*****Happy 4th of July *****

It has been a while since I have written.  So many things are going on!

We have a new grandson named Sawyer Reece Hally expected around July 9th. He is the son of our daughter Nichole and son-in-law Matt who live in Tennessee.  We will head out to see them mid-July

Our animal family has grown. We have 6 cats on the farm now, 3 in the house and 3 outside cats. 

Meows:

A young momma cat found a safe place under our front house and had her babies there.  We were able to catch three of them so far.  The grey one is a boy named Lasher, the solid black girl is Raven, and the black and white girl is Rowen.  They are named after Anne Rice characters.  Ciara is the official animal namer...  The three outside cats we are still trying to catch are a solid black kitten named Shadow and a gray kitty that is going to live in the front house with my mother-in-law Liz and she has named that cat smokey. The second photo is of Momma cat, Shadow and Smokey from our ring camera. They are still living under our front house and hang out on Ma's front porch.  

Buc Buc's :

The chickens are getting big and have been living outside in the coup.  They get along with the OG's.  Here is a picture of one of our favorite chickens named Tofu from when she was little till a grown up.  

  

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 The Garden:

This year the garden is growing so well compared to last year.  I believe it is because we have had so much rain.  I need to go out there and prune everything really well this weekend.  Last time I went out there the dogs were running around playing and Chewy ran full force into my bad knee and knocked me down.  I was by myself so I laid out there a little while till I could get back up.  I have been a little nervous about going back at least by myself lol.  

We got that new lawnmower and I tried to drive it and was watching the wheels, instead of looking up and forward so I was freaking out, I about ran over my husband 4 times.  So, Hubby has been doing all the lawnmowing. Who knew one of those easy turn ones would be so weird to drive. I am going to try to drive it this weekend.  I am going to go out to a big area where I can practice first.  Wish me luck. 

 

Random stuff:

Dave and I joined Planet Fitness out here, and I like it a lot.  It takes a bit to drive there but it is never crowded, and they have these awesome body massage machines you can use after your workouts.  Riding the bike helps my knee.  I am going to get another steroid shot soon. I am trying to draw out getting the knee replacement.  I am so afraid of the pain of the surgery.  It hurts to walk now, and I would probably be so much happier if I got the surgery. 

We have had a lot of thunderstorms lately.  Ciara and I are all thunderstorm loving people, but it isn't like the storms in Arizona, because Tornado's are usually involved.  There are Tornado Watch's and Tornado warnings.  Watches mean there are the kind of storms that can produce Tornado's but the warnings are the ones you really have to pay attention to. Those mean Tornado's are highly likely in our path.    When that happens, we sit and watch TV and the weather men will be on over any program that was on, and they will show the area and radar and tell different areas where touch downs occur and when to take shelter. our phones will keep having warnings going off  there are sirens outside that go off when it gets really close. So we all head down into the basement, and we take the dogs and the cats down with us. We sit on lawn chairs and wait till we get the all clear on our phones. This last tornado warning Ciara and Dave drank wine down there lol.  I don't think they were as nervous as I was...  

Noelle:

Tomorrow is the anniversary of Dave's daughter Noelle passing away 12 years ago. Our friends Ruth and Nelda decorated her grave in Arizona for us.  They are amazing friends and I love and miss them so very much.  This means so much to Dave.