March Month in Numbers

Hello again!
The month of March was rolling along so merrily that I let it lapse right into April! However, I turned the calendar this morning after looking outside and seeing this

and realized that TWO days of April have come and gone!

Okay, so I'm ready to join in with Julie's Month in Numbers for March . . . 

Starting with number of books read in March = SIX. My Name is Memory, Burnt Mountain, Secrets of Eden, The Winter People, A Cure for Dreams, and The Forever Girl. Also started Joyfully Aging - a Christian's Guide, Birdsong (which I just could not finish), and A Cure for Modern Life.

Watched THREE Pay-Per-View movies (we are not too inclined to go out much, hence staying at home in out own chairs, eating our own popcorn . . ). They were 12 Years a Slave, Captain Phillips, and Delivery Man. All three were great flicks; choosing Delivery Man was a fluke and it turned out to be hilarious! Gotta' love a good belly laugh kind of show.

On March 1st spent SIX hours with FOUR favorite people going to THREE different stores looking for ONE prom dress for granddaughter McKenna. She modeled at least 15 gowns!

See TWO scrapbook layouts I made about this day here. The day was fun as was making these pages!

Celebrated FOUR years of living here on Vine. Here are views out of the kitchen window (back of the house facing South) in 2010 and again in 2014:

Left photo is looking Southeast and right photo is looking Southwest

There have been many changes/improvements around here in those FOUR years!

FOURTEEN = # of roping/bulldogging steers we acquired for our TWO grandsons to practice with for high school rodeo.

Happy cows!

My husband made the observation that we now have 14 bovine, 16 equine, 3 feline, and 1 canine! Good thing we don't have any fowl or goats (yet) since they're not "-ine" animals! haha! Here's one of the felines (BC II - BarnCat II as there is also BC, the original).

Speaking of rodeos (not really, but sort of related here) - Grandson Tee got this 2nd place buckle for winning the 2nd go bulldogging with a time of 5.7 sec:

Grandson Ty got a similarly huge buckle for being 3rd in the average with 28 seconds on 3 steers. These buckles were awarded at the IceBreaker Rodeo for high schoolers.

Got 15 1-ton round bales of meadow grass hay to feed the bovine. It took grandson Ty 15 trips with the skidsteer to store them all in the barn.

Last week was Spring Break for the schools and so the two aforementioned grandsons were down here at the ranch working to earn money to pay for rodeo entry fees. They are 15 and 17 years old respectively and eat pretty much everything in sight. I cooked 7 meals for them (breakfast and lunch) which necessitated at least 5 trips to the grocery store. This was because I kept running out of stuff; I'm just not used to buying in quantity! Here's what they did in the afternoons after working on the barn, tack room, horses, etc.:

Team roping practice

Made this card for my friend's 82nd birthday on the 18th. 

Used an old Cuttlebug embossing folder with "frame" (manufacturer unknown). The watercolor wreath design is from Angie Makes which I printed from my Silhouette Cameo. The "birthday wishes" is a sketch phrase available in the Silhouette Store. 

Finally, something that is rather embarrassing but figured into my numbers for March - lost 2 keys to safety deposit box - this was critical because my husband needed his passport. Had to go to the bank and wait 30 minutes for the service to drill open the box; that cost $200! My husband was quite supportive saying, "I lost something once too . . .!"

Okay, with a red face I move on into another month!

Bye for now!