Thursday, April 22, 2010

Captions

I've got some classic pictures over the last few weeks. So here's a challenge, come up with some captions. :)

Photo #1 Miss Jessica..LOL



Photo #2 Ben....hee hee...good stuff.


Photo #3


Photo #4

I said I would

So...I said I'd tell you all if I passed or failed my notary exam and I found out yesterday in the mail.













I failed.
















I got 30/35. Go figure you have to have 31/35 to pass. SOOOOOooooo....I'm taking it again tomorrow after lunch. I already scheduled everything and I've started reading through all the stuff again. ONE QUESTION!!!!!!!! Anyhoo, I'll tell you how it goes.....




Maybe. ;)

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Cow Show and then some

Okay I know it's been a week but I gotta tell you about the cow show. The first day of a cow show is all about waking up really really early after being up really really late. Ben and John get up and milk the cows and I show up get in the truck and fall back to sleep because I am lazy.

On the trip up to Ogden we listened to sports radio and now I'm back to watching the Jazz. Yes that's what I needed. :)I spent three days with Ben and John and I'm back to being the worlds biggest Jazz fan. LOL. Once we were at the fairgrounds the plan was to set up the clipping area, making room for the feed, create the bed for the cows ,and get the cows washed and resting in record time. I'll just post some pictures to help tell the story....

Our happy cows after the long day.

Our happy fitter after a long day. :)

John from USU and John C

P1 was so not happy and would NOT lay down...I think it was 30 something hours before she finally gave in a got off her feet. Cows....

Ben clipping and fitting.

Day 2. We needed sawdust for the cows bed because what they gave us wasn't going to last long so the guys went into IFA and I got restless waiting so I pulled out the camera.(I know...none of that sounds like me)

Then it was forever later.....


And back to work.

Day 3. Chandra and Christain came in to help is out(Thursday)...THANK YOU! And Chandra and I took the early shift on show day and took care of the cows. These are some fantastic action shots of Chandra catching poop and looking great! :) (it was 3 am...there are reasons there are NO pictures of me...hee hee)


Christian showing his heifer. He did a fantastic job!

And that's about that. It was tons of work and it was fun. Annette got some great pictures and you'll have to check out her blog...except I somehow always look like a scary lady at cow shows. I have this problem… I like cow shows but on show day when it comes down to time to get things done and get the cows ready to go, I turn into a grumpy lady. Maybe grumpy isn't the right word, focused. That sounds nicer....I like to get the cows ready to go the way they should and I get tunnel vision when it comes to getting the job done. And believe me I have had to apologize on many occasion. Anyhoo, let’s not focus on the less wonderful points...let’s just say I'm grateful that I have people that put up with me and even say they love me. ;)

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Terrible Blogger

I knew I'd be terrible at this blogging thing. I lack discipline. Plain and simple. I think about blogging a lot. I think "humm I should blog about that" and then that's where it ends, sad but true. Maybe this isn't so much a lack of discipline as a lack of endurance. I seem to be able to do things for about 1.25 minutes before I don't anymore. Over this last Passover weekend we talked about not only our fruit but producing fruit that lasts. Hummm...something I need to think about. Anyhoo, on to the future.

Oh wait first we must have a most random and confusing and most delightful catch up post. :) Prepare yourself to enjoy. LOL. What have I been doing you might ask(well besides NOT blogging)? I'm going to start with the most current and hopefully hit the highlights of the last few weeks. Today I took the State of Utah Notary exam. Yes I did it and I have no idea if I passed or not. I'll find out sometime in the next week....in the snail mail. I'm not very good at taking tests and can never tell by just going by how it felt so I have no idea if I did well or not. I'll keep you posted...maybe not if the news is bad and I have to take it again. JK. I'm just nervous because you can only miss like 4 questions. But luckily for me my next week might be busy enough I'll have no time to wonder about it and it's doing one of my favorite things.

People think I'm odd for a lot of reasons and one of them is probably because I love to go to cow shows. I like the work. Every year when show season starts, which is around the second week in April, I start bugging Ben about when we get to start clipping cows. This year has been interesting though because of the cold and we didn't want to freeze the poor things by cutting off all their hair so we put it off as long as we could. I don't know what it is about shows and the work but I find it fun. I couldn't and wouldn't do it all year but now again it's just fantastic.

Okay so that covers the highlights of this week...last week...let me look at my calendar..lol. Yes I'm one of those people that has to remind themselves what they did just yesterday let alone last week. :) So I write everything down in a planner and I'd be lost without it. Oh yes last week was the Sedar and Passover prep and firefighting training. Okay Sharon took some pictures of me in my turnouts....don't laugh.



It was getting a little warm in there.
So I started taking off the gear which looked like I was stripping ......Ta da!!Here I am. A firefighter in training(so far so good). Sharon and I had fun laughing. Sharon, I'm so happy you had a fantastic trip but I missed you and it's wonderful to laugh until we cry again. :)
Well now we're all caught up. On to the future...I'll try to be a better blogger.