Party tomorrow.......

As usual, it's friday and today was sale barn day...loooooong day..i always get super tired on fridays...sales go on and on.....i even hear the auctioneer auctioning over the microphone in my sleep sometimes!...lol..we hid from Harrell P. today!...hahaha!....and he never saw us..thank the lords!...LOL! 


helped my Aunts all w/buying pumpkins at 4pm today..i was covered in cow poop/hay dust/dirt--stink!....and they just insisted we go w/them RIGHT THEN!...why is it always RIGHT NOW! w/them?!..i'm surprised they allowed me to go w/them looking & smelling like i did!....haha!...that was a first...but we just went to a garden place off the highway and bought "imported" pumpkins from states where it actually did rain this season..which we all know is not here!(Western Oklahoma!)..is it ever gonna rain again?..i really worry about this stuff....


the pumpkins are for decorating their houses, and they gave me & Sarah both some of their pumpkin stash to take home w/us and decorate..but i have a collection of fake decor pumpkins already i have in my room/all over the house..i don't know how many Sarah has?...but trust me, we girls are apart of this family and it's in our blood to decorate and do a beautiful whimsical job at it!.....they teach/train you early on how to make things pretty around here!..HAHA!.i love decorating anyway....


i was going to go to the Pumpkin Festival in Hobart....but i would have to go stay at Mark's house for the night, because the drive home would be too late getting back, and as always, our family flips out about us girls driving home in the dark by ourselves..Oooh Spoooky!!!..lol....soooo i didn't really wanna go stay the night there w/all the wild parties and wild women that might be there...lol....wild parties & wild women---they're just a staple in his life(hmm.......he's just like the rest of the men in our family)..Haha!..so you just expect that to all be there and i'm not too keen on being around w/all that going on...i would be very uncomfortable/embarrassed, accidentally seeing or hearing any of what might go on..haha!...gross!


so tomorrow we will be celebrating my brother's birthday instead...we're having dinner for him at noon and we're making some of his favorite pies for him...i think we're cooking roast & potatoes,homemade rolls,vegetables,salad..that's what he wanted....Grandma & Grandpa are going to be there & the rest of the crazy gang...lol


For his gift from me, i just bought him a ceramic coffee cup that is a pumpkin---filled it w/candy corn/pumpkins, and an assortment of hot chocolate in packages---mint/caramel/white chocolate/double chocolate/french vanilla...he loves to drink hot chocolate stuff(just like me!) in the fall/winter before he hits the road for work..so i thought that would be cool for him....in fact, that stuff smelled so good i might go back and buy myself a sampler of those next week..i love the smell of coffee stuff! anyhow hope he likes it all...


i also put a small scarecrow on a stick(decoration)in it and wrapped  the whole thing in tissue paper that is black w/candy corns on it...i think it's super cute!...he'll probably just look at it and be all like:"Oh"...haha....


staying home tonight and try to start making those pies for tomorrow..besides, i'd rather stay home and out of the smoke at the bar tonight(they're all going tonight as usual)i've already got a bad case of the sneezies and allergies....


i'm getting better at cooking/baking things i think?..meringue on pie-is kinda puzzling when cooking it..maybe i should just let Grandma make that?...i'm kinda nervous!...
better take my Benadryl AFTER i get all the pies finished and cooked...because i will fall asleep and be out for the night in 10 seconds...don't wanna burn anything up...haha


love,julie

Sleepy girl....

Late evening working....

Just got home.....You know when you get so tired you lose track of day/time?...that's how i feel right now...Where am i again?...oh yeah..home and it's 10pm-something...pretty soon i will go to bed..fall asleep and 10 minutes later it will be 5am time to wake up...lol...well...it will feel like it was just 10 minutes i got to sleep!

Things that have went on the past few days:

My new puppy jumped in the horse/cow watering tank and took a swim...LOL...it was cute! but he scared all the cows we were trying to catch in the corral....and Uncle Pete and Grandpa weren't too happy.."Julia, get this pup outta this damned water tank!"...he was all happy swimming around...haha...but we had to corral the cows all over again and that's hard work...so i had to take him back to the house...no fun!

