Easter is on its Way

Nocona and the kids made a few of these excellent paper-mache Easter egg nest. She just cut up strips of paper bags dipped them in flour water and drapped them over plastic bowls protected with plastic wrap. Let it dry over night and wa la...Easter Nest.

Take Us Out to the Ball Game

My people and I had fun watching our cousin/nephew play baseball the last couple of days. Two days ago we were watching in almost ninety degree heat then yesterday it was low forties and freezing wind. Texas...got to love it.

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Breakfast Party

Happy Birthday to the best Mom/Grandmother on Earth. Sorry to the rest of you. Unfortunately, your Mom's are all playing for runner-up.

Tendonitis

Tendonitis is the verdict. I have a "pretty bad case" according to the doctor, which lucky for me will probably be a reoccurring problem for a long time to come. For now, I get the pleasure of icing my shoulder for 20 minutes 3-4 times per day and wearing an anti-inflammatory patch for 12 hours at a time. I am allowed to do exactly nothing with it for the next month. At the end of the month, if it is still jacked up I am supposed to go back to the doc and pay for a bunch of expensive pictures.

It's not all bad news though. As I am explaning my shoulder falling apart following my 3+ hour wrestling match with the tiller, I see a sparkle in my doctor's eye. After she finished the history, testing, diagnosis and explaination of the treatment plan, she asked with excitement, "So, what did you plant?"

I explained all the things in the ground now and the things to come, and discovered that my doctor and her husband are huge gardener/farmers. By the end of the appointment, I had a bunch of free shoulder patch samples, a prescription, and my doctor's home phone number. She said her husband would sell me some of his awesome greenhouse raised tomato plants for only two bucks a piece. Booya! Discounted tomato plants for the low cost of a $200 or more doctor appointment (crappy insurance! no co-pay...100% until deductible is met).

Started

Yesterday, I had a bad shoulder. Today, I have a terrible shoulder. I downed my cup of joe and scrambled eggs this morning, and zipped off with Izzy to Home Depot. We made quick work of selecting the biggest tiller they had to rent, gave the man fifty-five bucks and hurried home to tear open some backyard. Nocona and I wrestled the 250 pound tiller out of the truck bed, and that was the end of the easy stuff. With blissful ignorance, I fired up the giant rear tine tilling machine, popped it into gear, and off we went. Some of the dirt was silky smooth and the tiller chewed it up like a soft baked cookie, but approximately one forth of the patch was like a brick...house might,mighty. Mighty ridiculous. After 3 hours and several passes of doing the world's longest isometric tricep dip, the garden was started and my shoulder was finished. I did, however, go on to plant potatoes, onions, a few strawberry plants, a couple of cucumbers, and a blackberry bush. My 4 hour rental time constraint coupled with my stupid shoulder prevented me from making the garden quite as big as I wanted this year. Overall though, I am pleased with the outcome.

Take a Whiff

The family and I just returned home from our exodus. I walked in took a deep breath through my nostrils, and what's that I smell? Nothing! Sweet Nothing! Excrement defeated!