The Life I Love

Wow, where do I start.  I have been wanting to put another post of for several days, but have been so busy living my life, I haven't had a chance to sit down and write about it. 

I have still been going to work everyday, but for a change, it seems that there is much more to life now than just going to work.  Maybe it is the longer days, but I get so much done at night now, I finally don't feel like a slave to my 9-5 job.  Don't get me wrong, given the chance I would give it up in a heart beat to be at home all the time, but that chance hasn't come along yet, hehehe.

So, between more chickens being brought into the family, a Chook Coup renovation, dinner with my wonderful new friends, veggie garden planting, laundry dried on the clothesline, my birthday, egg incubating, fighting off a nasty sinus infection and many other little tasks, my life is feeling pretty full these days.  So, this post will be less writing and more pictures to illustrate my life right now. 

I hope you enjoy seeing this pictures because I am most absolutely enjoying the life that these pictures represent.  Tomorrow I hope to write some more and of course show more pictures.  Enjoy and have a super night or day (if you are one of my new Australian buddies). 

XX,

Debbie

 Trevor and Evan feeding the girls some spinach from the garden.

Every year we have a pair of Robins who come and make a nest at our Arbor.  This year, we have two very brave Robins who made a nest in the top of the umbrella on the table where we eat, on the deck.  Trevor placed a bunch of nest building supplies on the railing of the deck so they wouldn't have as far to go to find what they needed.  Such a sweetie.

Maxwell and his ladies love it when the door is open and the TV or radio is on.  They come right up to the door to get a better listen.

Robby decided if we were going to have babies, there needed to be some renovations on the coup.  So....he took down the right side of the chicken yard and built new walls and put up siding.  He put two rectangular vent windows on the front and the back and added a special area inside where the peeps can go once they are old enough to go outside but still too young to fight off  the older gals and Randy Rooster Maxwell.  He is just the best man in the whole wide world.  I really don't know what I ever did to deserve him, but I am sure glad I did it:)

The chooks sure do like the fresh dirt that was put around the foundation of the new addition.  Plenty of worms for them to scratch for.

The strawberries are really coming on. Very soon they will be turning a beautiful, juicy red and then it is pickin time:) Can't wait!!!!!

The veggie gardens are starting to do well too.  Lot's of lettuce and spinach plus the onions are doing really well and the little spring onions are coming along also.  New squash and zucchini plants are starting to come up, as are cucumber plants, corn and potatoes.  

Dragonflies are one of my favorite insects.  I just love how they dart around and then come set next to me while I weed the garden.

There are a few things that shout out country living to me.  They include, laundry hanging out to dry.

A pickup truck parked where ever you need it to be parked, to unload the bed.

A big ole Deere parked just where you need it to tear down, build up and dump dirt just where you want it.

Another robin nest built in one of our outbuildings on top of my hoe I use in the garden.  Guess I will be doing all my weeding by hand until the babies hatch and fly the coup.

Our usual robins nest in the corner of the arbor.  These have been a regular here ever since Robby built me the arbor 4 years ago.  Clearly they love wisteria as much as I do.

And last but not least, my new apron that my wonderful friend Meg gave me for my birthday.  She saw it and just knew I had to have it, and she was absolutely right!!!!!!

Never a Dull Moment

One of the great things about being married to a builder, I never have to worry about something not being able to be done around the house.  One of the more interesting things about being married to a builder, is I am never quite sure what I am going to come home to from work.  This usually is always a good thing, but a surprise never the less.

Today for example, I walk into my house followed by my mother in law who came up to get some cucumbers from our garden.  We walk into the house, and all of the kitchen furniture is sitting in the den and Robby is putting down new flooring in the kitchen.  Now don't get me wrong, this wasn't a total surprise, I knew we were putting down new flooring, I just didn't know this morning when I left for work at 7:00 that when I came home at 5:00, it would be on the floor, hahaha.  Robby's mom said it reminded her so much of Robby's dad when he was alive.  He too was a builder, and during the winter months when work was slow, she would come home from work and he would have torn down walls in the house and started re-designing the house.  Luckily Robby has not gone that far yet, all walls are still in tact.  The really great part is, I got out of making dinner and we got to go get pizza, my all time favorite food.



 So here are some pictures of the kitchen floor before.  There was nothing wrong with the white tile, but I do love the new floor very much.  It was time for a change and lucky for me, Robby thought so too.


You can't see much of the floor, but you can see my handsome son Reed.  Never realized I don't really take many pictures of my floor normally.



So here is where the kitchen table is and the old tile under it.





















So here is the floor so far.  A little bit left to finish tomorrow and then I get to put the kitchen back together and clean up.





Loving the way it looks.

So, yes being married to a builder is full of surprises and there really never is a dull moment.  And I most certainly would never change it for the world.  I will post finished pictures once the clean up is complete.  Happy Weekend Everybody.  My Happy Days have arrived:)