Sarah backed the horse trailer into a metal fence on the corral and put a big dent in the trailer and part of the fence is bent in two!...we tried to cover it up w/hay bales stacked up around the fence!HAHA!...but we started laughing and couldn't stop when Grandpa was asking us why the bales were against the fence!..LOL..he goes:"Ok..well...what's the damage girls?" he said he didn't care:"Hell...it's alright!"...

saw someone i despise at noon in town today....(so i left the gas station as fast as i could pay for my tank & got outta there!)She tried to talk to us and we kept walking..secretly i wanted to say to her face:"What do you want you old B*tch?!"...LMAO!..oh man that would be funny to say to her face!..but i haven't...yet...lol

When i can't stand someone or something, i AVOID it/them at all costs..i will run the other way/i will leave/i won't be near them....not even in the same room!...because i get so annoyed and angry over their kinda BS....so i AVOID things/people that annoy me...i can't stand that stuck-up,gossipy,bragging crap....they need to get a hold on themselves and a reality check....they gotta have sad lives..time to lighten up.

a good person stays humble,respects themselves & others....nobody's better than someone else, we're all equal....money doesn't impress me like it does some people..sure it's good to have i guess...but letting it rule you never has a good outcome...look around you'll see it everywhere these days.

i always make fun of myself and laugh about things i do or say....i never make fun of anybody else..i can't see how be-littling others is cool or fun....like that snob does...*eyeroll* i hate annoying.gossipy,no fun, snobby people.....those kinda people will never have a place in my life...ever....

finally, yeah i'm getting too sleepy and i'm going to bed...enough of my rambling.

Nite-Nite Kisses!

Bar fights? no big deal!.....lol

Stayed at the sale yesterday til about 2pm, then we had to drive out to Silverton,Tx to see my great-aunt & great-uncle...he had a huge stock tank he wanted to give Grandpa  to run water in for horses/cows.....He's always got something brand new he's giving away.....he'll pay a lot of $ for something, then forget he had one already or forget he bought it,then he finds it somewhere and just gives it away...LOL....
We drove to Silverton w/Grandpa & Cody...it took a few hours...we finally left and headed back home by 7pm...they will talk your leg off...talk..talk..talk...but i love them!....i just run outta things to say after a few hours....haha..i was sleepy..we all were & still are.....

Oh! i have a new dog..a guy from New Mexico was at the sale yesterday and he was asking anyone if they could find the pup a new home, since he travels so much he can't take him...so the dog walked right up to me & put his paw on my boot....It was so cute!...he's a mix of rotweiler & something else...i can't be sure...he's a pup still...I asked him what his name was and he said:"Jack." after his Dad's name...i was like:"OMG! Are you serious?! That's my dog that died's name! It must be a sign he is to be mine!"...the cowboy kinda was teary about his puppy..i can't blame him..he looked at me and said:"I think you will take good care of my buddy here." and Grandpa told him:"Rest assured, w/her, he will be treated like a puppy King, don't worry!" and the cowboy just told me "thank you" and walked away..trying to hide his tears...that must be a cowboy thing to hide your tears..they have a very tough guy reputation to keep up ya know?....lol..Isn't that weird his name was Jack?...just like my dog's was...aww...must be a weird sign or something...

Lots of New Mexico people there at the sale buying....a guy was handing out his business cards for his cattle outfit out there....and a few other guys from New Mexico asked us if we wanted to go to a bar w/them!...haha..Uncle Pete ran them off...he goes:"Hell no!..they aren't goin' nowhere w/you!...leave 'em alone! they aren't those kinda girls!..if they go w/you i'm gonna have to go!"....lol.....they must have thought we were wild women or were wishing that we were!...haha!...

so later last night about Midnight we picked Cody up from the bar(he was drunk) and we were waiting on him, and we sat down and stayed for 30 minutes....waiting on him to leave...we talked to Eli/Travis/Amy/Lacey/Kevin/Frank  and all of the sudden,Uncle Pete just knocked the hell out of a guy sitting at the bar....i mean, knocked him out cold...i heard him yell:"You F****** Smart *ss Son of a B*tch!" and Bam! he just knocked that guy out!..COLD...and then he sat back down next to his "wild women harem", and smoked his cigarettes & drank his whiskey like nothing had happened!..LMAO! LMAO! and that guy was just lying in the floor passed out!...everybody looked away and didn't do anything...Haha!....oh man...

i don't know how they all knock them out cold like that?..How do they do that? I mean, when dad got mad last year at Mark and knocked him out, he blacked his eye totally shut..so it must be the way they hit them and how hard they hit them?...LOL! LOL! LOL!..how funny i'm sitting here trying to figure out how they knock them out cold! Bwahaha!...i love to watch bar fights...it's wrong i know, but it's too funny.....

