Hot Diggity Dog

What a wonderful day. What am I doing inside then, you ask? Just eating lunch and taking a little break.

We woke up to the sun shining and decided to have a day outside. I wanted to go for a walk but as soon as we got to the highway the wind was blowing so hard I could barely move..soo we came back and it calmed down. It goes back and forth between warm and calm and cool and windy. The girls played with the bubble machine while I watered the lawn brought my plants out to adapt to the outside, and mow and weedwhack away the weeds that are starting to grow tall. My goal is to try to keep them down around the corrals and back area so that we don't have a place for snakes to hide out. I also brought the girls over to look at the pigs again and noticed one had a golf ball size lump on its snout. It was pretty lethargic and was coughing and sneezing alot. I called my mother in law and let her know.

There has not been very good luck with pigs around here. The first year I was around all the pigs did fine, then the next year it was a really hot day and no one came to check the water during the day and that night there was a dead pig. Last year our big dogs got in and tore up two pigs and killed another, Jolyn also had a pig bred from the previous year and while it was at the place it was bred it died. This year there were 5 pigs but 2 had really weird hump backs. Well the one with the most severe hump died not even a week after Jolyn bought it. Takara LOVES the pigs and after we found one dead a couple weeks ago it took her awhile to realize that not all the pigs died, just one. I would say should we go see the pigs and she would say no they're dead.

On our way back from the pig pen I noticed Lenny's cats got into the burn barrels and scattered all the garbage..grrrr. It didn't take long for the girls to notice that I secretly threw out the extra easter candy that we didn't need around here. There are only so many chocolate stains and tootsie rolls ground into the carpet I can handle.

We came inside to eat lunch and take a little break from the outside. Takara is a hard one to make food for. She is not a typical kid and does not like a lot of normal kid food. She does not like pizza, mac n cheese, raviolli, spheggetti Os, hamburgers, or ice cream. She loves lettuce, just plain ol lettuce, most vegetables, all fruit, string cheese,popcicles, milk, sometimes chicken, pancakes and hot dogs. Thats about it. Occastionally she will eat a piece of bread with just peanut butter but will not eat it if its got jelly on it. I can feed Kimi just about anything. Although I should be happy about the types of food Takara likes (most of it is healthy) it sometimes is hard when we are pressed for time and I just need to get them fed. Some days she will not eat anything because she doesn't want to eat what I have prepared. Most mornings they get a bowl of cereal then for lunch Takara has been requesting hot dogs a lot, but sometimes I try to change it up and you can forget it. For dinner its usually a family meal so I'll make a cassarole, or grill up some meat...basically Takara does not want any of it. We went to Pizza hut for the soccer fund raiser and Takara would not touch her pasta, breadstick, or pizza. So I got her a salad from the salad bar and thats what she ate. I like just about everything. I am not a seafood fan but for Evans sake, since its some of his fav, I've been open to trying more things. Evan does not like mushrooms or tomatoes but that doesn't stop me from cooking with them. If they are really noticable he will pick them out otherwise he doesn't even know the difference :)

Anyways I hope the days keep getting warmer and warmer. I sure love being outside!