Pictures of Our Move to Borger

This was some of the corn we grew in our old garden

Some nice cacutuses (that is, if that's how you spell it :)

Morgan is soundly asleep as you may notice :)

Aidan looking out the window at the beautiful land.

This is the typical prarie scene...

it's so pretty, and quiet looking.

"I am comtemplating, I am contemplating."

"So Dainty"

Our Backyard

The Canyon

Back to Chickens!

Last night, we planted a late fall garden- I think we'll manage this time to get a little more out of our garden than the last 2... Our last fall garden died because of the frost :-P Than we moved before our spring garden had time to be harvested :'(. So I hope this one will at least turn out better. Our backyard of course has 4 fences going all around so we decided to put in two gardens- one in front of the right and left fence. Well there's a lady dog next door who Jack likes to bark at, when he barks, he gets right next to the right fence (where our garden is) so we have him chained until we figure out what to do with him.
Next project is to build a compost with some pallets. Daddy has been looking by dumpsters and in allies and lo and behold he found four (on seperate days of course) pallets. All that's left to do is build it and we're ready to go!
Gabby

School Again!

We've started school again jiggedy jig jig! I think we'll be doing a lot more than we used to this year. That's alright though- I'm looking forward to be on schedule! These prarie nights are hard! It finally gets dark at about 9:30 and at 8:00 in the morning it's completely sunatized haha.
I think for history this year we're learning about medevil times... so that's going to be interesting.
I don't believe I've mentioned that Morgan and I have started something on Mondays, we pick out a recipe and make whatever it is for supper- we only try new recipes. Last Monday we tried Chicken parmesan, mmmmmm... that was good but I think I was supposed to flatten the chicken breast- oops!
Well this is a short one- I'm actually needing to look for a new recipe for Monday that is coming up soon!
~Gabby

Life in the big city

We went to our friends house for supper... and their house was nice and cool! We've been running our house on window units which really does the job well, it's just we can't leave the window units on upstairs, and when we come up you all but suffocate and stumble around to find the button to the unit thingy.
But anyhow, I'm finding that city life is awfully boring compared to the farm. However, I have a bit of good news! Firstly we have a greenhouse in the backyard so I suppose we'll be making use of that come fall. Secondly, we found a chicken company that is run in Texas... somewhere... And we're getting ten of the Barred Rocks. We looked at the laws of Borger and we found out that you can have I guess most any animal in the city as long as they are contained and when are taken out they have to be on a leash. Yes, I'm looking forward to walking ten chickens on a leash down the street... Hahaha. And I know what the neighbors would be saying
"Those people from Tennesse sure are strange! I sure do wish that their kids would stop walking their chickens all over the place- my kids are getting idea about the guinea pigs!!!
~Gabby

Square root of chickens?

Now that we're here we are looking for some land to lease so we can get a cow and chicken and all... since we live in a neighborhood with backyard a bit bigger than our old garden, one gets the feeling of being caged in. But that's not to damper our agrarian culture. We are farmers living in a subdivision that have no animals and no garden. Hmmmm... we do have a head catcher and milking stool but no cow. All we've got left is a mutt who has torn down the badmitten net that I worked so hard to put up, and tried to tear down sheets of the clothesline (he got a good spanking) and he also tore up our clothes pin holder thingy ma bob, and a towl from a couple days ago. Needless to say he needing place to run around. Jack has always know four acres now something maybe a hundreth of that size is makes him depressed and naughty.
Daddy and I went to a couple of antique stores downtown to look around while Momma took the other kids to the city pool. (We got ice cream lol!)
We did piano yesterday and I came up with getting a marker board and sketching a piano note, or key, or symbol, and whoever raises their hand first gets to say what it is, you get a point every correct answer, whomever has the most points by the time all of the symbols they know have run out (or Gabby's patience) is the winner.
Ian learned a new song yesterday: Brother John. He was soo excited he kept playing it over and over again. It feels like days he's know that song. But he does really well with his fingers and he hardly ever misses anything.
~Gabby

It's COOL & BREEZY!!!

Here it is cool, dry, and there is a good breeze blowing. Isn't that nice instead of a hot 100% humidity in the air and abosloutley no breeze whatsoever and the hot sun is blazing down on you? Well maybe I'm exaggerating but it's nice to be home!!!
We went to the park tonight after supper, and momma and I took maybe a 1/3 of a mile walk around the park, so that was fun... and on the track there was a huge caged building with "moat" looking sorta thing and there was two black swans, the poor girl swan... one of it's legs was gone, but she had lots of little swans swimming around, and they were soo cute!!! Ever seen a baby swan? They are the sweetest little things in the world! And their eyes are adorable. Why can't we look like swans? Lol.
We've been reading a book by AVI, it called Crispin and the Cross of Lead. There are three books, Daddy has read me the first and second books, and now the third is out which we'll HAVE to get. We are now reading them to the other kids, and I think they are enjoying that! It's a good time to sit and knit my scraggly socks! Ha!
Well I certainly miss seeing my friends in Tennessee, speaking of which Happy Birthday Willa! I don't know when it is except that it's in July! And Happy Birthday miss Emma! Yours was in June... sometime.
Gabby