We had breakfast at Grandpa & Grandma's this morning and we were laughing about Uncle Pete knocking that guy out and she said:"Now, you don't need to be fightin' in front of these girls like that...i have told Chad too he's gotta act responsible...you wanna fight, do it when they aren't around! it's not good for them,give them someone to look up to!"..

Uncle Pete said"Hell...i didn't even know they were in there! Sh*t! they don't care!"....we agreed and i laughed:"Grandma, we LOVE to see bar fights! we actually hope to see a good one when we go in there!..i know it's demented and wrong but drunken bar fights are funny and we look up to Dad & Uncle Pete that much more when they fight because they don't take crap off nobody..they just knock 'em out and go on ! that's admirable!"...LOL! LOL! LOL!...Uncle Pete looked at me and says all serious:"That is EXACTLY RIGHT." we all laughed...

Kisses.

Sale barn fun....

Man....i swear i am sick & tired of computer/phones electronic crap that always screws up...sometimes, i think it's not worth all the extra frustration it causes me...just not worth it...i'm ready to throw it all in the creek...i know i griped about this before on here...but god...it's annoying...i think i seriously need to throw this computer in the creek too!..it's screwing up..again...oh well nothing new.

Really tired..exhausted...working all week....I was so sleepy i didn't wake up when Uncle Pete called to wake me up at 5am yesterday morning to get a start on work for the day...i answered the phone said "Ok" and went back to sleep evidently because he actually drove here to the house and beat on the door to wake me up...yelled at me and went in Sarah's room and yelled at her also..."Get UP! Come on Now!"...he's been a "grouchy o saurus" all week...i swear men must get PMS because he acts like he has a case of it...LOL!....

I had to take my horse Daisy and ride up to the north side of the place we were working on and ride almost a mile and herd those cows out of the creek..alone...it took all day and he still griped at me..because they were scattered not following closer together or something?..i was too slow for his orders....

Cody really hacked him off today when after he (Uncle Pete) yelled at him:"G*ddamn it Cody! what in the hell are you doin?daydreaming?!Pay F***ing attention damn it!" and Cody goes"YES SIR!" and flipped him off...Man....we all just cracked up laughing and tried so hard not to laugh and Uncle Pete just lost it and got so mad he yelled at him:"Look,we haven't got all F***ing day to just jack around...if you don't have that damn trailer loaded and hooked on in 15 minutes i will be your worst nightmare!"...LOL!LOL!...and we kept laughing anyway....all those other cowboys at the sale barn were acting all scared..i know he's an intimidating bad*ss cowboy w/his bad*ss attitude and all those tattoos..(just like DadChad)...that made it even funnier seeing those other cowboys get scared looks in their eyes.....bwahaha!..you could tell they were thinking"OMG!..Oh sh*t!"

as a family we all work together 24/7 and we easily get sick of each other..there's screaming/throwing things at each other and just pure hatred..but at the end of the day,after work is all done & accomplished we all apologize and glare at each other for a few days...lol....then..we get over it...then it all starts over again the next week/day/hour..repeat.....HAHA!...isn't that screwed up?!

 we took 3 trailers for today's sale...Travis was "riding pens" there, and i talked to him for a few short minutes then had to go get another trailer and we got back about 2pm...we ate nachos again and oops! kidneys, i had a Dr.Pepper!..SORRY KIDNEYS.....won't happen again.....lol....set down and watched the auction for a few hours..those auctioneers can talk super fast!...i can't hardly understand them sometimes..i didn't buy anything today..we're saving our $ til spring when there is more rain & greener pastures..no pun intended!

Grandpa informed us that in a week we may start planting wheat!..i'm such a dork i get excited getting to drive the tractor!...haha!...hey, it's pretty therapeutic..a huge field..a radio...until you have machinery problems....(sad face)....and grandpa makes us figure the problems out ourselves...just because we are girls doesn't mean we can't do this guy's work...it's all a learning process..everyday.

We just got home 2 hrs ago..i finally got to wash my hair after 4 days of work!....i get home so late in the evening and then we have to go corral again and then i fall asleep by 9pm and i haven't had time to wash my hair until NOW!...it smelled like sale barn!----coffee/cows/horses/dirt/hay/cigarettes/cow an horse poop!...eww!..

now hopefully i can fall asleep before another long day tomorrow and another sale.

xoxo

hold on,learning takes time......

