Fun Day at the Fair

Posted on by August 4, 2011


Why is everything good at the fair… fried?????

Well, I resisted all the fried stuff at the fair. I was going to splurge, but after paying $5 for a lemonade, which was absolutely delishious, I just didn’t have to heart to pop down any more cash for stuff that was going to keep me up all night long! Haha… getting old is rough some days.

We had a nice little show today… Deepwater played for the Senior Day group at the Wood County Fair, here in Bowling Green, Ohio. Very nice folks to entertain for. I tell you, bluegrass is a great music for the fair, seems perfect if you ask me. We had a very nice crowd and we had a very nice day. It was so lovely of the folks putting on the show to think to have a fan blowing across the stage! Oh, that is divine! You get pretty darn hot up there, performing, when it’s hot outside! Very nice.

Got home and found that things here at the homestead were continuely improving as well. We’ve got a handle on orders, had a little extra windfall cash come in to help out and our to do cards are back down to a nice normal amount! Whew!

Now, there are a bunch of garage sales going on, up and down this one local highway and I really thought long and hard about it. I’ve decided that I’m not going. I have enough stuff, don’t need any more treasures at the moment. I tell you, it’s terrible. I go to these things and I find the VERY best things all the time! It’s a blessing and a curse! Sure, I get some great deals, but in the end, I’ll spend $100 in a heart beat on stuff that I didn’t know I needed but now can’t live without!! haha… I have a little stash of stuff already from the last couple big runs that I haven’t even sorted or hung up and utilized. That tells me I think I can pass on this garagesaleapalooza! There will be some other one in a week or two.

Instead, I made a list of all the things that we need to do around the place, that we already have the materials or resources to do and really need to be done. I’m hoping that by Monday, we’ll have the list at least whittled down by half. All of it would be SUPER DUPER WONDERFUL!!!!

• Clean the feed room
• Make a little anti-chicken door for the feed room
• Put the new weed whacker nylon blade thingy on the weed whacker
• Weed the front of the house and mulch out
• Make hay/bunny nests for the buns
• Rake out under the chicken roosts and spread a little fresh hay in barn
• Trim off the tops of the sticks in the stick fence
• Make Ed’s cage bottom insert
• Stain the bunny hutch
• Lawn mower tune up lesson
• Measure out the plywood needed for the little coop front wall

All smallish tasks and with a little luck and some nice temps, we should be able to tackle some of them. Of course, there will be sheep tickling and hen feeding and hopefully a little bit of iced tea sipping and sitting on the screen porch with a nice cool breeze time too! That would be nice.


Hope you all have a lovely weekend planned and can sit and smell the roses or whatever else you’d like to do… I’m happy to report that we have made it through our crazy week and things are back in control. With that, I’m off to bed and I’m sleeping in tomorrow. Yes, I am. At least 10 a.m. Maybe even longer!!! haha…

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Improving…

Posted on by August 3, 2011

Thanks everyone for the computer cheer up and horror stories of computer stuff to help let me know, I’m not alone… haha…. The last two days have been a little, well, dreadful. Nothing super serious, just lots and lots of little things that all swelled up to a big unpleasant mess that made me very stressful and threatened what my friend Lynda and I call… SHUTDOWN…

You know, where you just walk away from it all and go find a book and hide in your bed for most the day until you feel a little better and can sort of think straight again.

Just seemed that Monday was one of those things that I dreaded… the old chaotic Mondays of the old days when I worked for the man, and just everyone would dump on you for the first 6 hours of the day and then retreat to their own little empires to brew and seap while you tried to get a grasp of what first to do while you are armpit deep in alligators! That was my Monday!

Computer issues were defeating… customer service was nuts for some reason, people had lost their downloads, people were grumpy about back orders and some were looking for late orders. Our brand new water heater decided to stop working, so that meant no hot showers, or washed dishes. The bunny hutch project was starting to build in time and materials and still was NOT done… we’re working on a music show with some folks and it was just getting a little wonky since we haven’t had a show for some months and all. Of course, money is short, we had a dreadful month of sales and it’s finally has caught up with me. And it was hot and humid and I got a HUGE electric bill… it was just one thing after another all piling up and making me crazy!

