Bathroom Make-Over

Here is what "Luke's" bathroom looked like until a few days ago....
It wasn't too manly, or really attractive in any way so I re-painted it:

And decorated it with a fishing/pond theme:

What do you think?

Putting Up Hay

Yesterday, Luke, Matt & I continued the work of putting up our hay. The tractor, baler, rake & mower are finally all working at the same time and we are starting to make progress (now that its the end of August!). The only problem we had was when the hay wagon was stacked high and the axel broke as we were pulling it to the barn. Its always something! Luke & Matt did a great job bucking bales and stacking them higher than I could ever throw a bale. Luke & I finished baling the alfalfa today and stacked that hay also. All in all, we now have about 550 small bales and 9 round bales. We still have almost 20 acres to cut & bale but hopefully we can get someone with a round baler to finish it for us. Square bales are a heck of a lot of work!

The NEMO Dog

One of the first things that I did when I started my job at the feedmill was make promotional posters to hang in our store & in our dealerships. Since I work from home and generally get bored when working on the computer all day, I enjoy taking breaks to walk around outside and take pictures. These pictures generally become the images I use for all of our mailers, posters, signs, etc. With the help of photoshop, one picture that I took last fall became Kelly's modeling debut. This is how I knew:

We had some neighbors over the other day and the one guy commented that Kelly "sure looked like the NEMO dog".

"The NEMO dog?" I asked.

"Yeah, you know the dog that is on the poster in the feedmill."

That is because she IS the NEMO dog! Yes, Kelly has become famous. We're still waiting for that to somehow generate some income though....

Here's the poster:

Closest Thing to Waylon

For those of you who do not know, I have a confession to make. I love Shooter. I think its his voice and the sheer fact that no matter what, he's the closest thing to Waylon you're ever going to get to see in concert. I also love that he can be totally grunged out with an electric guitar and still have a leather, tooled, concho strap. It looks like its Montana Silversmiths! When you can pull that mix off, you know you're cool. If you do not own a Shooter Jennings CD, buy one. If you are lucky enough that Shooter is coming to a town near you, go see him!

This is Shooter Jennings himself at the Missouri State Fair last week.

This is Shooter playing at the Blue Note 2 years ago.

This is me being a hardcore fan. I love Shooter...did I mention that? Dont worry, my husband doesn't mind.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

It's Luke & my rookie year gardening, but we grew one heck of a chili pepper plant! Due to the late frost we had, only one plant survived. This maybe was a good thing though because all these peppers came from this one plant (and its still full of green ones!).

Does anyone have any ideas what to use them for? Luke wants to use them for chili this winter but we're not sure how to store them. I have a food dehydrator, should I dry them? Any advice would be great. Thanks!

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365 days later...

Flashback to August 4, 2008:

365 days later.....We have been married for a full year! To celebrate, we stayed at the Carriage House Bed & Breakfast in Hermann, Missouri. I've never stayed at a bed & breakfast before, but this one was great and I would highly recommend it to anyone staying in Hermann. Here is the website if you want to check it out: http://www.cadyfolkart.com/





Hermann, Missouri is a really neat town, full of history and wineries. Unfortunately, the heat index was 106, so we only toured two wineries before we got too hot. But, they were really pretty and we had some delicious wine!





Here is Luke at the Hermannhof Winery where we enjoyed a basket lunch with our "vignoles" wine.

We took the "self-guided" tour of the Hermannhof Winery which included the underground cellars where the wine is stored. It was kind of like a dungeon.

This is at the Oak Glen Winery which boasts that it is the most scenic winery in Hermann. There was a neat view of the grape vines and the Missouri River. We would recommend the "River Walk" wine from here. It was blackberries and cinnamon and we loved it!

Back at the Bed & Breakfast Luke found a top hat which was for decoration and decided he wanted to wear it. Isn't the room cool? It was decorated in a cozy country style.



Only 49 years until our 50th Anniversary!