I love this Gary Allan song..been listening to it today...the guitar is so cool...

Some aspects of this cattle/ranching business are still a mystery to me...i'll admit i haven't got it all figured out yet!....well...and that goes for people too..i haven't figured out too many of them either....lol...

Most of my learning has been like Grandpa,Uncle Pete, Dad have just basically kinda thrown me out there and said"You'll figure it out on your own, and when you make a mistake i will tell you what you did wrong." and they almost always do....like today...but i guess that's their way of advising?...haha....It's like being thrown into a lake w/no life jacket and you don't know how to swim and they are standing on the side yelling:"Swim Julia, you'll figure it out!"...That's what it's like sorta....

They have made me & Sarah learn to work on trucks/machinery/construction-type things/repairs/doctor animals/feed animals/drive tractors---all these guy things and there's me & Sarah just 2 silly girls thrown into the madness...but i think we have learned A LOT and it's paying off.....Learn to rely on yourself for things, rather than let someone else do the dirty work..being independent is soooo freaking cool!... ;)

Grandpa told me today that we have been given a big opportunity to run this outfit and learn everything...it's ours whenever he's gone....not too many girls get a chance like that thrown at them ...i know how many people would love to just be given all this like we have...i do know how lucky i am..and i'm not gonna waste a sweet opportunity to run this ranching/cattle business...

it takes alot of hard tough work, and i will prove myself..Dad told me that he will help me do whatever i wanna do, if it's this or something else also i wanna achieve, but running this ranching stuff ---i will have to work at this and it's not gonna be easy....my family has been in this business forever...i love the idea of being my own boss & in control of things....lol

Looks as though this week we will be very busy starting tomorrow morning early...we are going to do another"round-up" this week for a sale on friday....and hopefully working on fixing the creek where some trees have fell and blocked the water....whatever water there is..the rain hasn't been enough...lying weatherman!...lol...

the blood is going away from my eye injury it looks normal again and i still see perfect, so that's good news...still thinking about getting a flu shot this month...Dad called and lectured that me & Sarah both need to get one....lol...blah..blah...he started to tell me thank you for the present i made him, and he started crying and he hung up....haha...that's kinda sad how he cries....don't know when we will see him again in person..lol......he said he may go to Wyoming & Montana again w/work..they told him....He said he knows that Grandpa & Uncle Pete will keep us safe working all this dangerous work so we won't get hurt...he still doesn't know about my eye..Ssh!

Auntie J.'s Cowgirl Party was fun saturday...we had mixed drinks & wine and watched cowboy movies....All my friends were there...you'd be surprised how crazy people are going for  ALL cowboy stuff now days--clothes/movies/home decorating parties/wanting the life...even in the city those city girls are all wearing cowboy stuff and drooling over "sexy cowboys"---everywhere in the world too, according to my many friends who live all over the world & country...i think that's really cool though..see i've always known what was cool!...and i don't have to look for, or pretend to have that kinda life..because i am a real cowgirl already...i live the life everyday.... ;)

I think people are just looking for heros or comfort in these tough times and that's what the cowboy has been in America forever....it's safety/comfort...but let's not forget the indians too...they are BOTH my heros! and rightly so...

anyway that's what's been going on..

xoxo

rainy day for ranching....

Wow...longest day ever it seems...A rainy day though and that is good!

My day started out w/a trip to town and buying the usual things needed..toothpaste,laundry soap,deodorant,strawberry toaster streudel,bagels, cream cheese--breakfast things ya know because we have lunch in town everday we work...oh, we did buy lots of soup...we've been stocking up on soup incase their is a soup famine!...LOL..joking....because it's fall and soup is a necessity around here on cool days....

I also needed a new eyeliner for my makeup collection..i always use liquid eyeliner on my eyes! always...it looks so good it's like i'm painting when i use it..lol..love it..i use black...today i bought black eye liner w/glitter in it called Licorice by Hard Candy...i love their make-up..not tested on animals, and it's pretty cool..all kinda of colors & glitters in their make-up that this artistic, cool cowgirl chick can be creative with....god i love all the colors of makeups & nail polishes they have...i'm totally in love w/their stuff they have! ok, but i can't use eye make up just yet on my bloody eye...it's looking better day by day though and healing..still see great!

