A new calf

My cow mama had a new calf this week.

I have not been able to get a good picture of it yet. Our bull Jimmy is very protective of his babies and does not like it when I take pictures of them. 

The Farmer has been busy cleaning the chicken houses getting them ready to get new chicks. I took a picture of him while I was out walking yesterday. He was washing fans.

It was a pretty evening for a walk.

I have been trying to get my 11,000 step goal in this week and I have accomplished it everyday this week so far. It has been a while since I have done my steps. I am not as motivated to get my steps like I was when I first got my fitbit. I used to be so competitive but not as much anymore. Well not much going on around here. Stop for stoping by

Feels like spring

It has been so nice outside. My youngest son loves it when we are cleaning out the chicken houses. It is his favorite thing besides swinging. The Farmer is almost done with getting out the extra litter and then it will be time to get them ready for new biddies.

The Farmer got the gardens spots plowed out at grandmas house getting them ready to plant some potatoes and we are going to try some red onions. I have also talked the Farmer in to planting me some beets this year. I love gardening time. 

The potato patch spot

The garden spot 

I also found a little bunch of daffodils blooming.

Here is my youngest son wearing his dad's goggles. 

I have really got to get committed to weight watchers and plan a lot better. I love the plan but I have been cheating so much I have not lost any weight on it yet and I have been on it for a month. I have got to stop telling myself I can eat that I workout hard today I deserve it. When in reality I am sabotaging all my efforts of exercise by going crazy in the kitchen. We have eat out way to much this week but i love me a cheeseburger all the way from our local family restaurant. 

I ended up eating all of my fries instead of the few I took a picture of.

I also made a 0 point cheese cake today. I thought it was yummy.

Here is the recipe 

I got this recipe from Fit and Fabulous Mom. 

Well thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed my post.

Valentines Day

It has been a good day on the farm. We had to have the chicken houses wind-row because of the sickness that we had. They have to stay closed up in a heat.

The floors are in rows It is kinda of hard to tell in the pictures. I think that tomorrow we got permission to start cleaning some of it out. We had planned to clean out all the way I guess it will have to wait. 

Now to on to Valentines. The farmer got us sub from subway and some orange slices candies. We got the boys pizza from Dominos. They love pizza. Well later in the day we all got to craving chocolate. We have not eaten chocolate since January and we have broke it today. Even Clay who don't like sweets asked for chocolate today. 

I had 6 of them and it was 14 smart points

I ate the whole foot long sub and it was 16 smart points

I did not even count the points on this but they were mini's

I have to say I am way over my points today. I did get my exercise in. I am into phase 2 on the 80 day Obsession. Today was really hard for me. I was interrupted having to help with my youngest son several times during the hour long exercise. It took me and hour and half to get it done. I had to stop or push pause several times to get all the reps in and some of those I still did not get them in. I have a hard time doing a sliders frogs, and slider pikes. I struggled so much that it made me cry. I got emotional. I am not going to giving up I will get stronger. I feel like if I could get my eating under control and lose some more weight that it will help with accomplishing my exercise goals. I have low upper muscle tone but I getting stronger. 

This is after todays workout. I was a total mess.

Well that is enough about nothing. Thanks for stoping by.

Stuff that has been going on around the farm...

We finally got rid of the chickens. This was a terrible flock. The cold weather used a lot of fuel. They got sick at the end of the flock and we lost a lot of chickens. It has stressed the Farmer and me worrying about how everything is going to end. We had our taxes done this past Friday and it was not good. . Because of all the stress I have been craving sweets and I have done my share in eating. We had Dairy Queen mini blizzards, doughnuts from this great doughnut shop in Asheboro. Then I got to craving apple pie and ice cream. I have been eating it for 2 days and now it is gone. My scales have only been going up and down. I lose 3 pounds and then gain it back. I just finished the first phase of 80 day Obsession. I am going to measure tomorrow and see if I have lost any inches. I don't feel like I have especially after all the sweets I have ate this week. Oh well tomorrow starts phase 2 and I am going to lose some weight and for it to stay off before the end of February.

We have two antique malls that we like to go to. One of them is in Albemarle and the other one in Siler City. We got to hit both this weekend. I found me a new baby doll I feel in love with. It says she is a collector item. I looked her up on line and she is 179$ I got her for 45. I know this sounds crazy to me that I spent this kind of money on a doll but I just wanted her. I told myself I was to old to spend money like this on baby dolls but I could not help myself. She reminds me of a doll Henny Penny got at Good will. I told her when she gets tired of her she can pass her to me. I think my baby needs a pretty little dress to wear.

I had the Farmer to take a picture of me the other day. I could not get over how much I like like my dear aunt Henny Penny. 

Oh yeah I have been trying some new recipes. I like to cook new stuff that is tasty.

Hamburger mushroom bake

Spaghetti squash with ff Alfredo sauce and veggies.

Egg muffin omelettes 

Roasted veggies baby carrots, sweet potatoes, turnips, red onions, and beets.

Deer meat burritos and a salad

This is 1 point biscuits 1 cup non fat greek yogurt and 1 cup flour

I will stop here I think that is about all I have got. Thanks for stopping by. 

Not a lot to blog about...

Hey y'all I am on day 20 of my 80 day Obsession. I have one more week in phase one. I have enjoyed it and I will share my accomplishments at the end of next week. I went to Walmart and got me some 15 pound dumbbells to use in phase 2 of my exercise.  I have not done my best with diet. As you know I started Weight watchers again. I have lost 5 pounds that I gained over Christmas. Some days are just hard to eat healthy all day everyday. Today as probably been my worst eating day yet. I had 2 piece of Key Packing  sausage patties. Yummy! 3 small canned biscuits, 2 eggs scrambled  and 1 pack of instant butter grits. It was really good. Then for lunch I had popcorn shrimp from Westmoore family Restaurant with hushbpuppies, side salad and a baked potato. We have gave up soda and our daily dark chocolate since January 1. So today I was craving sweet/chocolate for a week. So we got 1/2 dozen chocolate cover cream filled Krispy Kream doughnuts from the grocery store. I ate 2 of them with a big cup of coffee. I am so full I feel sick. I hate when I do this to myself. Oh well I will start over in the morning.

Oh yeah I wanted to share. Almost killing my Christmas cactus summer before last it has came back out and looking a lot better. I did not have any blooms at Christmas like usual. I have gave it some TLC and I finally got one bloom out of it.

This was Christmas 2015 

Here is one bloom and a bud.

One bloom and bud

I hope by next Christmas it will be blooming all over again. I am so ready for spring. It is almost time to set out potatoes and we bought some red onions to try this year. I hope that God blesses us with another great garden year. Well I did not have many pictures to share. Thanks for stoping by.