411 The Walters Bunch

  Pickleball is always fun! Now that the weather has been nicer, albeit super windy, we have been trying to do our weekly pickleball match. Basically, this week whoever was playing with the wind won! We still have fun playing even when it is windy. In fact, playing in the wind probably makes us have more fun. The wind gusts sometimes pick the ball up and make it do some funny things, like getting the ball and pushing it back onto your side so you lose a point or blowing it three courts over! Luckily, we are usually the only ones there so it doesn't matter if we play across 4 courts. Afterwards, we usually go get some ice cream/ frozen yogurt and just enjoy our outing.  T went camping this weekend with his troop. They worked on orienteering, which I was super happy about since T needs to work on that something fierce, but unfortunately the boys in troop aren't much better than him at orienteering and the first guy oriented them upside down on the first one so they basically was...

  That's not fog. That is how dusty it was at 3 pm in the afternoon on the high wind day that came from the West. We have a nice coating of red West Texas dust on EVERYTHING. I even had to change the water in the horse trough because there was so much dust in there it just looked muddy! So gross!!! Well, it's finally over! D's crazy week and a half that had more than 43 hours of over time is through! D is tired from everything he had to do and I am exhausted from holding the fort down. The weather has been beautiful, but a little crazy! We have had two days of high winds, like crazy high winds. Basically, one day for about 12 hours the winds stayed at around 37 mph with guests around 65 mph. The second high wind day was a little better with winds sustained at about 27 mph and gusts about 45 mph. However , even though we didn't have any damage from the higher wind event, we did have some damage from the second event. Most likely because it came from the southwest. We alw...

  He is such a  sweet big baby❤️ This past week was wonderful! The mornings were slightly chilly and the afternoons were picture perfect. So of course we have to have a cold front come through that drops the the afternoon highs by about 40 degrees! It is rainy, cold, and miserable now. I have switched back and forth so much from heater to a/c  I am surprised my system hasn't freaked out! Unfortunately, Axl is still a big baby so we haven't had a lot of sleep. We have been needing to give Axl his anxiety meds, which helps, but he still pants and paces ALL night long. While that is annoying, it is actually an improvement from when he first arrived. I just can't understand why he is so upset every time there's any moisture in the air. It's really sad to watch a 100 lbs dog literally shaking because he's so scared. I really hope as he gets use to his new home that he continues to be less scared of EVERYTHING. It was a pretty long week since D was gone 12 hours every...

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...