Well hello Collinsville...

Today we had to journey to a place that is unknown to us. A place that requires a lot of attention and even directions. And that place is... Collinsville, IL. I know I haven't given out too many details about the sugar glider Railroad that we have set up - that's mainly because I didn't wan to say something and then have it fall through. If it wasn't for the helpful people of GliderCENTRAL, it wouldn't have been possible.

The beginning of the RR is us, obviously - then we drive to Collinsville, IL to meet a guy named Steve and his wife. They decided to keep Drake overnight and then meet a lady named, Denise, tomorrow in Indiana. After that, Denise will then drive to Ohio where she will meet Tricia - the girl that's adopting Drake, then she will drive back to New York. Not too complex, right? I think it's going to work out great. Day one, luckily, went super well with no speed bumps.

Well, I can think of one in particular speed bump. It may have possible had something to do with me, maybe almost hitting a guy. Yeah, I know - that's completely awful, but it was his fault dammit! He was walking in front of the car as I was picking LaVaughn up at the door of the gas station. I was talking to her as she was getting in and took off when all of a sudden this guy was walking in front of the car. I didn't even move the car 6 inches and he was pressed up against the car. He was obviously rubbing his leg up against the front of the car as he passed. LaVaughn will vouch for me.

Okay, well I'm exhausted and don't feel like writing anymore. I'd like to sit down and enjoy the rest of my Captain D's dinner - lobster bites included.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: Immigrant Song by Zeppelin

Here are the pictures:

All photo credit goes to: LaVaughn

Coming up to the JB Bridge.

Almost there!

Haha, Koch Rd. Anyone know what that sounds like (to me anyway)?

Still coming up to the JB Bridge.

We've made it to the JB Bridge!

The Mississippi River

The St. Louis Arch in the distance.

Still the St. Louis Arch.

Yellow highway.

Kind of reminds me of an 80s highway.

Old looking shot of the highway and JB Bridge.

The old miss, the old man...

Better shot of the Mississippi River.

Beautiful shot of the JB Bridge.

Awesome looking clouds.

Yup, cops! We passed SO many cops!

Awesome clouds again.

It's almost like the sky opened up!

Taco Bell Doritos Tacos. Unfortunately, we didn't wait in line to get one.
This is also the ONLY picture that I took today! 

Sewing and Sophie.

Since Drake (now Draco) is starting his journey to New York tomorrow, LaVaughn and I decided to make him a bonding pouch for the trip. Since LaVaughn's the only one that's ever attempted one, I decided to make one along with her. And you know what - I actually made one! And it's cute! The zippers were shorter, so the bonding pouches are kind of longer and more narrow, but they work.

After I finished, I decided to take some pictures of Sophie for Erika. It's been a while and I figured she might like them. Now if we could just get a RR set up for her - we would be set!

While I'm thinking of it - we might have more chickens in a couple weeks! One of our hens is brooding! So around the 26th of this month, we should have 6 new additions. If all of the eggs are fertile, of course.

I suppose that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day: We Will Rock You

Here are the pictures:

This is the bonding pouch that I made.

This is the bonding pouch that LaVaughn made for Drake.

And here are the pictures of Sophie:

Would you like a Pineapple treat?

Perhaps a rubber duck?

Just look at that cute sugar glider face!

Yes, I will have this duck. :)

Ugh, she looks so much like her mom, it's not even cool. 

Tuesday's randomness...

Oy vey, nothing going on today. Oh creepy... that rhymed. Today has been fulfilled with so much randomness - I don't even know where to start. I guess I'll start with the base of the day, sewing. I know, I know - it may contain too much excitement for you to stand. Anyway, we only had one set to sew up today, so it didn't take too much time.

After that, I proceeded to take several random pictures of pretty much anything I could find. All of which you'll find below, followed by a description.

