Easy Money Ranch

A week ago today I arrived home to find my toilet in the front entry.  Rather unusual for most people, but it was something we were expecting.  My dad had given me a "new bathroom floor" for Christmas and here he was starting on the project.  We knew it would take a few days of us being out of the house as we would have to stay off the tile while it set and then another day while the grout set.  However Dad had taken it out a day early to retexutre the bathroom.  I couldn't believe the difference!  It looked like we completely resheetrocked!  I also got a new window (no more leaky drafty one.)  This one even has a *gasp* screen!  It also is a little smaller so it isn't right on top of the shower and I can get rid of the gross, hard to clean shower doors and get a shower curtain.  How exciting!  So Monday night we packed our things and headed to my dads to crash with them.  And Tuesday night, and Wednesday, Thursday, and then Thursday stretched into Friday and Friday into Saturday until YESTERDAY when we arrived home from 4H Performance Day to find a toilet installed!  It is funny, the kids keep asking me if they can use the toilet.  Yes, you may it works! Yippeee!!!!  Now, it was fine staying at my dad's, but let me give you a run down of my day.

Phone alarm goes off at 5:00 - this is after a night of nearly sleepless nights in a strange bed, in a strange house with people who are night owls (unlike me).  So I use the light of my phone to stumbled across the basement to the light switch while I stagger upstairs, put on my coat and shoes and drive back out to the farm. 

5:10:  Let Diesel and Wiley out of the kennel.  Feed Diesel and Wiley, start a fire and head out to do chores.

5:30:  Let Diesel out and right back in. Stuff the wood stove full and drive back to town.

5:45:  Get the girls up and get ready for school

6:30:  Head back to the farm.  Put Diesel out, put Tia and Peony in their kennels, grab anything we forgot that we need for school.

7:00:  Arrive at school.

3:45:  Arrive at the farm.  Clean, sort, pick up, help Dad with the project and repack for the next day.

4:30:  Do chores and put the dogs away.  Stuff the wood stove

6:30:  Drive back to town and eat supper.

7:00:  Put Sophie to bed and settle in for the night.

I am definitely ready to be back in this old house.  She might not be fancy, she might not be fine, but she is what she is and what she is is MINE!  Slept great last night, ready for a great day at school, parent-teacher conferences tonight and what is that?  CRAP!  Libby has a cough, headache and low grade fever.  Perhaps she'll feel better after a motrin and waking all the way up?  Fingers crosse!