Who's your Crawdaddy?

Saturday Night after the Jackpot we had tons of people come over and we boiled Craw fish. I was given the duty of cooking the craw fish and it was my first time. I had a little help from Shannon who has done it a million times. I didn't realize how easy and fun it was! We got a little carried away with taking pictures... We started by adding the seasoning and bringing the water to a boil. Then we added the potatoes and once they were soft we added corn, onions, mushrooms & sausage. As soon as we added the vegetables the burner went out and wouldn't start back up! We had to wait for someone to bring us another burner so the veggies got to sit in the seasoning for awhile and were extra extra spicy but delicious.

Banjo and Birdie weren't quite so sure what to think of the craw fish. Banjo took one sniff and then said no thanks. Birdie got very close to one and it bit her lip she shook her head and the craw fish went flying onto the ground. Banjo stood over it and barked at it for about five minutes until I finally got rid of the craw fish.

More Pictures to come Later!!

Saturday Jackpot

So I bush hogged the front yard Sunday. It was about waist deep in weeds. This is not due to the fact that I am lazy and do not want to mow. This is due to the fact that our front yard is really low and since it rained every day in May we were forced to sit and watch the weeds grow in the two inches of water that sat and hatched the biggest mosquitoes in Saline County. It finally quit raining and the water dried and I was able to mow. There was only one wet spot that I almost got stuck in but other than that it was pretty dry. Below are a few "before" pictures. These pictures just don't show how deep it really is. This was also taken last weekend so it had a week's worth of more growth on it. Banjo could walk out into the front yard and disappear in the grass and still be standing up.

If you'll notice I have no after pictures yet. This is because it got dark on me and I didn't get to go back over the yard with the finish mower. The next day Jim took the mower to his mothers to mow and left it over there. So now I have to wait until it comes back to get after pictures. Right now it looks like a Blind Man cut my grass because it's so uneven and has a few missed spots. I had to mow with the small tractor and bush hog, this was my first experience driving a small tractor with a mower on the back. It was quite interesting. I'm not so sure Jim should've trusted me with it.

So anyway to continue posting about my weekend.... Saturday we had a Jackpot at the house. We had tons of people over and really had a good time, despite the 150 degree weather. Due to Sean's rib injury he sat out of the Jackpot and just flagged for the timers. Shannon (the girl with the awesome camera that I'm jealous of) was there and she let me play around with her camera, here's some of the pictures we took...

Sean flagged on Zero! Sean is working with Zero and trying to make him into a Hazing horse which is funny because Zero is around 13 and he's never run before in his life. He's a lazy horse. He'd doing pretty good though.

Sean bringing the steers back

Jason and Jim about to leave the box. (my brother-in-law and father-in-law)

Jason, catching his steer. The white horse, Frosty, looks like something you see in the movies in this picture.

This camera even makes a bird house look good!!

If' you'll notice my camera ticker at the bottom of the page I'm up to 22.7%!! Only 77.3% until I have enough money for my new Camera!!