GIVE AWAY!!

Do large numbers make you want to throw up?? If so I've got a give away for you!...it has nothing to do with large numbers or throw up though.

See, I get my e-mail messages through my Blackberry.  The other day my phone vibrated indicating I had a new message.  I usually just get work messages or blogger comments (which are my favorite)  but this e-mail message made me want to throw up with nervousness.  It was my ENERGY BILL AHHHH!   As I nervously opened the e-mail I was praying the bill was under $250.  All Winter it stayed around $275 and seriously I was considering just letting them cut off the electricty this month if it was that High again and just try to rough it like Laura Ingalls...I mean I do have chickens now and everything.

I opened the message and scrolled down to the dreaded AMT DUE: line and low and behold a beautiful $145 stared back at me!  (cue angels singing) I wanted to marry that beautiful $145 and love it forever!   I couldn't believe it...then I remembered that we kept the air/heat off and opened the windows and used a small space heater for warmth.  I also decided not to do laundry for the month of March which left Sean gripeing about laundry but AT LEAST I SAVED MONEY.  Because that was my intentions from the get go...not because i'm tired of laundry or anything.

Anyway how appropriate that a few days later my blackberry buzzed with another message about a GIVE AWAY that was all about saving energy!!  Earth Day is on April 22nd and it's turning 40 this year!!  Cascadian Farms wants us to join in the celebration by pledging to follow a few eco-friendly tips on their facebook page. 

Look what they are giving away to you also?  This prize pack Cascadian Farm cereals and granola bars, including: Fruitful Os cereal, Cinnamon Crunch cereal, Chocolate Chip Chewy granola bars, Dark Chocolate Almond Granola, Dark Chocolate Almond granola bars, Oats & Honey granola, and an eco-friendly grocery bag. YUMMY!!!!  Sean's Going to LOVE this giveaway!!

On The Cascadian Farms Facebook page, you can Pledge to reduce your speed while driving, or Pledge to reusing clothes (hand me downs-- not dirty laundry like me)  You can also pledge to unplug your electronics while not using them, which is what I pledged to do!  There are lots of ways you can pledge to cut down on energy use..and guess what!?  Cascadian farms is going to donate $1 for ever pledge between now and May 31, 2010 to Organic Farming Research Foundation, which fosters the improvement of widespread adoption of organic farming systems Whoo Hooo!!  HOpefully this will help me see another low energy bill next month too!!

To Enter just Leave a Comment telling me how you could help save energy!  Give away ends 4/23

Dedicated to organic goodness since 1972, Cascadian Farm products are grown without the use of synthetic pesticides, chemical fertilizers or genetically engineered ingredients. With your help, we can all live greener together.

Visit CascadianFarm.com to learn more and download a $1.00 coupon today!
This giveaway was all given to me from Cascadian Farm through MyBlogSpark!

Minus One

I have sad news.  Birdie killed BirdieToo.  She just wanted to play and hasn't yet realized that she's bigger than the chickens.  Sean and I went to lunch and I stuipdly left the chickens in the front yard to enjoy the sun and they wondered their way into the Back yard into Birdie's Pen and she played a little to hard with Birdietoo and I guess he was too stupid to run like the others did. 

When I got home Birdie was very proud of her accomplishments..which she should've been, she's a bird dog.  I on the other hand felt awful that I left them unattended and Sean disposed of the dead chicken...and Birdie retrieved it and brought it back...twice.  At least we know she's a good retriever. 

So what else is going on at the Circle T? 

The Trees have leaves..
the grass is green..
Banjo is having hip problems majorly..
Birdie might have to go to a trainer. Sean wants her to be a great hunting dog but I don't want her to go away!
Sean seems to be enjoying his new job..
The 5 chickens are getting a coop..
I planted some snapdragons and they looks great..
Everything is covered with pollen..

