for stopping in to check out my Bolg. :-)
