#HEARTHISWELL

The other week Kevin and I were able to spend almost every night together doing a 'date night'. On our first date night we went to see vaxxed. I was over the moon excited that we were finally able to see this movie! I have been dying to see vaxxed since it was made. I wanted to see it so badly I almost made a 6 hour drive to see it but we were able to get one of theaters in town to agree to play it so we only had to make like a 10 minute drive. I would be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed that we didn't make the 6 hour drive to one of the tour stops and got to watch the film and meet the people involved in making it but we got to see it and thats what really matters, I think we have been pretty clear on our stance on medical interventions and vaccines so I am sure my excitement over this is no surprise. We tend to be the odd people out because of our stance so you can imagine how comforting and relieving and refreshing and how truly amazing it felt to be surrounded by people who felt the same way as we do. On our second date night we went to a natural class at my doctor's office. And again it was nice to be surrounded by people who feel the same way we do. The class was a little boring as we already knew most of the information being presented but it gave us an excuse to spend a night out together.

My weird hippy hobbies

We spent Saturday just laying around and doing nothing but relaxing. Every now and then everyone needs a day to do nothing so that is what we did. On Sunday we cleaned up the house a little bit. Today we did a lot of work! The one thing I wanted to get done this weekend was to get my banana plats separated so that they have a chance to get acclimated before it comes time to bring them inside for the winter season. I now have four banana plants and two of them are growing pups so hopefully if they all survive being split from the main plant and put into their own pots I will have a minimum of six banana plants! Pretty soon we will be in the banana plant selling business. This summer has been amazing for the banana plants and my lime tree, they have grown like crazy in the past two months.

The lime tree.

The banana before we split it.

The main banana plant. This will be its permanent pot. 

The plant in the middle we split off the main banana about a month ago.
The two orange pots were the ones we took off today.

My strawberries.
I started with about ten and they have spread and filled the entire pot.

And because we love the bees I have 3 pots of snap dragons.

Bee food

Lemon grass. I needed that pot for the main banana.
So I gave away the lemon grass on facebook.

Dear Asshole,

I hope I never get the displeasure of ever meeting you, although my fist has a lot it would like to say to your face. Today I found your beautiful dog tied to an electrical pole inches from the busy road in the middle of a down pour. I'm sure you didn't care as you drove away but I did, in fact I cried a little as I turned my car around and called animal control to come save your sweet baby. They said they knew and had someone on the way but unlike you I couldn't just leave and let her sit in the mud alone and scared. Not that you care but by now she is dry and getting any help she needs. Tonight her belly will be full and she can sleep with warm blankets and not in the wet sloppy mud pit you left her in. Tonight as she tries to adjust to all the changes around her I will pray that she finds a good safe forever home with people to hold her, walk her, play with her, sneak her extra treats, and give her all the love she so deserves. Yes, tonight I will live life just a little bit slower. I will give my fur babies lots of extra snuggles and sneak them a few extra treats. I will let them know that for the entirety of their lives I will never abandon them, I will give them everything they need and more. I will continue to turn my car around to make sure that beautiful souls, like the one you left tied to a pole, get the help they need to live life to its fullest. You are a coward and a disgrace to the world, and hopefully someday you will get what you deserve.

We've been busy

We have been pretty busy these days, but we have finally done enough work that the house is no longer a disaster and is somewhat put together. The only room needed any actual construction is the kitchen still. All we need is for the cabinet doors to be put on, the dishwasher to be installed differently, and the drawers to be painted and then put it. After that we just need to clean put the spare rooms and get them put together and we are finished. Kevin and I are still pretty much on different schedules so it makes it hard to find time to work on things.
 Last weekend we went out to an organic plant sale and bought a bunch of things for our garden and then last night we went out and unplanted everything because the weather decided to be freezing cold again and we didn't want to risk stunting anything. While we were plant shopping we also bought two peach trees and they will be the first trees planted in our mini orchard! We have a very large yard (although we wish it was bigger) and we plan to utilize it. We have decided that if we can't eat it, it doesn't feed the bees, or if it doesn't bring any profit then it has to go. Whats the point in having a large yard if it is just yard? Having a plot of mowed grass isn't really doing us or the environment any good so we will slowly be transforming the yard. Out with the useless and in with the useful. I keep praying that the city will change the laws and allow backyard chickens and then this house would be perfect and we wouldn't ever have to move. Also if you or anyone you know would like some lily of the valley I have a ton of plants I would like to part with, I need it gone so my lavender can be purchased and planted.

