Night swim, then Blackberry wine.....

I found this version on youtube!...it's the exact one we danced to....a favorite song of mine in the summer...love it!

Danced to this song last night sitting on the front porch at 9pm at night with all my friends drinking black berry wine after swimming!..we kept laughing and giggling non-stop, dancing barefoot, half-awake, and still trying to cool down from the heat of the day...yes,we are crazy...LOL....

It was so much fun that i wish everyone could have been there, it would have made them laugh too.....nights like that are so....just....home. ;)

you have to go outside super early morning or late at night to get relief from the heat...it's killer...you do everything early or late.....and that pool of mine is priceless..night swims are the big thing right now..you don't have to use sunscreen!...haha...moon screen?...bwahaha!..

i sleep best at night after i cool off in it for 3 hours....but i like early morning and late night the best..it's still and quiet..only thing awake is me, crickets, the moon & stars, & coyotes howling...lol...i stare at the clouds and moon/stars in the sky....and the cool night winds blowing on your face/skin and around the trees is comforting...ahh....

work has to be done early and it makes you so tired..but i think 112 degrees heat in general makes you exhausted...

Ambrose came through on his promise of giving us a few more bottles of his homemade blackberry wine....we gave him some blackberries we picked in return.....good trade-off!

We wanted to make a blackberry cobbler(pie) like Grandma makes BUT everyone who lives in Oklahoma/Texas knows that in the summer you DO NOT turn on the oven at all!...Way too hot and heats up the house fast.....but hey, you can't beat that blackberry wine...ever......we got 5 bottles for all those berries we gave him...haha...

"How do you like your wine these days?"....FROZEN.....joking...in this hot 112 degrees you want everything chilled perfectly....

Blackberry wine you are awesome....bwahaha!

xoxo

Burn Ban!!!!!

Well, looks like there will be no fireworks here this year, 4th of July.They issued a county wide burn ban for all the counties nearby including this one yesterday...

All the firework stand owners need to stop whining and realize that even though they lost money it's the best thing to do.It's not worth anyone losing their homes over...too many people have already lost homes in fires this week....I'm not a big fan of firework displays really....kinda over rated....they are beautiful and cool...but that's about it....

LOL....that woman that works in the post office was whining yesterday to another worker that nobody likes her....I was standing in line and i wanted to yell out:" You really don't know why nobody likes you?!...it's because you bite everybody's head off if they even ask you for a book of stamps!..You're a mega-B*tch!...duh! ".....bwahaha!.....but.....i could NEVER say that to anybody..that would be mean and i could never be mean to anyone no matter how hard i try....lol....but i soooo wanted to yell that out.....

When she was saying all that, and we were standing in line, i was fighting back laughter and Sarah started laughing and we tried hard to NOT bust out laughing at what she was trying to figure out....i fought back giggles and my eyes got teary!...haha!......how could that woman NOT know why nobody likes her?...it's easy, if you're a b*tch to everyone and treat them like crap, you're not gonna have anyone who can tolerate you or like you....just a clue...that might have something to do with it.

i was just waiting for some random person to ask why i was almost crying in the post office and i was gonna have to say something like:"I don't know? I must have a piece of tumbleweed in my eye!" OR" OMG! look at this electric bill!" haha!..which that electric bill is probably really gonna make me cry when it gets here...... ;(

i have a tough time fighting the giggles and hiding them....

seriously can we work in our bathing suits today?...

112 degree hot Kisses everyone!

fire department fundraiser......

It' sunday...a cowgirl's work is NEVER done...24/7 job....We are up early to try and get all the work done before it gets hot...this will be routine for awhile looks like...i'm starting to wonder just how long my ceiling fans can keep running on high?!.....geez this weather is ridiculous..but i am not whining..100's all week and next week they say...no rain in sight..sick of this heat....*fingers crossed* our air conditioner keeps working!...yikes..

2nd place Friday & Saturday at the rodeo barrel racing.....i'm not into trying to be #1 or anything..i don't like competitions..it's just so i can prove things to myself....It was hot all weekend...they had water misters spraying above the crowds sitting in the seats, to kinda cool them down...still lots of people there all weekend....

i just drink water all the time so i won't get dehydrated...plus it's good for my kidneys.....everybody else was getting snow cones..even pickle juice snow cones...bleh...i love pickles but not in snow cone form....eww...not gonna try that one....

Uncle Pete, Diego, Dad, Travis, Eli, Dusty,Jeff all team roped at the rodeo...they did good....so many competing last night.....Guys really like to get into the team roping.....not too many brave enough to bull ride but Dad did do the wild horse riding.....he got 2nd....it's always kinda scary when he does that but he breaks horses for people all the time, so it's the same thing pretty much....

