MOVING!!!!!!

Well, this was the weekend that we finally "moved" to Brenham. Thank God for Katie and Moose. We truly could not have done it with out them! We rented a U-Haul and Moose and Katie showed up at the Barclay at 8:30. Moose and I loaded until 12:30 and Katie and Sally packed. Thanks goodness the weather cooperated. It was only 101 so it was pleasant. We go to Brenham and unloaded the truck. After a short cool down period, we went to the airport for dinner. Very nice evening. Saw a restored Chinese Yak.

Sunday morning, Sally and I got up early to change out the entrance reducer on the bee hine. I suited up. I went to pull it out and it didn't work. SWARM!!!! OMG!!!! I swear thousands of bees instantly swarmed Sally and me. Since I was in the suit, I was ok. Sally was not so lucky. She got stung three times in the head!!!! After that we cooked blue berry pancakes and took the truck back. Then Katie and Moose went home.

After the kids left Sally and I cooked a meal that came completely from our garden. We had peas, cucumbers and onions and tomatoes. It was truly fabulous.

One down!

Well, by tommorrow morning, I will have completed my first grad school class. I am very pleased wirth my performance. It was a little rocky at first. Sally thought she was going to have to either kill me or leave me! Thank God she agreed to stay! Here is a link to what I created for Horticulture 605: http://people.tamu.edu/~Yupneck1/Project/JUA_Index.html.

I really enjoyed learning to do this. I hope the rest of my grad school experience is as pleasant as this has been.

Sally and I are now offically in "hair on fire" mode. Our house closes on July 6. We have to be out of the house by July 3 so we can help Heather move in on July 4. Sally is going to Tulsa to help a friend so I will be trying do most of the move by myself. Katie and Moose and Chris are coming on Saturday to help me get the big stuff. The race is on!

On a more zen like note, the garden is really coming in! We have onions, squash, egg plant and tomatoes! However, the thing we have most is PURPLR HULL PEAS!!! I have been eating peas for a week! God how I love those black eyed peas and cornbread! Thank goodness Sally knows how to cook them.

April 14, 1912, 10:00 pm – What a marvelous day! Boat handling like a dream. New York in one day away. At this point I cannot help but be overwhelmed at just how lucky I am and how fabulously my life is going. Truly at the top of my game! Top captain on the top boat on the top line in the world! God is good!!!!

This is an excerpt from Captain Edward John Smith’s diary (not really, I just made it up. However there is a point to it so follow along). In case you don’t know Captain Smith, he was the lucky man selected to pilot the HMS Titanic on her maiden voyage. As we all know, after writing this journal entry, his life began to spiral downward very quickly.

After this past week, I know exactly how Edward must have felt about 11 pm on that cold April night. One minute, life is so good. The next, your cold dead body is bobbing up and down with Leonardo DiCapprio’s body in front of Kate Winslet!

That is pretty much how my week has gone. Sunday, after running the nightly processes for the Budget apps I went to bed. I was awaken by a terrible rumbling down below. OMG!!!!! I WAS SICK! SICK like I have only been one other time in my life. I will spare you the details but I WAS SICK! Then, to top that off, the budgeting system was refusing to work. So for the next 5 days my life has been nothing but work, sleep and work some more. Then, to make it just a little more special, grad school started on Monday. Talk about stress. Oh well. What does not kill us makes us stronger.

With all of the work problems and grad school stresses I have been an absolute bear to live with. I am sorry Sally. You always take your frustrations out on the ones you love. And, unfortunately for you right now, I love you a bunch!