Strawberry Planter

Spring time means time to plant a garden. I planted a row of strawberries thinking I was so smart and ahead of the game. Then I was informed that when they start growing they might now make it due to the rabbits loving the plant. So my wonderful father-in-law and Shane had a wonderful idea about moving a huge cement tank over to the house to plant the strawberries off the ground so that they will not become rabbit food and "might" come back next year. I thought this would be a simple task with the equipment they have. Well, it ended up being an almost all afternoon ordeal. It took a tractor, chain, another tractor to pull the tank out of the ground and a lot of dirt. The pictures will tell the story of how much fun we had. (Shane's mom) and I stood and watched laughing about how hard they were working for some silly strawberries. :) We had a good time when it was all done and when we have fresh strawberry shortcake it will all be worth the hassle. Thought you guys would enjoy the pictures.

SPRING TIME-Random

This spring has been one busy time of my life. After Little Spiker's volleyball league Softball season was upon us. The beginning of February was our first practices I am coaching JV team. We have not stopped till now. We had 2-3 day tournaments every weekend the first month and games every Tuesday, Saturday. Of course the weather did not cooperate. It was gorgeous during February and then it got COLD just in time to stand out in it for hours. Then the exciting stuff happened, during district we started winning. The Varsity team won District and now we are in the playoffs. And when I say we stopped now, that is because the whole state of Texas has suspended UIL competitions until May 11th. We will not have our play-off game until May 19th. In that amount of time until our playoff game, we will practice and I will have attended Faculty Dinners, Junior High Athletic Banquet, High School Athletic Banquet, Prom, and other High School activities. BUSY BUSY BUSY!!

Last night my assistant and I drove to Bridgeport to attend a volleyball coaching clinic. It started off an eventful evening. First, we thought we might not be able to go due to the SWINE FLUE closures of schools. We headed out about 12:30. Of course it couldn't be that easy; we ran into a storm and got "lost" in Wichita Falls. I know we need to learn our directions. But have any of you ever gotten turned around in Wichita Falls? We slowed down to about 40mph in the heavy down pour so we were already pressed for time we thought. The clinic was short, sweet, and we learned a lot. I hope it will bring us some common ideas and motivate me to do a better job. We left at 8:00 and made it home at 11:00pm. On the way home we ran into more storms around Vernon. I had to pull off for awhile because I couldn't see the road. Final event of the evening was on my FM road I was driving along talking and all the sudden saw water coming over the road. I slammed on the brakes and made it thru at 40mph. It was scary. We had to use the oh sh.. handles in the car. We laughed after our hearts starting beating again. Casey & I decided that we may not want to travel together again for awhile. :)

Last but not least, I knew I married a farmer, and a good man, but sure didn't know I married such a red neck. :) While I was gone last night Shane and his 2 friends were all off work and decided to chase pigs on their 4-wheelers after it had rained 4-6 inches. I can't imagine what craziness went on with those three. When I got home I had a picture left for me in the bathroom of a big pig tied on the 4-wheeler and 2 grown men COVERED with mud head to toe. They never grow up do they?

It has been an eventful SPRING and we still have 4 weeks left of school.