Another Major Life Change!

 How many times can I say it's the

END OF AN ERA....

But, hey. 

It's the END OF AN ERA!

Yesterday, Kyle sold his mulcher.

(basically his business...)

He's owned it for a lot of years.

And it has made him a lot of money.

But there aren't a lot of trees in Kansas

that need to be mulched.

So he sold it and it is headed north

to Ohio. (Or Iowa.....  one of those short name states... lol)

(Canadian here... US geography hurts my head.)

Kyle lifted it up with his Cat (using the forks)

and the man backed his truck under it.

It fit like a GLOVE!

(We had him pay cash, sign a bill of sale 

AND sign a waiver saying he took 100% responsibility

if it crushed his truck ... lol.)

It was a little sad.

Nice to get the money, but not as much as it's worth

and not enough to go out and buy the excavator

Kyle REALLY wants for up there...

But... a step in the right direction.

So... to celebrate we went for a walk 

over at the Turkey Creek Preserve.

I had Kyle take our picture.

And you know what happens with the kid has the camera...

Mayhem is what!

Sideways.

Silly man.

He was in a pretty good mood.

Anyhow.

I just finished subbing a morning zoom.

I can hear him zooming around the back 40 

on his TTR50 (small Yamaha dirtbike) he just

fixed so he can either sell it or take it with us

as a zip around kind of bike.

Gotta go do some stuff and then get ready

to teach again this evening.

Have a beautiful weekend

and keep us and the sale of our house in your prayers!

THANKS!!!!!

Baking

 I've been lazing around like a

fat ol' squirrel on the fence.

(He's out there all the time...)

But then the baking bug bit me.

I made a loaf of no-knead artisan white bread.

I added some onion and garlic powder.

It was REALLY good!

Also made a loaf of banana nut bread.

I still have 3 more ripe bananas in the

freezer and then a bunch of nearly

ripe ones on the counter that Kyle

picked from the tree.

The squirrels have been eating them.

(Which might be why he is then lazing

on the top of the fence...)

Anyhow.

The day before I made chocolate chip cookies.

Things are a little slow around here.

So I'm baking.

Had to Laugh

 Yesterday I was watching a YouTube of

a man who cleans homes of folks who have

hoarders syndrome or PTSD or what have you.

He mentioned that in the bedroom he picked

up, folded and stored NINE giant totes of clothes

from off the floor.

In the vernacular of those who suffer from ADHD

this is referred to as a FLOORED-ROBE.

HAHAHAHAHA.

(get it? Wardrobe - flooredrobe...)

If only I had known that WAAAAAY back when

Dad used to threaten to install hooks on our

bedroom floors since that was where we 

seemed to "hang" our clothes all the time.....

Not much has changed. But at least now I know

the correct name!

(Truth - I had to stage this, since, of course, my

home is in a state of "show ready" at all times...

even though nobody seems to want to see it...)

Vrooooom

 Saturday morning Rod and Kyle went to a

land clearing job for a couple of hours.

And then they came home for the open house.

We had a few couples, no offers.

Then Sunday morning we went to church

and then Rod and Kyle hooked up the stock

trailer and headed up to Ocala and

picked up their latest farm equipment.

And they have been buzzing around the

property ever since!

(Now they are in my office on the computer

looking for parts to "soup it up...")

Mechanics....

Anyhow.

It's a 1996 YAMAHA (of course) electric

golf cart. In WaKeeney EVERYBODY zips

around town on side-by-sides, etc.

But we couldn't afford one of those and

this one was a REALLY good deal.

(And Kyle just mentioned that Rod's job

blew up their golf cart, so if they decide this

one doesn't have enough horsepower to

get up our hill between our houses,

we will well it to them and look for a

gas powered one...)

Anyhow.

We had another open house yesterday.

3 couples. 1 seemed really interested.

But until we get an actual offer I'm not

getting all excited.

This morning I worked out and then

baked chocolate chip cookies.

Makes sense, right?

Fun Day!

 I thought I was supposed to sub this morning,

so I got up,

worked out,

made an egg sandwich,

and sat down in front of the zoom.

And the other instructor came in and was all

"What are you doing in here???"

OH!

She needs me to sub on MAY 17.

Lol.

So........

since I suddenly had several hours to kill,

Kyle and I went to WalMart and returned

the bed frame I bought yesterday for him

(he has been sleeping on his mattress on the floor,

but that's not good for his back and looks

dumb when people come to see the house...)

and then he started BUILDING a new frame

(had to go to Lowe's first and get a saw...)

He antiqued it, so it matches the dresser he made.

and I made a batch of oatmeal raisin cookies.

It was a nice day.

Then at 5:24 we went outside and watched a rocket launch

and then it was back into the zoom room for my night class.

Rod should be home from work soon.

So I'm off to feed him some dinner

(and a cookie) and then it's off to bed.

Night all!

We Made It!!!

 Whew!

We got in about 11:45 last night.

And I was EXHAUSTED!!!

I only drove for about 124 miles,

but it was still a LONG 2 days.

(I drove for a little on Saturday too...)

Boy was I happy to get into my REAL bed.

A blow up mattress is fine and all that,

but a nice warm waterbed with my

darling husband is AWESOME.

This morning I did a T-Tapp workout

and then took a lovely shower and

washed my hair.

(We still haven't fixed the shower at

the little house, so showers were quick

and infrequent...)

And then Kyle and I ran to WalMart to get

some groceries and other stuff we needed.

Then to the house to unload and

TAKE A NAP!!!

Also I did laundry.

And put a pork roast in the crock pot.

And then I taught a HUGE class!

My classes have been running between

13 and 15 students for the last months.

Tonight I had TWENTY-EIGHT!!

Wow!

It's been awhile since we've seen those numbers.

Anyhow.

I'm bushed.

And I'm off to bed.

Oh yah, I forgot I took this picture 

when we got on the road.

This is the Love's truck stop in Ellis.

The first town out of WaKeeney.

Just before Hays.

It was a good trip, pretty uneventful.

Except the running lights didn't work on the trailer.

It was the truck, not the trailer, they didn't work

on the uHaul either, but we thought it was the trailer.

(Luckily I'm a pansy and we stopped about dark

every night on the way out... we didn't figure

out the running lights weren't working until 

Monday morning...)

The lights worked on the stock trailer when Kyle was

pulling it with HIS truck, but on Rod's truck

they didn't work.

So we tried lots of options, but finally ended up

at Tractor Supply in some town somewhere

and bought a pigtail that hooked into the gooseneck.

Ran it out the bed of the truck and into the

trailer hitch. That worked. YEA!!!

Other than that... it was just a LONG LONG trip.

We spent the night just outside of Memphis.

Got up nice and early and hit the road again.

Kyle's mattress was in the bed of the truck

(under the topper) so he slept in there

and I took the back seat.

So we were HAPPY to be home in our own beds.

On the Road

See ya' soon WaKeeney!

We are hitting the road!

Gratuitous picture of my lilacs this morning.

Just because.