icy roads.....

It's been a hot chocolate(with marshmallows!) kinda week...Oddly when I drink it late at 8pm I get VERY sleepy.....lol...along with my electric blanket set on 7.....ahh...sleep.

Felt like ice skating on the highways this week...Saw a lot of roll overs yesterday...I went with some friends to OKC to go early Christmas shopping...well we had to turn around and go back home because the roads quickly got icy and the sleet freezing instantly on the windshield of the truck...We got rather scared!!!

It was sorta like all the traffic was one big road of bumper cars....

we finally got out of the traffic and out of OKC to a smaller suburb and stopped for a quick soup and sandwich then onto a casino and played the penny machines for about 30 minutes til the highway cleared a little--it was so packed with people driving and oh man...those crazy idiots driving 90mph on the icy roads....STUPID.

when we got home I had scrape my windshield for 30 minutes with a ice scraper and as soon as I would get it all scraped off more sleet would fall and instantly freeze back!.....I had to stop once or twice on the way to my house and re-scrape the re-freezing off my windshield and then the wipers decided to freeze up half way home...luckily they waited til I was almost home....lol...my hands were about to freeze off...I forgot my gloves---Miss Forgetful!

funniest phone call last night when I got home was one of my friends calling to see if I got home ok...and I asked her:"What are you doing?" she goes:"Watching one of the billion Christmas movies on the Hallmark channel...these are pretty dang good!"....

they are pretty dang good I guess....haha

snow on the way the next few days...only downfall to the freezing temps? having to break the icy pond water at 7am!!!

christmas decorating already?....

Been busy the past few days...Had to have a welder do a lot of repairs on a gate....Someone backed into the gate this past weekend and totally damaged it...awful...

whoever did it must have been partying too hard or something....ran off the road or tried to drive through it whichever I don't know.....but I am beyond mad...I hate how people have no respect for other people's property and try to tear up everything with their stupidity...it costs extra $$$ to repair stuff!....oh well...

Seems as though everyone is putting up their Christmas decorations in the house and outside super early this year....lol....I'm standing there thinking:"Woah!....slooooow down it's not even Thanksgiving yet!"....haha...I guess I will try and take down all of my Fall decorations in the house and start decorating for Christmas this weekend..might as well.

I gotta buy a new fake tree Friday...lol...the one I have now is falling apart..it's old..

It's so funny how people get excited about the snow/ice/freezing rain forecasted end of this week!...haha..I hear them in the stores/café/gas station saying:"You hear about the snow coming in this week?"..it's kinda cute how they're all excited about it...I suppose it does make you feel all Christmasy when snow isn't an everyday occasion here in Oklahoma....

I know where I wanna be right now...back on ski vacation in Taos!!! ;)

 

pic from my vacation in march.

extra fuzzy cow?...Harsh winter prediction?.....

Finally able to sleep sound again.....It's been great with the weather being cold and rainy...LOVE IT!

Today I was looking at some of the cows that came up in the corral to eat, and I noticed that quite a few of them have put on A LOT of fuzzy thick extra hair on their hide...

I saw my "Blue" (the steer) he came over and greeted me with a lick to the arm,hand,and face.....I said:"Oh my goodness Blue you're so fuzzy! Are you turning into a wooly mammoth??!".....LOL.

sure, it could be their winter coat i'm guessing?...Not all of them have it yet...I've always wondered the TRUE answer to that question.....oh, the things I question!...haha!

???

A man over at the cow sale this summer said that IF you have cows putting on extra fuzzy hair that it predicts a harsh winter on the way...I'm wondering if that's true, as my Grandpa said:"Nope...it's just their winter coat..kinda like all animals shed and gain their hair with the changing of the seasons."...

I like to believe the man at the sale because I like all that Farmer's Almanac stuff...lol...

it could be because they have been turned out on winter wheat recently...but who knows?

dangerous weekend......

Wow...been quite a weekend....I finally ventured out to town to do a little shopping and boy, did I get myself into a mess!!!...just minding my own business and the ONE DAY I finally go to town and this happened and my car on this day of all days wouldn't start?!!! just my luck.

