Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The crappie have started bighting!

WOO HOO!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Loving life

This past week has been another glorious week in the lives of Bubba, Wendy & Mijo. Wednesday morning we took a second walk through a property we had previously viewed. We saw many wonderful attributes we had not seen the first time and placed an offer on the property. 

Friday morning Bubba's phone rang and it was Dad. This is one for the record books, folks, because Dad sang Happy Birthday to Bubba. It was priceless! Their birthdays are less than a week apart and Dad was returning the favor.   ;-)

Friday afternoon we went to the fair grounds and walked through the attractions outside the main arena. There were local vendors peddling everything from arts and crafts to metal buildings to farm equipment. There was a carnival complete with games, rides and every style of fattening fair food familiar. There was a petting zoo with everything from pigmy goats to camels. There was an exhibit of animals from Australia. There was a building full of Creative Arts projects which had already been judged; everything from photography to crochet to baking and sewing. There were buildings full of sheep and hogs being shown. They show so many animals that they have to spread it out over 10 days. It reminded me a whole lot of the Iowa State Fair; a bit smaller on the offerings outside the arena and a bit larger on the shows inside. The rodeo and stock show goes on from February 19th through March 1st with actual rodeo performances on 7 different nights, I think, and a mid day performance on Saturdays too. The week prior to the opening they have elimination rounds in all the rodeo events. There are typically 5 times the number of entries as they will allow to compete in the actual rodeo. The elimination rounds are free to the public.

During the performance, in addition to the bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf roping, steer wrestling, barrel racing and comedic rodeo clowns, we got to see mutten bustin', a calf scramble and junior barrel racing. Two of the adult barrel racers were actually thrown from their horse but the 6 year old dressed in pink did fantastic!!!!! ;-) The mutten bustin' was hilarious. They put a helmet and a kevlar vest on a child between 3 & 6 years old and laid them on the back of a sheep in a stall. They let the sheep run and the child who held on the longest won a new pair of Justin boots. The kids had a ball and those of us watching thought it was just hilarious. 

The rodeo performance started off, as most things we've experienced in Texas, with a prayer. We've found a place where no one hesitates to openly express their beliefs and encourage others to do the same.  We thank the Lord for that every day and pray that others feel the same about us when we meet. 

Well, I better go get cleaned up. The sellers accepted our offer on the acreage while we were at the rodeo and today is the hone inspection. We're confident this one will go well and look forward to moving on with the process of buying our new home.

More later ...........

P.S.  Obviously, the rodeo pictures were not taken by me. I found them on line and wanted to share. 





Thursday, February 12, 2009

A new collection has begun

Just the other day, in passing, I joked with Bubba that I will have to start a new collection when we move back into a house. I've been fascinated by armadillos since Mijo made friends with one in Arkansas and we've seen a couple this past month here. They're silly, really; like a combination of ant eater, pig and rhino.

I was on the phone with Mom when he walked in with this little dude in his hand. Its a memo or photo clip. VERY CUTE!!!! I couldn't help but laugh when he sat it down. I had completely forgotten about our conversation.

The moral of the story is, be careful what you ask for.   ;-)

More later  ........

PRAY OFTEN
LIVE WELL
LAUGH OFTEN
LOVE MUCH

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Guess what we're doing for Bubba's birthday?

Check this out.
I'm so excited!!



More later ............

P.S.   The sellers accepted out offer on the property. Now its time to finish the home inspection and funding paperwork.  WOO HOO!!  If all goes well and we close on time, on February 27th we'll be able to call ourselves Texans

PRAY OFTEN
LIVE WELL
LAUGH OFTEN
LOVE MUCH

Sunday, February 8, 2009

More prayers please

I absolutely believe that when God closes a door he opens a window. Bubba and I were disappointed when we couldn't come to an agreement with the sellers of an acreage East of San Angelo. We were convinced the property was perfect for us and were looking forward to remodeling it into the most amazing new home with the best old features. Alas, it wasn't meant to be. 

Friday we decided to take a look at a home we had previously passed on viewing. For some reason it came to our attention again and our agent met us there. We were blown away by the house and amazed with the size and ammenities on the property for the price. This acreage is nearly three times the size of the other, the home is only 15 years old versus 73 and the listing price is nearly $5000 lower. Because of the county qualifications of this property the taxes are much, much lower than the other also. We've made an offer and are awaiting a response from the sellers. 

Lots of prayers, please!  :-)  

Tonight it is raining and I couldn't be happier. We're suffering a pretty extreme drought here in West Central Texas and the rain is very welcome. Its even nicer that the rain is falling all night and the sun is expected to shine again tomorrow.  We could stand a week of rain, really, but it looks like one night is all for now. We'll take what we can get. 

Lots of prayers for rain too please!

More later ........

PRAY OFTEN
LIVE WELL
LAUGH OFTEN
LOVE MUCH

  

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Sometimes there are no words necessary.
These are just a few things I've enjoyed this past week.

I bet the constant turkey and deer presense would drive Deb and Brad and Dad absolutely nuts!  ;-)
 



My boys are ssoooo  CUTE!


More later ............

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LIVE WELL
LAUGH OFTEN
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