I am always right: April 2006

It begins....getting the ground ready for my studio.

Rednecks are alive and well

A little background for those unfamiliar: I live at the end of a dead-end dirt road. We have 52 very private, heavily wooded acres all behind the house, and our acres abut over 200 acres of undeveloped land. We have no trespassing/no hunting signs posted along our property lines.

Thursday night I was home alone at 8:30 (the kids went to town to get snacks). All of a sudden I hear this loud sound. I thought the kids were stupidly drag racing down the dirt road. All of a sudden the outside light comes on and Jethro starts barking. When the outside light comes on, it means someone/something is in the yard. I open the door and what do I see…a Kubota tractor and 3 people. Standing.in.my.yard. I couldn’t get my brain to realize what I was seeing. I was in shock. It seems these people decided to take a joy ride through the woods in a tractor, come up from the back and into my yard and that this would be acceptable. I had a few choice words to share with them. They were very apologetic, but I was in shock. Then the driver of the tractor says, “The bad news is, I have to come back tomorrow night and do this again because I have another tractor out there that broke down.” I said, “MY HUSBAND WILL BE HERE TO DEAL WITH YOU!” As I’m moving my car and opening the cow gate so they can leave, the kids came home. They had NO idea what was going on. They thought hubster was on his tractor to fix the driveway. Once they realized what was really going on, we were all talking a mile a minute.

Friday morning Silas and I went looking for the 2nd tractor. We followed tractor trails, found a freshly discarded beer can and cigarette butt, but NO sign of a broken tractor. When hubster got home we all went back out into the woods and went a different direction. We saw plenty of tractor trails, and they led us to a John Deere tractor, a lawn type tractor, not one that you’d go trouncing through the woods on. **insert huge rolling eyes here** It was so close to the house, that if I would have looked out my window the night before I would have seen the lights in the woods and then probably would have shat myself. But I digress…
Friday night comes, and we’re ready for the guy to show up. I thought, he’d be a man and come to my house and then start his journey to his tractor. No – he drives a four wheeler through the 200 acres to get to my 52 acres. Hubster and Silas meet him out in the woods. Hubster asks him what on earth was he ever thinking? The guy was very humble and apologized and assured Hubster that we would never see him again. He said he took a series of wrong turns and it turned out the way it did. But seriously…what WAS he thinking?? I told hubster he had to have been high at the time. No straight/sober person says “Hey, let’s take our tractors out into the woods and ride around in the rocks and trees and mud, in the dark.”

Today we planted two kinds of peas and carrots in the garden. It seems that most years we still have snow covering the garden. It was nice to be able to get in there with the rototiller without sinking up to our knees! I love this time of year!

I don't know who took this picture of me and hubster, but I found this out on the innanet.

These beauties popped out of the ground, like they do faithfully every year :)

So this 'person' I know tries to ruin all my fun. She's trying to ruin my favorite show "24". I love Kiefer Sutherland, I always have, since the 80's and the brat-pack. Hell, I even love DONALD Sutherland!! She says her ex looks like Kiefer. Ok, well maybe he looks like Kiefer's pudgy short little brother, but that's stretching it. So 'person', cut it out!

I secretly think her ex kinda looks and acts like Eddie Izzard though *giggle*.

Congratulations to Silas for not only getting his driver's license, but scoring a 1998 Dodge Stratus!!

Man, do I feel OLD!!!

This was found inside a fresh bell pepper that I cut open tonight. Guess it really IS fresh.

Sunset in Puerto Vallarta, paradise.

We were lucky enough to stumble upon a 'Save the Turtles' organization on the beach. We took part in a liberation of these cute babies. At sunset we released them into the ocean. It was a very moving and spiritual experience.