Let the Fun Begin!

Rick and Ashley arrived last night and were up bright and early to go fishing with Quent. The "kids" are still out on the lake and at last count they had caught close to 20 fish among the three of them. Ricky sent me this picture from his cell phone.

Breaking out of their shell

Quent decided that it would be fun to hatch some chickens while our nieces are in town this weekend so back on May 2 he put 34 eggs in the incubator. By his calculations he said that the chickens would start hatching about noon on Thursday, May 22 just in time for our nieces to see cute yellow chicks.

Quent wasn't so sure that it had worked as he said the incubator wasn't getting hot enough and that we may not see any chicks. He was wrong. The first one started to break out of the shell this morning.

Our neighbor, Nob, will take the chicks once they are hatched and old enough to live in the chicken coup. We already have about 14 chickens that are producing on average 6 eggs a day, we certainlty don't need more than 6 eggs a day.

Happy Eat What You Want Day ...

So you know that today is Mother's Day right? But did you know that it is also Eat What You Want Day? Earlier today Quent and I were having quite the debate on whether or not there is a national "step parents day". I didn't think there was such a day and Quent was more that sure there was. I went to the internet for answers and came upon this site. http://www.holidayinsights.com/ Not only does this site have every "known" holiday listed it also has a category for Bizarre and Unique Days.

For instance, my birthday, August 29 is National More Herbs Less Salt Day.More Herbs, Less Salt Day promotes use of healthy herbs over salts. Late August is a very appropriate time to celebrate this special day. The harvest of garden herbs is at a peak. There's nothing better than fresh garden herbs in your favorite recipes.

So if you have a minute you might just want to check out the holiday insights website and find that special holiday that Hallmark hasn't gotten around to making a greeting card for.

P.S. Happy Mother's Day Mom!

Gotta love small towns ...

After working for a car dealer for 10 years I thought I'd seen just about everything when it came to running "deals" to get people to buy a car. I was wrong. Lake Powell Ford (located in the lovely Page, Arizona) is currently running the promotion that takes all promotions. If you buy a new Ford truck you get a goat or a sheep as a "thank you". Now I've seen everything from Jazz tickets, to Tony Lama boots, to free meals at a bad Mexican restaurant to an additional used car with purchase, but a live animal?

I saw the livestock on the lot earlier in the week and thought they were running some kind of petting zoo in the parking lot to get families to come down to the dealership, boy was I wrong. Quent told me today that they do this every year and that they are out of goats already so if we were to purchase a vehicle we would undoubtedly end up with a sheep. I have nothing against goats or sheep but seriously, why not a cat or a dog?

By the way we're not going to buy a truck. Can you imagine Larry H. Miller running a promotion to get a llama with purchase? Or maybe a horse or cow? Not even the guys at First Class Cars did something this crazy.