411 The Walters Bunch

  Happy birthday to me! The first birthday up is mine. It was a little different this year. Don't misunderstand me, I was still 24, but L was super busy with school and A had to work. We decided to meet A for lunch at Schlotzchy's by her work. I hadn't eaten there in well over a decade and wanted to try it. It wasn't as good as I remembered, but it was really fun to see A in the middle of the day. She wanted to make it a monthly thing, which will be fun, but probably not feasible during basketball season. L did make time to go out to lunch with us and even made me a chocolate zucchini gluten free cake plus some biscotti.🥰 She has been so crazy swamped with school and I am afraid she is going to burn out. She seems to be getting good grades though and really loves her design art class. She has a ton of projects in it, but she really likes doing stuff like that so it's fun for her. It's just VERY time consuming. I also relaxed and watched a Hallmark movie. I love

  It's so hot that all we want to do is lay in the air conditioning. The pets are ok with this!😂 It's always hot in Texas in August. It comes with the territory and it's not surprising it's hot. What is surprising is how insanely hot it is! Weeks on end of over 105 degree days, multiple days around 110.  It is brutal! It makes it so we pretty much can't leave our house, not because we're basking in the glory of our awesome a/c unit ( and trust me our main house a/c unit is crazy good), but because with heat indexes around 115 everyday someone has to be here to check on the animals every half hour. We have to check that the horses are handling it well, which they do WAY better than the chickens. If they seem insanely hot and miserable we give them a nice cool bath to bring their temperature down a bit. I know that they are really hot when my horse, that swears the devil lives in the hose and wants to attack her, allows us to not only give her a bath, but almost

Noelle loves to be toted around and carried! We are getting back into the swing of fall, even though it's crazy hot. I am so over summer that I already have started putting up my fall decorations. It feels like fall inside our house. Our brief cold front and subsequent break from insanely hot weather is appreciated. I just wish the high heat would go away. It's got to be close, right? The last 2-3 years we have not hit 100 after August 12 and that makes summer a little more bearable. However, hitting 105+ for over a month and with no foreseeable end makes it seem like FOREVER summer! T has started back to school, but with A and L not having started yet, he feels a little jaded about it. Even though he knows he will have days off that they won't get, he still resents having to work while they enjoy their days. We're gearing up for birthday week. T's biggest wish....to go eat at a pizza buffet! I don't do buffets ever. It promotes overeating and bacteria growth, b

The grey uniforms are the team he helped out. T and the guy sitting next to him just wore their white T shirts and Rattlers game shorts. They both play together on T's normal team. I was surprised the refs let them play. The team looked so ragged! This was our last week before school starts and we used it to finish up doing things from the fun jar. We only have two things we didn't get to that we'll finish over the next couple of weeks. One was to race our chickens, which L put in the jar and sounds hilarious, but it has to be cooler before we do that and the other one is to remake the Buy a Shot Gun video with Joe Biden, which should be fun too. A is finishing all her classes for the summer and gets a week off before fall semester starts. She is about ready to be done with school!  L has registered for her 3 fall classes and has ordered her books. Her classes start on August 23 so while she waits she is earning extra money by helping paint our house. I have wanted to get r