A moment of silence!

Ahhh... do you hear that??? No?!? Well, that is because there is NOTHING to hear at the moment!!! ;-)
The dogs are all laying down... napping. Stacy left with the kids. He and Courtney have hair appts, and after they are heading to the store.
This means I can enjoy some quiet time!!

We are all caught up on school work... and ready to enjoy a few days off for Easter break!
I have been taking full advantage of the awesome weather... and hanging out laundry every day. Today we stopped to get wood to make my new clothes props... my others are SHOT!
I really wanted to get started on clearing out some clutter we have sitting around... just havent gotten to it yet.

The stress level around here has been through the roof lately. I will be sooooo glad when Courtney graduates!!! Geez... you would think it was MY senior year.
I have my mind pretty set on shipping her off to college!! We have talked it over... and found a good program for her. And it will be another one of those "sink or swim" type experiences for her. She will have to put 100% effort into it... and do all that is expected. They will not baby her like the high school does.
I am just so ready to be done with this crap.

I got my hands on some lavendar/white, silver/white, and blue/white Ancona duck eggs!!! I got them in the incubator now! I am pretty excited to see what we end up with, when they hatch. I can guarentee I wont be buying from these ppl again... almost half of my eggs ended up cracked in shipping! They were not packaged well AT ALL!!! I order eggs and have them shipped all the time... this is the first time I have ever gotten a bunch with so much damage. They better hope to God that when I candle them in a week... I have baby ducks growing!!!!!!!
I also switched my 'first to hatch' group of eggs over to my hatching incubator. Yes, it is a bit early for that... but I needed the room in my other incubator!! LOL!
I am to the limit so far this year! So far it appears I will have ALL of them hatching... but, we still have to get through the actual hatching... and we usually lose some then.

We took the kids kite flying again the other day. It was so much fun!! No ticks this time...LOL!! They all got nice, new kites for Easter... yes, I gave them out early. I really have to get caught up on getting pics put on line.

Stacy, Josh and Nathan finished splitting wood yesterday. We are already all ready for next winter! WOW... this is a first!!! I am so proud. Our coal bin is mostly full too... so we are set!

I looked out in the field today... I think it is time to get the kids out picking Dandelions for our next batch of wine. I am determined to make jelly this year too!! THe kids arent real thrilled about picking... but too bad. I swear... they are just too darn spoiled!! Everyone got new hair styles... which wasnt cheap... Soooo... they can get their butts out and pick some weeds for us!!! LOL

Tomorrow is my Birthday. I guess we are going to do some hiking and geocaching. I am up for whatever adventure Stacy comes up with. I just want to be out... enjoying the sun... and not worrying about a damn thing that is going on at our house!!!

I guess I better use this quiet time wisely, and start on next weeks lesson plannning!
And I have to go out and chase our chicks to bring them in. I let them out in the yard during the day... since it has been so nice, and just bring them in over nite when it gets cold. I am hoping to soon get them up in the coop.
It is so unbelievable how far ahead we are this year... since it has been so nice! ALL of my garden plants have sprouted... even my pea bushes are coming up already! I am feeling rather accomplished on the garden end of things.

Well... I hope everyone has an awesome Easter weekend!!