still alive

 Well i'ts been a year since we moved to the boonies and a few people even came and visited with out getting lost. The holidays came and went with only 1 or 2 meltdowns, and the family grew and a few new nuts are still falling from the family tree but thats what makes us a family and we love them all. We know spring is in the air because we have been able to remove 6 of the 9 blankets on bed that have protected us from frostbite all winter, and road construction has begun. Down here road construction is a little different. It consists of a guy on a tractor putting new dirt on the road and a guy in a truck spraying water on the road so it dont blow away and another guy standing on the ground watching them and and holding a sign so the 1 or 2 drivers that happen to mosey on by know that this is actually road construction.

Also the local stores are selling live chickens and 25 cent hotdogs and they have already held the first of many dirt races. So of course we bought some chickens hoping we dont manage to kill them off before they lay some eggs, bought a sack of hot dogs and went to the races.

We have begun our summer preparations by setting the yard on fire, scattering cow poop and setting up a trampoline. Also we have cemented some sticks in the ground hoping to keep a steer in the vicinity till we can put him in the freezer.

Out here in the boonies supplies are limited so you make do with what ever you can find. So a rickety old discarded canoe that will never float will be filled with dirt and transformed into a boatload of strawberries/ front yard decoration. old pallets become walls for the corral and old beer cans become a wind chime.

ya I'd say we are fitting into the redneck, hicks from the sticks life style pretty good.  Still working on the moonshine still though.......