Spring and Updates

Well its pretty evident that due to all the warm weather that an early spring is in the air.   Senior and I have started working on the spring garden, we got it tilled pretty good, and put in some red potatoes. We have also started down the road to a new venture: Pigs.

Eventually I would like a couple of goats and have a strong affection for pygmies. My cousin out in San Antonio, TX has the Nubian goats. She bought them for her granddaughters 4-H project and she entered them in shows and made a nice profit once they went to auction.

Last weekend we visited a livestock auction. The only pigs they had were 4 pregnant pot bellied ones...so when you bought one you were also getting her litter...no thanks!

Goats though were in abundance, I know they are so cute when they are babies:

 

But then they have to grow up: 

So back to the pig issue, my uncle in NC is on the look out for us, he has been visiting some pig farms and getting prices and looking at the stock. He is going in with us monetarily for them as he would like at least half of one in his freezer...so we put him to work doing some of the leg work.
The pen is built, and we are hoping in the next couple of weeks to have them here...
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I mentioned updates so here goes: Last Monday after dropping kids off at school I was pulling onto our road when I got rear ended by a driver who clearly was not paying attention...I had some minor damage to the back of my car, but his entire front end was hanging off... My trailer hitch went right into his radiator and ripped off his bumper...  antifreeze was everywhere. Thankfully no one was hurt, and the kids weren't with me.
He was very decent and immediately admitted fault, he claimed he looked down to grab his coffee-Yea Right! . So after the cop wrote him a nice big ticket, he got blessed out by his father...turns out he was on daddy's insurance-There goes those premiums!, apparently this was not his first rodeo and has had other traffic violations.
My car went in to the shop for a couple of days which was a huge inconvenience and his 2001 pickup truck went to the graveyard....it was totaled. 
But all is right again with the world, got my car back earlier then promised turned in the crappy rental car and drove happily home.

And in other news: On the 27th the guardian takes over for mom. My sister and I are very happy . I am thrilled that someone professional will be able to deal with all the paperwork and headache of medicare etc...  My brother is none to happy about it because for Christmas my sister and I got a very nasty letter where he claims he will never have anything more to do with us...okay A-hole!  no problem.
The best part about the letter is the coward did not have the testicular fortitude to address the envelope himself, he had his twit wife  do it...I guess he assumed we wouldn't open it up if we recognized his handwriting.. My sister got hers first so when mine came in the mail I simply wrote his return address and returned it back to him unopened..
 My sister had emailed it to me, so I printed it and keep a copy in my purse for in the future should our paths cross and he tries to speak to me, I can quickly whip it out and remind him of his actions...
There will truly be a special place in hell for him one of these days...

I just realized that my previous post was on Feb. 1st..   geez where does the time go????? 

-JUGM

My Week

This has been an sad week..I hope it ends on a better note.. 
First, Wednesday and Thursday while taking boys to school, we have encountered car accidents. Not just little fender benders, but total destruction ones. Wednesday it was a girl who pulled out of our community and on to a busy State Road. she did not look , and hit a motorcyclist. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The police handed the girl all kinds of tickets..I havent heard an update to the motorcyle rider, but I am hoping he will be okay.

Thursday, we again are headed to school, and get to the interstate, when I see all kinds of blue and red flashing lights. " Not again" I thought..  a small car had collided with a logging truck. They both had a green light, but the car driver did not have a green arrow in order to safely turn left, she went anyways right in to the path of the truck..unfortunantly her mother the passanger was killed. The car was virtually bent in half..I have never seen such carnage. It looked awful  The driver of the car is in critical condition, and the truck driver got some minor injuries. I know it was the cars fault, but I have witnessed many times how these logging truck drive, and there is no way he was doing the posted 45mph.

Then Thursday evening, a bit of sad news for the friends and family of an old High School Classmate of mine. She passed away from a progressive form of Lou Gherigs diseaase. It depressed me so much last night, because she was only a year older then me, and left behind her high school sweetheart husband and 2 children who are not much older then my boys. I remember her fondly from school, and the brief time she was my childhood next door neighbor, I even have a pic of us together as little girls. She was such a beautiful person inside and out..I know she is in a better place...But I pray for her family that they may find solace during this tough time. I hate it for her babies though, it really makes me sad to think of children losing a parent at such a young age. So last night, I hugged mine a little bit more, and kissed their little cheeks, and told them how much mommy and daddy love them.

So, now its on to our weekend and yard work for us, I just put in 2 trays of marigolds around our maple trees and now we are going to put in a  fresh layer of mulch in all the beds. I enjoy working outdoors, it makes me happy to be digging in the earth, and watching things grow, I think it will be good therapy after such a sad week and a reminder to me that life does go on......