We got some rain since my last post about Texas Fires YAY!!!!

The pictures were taken from different spots in the yard, but you can see little puddles forming in the lake bed in the second picture. Hopefully this will bring some relief from the fires.

I heard on the news that people have been being fined big $$$ for taking it upon themselves to lift the burn ban since there was 2" of rain in some areas. 2" will NOT give us the relief we need after getting 18" below average rainfall.

Oh yeah.. my trees and grass are SOOOO confused! I have trees budding, and patches of beautiful green grass. I know when winter really hits in February, everything is going to get killed. :(

Tagged by Kellee

Four jobs that I have had:
Worked at Mcd's as a teen
Mom since a teen
babysat for friend's kids
Secretary for hubby's business (does it count if you aren't getting paid?)

Four movies that I can watch over and over again:
Dogma
The Princess Bride
She's Having a Baby
Office Space

Four places I have lived:
Champagne, ILL.
Dallas, Tx.
Plano, TX
Lubbock, Tx.

Four TV shows I love to watch:
Six Feet Under
Family Guy
Aqua Teen HungerForce
South Park

Four websites I read daily (or I at least check on daily):
Loose Ends
Serenity Now
Kiki's Blog
Arch Words

Four places I have been on vacation:This is sad...
Disney in FLA.

Four favorite foods:
Crab legs
Fried catfish
Lasagna
Chicken enchiladas w/ sour cream and monterey jack sauce

Four places I’d rather be:
Anywhere warm and near the waterx4.

Four people to tag: Everyone that I picked has been too long without a blog update.Blog dagnabbit!
Heather
Oodelally (Aerin)
Angel
Jeni

a macro pic of a lady bug on Hannah's hand.

Misty and Bethany checking out the weeds on a warm windy day in January. This is an example of a pic that I did not follow the meter in the camera, resulting in a pic that is too bright.

We went walking around in what use to be Lake Tawakoni. Misty went running off and Hannah sunk in the mud trying to catch her. An example of a time when you should put down the camera and help your child ;)




Misty and Bethany on the 3 wheeler.

Dad bought me an awesome, lightweight tripod when he was in town last. It's been pretty cool, so I haven't gotten to test it out yet. I'm slowly figuring out the camera between talking to dad, reading the user's manual for the Minolta(I'm amazed he kept it for over 30 years), and the Time Life collection of books on Photography that he also gave me.

Mark put me on the defensive yesterday. Apparently, he looked through the pics I recently got developed. He said "not to be hating on that camera, but it doesn't take pictures as good as the digital" I had to explain to him all the mechanics that go into taking a picture with it, and that when used properly, it will capture pictures much better than the digital. Then I started getting seriously depressed that I'll never get the hang of this, it's all a waste of time, and any dreams of photographing for financial gain were stupid. *sigh*

I guess it'll be a fun hobby while I continue playing secretary for free for Mark, and mommy to all my sweet girls.

So I'm a Texas girl that eats red meat... I've even recently tried wild pig much to my dismay, mainly only to not offend a very close friend/business associate of my husbands. Imagine my surprise when I absolutely LOVED IT!! I honestly could not tell it was wild. I promise that I can not be tricked no matter how you "fix" deer meat. I KNOW the difference. Deer meat is the main reason I was hesitant to try wild pig.

So NYE weekend we go visit his buddy and they tell us they are going down in "the bottoms" to shoot the pigs they trapped. Me, being the redneck wife I am, and not wanting to appear as a wussy agree to ride VIA the glorified golfcart (AKA Gator) to the site of the captive swine to be slaughtered. I also didn't want to appear hypocritical to have eaten the meat, without appreciating the process they went through for us to have enjoyed it weeks prior.
We arrive to find a small pig and a large pig in the trap. I'm informed that they are only shooting one of them. I assume that since they told me when I ate it, that "it's all in how you dress out the pig.. you can't let it lay around" that they didn't want to have two pigs to deal with, and would let the smaller one go. WRONG. I was told to climb up as high as I could because the pigs are PISSED and will attack when they get out of the cage. (Especially because they were just in the cage when a load boom went off and killed the critter next to them)
So I take a quick shot of his buddy aiming at the pigs with my lil digital, then climb as quickly as possible on top of the gator. He took one shot while I was climbing on top with his wife, I turned to see what was still making so much noise in the cage and see the baby pig flopping around.. HORROR!!! The mom is nipping at the baby pig that is lying on it's side but still bouncing around from the nerves. The men climb on top of the trap, and open the front and poke at the mom with a stick to make her leave the cage so they can safely remove the baby. At this point, I'm in shock, but trying not to let it show. The mom licked at the baby's blood before running out of the cage. They were all saying "look how mean that sow is" Well NO SHIT, SHERLOCK.. you just killed her baby right beside her! Ughh..

So we had to drive the gator back to their place with the baby pig in the back. I can't help but feel there's an angry momma pig somewhere in Cumby that want's revenge. I told my husband that it did get to me.. he said "yeah, but did you see how she was biting at the baby and licking the blood? Those things are MEAN!"
I explained that I felt she was nipping at the baby to make it stop jumping around.. maybe we'd all go away. She lapped the blood because she had been trapped in the cage for god knows how long, and was thirsty as hell. All I know is, if I hadn't already tasted how good wild pig was, I would NEVER in a million years eat it again. But damn, bacon is good.
From now on, I want as far from the killing and butchering side of the whole process as possible. It eats at your soul to see that kind of thing...