Well, There Goes JUNE!

Well, I'm a horrible blogger. OH WELL! I never get around to actually writing, but here I am :)

These past few weeks have been busy, and it's only going to get worse! (which can be better) :)

Most of this is old news...but whatevs :) We can pretend it just happened!

1. We either have to get rid of Lenny (our llama) ..or castrate him. Yeah. Not cool. Not so little Lenny has a love of mounting people (generally me) when they're out in the field. Well long story short...and little girl came over, and was out in the field with Lenny, when he decided to take action...mounting her and knocking her down. He then proceeded to stomp on her. NOT COOL, LENNY! NOT COOL. So...as a result..Lenny is either losing his home...or losing his YOU KNOW WHAT!

2. MY SEMEN ROUTE ENDED!!! (Sorry, it may appear as though I'm yelling at you...I'm actually just really excited) :) Although it was easy work, I won't miss driving 4-5 hours a day, and putting a ton of miles on my car!  In conclusion to this special job that I had, I calculated that I drove over 4,129 miles, spent around 100 hours driving, and delivered well over $600,000 worth of horse semen! Betcha can't say you've done the same! :) I must say though, I have enjoyed the reactions I get from people when they ask me what I'm doing this summer! It's a great conversation starter! :)

3. Sooo...before the semen duties came to a close, I had an accident incident. I'm driving along, approaching Leo... probably going around 50 ish, when low and behold..a tree FALLS OVER in the road. RIGHT in front of me. I slammed on my breaks, and swerved, but still hit some of the tree (mostly branches). The cop said I did a great job, because if I would have stayed in my lane, I would have hit the whole trunk of the tree. (GO ME!) The cop ALSO got a good laugh when he found out that I was driving to go pick up horse semen.  This was right after he asked me how old I was...as he proceeded to say "I couldn't tell if you were 17 or 25" Sweet...thanks. But have no fear! My car was just scratched, and one of my front lights was popped out! (Ernie is all fixed up now, and looking better than ever.)

4. Went biking with my parents on Sunday afternoon. I thought it was a good idea to bust out the tandem, since we just got it fixed! Well..dad also just got his bike fixed, so he was eager to try his out! Soooo..I ended up riding with my mom. Guess who did all the pedaling? Yup. Me. Guess who's never riding with Judy again? Yup. Me. The ride was bad enough already, because the guy that "fixed" the bike, put 2 different sized tires on in, resulting in a constant wobble while riding. Then we had the "backseat" driver who would yell at me every time I took a hand off the handlebars. Needless to say, it was a very entertaining ride, and a great day for family bonding :)

Other fun facts:

--June 24th my Grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, and on the same day, my sister and brother-in-law celebrated their 5th wedding anniversary!

JULY PLANS--
*Lake, Lake & Lake--2nd-4th
*Texas--5th-10th
*Cedar Point--11th
*Boys & Girls Club (amazing race/farm tour)--12th
*Warsaw for Andrew && Johanna's wedding festivities--14th-17th
*MY BIRRRFDAY!--18th
*Laura's due date--21st
*Laura's & Ryan's B-days--22nd, 24th
*FAIR--22nd-30th

YAY! So many exciting things happening in the month of July...so if you wonder what I'm doing (which I'm sure you won't be)..there you have it! :)

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July!

#prayforaustinhatch

Enjoying the Outdoors!

It was an awesome, but CRAZY busy weekend.

Friday I had my semen route till about 6, went straight to Dominique's open house to help with that, went straight from there to Lady's night in at church, and from there headed over to house-sit. (Meanwhile, missing the State Holstein Show Supper.) :( Evidently I left LNI too early at church though, and missed Kelly KURTZ killing a bat in the basement. (another disappointment..) Ha!

Saturday I got up, and tended to my house-sitting duties (taking care of the dogs, and chickens.) I fed the inside dog, the outside dogs, and then headed out for the chickens. I fed, watered them, and collected the eggs. I was in a hurry to get to the state show, so I put the eggs in the fridge without washing them first. I headed out to the State Show with mi madre until duty called and semen once again had to be delivered. (on the bright side...I only have a few weeks left of delivering!)

