Hello :-)

Hello all! Yes, it has been awahile. Shall we play catch up?
We finally sold our house on Main!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can you believe it? I was in shock. The buyer was normal and it was not like any of the other offers we had in the past. Profit was zero really but to sell a house in the times and in a small town that is fast becoming run down we were lucky and blessed !!! so we are now working on the the farm and catching up up on projects around here. so enough for now and I will catch ya up more with pics a bit later Have a great day!

Current Events

Our 10 year annv. is coming up and Critter shocked me last night with this ring.



Critter and I wish you all a Merry Christmas!



The birthday is fast approaching :-( I am gonna be 43,44,or 45 I have lost track but I am sure I want to be in my thirties and don't want to get old.



Dear Herman Cain,
See ya! if you did nothing wrong why did you not tell your wife about all the money you gave another woman if it was so above board ?? I never have trusted you!
Why do you always refer to yourself in third person? Is it to remove yourself from the real truth?

Have a good night yall have a good night

I asked - I got :-)

Cornice Boards that was my idea. Critter said "what are they?" that was Friday afternoon. Friday night we are hanging out at the fabric store (yes, we are a hip couple!) Saturday, I had cornice boards that are covered in burlap and leather. I love em :-)




Welcoming in the holidays here at WJ Farms

Dusk snaps

Critter is workin the seed in.
Soon we will have a pasture full of winter rye




All my "finds" from the earth here at WJ
if you look close you can see a doll arm. I am still hunting for body






Good night from WJ Farms

Saddles and Wrenches

Saddles are best on the floor and on top of the fridge :-)








This is the harness we scored for 19 bucks! The big ole wrench I found last year by the round pen. Our earth here at WJ gives up the coolest things from the past. I would love to know how old it is and how long did the farmer look for it before he finally gave up.

Here is where Scrappy has been

Just in case you might have been wonderin.
Well I have been soul searchin, wondering, lost in fog, blazin new trails and........

The above all is true but to narrow it down heres a story.
My former boss and friend that I have blogged about before lost his battle with cancer and I didn't realize just how much of a friend I considered him and I think I saw him as a father figure. I lost my Dad in 04 and Dad and my friend Jerry Turner had alot of views in common and I did not realize just how much he impacted my life and it was kinda like losing a parent again. I feel like I abandoned him when I left the job but, as him and I talked, he told me he understood my reasons and held no ill will.



I did contiue to see and talk to him so I had to sort all those feelings out-

My relationship with Pickles and the rest of the family has changed. I still talk and see her and love her and my family dearly but we have different views in things now and my inability to be anything other than a "black and white thinker" has changed our relationship. I had to sort all those feelings out-

I took a break from working for a few months and then got another job that was brief and O so wrong for me thennother job that was good and I was not looking for another one when a old friend called and offered me a job in Sept and I am at least on the work front back on track. and I was feelin like I was letting Critter down by changing jobs so much and I had to sort all those feelings out-

My bay mare Pic founderd in the spring so bad I thought we might have to put her down but, she has turned out to be a fighter :-) She has been penned in a small area for all of the summer and she has just recently been able to get out for short times and that has been a blessing. I felt so bad. My ignorence in not knowing all the signs and feeling responsible for letting her get bad due to my lack of knowledge as an owner. These animals are as you know just like human kids to me.
Not to mention with the drought here in Texas We are in search of Hay and the prices are unreal and my message to all the price gougers. Karma, people KARMA just know you are causing horses to be abandonded or killed just because you are so greedy! there is nothing wrong with a profit but what some of yall are doing is a shame!!! Not profit but greed!!!
I had to sort all those feelings out-

Then we moved to the farm full time and rented our house out and we were starting to "see the light " money wise then the renter bailed and we moved another one in and ended up throwing that one out! We have had at least 10 contacts/signed offerers on but believe it or not all have been bat@#^$ crazy folk!!
I have had to sort those feelings out-

So, here we are. I am doing ok and Critter and I are doing good and I am learning how to deal with life and back to bloggin :-)

Next post will be about me putting a saddle on the wall. :-) See ya soon :-)

Hello Stranger

Good Evening,
Summers gone. Fall is here and the windows are open in the barn and we are coming off another great weekend.
Critter and I made it to the Texas Country Reporter Festival and SCORED! The two rabbit paintings were our first find and I just fell in love with them. Next we found the double yoke and then the single harness in great shape for $19.00 bucks. We had such a great day!!
The double yoke to me represents my commitment to Critter and our marriage. So, naturally I wanted two becuase I am truely devoted to my Critter :-)

I was telling Critter people may think of my decor as odd. I have bears,bunnies, horses, cows and farn implements in our bedroom. I just buy what I like and hopefully he likes also and try to put it together in a non offensive way.
I told him that a dream of mine would be to have Debb, from Trash Talk come put it together for me. I want to do something with my windows but I am clueless anyone got any ideas?

The last score was 150 pounds of rye seed for less than $80.00. If you are looking for Critter this week he will be plowing and seeding after work this week. :-)










Wishing you a happy fall season from the front porch of WJ Farms.


