411 The Walters Bunch

The insane cold snap is now just a distant memory. The weather has been absolutely perfect! We have been outside and getting some things done. Basically, we're just enjoying the great weather. We know before too long that summer will be here and we'll have to deal with all the crazy hot weather.     We have not made it out to look at the house we're interested in seeing yet. D was super sick the week we were going to go see it and then the crazy cold snap came and we needed to stay close to the animals plus we didn't feel like getting out when it was that cold and windy. Now, training season has started for D and over the next couple of weeks, he will only have Sundays off. T and I will probably go drive by and look at the outside of the property to see if it's flat enough for what we want to do with it and if it is then D and I will make an appointment to go check it out. We're getting some projects done in the meantime that will help get the house ready to sel...

Happy Birthday Grandma!    While T was away having a fabulous time on his youth group trip, D and I prepared the animals for the extra cold. It was only going to be for a couple of days so I really didn't want to move the chickens into the garage. We added more tarps to the chicken coop so that even the south facing side was covered, which we normally don't do. I also put a heat light out there, just in case the girls started getting way too cold. I didn't want to use it unless it was an emergency for two reasons: 1.) I don't want them to acclimate to the warmth and then have the electricity go out and then they are extra cold and 2.) it smells a little weird and I don't want to burn my house down! The tarps made the coop so dark that I put a night light out there and ran it 24/7 for 3 days. The tarps worked great and the girls were happy just clucking around in there. We put extra chips in the horse barn and came out every 4 hours to make sure nobody's waters w...

  I made a special breakfast for the kids that they like and gave them some special sodas. Neither of them really want a lot of candy, but they both love their occasional soda. Cracker Barrel has the best selection of soda bottles.  You know D feels pretty bad when he texts you in the middle of the afternoon that he's coming home from work. I had no idea he was even feeling bad. It hit pretty fast and was pretty brutal. He came home early, went straight to bed, and didn't get out of bed until I physically made him after about 24 hours. I did wake him occasionally to eat, drink, and take some meds, but he pretty much just slept that entire time. It's almost been a week now and he still isn't 100% but he is doing a lot better than the first couple of days. He only worked one day this week because we had taken off to take the dogs on a practice camping trip together. With D being sick though and it being so cold we decided not to go. Instead we are going to take the dogs o...

It's official, she has a college diploma!! Besides totally enjoying a drama free year, we have been consciously spending time doing things as a family and spending time with each child doing things they enjoy. D has been playing ball and watching movies with his larger "mini me" while A and I have been spending a lot of time in Dallas going to the theatre. A absolutely loves going to see off Broadway productions! I won't be surprised in the slightest if she ends up getting season tickets. Dallas Broadway does a lottery to each show where if they draw your name you have 3 hours to buy tickets for $39 each including all fees! That is an absolute steal! She actually won the lottery on Tuesday so we went that night to see the production of "& Juliet". The seats she won were FANTASTIC! They don't give you cheap seats in the back for the lottery. You win good seats. The seats we ended up with worked out to be only about a quarter of the regular price! We h...

We made it to Fair Park with only a little bit of an issue.  What a fun week! For Christmas A bought her and I tickets to go see Shen Yun. I have seen advertisements for this over the past 20+ years and have slowly come to want to see what it is about and how it has managed to last so long. What it is about is China before the rise of Communism. It showcases traditional Chinese dances and songs along with traditional instruments. While some of the story was a little corny, the costumes, dancing, singing, and instruments were very interesting. We had a wonderful time and since we were out and about in Dallas we went ahead and made a visit to Trader Joe's. Which in a complete power move, the girl scouts had set up a cookie booth right in front of the gym next to Trader Joe's! There was a literal line to buy cookies. Lol. Dallas actually kept to their word and put up fencing under the overpasses and bridges to keep the homeless encampments at bay near the Fair Park area. Most of t...

  ❄️ ❄️❄️❄️It was sunny but crazy cold ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️  The weather has been really crazy this week. We finally got all the snow melted and enjoyed a few days of nice weather before the next cold front came through. Thankfully, this was a dry front for us. No ice or snow worries at all. It was just really cold. We had tickets to go see Come From Away on the day the front came through. I have to say the half mile walk in the strong north winds was rather unpleasant, but the show made up for it all! A picked us out FANTASTIC seats. We were dead center. A picked those because there was no intermission during this show. If there would have been we would have had to climb over 30 seats to get in and out. However, the show was so fast moving we didn't even realize an hour and forty five minutes had gone by! D said it was the BEST production he had EVER seen! It was from the perspective of the town of Gander, New Foundland of what it was like when 38 planes arrived after the United State...