CUTENESS WARNING!

13 more chickies... mostly cochins,  2 mysteries. 

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5 little bitty cute cuddly poopin stinkin ducklings...

Bad bad bad ....cuteness overload......

What do you get when you combine one indulgent loving marshmallow of a husband with one overlyspoiled no self control wife?????  

WARNING!  DO NOT GO TO TRACTOR SUPPLY, GEBOS, OR ANY FEEDSTORE UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SUCKED IN!!!!!

There are 10 little teeny tiny bantam fluffballs!   3 possibly 4 silkies, a handful that look like cochins and one little strawberry blond teeny tiny little thing that I have no clue what it is.  

This last weekend I bought two fully feathered Americauna chicks and intended to get some more this weekend... but when I stopped to get chicken food tonight TRactor supply had these guys... I couldnt resist... of course I am married to a man that is SUPPOSED to say NO!!! BUT instead he was scooping them out of there as fast as I was.....      

I am still considering getting out the incubator and getting some hatching eggs.... but at least I can start with these little buggers and get used to raising teensy weensy chicklets!!!

OH YEAH... I AM LOOKING FOR SOME TURKEYS TOO!!!!  MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Spring is almost here.... so Im not!!!

Its been unseasonably warm(except for that snow on Friday bleck...).
everything is turning green, the birds are on the prowl! The feed stores are getting in baby chicks! (WHY is this pertinent you ask????Muahahaha!!!! Cause I am getting some!!! So far I have 2 little Americauna pullets(young girl chickens.) and the plan is to take Wyatt to see the itty bitty baby chicks.... and probably bring some home(thinking barred rocks there...) I cant decide if I should go get a few more of the Americana pullets or not) Why Americanas??? Becuase instead of your boring white, or the pretty brown... they lay light blue or light green colored eggs... My only downfall will be ducklings! I must resist the ducklings!
Husband of mine is not too pleased... see once before we raised chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, turkeys you name it I had it.... until wandering dogs decided they were a tasty fun self propelled flock of cool toys.... Chainlink fences didnt even slow them down.... But I am trying again!

Of course with all the pretty weather I havent even tried to get anything done jewelry wise, I am to busy enjoying the outdoors.... so I am giving it up for a while. Ill get back to it eventually. I just need some time to be and outdoorsy farm girl for a while. I have a garden to get going (Brand new Raised beds with irrigation systems!!!!) Pretty soon if everything worked out like i hope I will be busy with a litter of Aussie puppies! My friend Stephanie is expecting Corgi puppies and I cant wait until they arrive. Life is just crammed packed full! With all the good comes bad too.... The CAR decided it doesnt like me and the overdrive went out on the tranny so we arent driving it... we are a single cab pickup family for a while.... which drives me INSANE!!! This comes a week AFTER the rear end on Mikes pickup died a loud screaming death... luckily his generosity towards the world was returned and instead of a $500 rebuild or a $100 complete rear end swap, a guy he recently helped out popped up with the parts he needed and he ended up spending $15 on seals. Happy dance! Just in time for the car to go caput.... at least they werent allat the same time... Cause sharing ONE pickup just wont work. we would KILL each other... So now we start pricing transmissions and deciding what to do.... I cant gripe too much cause all of our vehicles are paid for.
Lots of other stuff has gone on lately and I really need to take some pictures and upload others, but the sun shines and calls me outside to play in the dirt!!!!!

Of course...

So I took a picture of some actual jewelry making...
Of course My dear sweet loving honey brought me lunch
Of course My dear sweet loving honey asked for the picture card and the reader thingy...
Of course I didnt blink and eye and handed it to him.
Of course I totally forgot my intentions to post the pic I took.
Of course I hate posting pictures from the laptop at home.
Of course I will have to wait 3 extra hours for hubby to get home after I do tonight...
Of course I will have to call him 15 times to remind him to bring it home.
I just hope I wont be coming back to say:
Of course he forgot to bring it home....
he better not forget!

