Truckin'

SO, Holly bought herself a truck. I do not know if she will EVER stop grinning! She is so happy. She, Willow, Tara & I had lunch together, then went to goodwill & the auto parts store to "pimp" her ride. It was a complete and total BLAST! When Holly is happy-Life is Grand!

Willow & Heidi's test scores came today and they both passed with very high scores. Now for the gathering of financial aid info. They call them turbo testers-they finished in half the alloted time and in the 90th or higher on all but 1 subject! Smarty pants-with attitudes. Willow is interested in cosmetology. She will be running her own business one day, no doubt in my mind. Heidi is interested in culinary school, bit she needs to settle where she wants to live first. Here, Louisiana, Portland....it's up in the air. Louisiana is top on the list for her, though.

Lloyd made it through his extra long day, came home full of good cheer. He then told me a story about a scary experience at the mill. He & a co-worker were in an enclosed area working, finished up and were manuvering their way out over grates & stuff when there was a huge "BOOM" "explosion" Lloyd said. Then steam loudly pulsing from a giant pipe. Lloyd said "I'm getting the F outta here" and RAN! He said it freaked them all out, not knowing what blew & which workers were where in the mess of it. Turns out it was a pressure release valve doing its job to protect the main boiler from building up too much pressure. But-frightening, until they knew what the deal was! Ahh, love the mill (ack!). I think I'll buy some lottery tickets this week. ha ha

On the homestead-the SUN has been shining, leading me to believe that we will, in fact, have a spring & summer later this year.
SO- firming up on the chicken selection & going to get my little seedlings started in the house here in the next 2 weeks. I got a sale flyer for a tall 4 level shelf to put in the south facing window/non moving side of our sliding glass doors. That should work out just fine. My only worry is that crazy, perpetually bad child ZERO (Tara's cat, who lives with us!?!?)

Poor Zero is very intelligent & bored. He can't go outside because Holly's cat Simon lives on our porch and tries to kill him everytime he steps out of the house. Simon is sweet, fluffy, adorable. He rolls onto his back for you to scratch his curly tummy. He looks like a lion. And he is a KILLER, stone cold, ass kicking KILLER. Loves people, hates other cats, KILLS anything that moves. He does get along fine with the dogs. Hazel is much smaller than him and he leaves her alone. Between he & Magic, Simon is certainly the dude in charge, they are pals. They probably have formed a team to assasinate the pets that get to live in the house, while they languish outside. They plot. Well, Simon plots, Magic.....I don't think so!

La-La, Life is sweet!