We've MOVED..please read

We have moved again. Less than 6 miles away. And let me tell you I think we found our home. We are on several hundred acres hay ranch. I have to pinch  myself and give my thanks to the Good Lord. The house we are figuring was built in the 70's and some arrea are dated I would say it is a custom home. Its over 4000 square feet. You can have a party in the jetted tub and we have HEAT. We had to make a urgent move as the rental house we were renting had no heat and wasnt disclosed til it started getting cold. So we love our new home and are gratful to have the views. This house is so secluded but close to everything. We dont have neighbors well we have wild neighbors. And I love see the neat packages and large sprinklers as views. Seems like christmas with all those neat tidy hay bales, its exciting. We truely are blessed and are very apprecitive to have it. We have an awesome view of the bridger, bitteroot, big belts, tabbacco roots, saquajawea peak, crazy mtns or absarokea mountains.

When Daddy Say's........Mommy should be worried

When Daddy Say's......Mom's do your self a favor and be very very concerned. There is odviously something very very wrong that your Huby has failed to tell you!!
My point......We were out off the beaten path trapsing through the wilderness trying to find property markers. We are looking at 20 and 30 acre parcels. Mom was left at the car with the Aussie and the St. Bernard to babysit. While Dad and the little took off way up the mtn. side looking for those little metal pegas called property markers. When they got back the ravvved about the view and all the flat building spot and the rattly trees. Mom thought nothing of it and we headed home. About a week later we were just goofing off having fun. And something came up about those rattly trees. It dawned on me. Than than I proceeded to get the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Ms K was climbing up a rocky treed area and all of a sudden she jumped up in the air. Ms. K stepped on a rattlesnake!! They didnt tell me cause they didnt want me to never come back to the area. So Dad and the kids had this secret...for awhile that is. Eeekkk I hate hate hate snakes. I of course was really concerned and really didnt want to move to the area. But after reasoning and realizing to have the life we want I will have to toughen up and deal with it!! So I will be hatching genuieas out this winter.
Mr.J never ever tells me something if something is worrying him. Like they time we drove from AZ to NV and he thought our Suburban was going to blow up. I am getting a clue and figuring these times and his gestures out to know that I need to stay on my toes.
On a side note goat integration isnt working out that great. Praying for strength to be strong and getter done. We introduce a young buck to our doe ans wether. Those two bullys were beating the bejesus out of the yungster. So we withdrew him for the night. We have been having goat fencing issues at all times of the night like 2 am. Someone forgot to lock the chicken coop door last night and the chicken were having a field day. I was happy to findout that we didnt loose a lick of them. The coyotes were gracious and left them be which suprised me cause I hear them nightly.

Another Move..Another Adventure..But Dejavue???

Well we made another state move! I got the usual one week notice...But it seems like Dejavue. Because we have lived here before. We are back in MT and enjoying our time here. Are we moving again. I sure as heck hope not. I am so ready to be done. We are on a couple acres in an upscale equestrian area. Its not to woods but its beautiful. I am so thankful as MrJ absolutely hated his job. Life is going better for him, so I guess thats all that matters. We brought our chickens with us. We have 2 mini horses/ponies . And are getting a regular mare in a few weeks. The kids have already ridden her bareback and they love her. So the ranch life is taking off for us all. I really have been very busy and so I havent been ableo keep up. We had my mom's mom(my grandma and grandpa, the kids great grandparents) come in yesterday. We havent seen them in ages. It was a great visit. They just left here this morning. Its sad when they have to go. We absolutely love having family visit. The kids got to butcher a rooster with their Grandpa Keely yesterday. They loved that time with him. And it helped me get that roo to shut up. I was going nuts!
Jami

Simple Little Pleasures, Simple Little Activities, Simple Little Memories

And Mosquito's...Eeek we have had so much moisture and a long winter season the skeeters are bad! I would say  I am a walking skeeter bite.
This month has been fun lotts of memories. Grandpa Ron came to visit our first visitor for a long time and our 1st in Idaho. We had so much fun. We did a walk about 3 miles both ways down the trail of the CDA's. Not so fun all the darn snakes! Supposedly there are no poisonous, but some will bite and draw blood. Ummm, excuse me we wont be doing that again.lol The kids seem to get a great thrill and seeing mom leap in the air when we spotted one. There were tons over six on our little journey. I know Im from the desert but I just dont like the darn critters. I know they are benefiscal and all but please let keep our distance.

So I am well on week 3 of my new regimeant. Did I tell you it is kicking my butt? Did I tell you that its intense? DId I tell you that I am getting results? I have lost a total of 11 1/2 inches total so far. I feel amazing even younger. I have said from the get go all I want is to be strong and healthy. I dont care about weight on the scale. I am not obsessing about it any longer. That has been my promise to myself. Today is one of only 2 of my days off per say. I still am very active every stinking day. Today after writing this I am heading to my room to do some yoga to stretch and relax. All the weights, sprints, super sets , sit ups my body feels tight. Which is not a bad thing. But I want to be smooth and limber also. So yoga I am hoping will help me with that. I have a friend close by that is an yoga instructor. I got to try the yoga swing out the other day. I am so making myself one here soon. I cant wait to swing from a tree viewing the world upside down. Kinda sounds like a Tarzan and Jane thing. lol  The weirdest thing is my skin is looking and younger and healthy. All my little scars are fading. Isnt that weird? I sure hope it continues! I am also focusing on my abs the most. I have had 3 c-sections. My stomache is the most out of shape of all. I can say that my workouts leave me feeling like I have been drop kicked a few hundred times. And my sleep has been intense. I feel like I need to sleep alott now. Mr. J says its my body trying to rebuild itself. Im not complaining. I do walk around very stiff as my thighs and abs are so tight. I am also trying to build a proper posture with this also. As I think that is very important.
Well I should run and get some yoga time in. We are heading out to do some rototilling and gardening (see even my rest days are very active). I have berry's that need weeding. Oh and Little J brought into with eyes  wide some wild strawberries (we have wild strawberries everywhere). He brought 3 of them. If you have never seen them they are so darn cute. I would class them as being the size of a bead. They were not much in size but OH MY GOODNESS I have never tasted strawberries this sweet or out of this world taste. So we might try and find more to hunt down with out magnifiers to eat as a simple chipmunk style snack.

