Our trip to Sea World/17th Anniversary

Our trip to Sea World was fun. It was nice to get away for a bit.

We left on Friday after the milking was done and stopped in Breckenridge to eat Breakfast. Where did we eat? McDonald's of course. Hahaha.

Later we stopped in Fredricksberg for a leg stretcher. We walked through a few stores. They have some interesting stuff there. One store had "old" toys. It sure can take you back. Of course it went a little further back than my childhood but was still interesting.

Back on the road we headed for San Antonio. We got to our hotel at 3:00 and checked in and went and seen our room. NICE!! I think it was the nicest I have ever stayed in. Now, we headed for Sea World. We got on the wrong road...It took a little longer than it should have. I think we got there around 5 or so. We went in and found the water. And later seen the night show of Shamu. That was fun. We sat in the splash zone and we sure got splashed. Especially at the end of the show. And I never thought about it but the water was salty. Go figure. Hahaha.

Later at the Hotel, we got our stuff in there and then went and found a Whataburger and had a midnight snack. For real. Our son went to sleep there in the booth.

The bed back at the hotel was soooo comfortable. I wanted to sneak it out and put it in our truck. LOL.

Saturday, back at Sea World, we seen several of the shows, played in the water and rode a few rides. Little man had a good time. After the rides, he would say, "lets do it again". Of course the waiting in line was not so fun so we opted not to.

The trip home was LOOOONG. I thought we would never get home. We stopped again in Fredricksburg for supper. We went to a Mexican restaurant and it was yummy. I slept on and off on the way home. My husband is such a good driver. We were about 20 minutes from home and we came up on an accident that was being cleared. We had to wait a few minutes for them to get the crashed car off the road. Hope everyone was OK.

We finally got home at 1:30pm. Whew.

Sunday we didn't do much. This was our 17th wedding anniversary and we just spent the day resting up after church.

Now, I can't wait to do it again.

Vacation!! YEA!!!

We are going to Sea World. Yea!!

I went yesterday to Seaworld.com and was able to set up a vacation for our family. We are getting 3 Annual Passes, and a stay in a nice hotel. Our son is getting to go for free which is an $80.00 savings on the Annual Pass. This will be his first time to go to Sea World. It will be our 2nd time to go. Or it may be the 3rd, I can't remember. LOL.

Now that we have Annual Passes, we will probably go two times this weekend and then again for a day later in the year. It is about a 4 1/2 hour drive there.

It has been a LONG time since we have really been on vacation. We did go 2 hours away to a hotel 3 years ago for my husbands birthday. This will be our 17th Anniversary vacation which is on Sunday the 12th. I am looking forward to it.

Baaa

Since we lost our milking goats to mastitis, I figured it was time to get another goat so we could have milk. I love the benifits and the taste of raw goat milk.

This is Marina. She is part Alpine and part Nubian. She is registered also.

When I bought her, she had twins on her that were ready to be weaned. She isn't giving a whole lot of milk right now but I hope that she will come up in the future.

Below is an Alpine that my goat partener (Deb) got. She is only 8 weeks old. She will make a good milker someday.

Martha Austin

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/jun/03/martha-austin/

This is the obiturary for my friend that passed away. I will miss her so much. It was a sudden thing. Totally unexpected. She and her husband had gone to Austin to a doctor and she had a stroke while in the Dr.'s office. She passed away a few days later.

I started cleaning for Martha about two years ago when she broke her foot. I told her husband that I would help them out until she got better. Well, Martha wouldn't let me quite. :) I am so glad because I got to know her. We would have coffee breaks while I worked and we would visit and talk about all kinds of stuff.

They have 3 Wheaton Terriors that just adored her and she loved them too. They filled her time and she wouldn't have had it any other way. I am sure Murphy, Maddy and Tucker miss her a lot.

So I will say goodbye to Martha. Thanks for being such a good friend!! You will be missed!!

Loosing friends

What a week. Actually the last few weeks have been so emotional.

We lost one of our registered nubian milk goats about a month ago. She had gotten mastitis and just went down hill in 3 days till she died.

Two weeks later, we found two other goats with mastitis so we started doctoring them. The next day one more had it. One of the first two was another registered nubian and she died within 3 days. The other one didn't get down like those two did. The last one went down hill fast and we were sure she would be dead the next day. She was my first milk goat and it was really hard for me. We found some old medicine in the cabinet that we had used last year for a different kind of illness and we said, "what have we got to loose?" so we gave her a really strong dose. By that evening she was sitting with her head up and then the next day she was up and munching grass. I was so excited. She is fine now except she will loose half of her udder.

In the meantime, I got a call that a really good friend of mine had a stroke. It didn't look good. She was in the Austin hospital since that is where she was at the time. She ended up dieing a few days later on Monday. So this was a greater lose than those two goats. It is still hard to believe.

The next day after my friend passed away, we decided to take the two remaining goats to the vet to have them put down because we had read some stuff about mastitis that they would pass this on to their kids. The vet talked us out of it and told us to dry them up and doctor them some more. We brought them home. I am so glad we did.

So here I want to say good bye to two great milk goats Foxy and Mammy.

I don't have a picture of Mammy but here is Foxy. Mammy was her mother.

I want to also say goodbye to Martha but I want to put that in another post.

To paper towel or not to paper towel, that is a good question.

I ran out of paper towels the other day and I wondered, "How long can I go without them?"

I know there are people who don't use paper towels.

I did pretty good for a few days and then the dog peed on the floor. Well, I used an old wash cloth.

Then I wanted to wash the tray that goes in the toaster oven and it had grease in it from warming fried chicken. I did not know what to do. I didn't want grease on a cloth. I ended up going for toilet tissue. :)

I really hate buying paper towels. You can get the double rolls but the towels are thin. You can get regular sized rolles and they are thicker and the same price as the thin double rolls. It is really hard to find the best deal for the money. How much is it per sheet? ha. One cent? It takes too long to figure it all out. Then you have store brands that MIGHT be cheaper and I don't always buy them at the same place. It is probably the most frustrating thing for me to have to buy.

I ended up getting a really small roll of Viva Paper Towels. The are the most absorbant that I have found and I guess if I only need a small piece, I can tear it in half since it isn't the select-a-size which I really like. I had put an 8 pack in the buggy but ended up going for the Viva.

What kind of Paper Towels do you use if you even do. If you don't, tips would be greatly appreciated.

Got my apron.

I received my apron today from Chrissy at Meaningful Days. I won it when I participated in her Spring Cleaning Challenge. Thanks to my 5 years old son for taking my picture. LOL. We finally got a good one after about 20 takes. He kept cutting my head off. haha..

Thank you again Chrissy. I am sure I will enjoy this.