Preparing for what's ahead...

So Bob and Judy have been down for a couple days now -- neither are planing on leaving until tomorrow. Normally this wouldn't be an issue, the only thing is that Cody (Angie's son, LaVaughn's high school friend) is coming to stay the night with us tomorrow night. They're supposed to be leaving tomorrow, but I'm not sure that will be the case if the weather is anything like it's supposed to be, which is rain.

It's not like they would be mean to him or anything, but it would be majorly uncomfortable for him and us! Plus, he would have no place to sleep. It's just an all around awkward and frustrating situation. Can I go back to work tomorrow instead?

In finger news -- yes, I said finger news -- I'm still highly on the uncomfortable side. My finger bothered me SO much at work yesterday! I panicked during the first 3 hours I was there, then we unbelievably busy in the late evening which didn't really give me much time to think of anything else. I was so happy to leave last night. I honestly didn't think I was going to make it out alive -- staying 45 minutes over my shift didn't help matters much.

Sorry, sidetracked! Back to my mysterious finger illness, which is bothering me even more today. I'm seriously on the brink of going to the doctor. Not really, but it sounds good. Of course, if things get any worse than today I'm most definitely going. I just DON'T get it! I'm going to continue my course of antibiotics and epsom salt soaks and see where that gets me. Cause lets face it, keeping a finger elevated is just NOT possible! Am I right?

In happier news, I got my awesome snakeskin purse form JustFab yesterday. It was SUCH a pleasant thing to come home to after my hellish night of work. I knew the size was going to be an issue, I could tell that by the stock photos. And let me say, they do not disappoint on their actual sizes, it's actually that small! I was hoping for a little bit of leeway, but if anything it's smaller than I was expecting. With that being said, I still managed to stuff 70% of my old purse items into my new one. I didn't, however, get to smash all of my body sprays in it. Major sad face.

I guess I had better get off my ass and finish feeding the gliders. I just finished making 3 batches of HPW a little while ago, I'm sure the gliders would like to enjoy some of that.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Old man rivers:

HPW being made:

Finished product:

My new snakeskin purse from JustFab:

It's so adorable!

But so small compared to my old purse.

Free at last!

That probably exactly what all the chickens were thinking today, "Free at last!" During the spring and summer months, all the chickens, ducks and turkeys get the run of the yard. Not only is it beneficial to them, but it's beneficial to us. When they're running free in the yard, they tend to catch all kind of bugs. And with living out of town - practically in the boonies - it really helps.

Anyway, the lighting was beautiful today and allowed for great photos. It didn't hurt that the subject of my photos were so darn cute. ;) So naturally, I have a million photos to share.

I suppose that's all for now. Hope you enjoy the photos...  :O)

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day:  The Wishing Well by Jake La Botz (my fellow Rambo fans will know all about this song)

Here are the pics:

 All the chickens foraging in the yard.

 Gandalf the gorgeous. :)

 The Blue Slate turkeys foraging for bugs.

 They need names.

 I think it would be best to wait until they get older, I can't really tell them apart.

 Our beautiful White Silkie Bantam, Gandalf.

 Gandalf's profile.

 Helen is a little dick.

 Turkey profile.

 Leo foraging for food.

 He's such a gorgeous red rooster.

 Guess what? Chicken butt!

 I love how fat our hens are.

 Heads down!

 I love this picture! I love how you can see the water behind all the hens.

 Leo is all fluffed up in the background.

 The lone hen.

A close up on our bantam rooster, Helen.

 The profile of Kind Leonidas.

 Back to the beautiful, Gandalf!

I seriously love this little guy. <3

Bonus Gallery!

Early this morning before I went to bed, I was letting Milla out so that she could go to the bathroom. Well, as I was shutting the screen door - it hangs really bad - I slammed my finger in it. It was numb for a few minutes, then I thought it was broke. After that it just burned. I had a nice hunk of flesh hanging off of it for a while and, of course, I couldn't find ANY nail clippers, so I had to yank the skin off... fun! 

Here's what it looked like:

 Bloody finger.

 It doesn't look bad, but take my word, it's sore!

 Then when I get up today to take the band-aid off, I couldn't. It was stuck to my open, bleeding flesh.

 See, no joke. I finally had to run warm water over it to get it to come off.

And this is how hideous my finger looked out in natural light today. Sickness!

Aww, poor me...

For the past couple days, I've been using a bag of mixed fruits for our gliders. We usually make the SSG fruit smoothie, but haven't got around to it. Anyway, I was having a pretty hard time trying to cut the strawberries so I picked them up and started trying to pry them apart with the knife (I know, stupid move on my end). And almost as soon as I did that, the knife slipped and got my finder instead.

My finger was kind of numb at the time cause I had been handling all the frozen fruits, so I didn't feel too much. After my finger kind of thawed, I started to feel it.

Here's what it looked like...



It's not too bad looking, but man did it bleed... and bleed... and bleed some more, lol. It is so sore too. You wouldn't think that something that small would hurt so bad.

This isn't the first time I've nipped myself and I'm sure it wont be the last.

I know, this is kind of boring and a whole lot of gay, but I just thought I'd let everyone know. Peace...

-Megan

Song of the day: Jessica by The Allman Brothers