After that we went to the sale ALL DAY and worked....just got home....I really showed Uncle Pete & Diego today that I CAN hook a goose neck trailer onto the truck just perfect!..LOL...ALL BY MYSELF...and i loaded 2 bucking bulls(ooh..dangerous work!) ALL BY MYSELF!...hahaha!..i showed him...he was doubting me i could tell....

we drank coffee this morning at the sale w/all the old cowboy friends & Grandpa, They played dominoes while waiting, drank their coffee and smoked their cigarettes,talked...i just love that...they're all some of my favorite people....so laid-back & chill....

then at noon we sat w/Uncle Pete & the crew,watched the sale, ate nachos at the barn concession..I drank pink lemonade & Diego kept teasing me that i had slipped liquor in it and i laughed..:"NO!",,so then Harrell P.walked in and set down by me and annoyed me about my "vampire blood eye" and wouldn't leave, so i told Diego:"OK, now i need some liquor!"..and he just laughed so hard he cried..LOL....he goes:"I can see why! Sh*t i need a drink now! Does he ever shut the hell up?!!"..Harrell annoys everybody...it is a known fact..so he was there all day annoying me..ALL DAY w/Harrell is too much for me!!!....Sarah yelled at him:"Don't you have somewhere else you need to go Harrell?!"....bwahahaha!

and NO i don't love Harrell..i don't have a crush on him either and i never will..he's not crushable! ever!...but that Clint aww..he IS crushable and me & Sarah both have a huge crush on him..... ;)

anyway that was my day...just took a shower & everybody's already gone to the bar...i think i'm staying home i'm so freaking tired..even watching a good bar fight doesn't sound like fun to me tonight!..what is wrong w/me?!..LOL....yes, i'm exhausted.

tomorrow night we are going to Auntie J.'s Cowgirl Party..where we cowgirls all sit around drink margaritas/wine,watch movies,talk and look at all the "cowgirl bling"(jewelry,belts,purses,sparkled horse gear,candles,soaps & stuff she has for her parties) her house is like a freaking store!..it's so beautiful and full of sparkles!..i love it....

~Nite-Nite Kisses!~

antibiotics & sun do not mix!!!.......

I'm tired...just got home for the day...

My eye is looking better, the blood is going away more so today, it's clearing up fast....it was glued shut yesterday from the eye drops and from it healing...gross...

Everybody stares at my bloody eye and goes:"Oh man that is freaky looking! how do you see out of it?!" and i just say it's not damaged bad just bruised/scraped on the white of my eye...the bruising makes it look all over my eye....lol....

it is spooky looking/kinda cool,i have 1 normal looking eye and 1 bloody spooky red eye!..Mwahahaha!.. i'm ready for Halloween already anyhow!....haha...Harrell was teasing me about my eye and i told him joking:"Yeah...you should see the guy i beat up...he looks bad..i kicked his ass!"...bwahahaha!...i actually got beat up by a mesquite tree,but he doesn't have to know that!...LOL..... 

my vision is great and my eye is not as sore....they say the eye heals faster than any part of the body, so i'm well on my way....they told me that it will take 2weeks to look completely normal again and all the blood will be absorbed back into the eye...isn't that cool how it does that?

haven't been able to find a sleeping mask they said to sleep w/one on, so i've just been using my blue bandanna tied over my eyes at night.....haha..works just as good i'm sure.

i totally forgot that my eye drops are antibiotics and i'm not supposed to be in the sun while using them the box says....BIG MISTAKE..we had to work out in the pastures & then corrals yesterday----feeding/catching 80 steers for the sale friday...had a round-up....and it was 109 degrees..yep..again...that weatherman is a liar!...and i got sick...i got a rash and felt like i was going to faint after 2 hours of being out in the heat/sun...

so i almost puked and i went to set in the truck and get out of the sun & Uncle Pete made Cody drive me home...i argued w/him and i was so stubborn to prove to them that i was tough enough to last til we were done, and Uncle Pete yells at me:"Julia!..listen to me you are gettin' sick G*ddamn It!..you're takin' those antibiotic drops! you aren't supposed to be out in the sun ARE YOU?! HUH?!"..and i said:"OMG!..i totally forgot about that!" and he goes:"That's exactly what i thought! now go home before you faint damn it!"...yell..yell...yell.....blah..blah...

yep that was stupid julie.....

so i got home drank lots of water, took a chilly shower,took tylenol, and then got in bed under the ceiling fan...drifted off to sleep.....

it finally stormed last night at 2am,things cooled off and i slept better from then on....

 cooler rainy week expected & a rainy-thundery night tonight..ahh!..finally!.

i know i will sleep sound tonight....IF those coyotes aren't in the yard yipping after the storms that is...haha...