Oh Yeah and Friday Night I went to see Lady Antebellum and Tim McGraw in concert in Little Rock with the girls.  It was a lot of fun!  I wish I would've brought my Rebel Camera...I instead decided it might be dangerous so I took my point and shoot...it sucked.  I wish I would've had my Rebel so bad...here's proof the point and shoot sucked.

Blurry

This was full zoom..we had good seats be we were still far.  We went down to the bottom row to shoot some good pics and found three vacant seats and sat front row for a little while!! 
This is how close we were after... no zoom.

Then the people who were stitting there finally arrived 30 minutes later and we went back to this:

It was still a blast...and Tim crowd surfed!! 

Have a good monday!

FF & FF

It's Follow me Friday and Friday Funny!

Friday Funny is usually with Kelly over at Keeping up with Kelly & co. but it is on hold this week but I thought I'd do it anyway... I got this email earlier this week.  I thought it was funny...


Ok Now Repeat after me

I will never complain about my job ever again.

I will never complain about my job ever again.

I will never complain about my job ever again.

Holy Crap I will never complain about my job ever again.

Ew.  I will never complain about my job ever ever again.

oh I will NEVER complain about my job ever again.

I will never complain about my job ever again.

(and neither will this guy after he dies)

I will never complain about my job ever again.

I love my job.

Have a great weekend!!

Chillin with my Peeps

 

"Shake your tail feather!"

So I didn't realize how interesting it would be raising chickens.  I always thought that chickens were extreamly stupid and simple but they are acutally pretty complex little birdies.  The only chicken I've ever been around was ChickChick, the barnyard sole surviour of the 25 chickens my MIL got when Sean and I first got married.  (She didnt' get them because we got married, just around the same time...that sentence implied that she bought them because we got married and I just wanted to clairfy)  Frosty the horse Stepped on ChickChick the "last of the chickens" when Sean and I were feeding one night and we thought she was a goner.  Sean's Mom nursed ChickChick back to health, keeping her in the well house and hand feed her since she couldn't stand for the next few weeks.  She emerged from the well house as good as new except she walked with a pimp step and would randomly lay eggs while walking across the barnyard.   (for those of you who don't know what a well house is, I'm sorry.  I refuse to explain)

Chick Chick met her maker after being chased around by some friendly dogs.  I think she would have made it away from the dogs if not for her pimp step.  They ran her into a heartattack.  That's why noone should walk with a pimp step...

So back to my chicks.  They look to me as their Mama now and they follow me around in the back yard.  Three of them almost have all of their wing feathers and the others aren't far behind. 

Today I let them outside during my lunch break and I noctied it must be something about the Circle T that makes chickens just gangster because I swear my chickens were throwing up signs...

"What up my peeps?"

Seriously though...What are they doing this for?  I can only guess that they are sun bathing maybe?  or airing out their underwings...much like a human might need to do if no deodorant was applied?

At first it was just this little guy above...I thought "aww he's hurt his wing and foot..."

Ok then four of six started doing it...WHAT ARE THEY DOING THAT FOR??

With the help of my MIL I've come to the conclusion that they were just basking in the sun.  Hey check out the chick standing up...I think I'm naming it BirdieToo because it's a runt.(much like Birdie)  It's the same age as the others yet hasn't grown his wings yet.  I'm also pretty sure he is the chick that one of the little girls during photos didn't realize how tight she was squeezing it and it momentarily saw the light.  He may be a little "off"...

I'm having to keep them inside at night because it's still to cold for them.  This is their inside home.  I was sitting on the couch and heard some louder than normal peeps and turned around and they were all perched on top of the box...except for the "off" one,  he couldnt' quite make it...poor little fella

So I gave the little guy a perch to sit on.  this picture is a bit blurry because it's hard to take a photo with your left hand while holding chickens in your right. but you get the gist.

Ok and now I can't forget these children of mine.

Birdie's pissed because she can't play with the chickens....and Banjo could care less either way.

Have a fabulous friday and and even more wonderful weekend!

Jenna T.