They had a fan donation going to donate fans to give out to needy people who needed them...i feel really sad for those people in this heat...good grief...we just found out a few days ago what it's like to be without air conditioner...and fans didn't help much!....i just think about all the people suffering in their homes this summer from the 100's degrees....all the old people...i wish i could help everyone...i can't, but every little bit helps out..we took 3 fans and donated....wish they could give out air conditioners to everyone. ;(

I feel sad for people...you should always be grateful for every good thing in your life and appreciate it...so what if you don't have the best of everything?...be thankful for what you do have...because so many people don't even have that much...it seems so easy i think for people to see all the extravagances that others have, and feel jealous...but why?...i never have...it's all just un needed extra chaotic junk in your life...being minimal is more...you need to be happy/thankful for what you do have......

material things/money don't matter to me..i've always thought a quiet porch, a rainy day, an old guitar, and a sunset are better than anything.....makes me happy...

going to the fire department fundraiser today at noon in town with my family to help raise money for the firefighters expenses...they are having a huge fish fry dinner & auction......those fire fighters are irreplaceable in these desolate areas we all live in.....especially with this drought going on....they need to be thanked.

off to work. 

Creepy-Crawlies.....eww...

About to go get in bed and watch tv....i just got out of the pool....been in there 2 hours since we got home for the day........been a long,long, hot day...

Didn't sleep to good last night after seeing a scorpion run across my bed!!!!

How do those stupid things get in the house?!...AND WHY?!!!..I was soooo scared all night that it was gonna come back and sting me...i never found it!....i think it ran under my bed....

Everytime i think about scorpions/black water bugs/spiders..i get a case of the creepies!....they're so gross...stay away from me...eek!...even bugs like to swim...my pool is full of them too....i get the net and get them outta there...annoying.

Guess i should spray bug spray around the house tomorrow outside around the edges?...that might help...we even saw a brown recluse spider(fiddle-backs) yikes!.....they are "baddies" too......i don't wanna be stung or bit!

In other news of my life...lol....I paid my entry fee today for another rodeo this weekend----in barrel racing again...a few other women have been Team Penning and Team Roping...but.....i don't know yet..i'm still a little bit unsure of myself in those categories enough to compete in them.....So right now just barrel racing...we'll see.

I wasn't quite sure that i even wanted to go rodeo-ing this weekend, because it's gonna be too hot and we've been busy working so much.....Frankly, i'm just tired my dear!....haha...i am.....

going to buy more paint tomorrow for house exterior....painting early mornings might be a wise idea?....right?...I think i should just throw down $100 on the counter and ask them to whip up $100 worth of paint buckets for me?...nah...too harsh that early in the morning for the paint guy at the hardware store....i think he has a hard time just staying awake that early.....lol

~nite-nite.

TV really just sucks.....Downgrade.

Already up and at 'em this morning...we gotta try and get some work done before it gets HOT again....Yesterday wasn't too hot it was 90 degrees...but today and the rest the week we go right back to the upper 100's......lol...


There's a few guys stopping by today to buy some cows and we have to get them rounded-up and corralled before 8am....yeah, BEFORE 8am!....Cows aren't too hard to get penned up...it's those rambunctious baby cows that are hard to get to follow their mamas into the corral!....haha....They're so cute and so happy...they don't pay attention to anything and do what they wanna do..always the opposite of what you need them to do...which can really draw your day out into a long, never-ending tiresome day......


We mainly have Herefords and a few longhorns...Grandpa has sold registered Herefords for ages.....he says they are the best cattle in this business...


It's best to try and keep yourself cool in this weather when you have to work in it...i tie a blue handkerchief around my neck that is frozen in the freezer before i go out to work in the heat...it helps..it's twisted and frozen....kinda like a necklace....haha..works though....and i NEVER eat sugar on these days..mainly in the mornings i might have strawberries/blackberries or something for breakfast...because sugar will make you hot in the 100+ heat.....


Pool is finally filled up all the way.....i swam in it a few hours yesterday after working...it was really nice and the floating chair?....A+.....lol...really like it....you can sleep in it and float....haha.

I must have been extra tired yesterday, i fell asleep at 6pm and slept until now...wow.


Among other nonsense-ical random things...we downgraded our satellite tv package...we don't watch tv much anyhow, so why pay for stuff you don't watch?...save money..tv sucks for the most part anyhow.

We still have EncoreWesterns though and 100+ channels so we are doing ok....i suppose...our bill should be about $50/month now i calculated..instead of $130 we have been paying!..we may downgrade further if we can still get our cowboy channel....

honestly, all we pretty much watch when we do watch tv is Encore Westerns, locals, Weather channel,AMC,HGTV, DIY...that's it..if they would let you choose the channels you only want and let you pay for & have only those you have chosen, would be GREAT...but it doesn't work that way...it wouldn't make BIG money for a BIG business...that tv stuff is all to overpriced and crappy anyway....

i'd rather be working or outside doing something worthwhile, than sitting on the couch watching over rated/boring/crappy tv.....I just don't like any of those stupid reality shows, i don't care about those overpaid, self-absorbed people i don't know or care about's lives on those shows.....BORING...

give me a good ol' cowboy show, or old movie with Humphrey Bogart(i love him) anytime on the tv, and i'm happy...i love old stuff better than this crap i've had to grow up with!....i feel like an old soul....lol...we of the younger generation have been cheated by tv...sucks...but that's just my opinion, what do i know?..i'm just a silly girl from Oklahoma..what i like, other people don't, everybody's different...

better go..work to be done.