Once again time seems to have quickly gotten away from me. This past week has been a busy whirlwind and the coming week promises more of the same. Don’t get me wrong busy whirlwind is not a bad thing it just leaves little time to write.
The boys started back to school last Monday after Christmas break. I think we were all ready for that. We need the structure in our daily schedule. When that goes away we all get less done and they tend to start bickering with each other. (I think mostly out of frustration or boredom) So they now have a full week of class under their belts and things are getting back to normal as far as school goes.
We finally got Jeff his own bowling ball and got it drilled to fit his hand. Now we just need to find some time for him to practice. I feel bad that he gets so frustrated over his scores. Hopefully he will be able to get some practice in during the next month or two and see some results.
Plus this is soup season. This is the time of year when there just seems to be nothing better to eat than fresh hot homemade soup. I don’t know if it’s just the weather or the fact that every time I turn around one of us has a cold we’re fighting but soup is just the thing to have. And you just can’t make a little bit of soup. It always ends up being the biggest pot in the kitchen when you finish so we’re having leftovers for the rest of the week, but with no complaints. This past week it was beef vegetable. This week I’m thinking ham & bean or chicken & rice. Then or course we have to have fresh biscuits or rolls to go with our soup and all of this cooking and baking just makes the house smell warm and delicious.
Then we get to Jeff’s truck. It’s a farm truck in every sense of the word. It’s big, filthy, and looks well used. And it is. Jeff uses this truck to haul everything from cattle to firewood and anything else you can possibly think of. All of this use and abuse has been taking its toll on the poor ol’ truck this year. For 9 months it didn’t move at all because the transmission went and had to be replaced. Then we got it running but the brakes all had to be replaced so that it would stop when we needed it to. But even being a farm truck it still has to pass inspection. This is proving to be a challenge. SO we have added tires, several assorted light bulbs and fuses and some body work to the list of repairs we’ve had to do to the truck in the last 12 months. I really hadn’t planned to spend the evening of my birthday in my in-laws garage patching rusted holes in the bed of Jeff’s truck while he and his brother replaced another rotor and several other little things. But we need the truck and it has to be road legal.
Saturday showed some promise for being a day to relax and hopefully get over this rotten head cold but not so. By the time Jeff got home from work we were in full out butchering mode. Sunday the boys had a bowling tournament. I’m so proud of them. They did a good job bowling and made some new friends.
Hopefully, my head cold will let up some and I’ll get a little better at managing my time this week so that I’ll do a better job of keeping this blog updated.
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