~Nite-Nite Kisses~

MY eye injury.....

Just got Grandpa out of the hospital friday...he was released....and i went into the ER at 7am yesterday morning!....

We were feeding cows & horses yesterday on the place that has all the mesquite trees in the pasture....well, i was trying to find a new baby cow that was sick, and i did find it shading under a mesquite tree...i leaned over to help him up & doctor him, and a mesquite thorned branch slapped me right in the eye when i was getting out from under the tree!.....

if you don't know how big & sharp mesquite thorns are here's a pic of one:

It did some bad damage...my eye started bleeding & my vision got blurry...i started panicking that i had scratched my iris/retina/pupil!...it's all too weird i hurt my eye after i have been taking Grandpa to all his eye surgeries...i hope his eye trouble hasn't cursed me!.......

But anyway Uncle Pete took me to the ER after i drove back to the house about to freak out i was gonna lose my eye....they washed out my eye in the ER and did some tests on it w/stain/black light...luckily i had NO scratches on my retina/pupil/iris....should heal in a month..my sight is fine they said...*fingers crossed* it stays good!

i have a subconjunctive hemorrhage(which is basically a scratch w/blood on the white of my eye) & a corneal abrasion...it is bloody as can be...my eye looks like it could be a halloween makeup thing!...(not joking)it's very frightening but they told me in ER that it's not as bad as it looks.....i will have a bloody sore eye for a few weeks...oh cool!...LOL.....

Uncle Pete did a great job calming me down from my panic and he kept telling me it was gonna be ok...he took me to Walgreens to get my prescription...yep, back at good ol Walgreens AGAIN...for the 196876767billion time this month already!....haha...they gave me antibiotic eye drops...apparently mesquite thorns are poisonous Eli told me last night...but nobody told me that...they knew better! i would lose my mind if i had known that....lol..

I have to wear sunglasses til it heals...and keep a check on it, no eye strain/no reading..oops!...hopefully it gets better..i'm wearing sunglasses right now typing and it's 3am!....it hurts bad i couldn't sleep...

AND SSh!...do not tell my Dad...we aren't telling him because he will lecture me,yell at me about being accident prone, worry & cry over it....But...it's tough dangerous work being a cowgirl, i know what is expected of me & i will prove i am tough enough to do all this..just because i am a girl, i am not weak & scared..i may be accident prone some, ok....well......A LOT.... & Sarah may be too, but we will prove we can do this.....

he's soooo crazy acting anymore he flips out about us getting hurt all the time & i do not need lectures for 45minutes about how i need to be CAREFUL & let the guys do the dangerous stuff....i don't wanna be treated like a baby & i don't need his crazy emotional lectures either...

i know a tree i'm gonna have cut down and used for firewood this winter! bwahaha!

kisses!

it's cool finally.......

Been listening to this Will Ackerman guy's music at night lately again, i fall asleep to it every night..so peaceful..love it..This is a very pretty piece of music i think...found this random video for it before, and it didn't work i think..so hopefully it will work this time.

it's Fall in a few weeks, so my music listening habits change into instrumentals & rat pack type tunes...don't ask me why, it's just what i do....i often wonder if other people do that?....

Amazing how once the weather turns cool how much better everyone acts & feels.....it affects every part of life...i love fall it's my favorite season...

It's been 49 degrees the past few mornings & in the 80's during the day!-----after all those 110's & 113's degrees it's a huge relief.... ;)

I even got chilly last night!..i woke up shivering in my bed and had to go and get an extra blanket out of the hall closet...it's really great to be cold again....lol

Kinda been a stress-filled day, today...

Had to take Grandpa in to the ER today...he's having to have his appendix out...he got sick today and the Dr.said that it was an appendicitis......that's one of my biggest fears---is ever having appendicitis!.....yikes!

going to try and get some sleep tonight & go see him tomorrow...me & Sarah have been working all day tired & dirty....we had to find 45 cows that we thought got lost in that one pasture, but they were on the creek-bed in the shade...MAJOR PANIC!...stress! we thought we had lost them or they had gotten out somewhere, then we had to rope 2 steers because they wouldn't get back across through the gate..stubborn...but at least i am a good roper!...haha! 