Intentional Thinking

 It has seems that February has brought me many moments in which I need to stop, breathe, and remember to be intentionally thankful. I would say most days I wake up and am grateful for the life I live and the things I have but I also have a lot of days I wake up and take everything I have for granted. Then are the few days that stop me in my tracks and make me realize just how much I have and how incredibly thankful I am, I had some of those days last week. Both dogs have pretty serious health issues and most days I take for granted that fact that we are able to provide them with the daily medications they need to survive. Last Monday I woke up in the middle of the night to find Stan curled up in bed next to me shivering. I tried everything to warm him up and nothing seemed to help so I put him in bed under the covers right next to me and we snuggled the rest of the night. This happened every single night last week, he just could not keep his body temperature up and was becoming freezing ice cold after being asleep for a few hours. I ended up having to turn the heat up about 12-15 degrees and he had to wear one of my sweatshirts to be able to stop shivering. I of course called the vet and made him an emergency appointment, we are pretty well known there and they go above and beyond for us and ended up staying about an hour and 45 minutes after closing just so Stan could have plenty of snuggles and I could have one on one conversation with the vet about how to help him. She recommended a lot of tests to run and of course I did them. This is one of the moments when I just have to stop and pray and be intentionally thankful. Kevin and I are able to rush our dogs to the vet and run the necessary tests to help them at a moments notice. We can afford the proper care they need. We can afford to give them the life they deserve. I have recently read a lot of stories about owners who can't afford proper care and end up having to rehome their dogs or worse make them suffer and I am so thankful we aren't faced with those choices. Stan is doing fine and we have been able to turn the heat back down and take his sweatshirt off of him. He does go in later this week for a doggie ekg so I'll keep you posted on how he does.

life

We have been pretty busy these days. Kevin works a lot. I work a lot. We just work a lot, which hasn't left us a whole lot of time to work on the house. When I leave for work in the morning its dark out and when I get home from work in the evening its dark out, its horrible. We are hoping to get a lot done this weekend. I want to get this house finished up asap! One because I'm tired of living in an unfinished house and two because I want to start hosting get togethers and oil classes. When we bought this house I thought having a big yard would be awesome turns out cleaning up dog poop in the big yard in the cold really sucks. It takes a minimum of 30-45 minutes to find it all, not exactly how I want to spen the better part of an hour of my day. Stan and Silas love the yard they have planty of room to sniff and chase and do dog things. Remember when I said we have cable yeah that lasted about 24 hours before we canceled. The plan the sold us and the plan they gave us turned out to not be the same so we canceled and to top it off the guy who came and installed it got mud on the carpet. I was very upset about the mud so Kevin and I went out and did married people things and bought me a carpet cleaner! My carpets are now clean again and I now remember why I hate carpets.

We're back!

We finally have internet in our house!! On Saturday Kevin decided to order internet so we can stop paying data overage charges on our phones because we were paying ,ore in over use charges than what internet would cost. On Sunday they sent out a guy to install the cable and internet. We actually weren't going to get cable, we are completely fine with just internet and watching things on netflix and hulu but it was cheaper to get both rather than just get internet. The house is coming along very slowly. We have two rooms completely painted, our bedroom and the back living room. With our work schedules it is really hard to find time to work on the house. Our main priorities were the bedroom and the backyard and those have been completed. Getting the fence put in so the dogs could go out was the most important thing and now that Kevin doesn't have to spend all of his time outside putting up the fence we can start finishing things inside. I am praying that the house will be finished by the end of February because if it takes any longer than that I may go insane. I can not stand mess and clutter. I absolutely hate that every time I need something we have to dig through boxes, like when without thinking I signed up to bring brownies to the work carry-in and it took me longer to find the dishes needed to make them than it did to actually bake the stupid brownies.