Spring has Sprung . . .

It's that time of year. .. the pretty flowers are making their emergence into nature.. . even those pretty yellow ones that my yard seems to have so plentiful . .. the trees are showing signs of green and even the buffalo grass is wanting to display it's glory . . . that should be exciting right?? I mean for the past 4 months it's been just flat ugly ... all brown and bare... not to mention the frigid cold temps that we experienced. . . soooo why the reluctance to say HELLO Spring . . . Welcome to Kansas?

Well here's the reason . . . TWO BIG ONES actually . .. and both are those nasty S words.. . Snakes and Storms. . . to be honest .. . the storms I can "usually" deal with .. . but those snakes . . . well let's just say I'm getting better and I "on occasion" will actually spare a bullsnake his life . . . but I still don't like them . . . not one single bit . . . their ugly, their nasty, and they scare the heck out of me and make me shiver. .. not to mention the nightmares they can cause. .. but thankfully we have good doggies who let us know when they are near . . .and sometimes far . . .


Storms on the other hand. . . well . . . I don't really like them either . . . but at least we usually have some warning . . .unlike snakes alot of the time. . . the biggeset problem with storms is they want to come at night . . . when my world is sound asleep . . . so even if we know there are "warnings," nothing is worse then being suddenly awakened by a sound that makes you feel like the roof is being ripped off . . . of course once that happens, so much for getting back into that dreamland that was suddenly abrupted.


Here it is . . . not even April and our State has already experienced it's share of turbulent weather(the storm chasers were even here for this one) but, last night was actually pretty mild for us personally . . . I mean there were tornadoes spotted north of us . . . and at least one very unfortunate and deadly one south of us . . . but all we got was the sound of rain . . . not really a hard rain . . . just rain . . . and alot of it . . . for alot of hours. . . like I thought it was never going to end. . . and ohhhh the thunder and lightning . .. it's been a long time since I remember it cracking and booming like that . . . but through it all, I did actually manage to sleep . . . and hey we even kept our electricity this time . . . and I woke up this morning to cloudy skies, cool temps and WATER. . . and I mean EVERYWHERE. .. but hey . . . at least the empty water tanks stayed in their place, the feed bunks didn't get scattered even further away, and the repaired dog house didn't get blown away.


To close today's blog I've posted a picture so everyone can enjoy the saturated ground with me. . . but remember. . . I never said I was a landscape photographer.

Open House

Hello Friends and Fellow bloggers.. . . I've been absent for a few days and I apologize. . . this thing wasn't thinking I needed to log in and I had such a frustrating time trying to do it that I just had to take a break. But today is a new day and I tried again and YIPPEE!!! It Worked!

Today's blogging isn't anything that is just earth shattering . . . but I am excited to report it nonetheless. . . I've been dragging my feet on having an Open House for the new studio and I finally decided that I've drug my feet long enough . . . sooooo . . . mark your calendars for Sunday, May 6, 2007. The event will be from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the studio. Stop by for refreshments and take a look around. Hopefully all the finishing touches will be complete by then. I hope to see you there!

Only Two Things are Certain . ..

Death and Taxes. . .

So today is the big visit to the tax man . . . it's a day I dread with all passion in life. . . I'm not really sure why I hate it but I just really do . . . I get a dreadful sickening feeling in my stomach starting in January just knowing that I have to go through all those receipts and add them up . . . on the bright side of things . . . I also get to go through and add up what I made during the year. . . shouldn't be that hard right . . . well being self employed you just never know what the numbers might tell you . . . and I guess just thinking about those years when we had to write that big fat check to send in by April 15. .. just not a good feeling . .. but I guess . .. on the other hand . . . I should be glad I'm alive and kicking to even send in that return . .. yea maybe it isn't so bad after all . . . but just know this time next year I'll be having that same sickening feeling all over again . . . it's just inevitable!

So . . . now that I finally was even able to get into this blog to post this update. .. what should tomorrow's topic be. . .

My Debut

Okay ... this is the big debut for me . . . my own "official" blog spot ... now there's just only one problem . .. I really don't know what to write about . . . which is kind of unusual because I've never been one to meet a stranger or one to be at a loss for words. .. but topics. . . they can just escape my brain sometimes . .. so for now . . . I guess I'll just stick with this and see what I can come up with in the mean time . .. maybe tomorrow it will be TAXES . . . I go visit my tax preparer tomorrow . .. SHRIEK!!!