wine and happiness

It's funny how all it takes is a few glasses of rhubarb wine and a quiet evening at home to make me feel so happy. :)

And the wine reminds me that I should start posting more in my blog... and it made me think of some pre-thanksgiving thoughts...

I am thankful for my cozy old house with a roof over my head and a wonderful "family"! A pretty kitty, a smart, awesome dog, and a sweetheart of a husband! And a job that I like and food in the cupboards and fridge.

What else do you really need?? :-)

Gun Spinner from Spirit of the West

I forgot to share this video I took of a professional Gun Spinner from Spirit of the West Festival I went to back in September. Love the music I got to go with it! :-) And he's rather handsome, eh?

Garret Popek - Gun Spinner

Tan & Blaze

This is what I've been up to these days.... Pheasant Classic!!

(GO MITCHELL!!)

Spirit of the West Festival | Discover America

Going to this tomorrow with my honey! For fun, and for work -- especially for the Dutch Oven Cook-Off. Should be a good time!

Spirit of the West Festival | Discover America

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"Forty-Six & 2" lyrics by Tool

My shadow's Shedding skin and I've been picking scabs again. I'm down digging through my old muscles looking for a clue. I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions for a piece to cross me over or a word to guide me in. I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in my shadow. Change is coming through my shadow. My shadow's shedding skin I've been picking my scabs again. I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been I've been wallowing in my own chaotic and insecure delusions. I wanna feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I've endured within my shadow. Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me. I choose to live and to grow, take and give and to move, learn and love and to cry, kill and die and to be paranoid and to lie, hate and fear and to do what it takes to move through. I choose to live and to lie, kill and give and to die, learn and love and to do what it takes to step through. See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me soften this old armor. hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me.


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cat update

Well the kitty has warmed up to us quite a bit more within the last week! yay!! She'll actually rub up against our legs and stuff randomly like a tame cat should do. So I feel like she's pretty well tame now and even tolerates our dog, Woody. He is very excited to follow her around and sniff her whenever he gets the chance. She didn't know what to think of him at first, but now she doesn't even hiss at him!

We went out to eat with an old college friend and her husband last night. They were in town for the big farm show. So it was fun to give a tour of the house and hang out.

Other than that, just been super busy at work. Fall Great Outdoor Days weekends coming up. I've got a Dutch Oven Cook-Off tomorrow and a Fast Draw Championship going on all weekend at the store. It's a pretty happening place lately!

But I am pretty tired... drinking some strawberry wine (yes, homemade) and waiting for my eyes to droop enough for me to fall asleep for another day tomorrow.

kitty cat

So I've been bad... with not posting ever lately.

I've just been keeping busy and check out facebook and email more often than anything else.

I got a kitty on Friday... not sure if it was a good idea or not not...

I always wanted a house cat since I as little. I would often play with the farm cats in the barn growing up, and I would always ask to bring one or two inside... but mom and dad never let me.

So now that I have my own house, I thought... why not?? So I called a number in the paper offering kittens ... went out north of town to look at a few kittens... and saw this grayish-white part siamese, part farm kitten. I fell in love with her ocean blue eyes... and brought her home and named her Ocean!

My husband OK-ed the idea of me getting a cat. He's gone with the dog to a cousin's house for the weekend... they'll be home today sometime. I'm anxious to see how the dog and cat will get along... if it doesn't work out, I figure I can always give the cat away to someone else or take it to my siblings out on the farm. The dog comes first! Can't give up Sir Woody! He's the best! :)

The thing is... I thought this cat was more tame when I decided to bring it home. But I can hardly ever catch it in my house now! I've been keeping her in a "safe room" most of the time... which is what many sources say to do at first with any new cat in the house - I did research!

When I do catch her, she loves to be pet and cuddled and purrs away. But then I let her go after a while... and walk up to her again later and she's all skittish and scared again like she doesn't know me. I'd say she's about 14-20 weeks old... so not the best age to try to tame a kitten... I've read that the ideal age to tame kittens is anything younger than 12 weeks... so we'll see how it goes! If nothing else, this will be a learning experience!

But here, you can see how pretty she is!