Thank goodness I HAD to go to Toledo on Tuesday, take the girls to see their Dad and do some errands and egg deliveries. And Monday evening, a wonderful young man offered to help with the computer situation… Thanks Guri! And then a friend emailed that she has an expensive biomass stove that they are selling and they want to sell to us at a STUPID low price… it was so nice! (Helped to ease some of my worries of how we were going to heat this joint in a few months…) And she doesn’t even mind if it takes me a while to get the cash together! And then another friend IMed me outta the blue and we had a lovely little chat gripe session that ended up with a really good positive session and got my self back to a nice calm middle place, instead of a “poor me” pity party place… And it didn’t stop there… got the last of the stuff for the hutch and we finished up at least the top, two cages done around 1 am… and we scored over 50 loaves of bread for the livestock (and us) for $5 at the outlet place!!

Did I mention that Steve got the water heater fixed and Maggie got our dishes all caught up, bless them….

I worked hard to get all the customer service stuff done, the Opry tickets arrived from the printers, and by the time I went to bed last night, my to-do cards were WAY down and back to a nicer calmer level. In fact, the neighbor kids showed up and invited Jessy and Maggie to a quick round of card games and it was so fun to just sit on the couch and relax, listening to the four of them laughing and being silly.

They were playing some game that was like Scabble, but with cards and I was the official helper of them all… since they were trying to make up words and would occasionally get a wonky hand. I was so happy that Maggie was in the fray and doing pretty good. I even got to help her learn how to fake out the others by introducing Kee… the Scottish word for harbor… AND THEY FELL FOR IT! hahahahah…. Maggie could hardly stop her wildly excited giggles when one of them said, Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that… hahaha…. Nothing warms the heart then to teach your youngest how to cheat at word card games… hahaha… it’s the bluff, I tell ya. The bluff!

Well, in the end, she had to admit and they all laughed and giggled, and it was delightful. Of course, being Maggie, she tried another goofy word later on, something about a New Jersey marsupial and they were on to her…. hahaha…. Still, the evening, sure made my day.

So… the computer is off to Florida, the bunnies are happily installed in the new hutch, orders to going out the door, hot water is once again flowing (it was a simple thing… the thermostat on the thing had gotten bumped to super cold!) and we got a little extra windfall of money that saved the day. Just an extra $150, but hey, it was perfect and helped out for sure.

I guess what I’m saying is that over and over I am reminded by Grace that sometimes, yes, things are a little overwhelming. And yes, there are unpleasant days even in the middle of one’s life long dreams fulfilled. Yet, life is like a normal day of weather… hot and sunny, warm and nurturing and dark and stormy as well, but it all passes, it changes and is never the same day in and day out. I try so hard to watch my thinking and moods… slipping into the pity pool does nothing to refresh and uplift me. I just have to learn to grab on to a firm hold and wait out the storm, even the tornados that life throws at you now and then. Because there is always a brighter moment coming and hopefully, even a rainbow to lift your spirits. All is well. Looking forward to a little music at the week’s end, since we’re playing Thursday at the Wood County Fair… and a little quiet, since we’ve vowed no new projects for August… and just in the last two days, orders have picked up and hopefully that is a sign that the doldrums of July are gone and we can get a little better wind in our sails for the rest of the year!!!

Thank you all for attending my little grumpfest! I’ll get a t-shirt out soon… (haha)

Still waiting on kittens… poor Topaz is starting to waddle around like a little kitty blimp… any day now… any day….

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Grumpy…

Posted on by July 31, 2011

Okay, I’m grumpy. Actually, I’m really feeling a little upset because I just spent the last four hours trying to install a hard drive for my computer, which died a few weeks ago, and I finally saved up enough cash for a new harddrive and now it still won’t work. Won’t recognize a CD in it’s drive, called some friends, checked on line, it’s something ELSE wrong with the computer. It’s bad enough that I lost the last 5 months of data, because well, with the new farm and all that was going on, silly me, I didn’t back up all my work, including some client and new product work that took me HOURS and HOURS to do and it will cost a bazillion dollars to have some fancy place try and recover the data… But now, I still can’t get my computer to work. I’m using Jessy’s borrowed laptop which she is a doll for letting me use, but still, it’s not my computer and I really really really really am grumpy at the moment and I think I’m going to bed.

Shesh.

Sorry for this little bit of angst, brought to you by Me. See, even perky happy Sherri gets the blues now and then.

And not EVERYTHING is perfect in Sherriland.

I just usually refuse to let it bother me too much, but I guess, I’m at my limit, so it’s time to just go and lay down and let the universe work and just maybe, maybe, when I call the tech people, they will have some wonderful little trick that will get it all to work.

Please?

I think I’m going to go and eat fruit cocktail out of a can.

That should help. Probably.

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