I went to the local city and went to a shopping center...when I got checked out and ready to head out the doors to the parking lot, to get in my car---there was a parking lot full of ambulances/fire trucks, cop cars, and highway patrol cars...lights blazing and everything....I thought:"OMG! what happened?!"...I looked across the aisle where I was parked and saw a section of yellow police "do not cross tape"....it was surrounding a vehicle in the parking lot....

a cop ran over to me and told me:"You need to leave quickly we are evacuating the parking lot!"....so I panicked totally..got into my car and the stupid car WOULD NOT START!!!...I had a car full of purchases and good thing I had put them in the trunk..it at least was out of view and would lock....

A few guys ran over to try and help me with my car(I greatly appreciated that!)...but it wouldn't start!!!...just my luck ya know?...all I can do is laugh about it and kick that stupid car....LOL....

so a cop runs over to me and screams:"You have to leave now! evacuate!"....a random guy offered me a ride to somewhere..but I declined(unsure of him) so i just ran with my purse and my rattled nerves to a local restaurant all the while not even knowing what the heck I was running for or from...

when I got into the restaurant all the people inside were watching out the window and a few women at the table across from me told me what happened and what was going on...Turns out a guy was suicidal and was making threats in the parking lot inside his vehicle and they thought he had a dangerous device he was gonna use in his threats...he was barricaded in his vehicle!

Yeah what a day huh?...for a quiet/usually calm cowgirl...it was unlike anything I had ever experienced...it was all of the sudden.....I was soooooo SCARED....just me all by myself in the local larger city and my stupid car wouldn't start!.....

I hung out in the restaurant til I saw on my phone internet that the guy had been arrested and they re-opened the parking lot...my brother drove from his work an hour away to help me get the car started...and a very nice man in the parking lot helped us...(I thanked him repeatedly and offered him $20 for his help)..but he declined...kinda restored my faith in humanity with all the people offering to help me out in my distress!....

turns out it was the stupid battery cable in the car that wasn't connecting right,,,totally embarrassed/scared....BUT oh well i'm safe and sound...and got home that evening with all my purchases...

life is crazy and some people scare the crap outta me sometimes...but as my brother said---"Get used to it...always be aware and ready for anything unfortunately...it's just the world we have to live in and get by in."

never a dull moment around here.

first freeze......

I like this song...good one I think.

So glad I wasn't involved in having to move round bales today...I don't think I could have survived the dusty hay...I know why they call it hay fever...you're so allergic it makes you sick with fever eventually from sneezing and coughing so much....Luckily everyone knew I didn't need to be messing in the hay...they put all the round bales into the barn today...weather is changing and the elements aren't too good for hay...lots of mold issues..quickly

I can manage just fine with the dew-eze on the feed truck...that way I don't have to touch or breathe in the hay with the windows up!...lol...

 

Had first freeze of the season finally last night...I checked the antifreeze in the truck yesterday eve, and it was ok....Man, it got really cold out there...it was freezing this morning!..I see that it unfortunately didn't kill off any of those darn flys!..I thought it was supposed to kill off flys and those kinda pests?....and it's supposed to kill pollens in the air as well?...hopefully that's true!

 



Feeling a little better*fingers crossed I keep getting better*..still have a mild cough....If you ever need cough drops(which I can't stand them when I need them) I bought a bag of those Hall's Strawberry cough drops and they aren't too bad...tolerable...probably gonna buy another bag or 2 tomorrow to make it through the week incase I need them..haha

 

nite.

clean up the pasture.....

Windy all day.Rain coming in the next few days...Yay!

Cleaned out the corral finally and rid it of stupid sticker weeds!..or as we call them around here---Burrs.Those things are very tough to rid your pastures of...they take over quickly...I have sprayed and tried everything but still they come back! not good for anything!

went to the sale this weekend then had a great Saturday dinner with friends at a Mexican restaurant....was a lot of fun...sort've nice to get out to town after being sick this past week....feeling a little better now..still kinda coughing...but hopefully that will go away soon.

my uncle is thinking about trying the freeze branding...liquid nitrogen...pretty dang cool I must say!....I wanna try that....it might be slower or more expensive?...but it's supposedly better for your herd....who knows!...i'd like to get my own branding iron custom made...my own design instead of the traditional family brand..ya know step out on my own and make my design...something with a star/heart/J. in it...expensive i'm sure but I could order it..

randomness---my new sequin slippers I bought this weekend! comfy/girly/sparkly----mine.

gonna call it a day....haven't showered yet and i'm sure I smell wonderful after working all day....i'm soooo sick of feed sack threads/hay twine/sticker weeds---everywhere...the wind blows them constant..more work for me...

nite