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...