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The Bunch Get School Ready and Visit the Zoo

Oh, what great pics we get now! I love their smiles ❤️💗💓


 Wow! This has been such a great week. Not only were the temps down, but we also lost a lot of the humidity. In fact, one morning the temp for our morning dog walk was only 67! In August! In Texas! I was actually cold and wanted a jacket. The afternoons were warm, but bareable. We are now back to our normal really hot and super humid summer weather, but we enjoyed it while it lasted. One day we even went to the zoo. Our zoo is never busy and we only saw about 9 other people while we were there so I felt safe. It was nice to get out and enjoy part of the day without experiencing heat exhaustion. One afternoon we played in the backyard with the kids. T had the time of his life throwing the football with his dad and L performed on the lyra. 

T had so much throwing the ball with his dad.

L actually practices a lot on the Lyra.

He is really just a big kid.

Awwww. A Covid selfie.

It really just doesn't look comfortable.


Iris, the horse, is doing very well. T even rode her bareback for a bit. It took us over a year, but she is finally doing really well. Unfortunately, while she was out in the main pasture, she was spooked. She took off at a full run and basically just ran over the poor mini donkey. It really scared me because I just saw Iris not slow down, poor little Gwen's legs flip over her body, and then Gwen on her back with her bright white belly showing. However, Gwen got up immediately and for the past 2 days has behaved normally. Amazingly, Iris seems fine too. I thought for sure the collision would set us back on all her progress, but she is still walking around just fine. I still gave them their horse ibuprofen though, just in case.

Aren't they cute?

Ride 'em Cowboy!

L messing around on the Lyra didn't even phase Iris. She did great!


The babies are FINALLY laying eggs. Ok. Only one so far has actually laid an egg, but all of them are doing the egg squat so they should start laying soon. Ironically, the only one we thought might be a rooster was the first one to lay an egg. She still acts like roo though.

The little brown one is the baby egg and the blue one is a normal egg.


We start back to school on Monday. I am so happy we had no adjustments for school when the pandemic hit. Our school(other than sports) was completely unaffected. A is a senior this year and wants to be certified as a Vet Tech. L is a sophomore and thinks she wants to be an aerial arts instructor ( the previous 5 years she wanted to be a pediatric nurse so we'll see). T is in 7 th grade and doesn't want to go to college. He wants to be an Elvis impersonator. 😂 

Found a mustache sticker....yeah we're bored.

Cute! She was in her chicken cleaning outfit.

We have several watermelons 🍉 ready....all weigh AT LEAST 30lbs!!!!

 Super yummy.

L made several earrings

She worked really hard.

The girls bought new dresses from the boutique.


Have a  great week 😊 

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