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As much time as I’ve been spending on processing chickens, I need to put them on my 2026 resolution list! Only 22 more to go and I’ll be done.

Coffee is ready. I’m tired.

I got all 10 in the freezer!

It’s taken me a week to get back to chickens! I’ve got 10 on ice, hopefully I can get them all processed and in the freezer today/tonight. There’s 23 more and I’ll be done. Whew!

The installation crew was a young woman tech with a young man as her helper. Her dad owns the business. There are 13 kids in the family, some born to the parents, some adopted from negligent parents, some taken in from drug head parents, all loved and treated as their very own. Half of them work...

I’m getting new AC installed now!

Coffee is ready. Going to meet friends at the Sheriffs breakfast this morning. During the school year, our Sheriff has a breakfast once a month and takes donations. The money is turned over to a board of directors. Any graduating students in Trinity county can apply for a scholarship to go to a...

A friend brought me a small window AC, it’s in living room window. I slept on fold out sofa bed. Luxury. I’ll get new AC Friday or Monday. Had my 2 cups of coffee, time to get moving.

That’s what I call udder relief! :lol: On another note, I have to giggle when people spell those milk bags on any animal as “utter”

I read my resolution list. I’ve been running at top speed but I can’t catch up. My object is to drain the swamp but I’m up to my A$$ in alligators!

Coffee is ready. My AC is broke, blowing hot. Calling AC guy first thing this morning. Can NOT live in manufactured home in Texas without AC. Slept on sofa at son’s house, only furniture left in there. Woke up more than I slept, grumpy and in a bad mood.

Coffee is ready. My first job was at JC Penny when I was 16. Minimum wage was $1.60 and I was hired at a whopping &1.70!!! A full ten cents over minimum wage! I worked weekends and after school. My first apartment when I was 17, was $135 a month.

Coffee is ready. I’m borrowing a neighbor’s truck this morning to go get a super bag of feed. 1,000 pounds. Finally tomorrow my sister in law and I are loading up my truck on a gooseneck trailer to take it to the shop. It has either a diesel leak or an oil leak. I’m hoping it’s a fuel leak...

We call it bull thistle.

Doing chores yesterday evening, I opened the doors to the shed to find two copperheads nestled on the alfalfa crumbs. Uhhh…., Nope! NOT reaching for a flake of alfalfa! I went and got a square point shovel and a machete. I slammed the shovel on both, whacked the bigger snake with the machete...

I made a quick trip to Corpus Christi Tuesday to see a school play my middle granddaughter was in, came back Wednesday. I took them 65 pounds of boneless skinless chicken breast, leg quarters, ground chicken, chicken pan sausage and a couple packages of buffalo wings. They were delighted. The...

As long as you don’t use the litter box, it’s ok to hide under the bed.

Sunny, windy and beautiful yesterday. I machete chopped thistles until 2:30. Got 3 fields cleared. Practically none in the back field. They are blooming and I don’t need ten million more. I had to get them down! I’ll pick them up in a couple of days, bagged and set out for the trash. Otherwise...

Coffee is ready! It’s cold here at 42F, but warming up this week. I think I’ll go chop and drop thistles this morning. They are getting ahead of me, they are monstrous huge. Time to sharpen up the machete. Will be sunny this week, maybe that will dry them up and I can gather and put them in a...

That is wonderful.