Lets see, what else do I need to talk about... did I mentioned that we watched Chernobyl Diaries? We've actually watched it twice now, but the first time kind of sucked. It was an okay movie, but the main story needed something different. Naturally, Chernobyl was full of these Hills Have Eyes people that had been exposed to all the radiation. Well, I assume that's what they look like - you never really get to see their faces. It was just weird and lacked the scare tactic. Then there were the wild dogs that I so badly wanted to be monsters or even aliens! Oh no, they were just dogs. If I had the opportunity to watch it a 3rd time, I probably wouldn't.

Oh yeah, did I ever mentioned that we got Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City? Well we did and, to my surprise - it was awesome! It had such an old school Resident Evil feel, I didn't know what to do with myself. I beat it after a few days - on easy, but I plan on upping the difficulty in a week or two. I highly, highly recommend it!

Well, I suppose that's all for now. Don't forget to check out the photos after the bump for all the exciting randomness they have to offer. Until next time my friends...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Movie of the day: Chernobyl Diaries

And now for the random pictures:

The Brother logo on my sewing machine.

Even thought my Brother sewing machine is over 20 years old, I still love it and would almost guarantee that it would out-sew any new machine. 

A spool of thread on a bobbin.

Gotta love sewing machine macro, lol.

My sewing machine light.

The foot on my sewing machine.

Sewing machine photography. 

The cage set that we made today.

A peach from our nearly dead peach tree.

I was able to salvage 3 nice size peaches for the gliders.

I know it's hard to tell, but the sky was filled with dragonflies.

A little damage to start the month off...

When I woke up today, there wasn't anything going on outside. There was a thunderclap or two - loud enough to make the dogs run laps around the living room, but that was about it. Around 3:30ish, the thunder intensified and the rain soon followed. After a couple minutes, the wind started blowing and what sounded like hail was hitting the house. Naturally, I ran to the door in hopes of getting carried away by a tornado. Luckily, there was no tornado to be seen, but there was a massive storm taking place. The hail was only pea sized, but the wind was powerful enough to bend trees nearly in two. This went on for about 10 minutes straight.

After things calmed down, LaVaughn and I decided to go to town and stock up on soda and glider fruit, just in case we would be stuck at the house for a couple days. As I'm sure I've mentioned this before, we live down a gravel road. It's pretty much just us - only three other houses share the mile long stretch of gravel, so there's hardly any traffic.

We started off and got about 1/6 mile down the road and noticed that there was a tree broke off and covering half of the road. There wasn't enough room to squeeze by, so we knew we were going to have to break out a little muscle and move the tree ourselves if we still intended on going to town. So that's what we did. It was a big bitch too, so it took us about 10 minutes to get it out of the way. We thought we were good to go, so we started off again. We drove probably 100 yards and found even more limbs and branches covering the road. So again, we got out and cleared the way. After that, we drove nearly all the way to the end where there was a massive branch covering the bridge that we have to cross. It was almost like it was put there as some kind of test. By this time, we were both sweaty, muddy and pissed so we ran at the limb like a couple of bulls on steroids and shoved it out of the way. It was by far the heaviest, so we will definitely feel it tomorrow.

On out way home, there was a guy and a woman clearing what we left with a chainsaw. I so badly wanted to roll the window down and shout, "Yup, did most of the work for you about 2 hours ago." I'm sure I had something better to say at the time, but you get the point.

Well, that concludes the slightly eventful day. Hope you enjoyed...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Song of the day Who'll Stop The Rain by CCR

Here are the pictures of the damage:

 Rain on the window.

 Raindrops are so beautiful.

 This was actually an entire tree broke off in the road.

 This was on the other side of the road. The tree was just split in two.

 Just some limbs and branches.

 More limbs and branches.

 That's all that we could move.

 Despite it's look - that limb was actually crazy heavy.

 This one, not so much.

This was probably the biggest thing we had to move. You may not be able to tell, but this branch was covering and entire bridge!

And now for a couple pictures of the cats during the storm:

 He looks nice ans sweet here, but I'm actually holding him down to get this picture.

Una is always a sweetie.