Sunbeams, Rainbows and Kittens

so I'm not going to write about anything in the title... except maybe kittens. We have three cute kittens. Actually, this post is all about blood and death and varmints. So if you are squeamish... maybe you better check this cool site out. http://wordle.net/

I think the opossum count is seven now. And still no skunk. Seven cute little opossi with huge scary looking teeth and nasty rat tails. ick. So I'm getting pretty good at prodding opossums out of the trap ('I'm the best there's ever been'). I'm pretty proud of my skills. Although I am not at all partial to what happens after they are prodded out of the trap. That is Matt and Jakey's job. They have a lot more power in their swing than I do. And they are much more accurate with shovels and axes and pitchforks.

Last week a cat got into the chickens and killed 16 of them. Kind of an awful sight... carcasses every where and the surviving hens all huddled in the corner. The cat might not have lived very long after that.

After supper I was painting in the old chicken house and Matt just had to come show me what they are baiting the trap with tonight- a pigeon whose untimely demise was quite recent. It had also been decapitated. I'm not sure why, maybe skunks like their squab prepared like that?

On a happier note, my flowers are growing! And my rose bush has roses. And I'm going to Kansas this weekend. Woot! And while mom and Dad were gone shelly and I called our plumber friend and he came and fixed the sink that has been leaking for two years and totally surprised M and D. It was amazing.

Summertime

and the livin' is easy...

or something. Mom and Dad are in SC at the moment so guess who gets to make sure that everyone gets fed and the house stays in one piece... woot.

Shelly and I trimmed the bushes on Monday. I'm not sure when that became my job, but it is fun to use the hedge trimmer and if I'm trimming I don't have to pick up as much of the trimmings. :)

I used two things of liquid nails in the chicken house.... and I'm still not done. O, and I got carded for buying the stuff at walmart- so funny! Since I obviously look like I'm under 17 and am going to go right home and sniff it.

Matt and Jake spent Tuesday on the levee in Taylor. Which was good because I didn't have to cook and Shelly and I ate Jimmy John's, which I love.

The "Taste of NCAUR" is tomorrow so I have to make some kind of ethnic dish tonight... I don't know what to make... hm...

Anyway.
Blessings.

Random Things

I don't really have anything to blog about... which is sad.

I stopped at Sheridan Road Nursery on my way home from work.... um... not a good idea... I brought home a bush and a rose. :D Which I love.

Here are some pictures of Kendra's musical dress.


The front before I hemmed it... and the back. Check out that amazing invisible zipper!! And the cummerbund that I spent at least 2 hours working on that they wore for ONLY one scene. It was a crazy lot of fabric for a costume. O well. It was fun to make, and I learned how to cut down a pattern... and do fittings.... so it's all good.

Matt and I got three wedding invitations this week. Two were addressed to "Miss Jenny W. and Matt" the other one was addressed properly, "Jenny W., Matt W." It's also amusing to compare wording.

I sprayed down the milk house/ chicken house/ future potting and/or garden shed and got incredible dirty. And it probably still smells like chickens. There is still much to do.

Blessings.

Meet Me In St. Louis

So about 15ish of us W-ton yg people spent Saturday and Sunday in St. Louis. I had a pretty good time... I was feeling like I was babysitting towards the end but... overall a great trip. :)

We met up with Matthew S. and Natedog, it was good to see them again. Our first stop was at the Third Degree Glass Factory- we got to see a demonstration of glass blowing... it was super cool um, hot. :) They had some nifty stuff for sale- and the bathroom sinks/ faucets were amazing! All made out of colorful blown glass.

We had a picnic at Forrest Park for lunch. It was rather warm at that point. And I had it on good authority, *cough* Matt, that guys could a whole gondola. So I brought 12. We only ate 6. O well, we didn't run out. After lunch we went to the Zoo. Which I love. My favorites are the giraffes. I like to watch the hippos too, but giraffes are just cool.

So since we were quite warm (it was 90ish and muggy) we spent the rest of the afternoon at the Science Center. Which I also loved. :D And it was air conditioned. I would have spent more time there but everyone else was ready to go for supper. We ate at Fitz's and drank some amazing root beer.

For evening festivities we all headed to Nathan's house for singing and ping pong. I am bad at ping pong, but it's still fun to play. Us girls spent the night at a hotel... so since I was the only one over 21 (eeesh) I got to chauffeur them in the 15 passenger van we rented... and I was the only one old enough to check in. So I'm signing stuff for the rooms and they have a line for the make and model of the vehicle we're driving.. um.. um... so I put down Ford (I'm not that dumb) but I had no idea what model I was driving so I just wrote "van". Haha.. I bet they laughed about that at the desk after I left. I was just glad they didn't ask for the license plate, I would have had to have somebody go out and check. :D

We managed to all get ready for church on time and made it back to Nathan's before the guys were ready. Yay for us. St. Louis church was full- lots of Champaign people there randomly! It was good to see them. After church we changed at Nathan's and left for home. We had to make a bathroom stop in Delavan and tried to take a shortcut home through T-town... bad idea, the turkey fest was in full swing. whoops. so much for saving time. I'm pretty worn out now...

Blessings.

i lied

I went shopping in Bloomington last night... and then Gab made me feel guilty about never hanging out with her, so I went to Gridley to hang out after their Bible School. It was good to see Katrina and the other Gridley girls again.

It was starting to storm when I was leaving... Gab came with Nic and Bob so she rode with me as far as my house. Which was good because we drove through some torrential rains and bright lightning and I don't like driving in storms. Although I did have a um...lovely, cushy new steering wheel cover to hold on to for dear life.

social butterfly

So Thursday I played volleyball, Friday was Bible Study at Amber's, Saturday was the CIS, and Sunday was church...

I'm not sure what got into me.

I read a book on Monday. And I'll probably be anti-social tonight too.