AND then after all that we got a call from Grandpa he was in pain & sick so we hurried up & rushed him to the ER...i was nervous for him.

Grandma  & Mark are there w/him right now at the hospital...i may have to drive into the town and pick Grandma up tonight?..i don't know quite yet, so i may need to try and stay awake...i'm so sleeeeepy!

so anyway that was my day

~kisses to everyone.~

Walgreens rocks!..lol.......

Whew!...finally have time to set down at the computer and type on this thing....

Grandpa's eye surgery went good.....he says he can see A LOT better now...it's a huge relief for him...he can see everything now he said....i'm happy for him...we must have made 4 trips to Walgreens over the past few days...getting his eye meds,Grandma's blood pressure pills,and then Friday i found myself back in there w/friends after we went to the mall...

Walgreens has their Fall stuff out!...we go totally nerd over the Fall aisle i swear!...LOL...just goes to show you how ready we are for it to get here....haha....i bought a coffee cup that has a leaf on it---it's brown/orange/purple...to drink my hot chocolate w/marshmellows, and sometimes capuccino in.....

AND i bought a strand of candy corn lights to decorate with....as if i need anymore fall decor!...but they are cute & whimsical...i had to have them to add to my collection...i think candy corn is cute in it's own way...i like the smell of it...but it's waaaay to sweet for me to eat..maybe one piece once in a while....that goes for those candy pumpkins too, cute but too sweet.

My cousin is a pharmacist at that one Walgreens, so we always have to go in there and annoy him...haha!..we make faces at him and wave at him...bwahaha!..i know that's gotta embarrass him, but he just laughs and waves at us..he knows we are silly goofballs.....

A few friends & family went over to the boat house and partied this weekend...the lake is toxic right now w/bluegreen algae from the drought so it's off limits--no swimming or anything in it..yikes...i went to the boat house last night for a while...me & Sarah had 2 small margaritas a piece, then went to see our Auntie's J.'s house and see how close the grass fires got to it...it's a huge beautiful 2 story on the hill overlooking the mountains..so pretty there..it's safe thankfully, but the land is charred everywhere..it was a huge grassfire burned a couple thousand acres...bless those firefighters!.....they work all the time anymore it seems on grass fires...they have a very dangerous tough job....

i hate fire & drought....luckily (& keep your fingers crossed on this one) that the weather is supposed to be cooler from now on and more fall like here the weathermen all say...they better not be lying and play mind games w/all of us around here because we all wanna blame them the drought got so bad!..LOL.....we need rain bad still...

Dad still hasn't came home to see me & Sarah yet...we don't know if he's coming home now because Grandpa said he called him & he said that they had a lot of trucks coming in out there where he's working this weekend at the feedlots that his boss owns/runs, so he never hardly gets time off..but they pay him really good...we'll see him soon enough i'm just wondering if he liked his music scrapbook/cds i made him & the cd player i bought him?..i'm sure he loved them...

he doesn't have computer out there, so i just bought him a portable cd player instead of Ipod or mp3... Uncle Pete did say he cried when he opened it and he's embarrassed he cried infront of them over my present..they said he kept crying & saying:"She's so creative & smart..i'm so proud of her".....aww..that's kinda sad...he's real emotional at times and complicated, so i don't know if he can tell me he loved it without crying like a big ol baby...

anyway..i know he loved it and is proud, it'll take him time to tell me without crying infront of me...that's how he rolls...lol...he tries to hide his tears....i put uplifting things in it,chocolate cake recipes he likes,cowboy art pages i created with paper, stickers,rhinestones,glitter paper,cd pages,songs downloaded from itunes i put on cds,band info...mainly red dirt bands..stuff he would like or get to know i think....fun facts, things like that--it was really pretty & very cool i think----that's me being creative...haha..it'll keep him busy reading/listening/thinking during free time(if he gets free time) hopefully he won't be so homesick....

anyhow that's everything going on the past week..busy & busy...still gotta work tomorrow on Labor Day..but a cowgirl's job NEVER stops! it's a 24/7 occupation...i love it though.

kisses.