Goodbye summer plants. Thank you for all your pretty blooms.


Hope you have a great week!

WJ Farms supports the death penalty

Hello All :-)

Critter just finished building a porch on the barn and I love it! Front porch sittin at its best :-)





A warning to all flying pest- "Stay away from my porch or find yourself walkin the green mile!"

A Pickle Story

Pickles a.k.a Mom was in the line at the drug counter to fill her prescriptions for whatever it is that a keeps a 75 year old mom in the "hottie" category. There is a man of similar age behind Pickles, He taps he on the shoulder and says "You know what I would love? My coffee in your cup in the morning"


TRUE STORY!

A few notes

Dear Mini Van drivers of the world,
Please refrain from using the left lane,. You are holding up the progress of the free world.
Sincerely,
Drivers on 35E

Dear Person in the lowered Honda,
I just love your annoying exhaust system that makes it sound like farts in rapid succession and your creative mixing of different colored panels from many of your scrap yard finds, I would ask you to take note of the "T" on my tail which means TURBO and ask you to realize you don't have a chance in Hades of beating me to the 35split.
Love,
The gal in the S60 Volvo that smoked ya this AM.

Dear Eye Doctor,
These contacts you gave me last month are the pits! I regret to inform you that I am putting you on notice that I will not return to your practice, due to the fact I can't see a thing! so not sure how I could see my way to get back there!!!!!!!
Love,
The consumer you ripped off

Dear New Job,
I love you :-)


That is all :-)

Scrappy who?

Me. the missing blogger.
More changes...
I have a new job now :-)(Not a nursing home) I have an hour and half commute each way and I have to be up and out the door by 5:25 am but, that's OK because I love this company. I did alot of research and I know I made the right choice. Critter has been so supportive of my choices and has been great! I was a stay at home horse mom for All of Feb. and he never stopped encouraging me :-)
So, now we are getting back on track :-) and I will be back to my regular blogging
:-) and reading everyone blogs so hope everyone has a great night!
Oh yea! Warrenton is on the 25!!!!!! I am so gonna talk the Critter into to going. I had a blast last year and hope to do it again :-)

The story

Let me set the scene for ya.
I am in the bedroom.
Critter is on the couch.
Snowing and 19 degrees out.


All the sudden a loud noise (sound similar to the Hindenburg crashing) and Bitty Kitty running in the room paws up in the air and screaming something (sounded like "I have the power to knock walls down" Bitty watched the Darth Vader superbowl commerical one to many times and it gave her some ideas :-)
I then hear Critter scream "Oh Gawd, No!!"

I then go to the hallway and am now seeing a ladder in the hallway (see aftermath below)







So, we have deduced that barn cat stepped on starter on tractor and the ignition thingy was stuck so, the tractor starts and pushes the ladder that was laying on top of the sawhorses. Not only did it shove the ladder into the radiator of the tractor it put the ladder through the wall!
Critter spent the past weekend replacing the wall and he has some texturing and painting in his near future.

What do a ......

Tractor, ladder, saw horses and a cat have to do with MAJOR reconstruction of my barn home? let ya know tomorrow with pictures

Lessons in fear

It was before 6am when I got the call from Critter stating he was having chest pain and was driving to the hospital.
It was at that moment I went into a complete and total tail spin. I was still home just starting to get dressed for work. I must also tell you it was 18 degrees out and ice and snow everywhere.
As I was attempting to pull it together I was talking to Critter and trying not to panic.
I call the ER and tell them his info symptoms,allergies, insurance, and eta and get my boots on and head to the gate.
Critter has locked the gate on his way out and now I am sitting there trying to get to him and the lock won't work!
You see, Critter is my world, my rock, my friend,my hero, my Alpha and Omega.
I am now trapped behind the gate crying uncontrollably in a feeling of panic and helplessness.
I have made up my mind to drive the Volvo thru the gate.
I call my brother and then my step-son and had it not been for those two calls I would have surely panicked.
I keep trying the lock then call 911 sobbing still uncontrollably and the most caring Ellis County operator sends the Fire Dept. to cut the lock. We know the firemen and they are so kind then cut the lock told me to go on and they would make sure the farm was secure.
It was what seemed like hours later I finally I got to my Critter.
Always true to the Cowboy. Critter keeps his boots on.

He got the dye injected then snapped the pics of his heart and finished up his stress test

Critter now has big bald patches in his Critter fur

Critter checked out with a healthy heart and they think it is a reflux type thing.

Please hug the ones you love tonight and let them know how much you care because you just never know. I also want to say Thank You to all those who helped me get through this scare.
Giving all the Glory to the Lord for giving us another day.

Death took a left

I got on the freeway tonight and just as I got on the on ramp a hearse was right next to me.
I proceed at about 80 and Death was hot on my tail at 80 mph. I must say death chasing me for 20 miles was not a good feeling.


So, I decide to turn the tables on Death and chase him for about 20 miles and just when I was thinking, "Who is the idiot that chases Death?"



Death took the left exit:-)