My Horoscope

I like to check my horoscope every now and then. I find them interesting even though I don't believe in them. Anyway, my horoscope for yesterday said -"Your emotional state is pretty volatile today." LOL! What is should have said was that this would pertain not to me but to the guys in my life. From the moment my son woke up he was in a bad mood. No matter what I said to him it would invoke a temper tantrum. He refused to eat all day. Seriously, I think he only had a spoon full of rice all day. He finally cooled down sometime after dinner when is father took over. (Things were not going well working on the house) At least his temper tantrum ended with him cleaning the house. :)

Time Out please

The kids are playing and giving each other time outs right now :)

Protecting the garden from pest

IMG_3384, originally uploaded by patteykoch.

I "borrowed" a book from my sister in law on solving gardening problems. She just may never get this book back. Anyway, it has all kinds of information on protecting your plants from deer, raccoons, rabbits and gophers. Something has been stealing our peppers. I’m thinking it’s a pest of the two legged kind and there is nothing in the book that tells me what to do for that.
Since everything is in containers I moved them closer to the house for now.

I don't know if this is funny or disturbing

We went out in the backyard this morning and the kids found a squirrel floating in the kiddy pool. When I pulled the plug to empty the water, Nicole ran inside. I thought maybe she was afraid of seeing a dead animal. What she did was run in to get Ed’s survival book. Now I thought OK she’s going to look up first aid and want to save the darn thing. What she was really looking up was how to gut, skin and cook a squirrel! um… OK Seriously she wanted to cook it!!!!! She freaked out when I threw it in the garbage. It took a few minutes to calm her down after I explained that he would be the happiest in our garbage can, because that is where he practically lived anyway. So what I finally got out of her was she didn’t want to eat it, she wanted to cook it and send it to someone who didn’t have any food.
I’m guessing she caught me mumbling to the squirrel one day after chasing him out of the garbage can and cleaning up mess he left that it was OK I was just fattening him up to make dinner out of him!

IMG_3856, originally uploaded by patteykoch.

Zoo part 2..... I think

Sorry for the gap in posting I had to take a short break to just relax, sit back and you know scratch myself.
We did make it to Turtle Back Zoo. There are lots of photos on my flickr if your interested. We had a great time with Aunt Nancy.
We finally poured the concrete in the addition. YAY! As soon as that sucker hardened enough, I started moving all the kids toys down there. I'm still moving toys down there and trying to figure how to set the room up for the kids.