Intensity.........OUCH

As we got up and started our regular break-fast ritual. Which consist of Dad waking us to coffee. Mom, crawling out of bed and trying hard to open her eyes. Breakfast as a family is a ritual in our house. But sometime I just want to hit snooze. Mr. J and the littles enjoyed double yokers from our loving hens. While I ate a toasted english muffin with rf cottage cheese, 1 tblsp of pb, 1 tsp of raw honey and a dash of cinnamon. I tolerate cottage cheese. But this wasnt bad. What was, was listening to Mr.J and his scarcastic Curddled Milk attitude. He always gives me grief. Well,  I am making it. I started an intense training program. I think its intense. Well, the weight are kicking my heiny. The food has for the most part been excellent. It seems as if I eat more now than before.
  The littles and I are deep cleaning and decluttering our world. Hanging picture and art work. Last night we headed down the road to pickup some spoiled hay unfit for animals consumption. The idea is that it be scattered in the hen house. Scattered on the potatoes, carrots and when winter hits all the garden beds and berry beds. We have a long list of To-Dos. One is processing the beef sitting in our freezer. We are in the works of building a decent walk in freezer. But we still have a log home to think about. Our bear problem is still about us. It seems that they are sticking around because of the herd of elk that bed down below us and calf. So I feel that eventually we will have some more trouble. For now all is quiet. Our stellar bluebirds are visiting us all day. We are also having a guest in a week. My father Ron is coming up. It will be nice as we havent had guest in a long stretch. And I get homesick for family all the time.. Its getting better though, as we get a little more settled here. I need to run tons to do and not enough hours in the day~! We are saying prayers for a certain family member.

After today a glass of huckleberry wine is in order

I know I posted less than a week ago....so please excuse the mumbling. And just be glad I didnt call cause you would have to live through a dreadful coughinh chocking as I seem to not be able to get it out of my chest. Mr. J, has seen to it that his wife can load,point,excellent aim, and fire a big daddy of a gun. So that I can defend the kids and myself if a bear should decide to go bolistic when finding no food. Its been pretty quiet. But I think tonight it may be a different story. Let me backup....We got a call from our neighbors at about 6ish thismorning. They had castrated a few steers, and they ended up passing. So they said we could have them. Well, being us we jumped on it. We have processed steers today. Its been a chore. Its been fun. Its been a very neat experience, and a tale to tell. Its also been a GIANT learning experience for us ALL. All of the R. kids butchered, and skinned the steer. I even was there. Its was a GIANT family chore. I can say that our Sunday was completely a family time. We laughed, we skinned, we pushed pulled and tugged, all as a family. Not one of us complained or weined or got sick. Geez, I know we are different. Some of you may be appauled in reading this. But I find joy when I know that we are a learning, chore doing, helping, laughing family. We just do family times differently than most. I know the kids are being fully engaged and challenged and are comeing away from these experiences some pretty awesomely talented and work ethically, strong and determined individuals. LMiss B. is going to have a birthday soon. She is asking for a 30 ot 6 gun and a hunting license. Most kids teens do not ask for these things. Well, to be honest they all want their hunting licenses, and we see it as a postive thing. At the same time I am throughly exhausted and a little weak from having a cold. So I thought that it wouldnt hurt to enjoy some wine. Huckleberry wine is the bomb. We found we have tons tons tons of huckleberry growing on the property. We also have thimbleberry, elderberry(hello wine and the kids cant wait to feed them to the chicken, so see them get drunk on it), blackberries,raspberries, blueberries. Cant wait to harvest them. Oh, did I mention that we have wild strawberries also? I am really starting to wonder if we will do all the farm animals at all. Since hunting is mandatory and easy here. There is just no reason. We head out tomorrow and pick up a milking doe goat and her kids and yearling doe. We already have a very enxpensive milk goat buck for our herd. And he is needing some doe love.lol.

I am sitting here with kleenex and cough drops

Yep, our world wind mini vacation is over......and as a result I have a dreaded cold. I havent been sick for some time, so this caught me by suprise. So here are some pictures of the beautiful coast of Oregon and Washingston. We played on the beach by Forks and reservation where the Twilight Series was centered around. And just when we got home thinking we could calm down and relax. Well, we came home to BEARS. They have torn up our property, torn down the chain link fences that hold to chickens in (actually folded it in half), they decoured feed and through the buckets that they slily got out of the pen strung them up this hill. Managed to scar to crap out of our goat. Our burn barrel was on the road. It was a disaster. As I was writing this Mrs. B hollered for me to come quick,,,, damn bears were all over in my garden. I may have to replant, I am so bummed. Now we have had about 6 encounters in the last 3 days. We have removed all feed. I am a little concerned for the kids and all the animals. Mr. J is taking all precautions and I think we may be up late trying to watch with binoculars to see if they come again. There is more to to tale, but I need to end this here. My bed is calling my name. Til next time!