Sorry James....HAD TO :)

I got back to the house, and after relaxing a bit, decided I would wash the eggs that I put in the fridge. (I collected about 15 that morning.) I'm washing away, and all of the sudden I see an X written on a shell. Then all of the sudden I see a name written on another, and another X, and another name. CRAP. They were trying to hatch a few of the eggs.....and I ABORTED THE BABY CHICKS!!! hahahaha I mean minus the fact that they were just in the fridge all day...it's really no biggie.

Saturday night, Rachel and Lauren (roommate reunion!) came and stayed with me. (It's scary being alone!!) We hung out, went to bed...and got up for church. (Oh wait, that was just me...they slept in :) haha. We headed to the lake for an awesome day (minus being a little chilly..) and Rachel had her first jet ski ride!! I also had my first time of getting thrown off a jet ski...and I'm still suffering from whiplash! (As I was bragging about Nicole being such a fun and safe driver!) HA!

 Sunday night I had an awesome time hanging out with my Cholo :) Summer just isn't the same without her!

Monday (I know it's not the weekend anymore...but I'll just add it on...:) I mowed (don't ask me how that went...) and delivered on my route. As soon as I got home, I ate, and headed to Hilltop to bike with Megan, Michelle, and Kelly. We ended up biking around 25 miles--to go to the Chief for ice cream! (Kelly didn't inform me ahead of time where we were biking to....) It was a great time, and strangely enough the only thing that hurts from the ride is my shoulders and neck. I'm an odd duck.

June is almost halfway over...and I have NO idea where it went! Time flys when you're having fun :)

Memorial Day Weekend. (I know...I'm a little late.)

Well for not wanting to have a legitimate job this summer, I sure am staying busy!

Memorial Day weekend...we had a garage sale. These are always my favorite, because I love seeing what people buy (of my junk, and treasures.) I think that my favorite of the weekend was the "bless her heart" lady that stopped by on the last day. She saw a tin in our "free" pile that she just HAD to have. 1st of all...it was a popcorn tin..nothing to be too excited about, but ohhh she was just so excited! I asked if she'd like me to hold it at the table for her while she shopped around, and she agreed. She came across an old watch of mine that was marked 50 cents. She asked if I would take 25 cents for it..(which I think is the dumbest thing, because it's already cheap as it is...but WHATEVER! HA!) Anyway, I agreed, and then she informed me that she would have to bike home to get a quarter. Well trust me...my stupid pink watch was NOT worth biking for...so I gave it to her. Meanwhile, she forgot her tin was sitting by the table, and she left. I felt horrible...because I knew how much she wanted her tin! (You had to be there to understand.) We were packing up, because it was the end of the day...and we debated what to do with it. We figured there was no way that she would bike back in the heat for a free popcorn tin. (Then again, she was willing to bike home for a quarter...) Nevertheless, we loaded up our stuff remaining from the garage sale...and donated it to the Depot. Low and behold.....who do you think comes knocking at my sisters door the next afternoon? Yup. You guessed it. She wondered if we still had her tin. It still breaks my heart knowing that she didn't get it. However, she wanted to make sure we "didn't lose any sleep over it..." and I assure you...we didn't. :)

Also, over the same weekend, we lost  about 1/2 of our barn roof in the storm! Fortunately no one was hurt--as one of our Amish workers was in the barn when it happened. He took cover under the tractor, and most likely had brown shorts after it was all said and done. I spent my Sunday night helping clean up, and patching up the silage bags...but the roof is now fixed! Thanks to the great help we had from neighbors and other workers.

I know I'm a little behind on posting, especially since this all happened about 2 weeks ago...but delivering semen has just really kept me busy! That, and laying by the pool. :)

Happy early weekend to all, and to all a good night!