I have a pair of earring under construction that I am in love with....
pictures to come soon... possibly to be posted in my Etsy shop...
Of course..... I am pretty slow about all of that.
So of course no promises....

Happy Valentines Day!

Ok I have a rare few minutes of time to post while my hubby is gone dropping Wy off at my inlaws house for the night(yaay!).  I know I havent posted in a while but its been soooo busy.   Since my last post we have ripped all the carpet out of the living  room.  Installed a gorgeous new laminate wood floor(still finishing the kitchen area a little at a time) I got rid of tons of clutter stuff AND we bought a new(used) sectional couch that is just gorgeous and the price was perfect!  Im busting but going through tons of stuff and clearing out the excess..  We are such packrats!  I want a pretty uncluttered house.  We still have to paint,  and get quite a bit of stuff put up but its getting there.  ALready I can tell a difference in the ALLERGENS! without carpet!  Carpet holds so much dust and dander and heebiegeebies!  I am so relived to have it gone... Next when budget allows is removing the carpet in Wyatts room.   I havent made ANY jewelry in forever, but I have been stocking up on all the awesome beads I am always craving... green onyx, tourmaline, moonstone.... lampwork and more...   I just got a small order of silver so am hoping to stop running full blst long enough to make something tommorow.  Designs are rattling in my head like crazy.    

Today.. for Valentines... my dear hubby and I spent the day Offroading at the ranch in post with the 4X4 club.  Talk about COLD!  We even had a rumbly thunderstorm that iced on us... Not Rain.. ICE pellets!  It looked like it has snowed.  I have TONS of pics but of course no time to load them.     It was fun but exhausting.  

but Im am done blabbing for now and going to go wash trail dust off of me and relax... until tommorow.  Lots to get done!

Adventures in meatloaf with the new toy...

Here she is... My pretty new Kitchenaid Artisan Mixer

Our first adventure with the new toy... The one food I love... but hate the mixing part

MEATLOAF!

A little bread to start it off and make it moist... some mile and seasoning

goes in next but looks yucky so no pictures of that....

and we start putting in the hamburger.

and here it starts to go together and is about ready to go in the pan

In the pan ready to go in the oven.

And sooooooo tasty once it was done!

I hate hate hate making meatloaf! Mixing the meat is my least favorite thing in the world. This little baby made it soo easy though. The mixer washed clean with little more than a rinse. Everything washed up easily and I moved on to cake mix cookies(SOSO Easy) but I was getting tired and the kid was spazzing over cookie dough begging and the kitchen started to get messy like it always seems to when baking so I didnt manage to get any pictures. The cookies were sooo good though! Cake mix, oil, water and an egg I think it was and wala cookies to die for. I love making cookies from scratch, but sometimes you just need an easy mix type to get you buy in a pinch and this is it. I made mine with a Strawberry cake mix. Yum. Next time I want to try pinapple and a few others.. Lemon maybe.

More new goodies coming... no pictures yet

Pictures to come soon... ive been a busy little bee:

Graduated Tormaline Large Rondelles 

Large faceted mixed nuggets, amethyst, carnelian, rose quartz, pehrinite(sp?), rock quartz.

White quartz rounds

Blue Tigers eye large rounds

Green Onyx smoothbuttons/small rondelles

Hessonite Garnet smooth buttons/small rondelles

Labradorite  "  "  "

Smokey Quartz faceted rondelles

Sunstone 6mm rondelles

2 -13mm Star Ruby Rounds

**But if I desapear for a while its cause I am occupied cooking.  My dear sweet lovable hugable teddy bear of a hubby bought me the prettiest "Ice" blue (more of a light teal color) Kitchenaid Artisan Stand mixer.  I have wanted one for YEARS!    He wanted it as bad as I did(loves making cookies) so I hope to be able to be the first to use it(Planning: Home made marshmallows from the homesteading housewifes blog!  )  

but its late and I need to get my butt in bed.  I will try to post pictures tommorow or this weekend.   Busy busy busy!