Bar, Birds, Bedroom, Bath, and Buddies

How did it work out that the subject of each of the following sets of pictures started with a "B"? Very clever, but I really didn't plan it that way.

We've had a busy week. Jackson woke up crying at 4:30 A.M. last Wednesday and had a fever of about 102 degrees. He was very clingy that day and took a crazy l-o-o-o-n-g nap (we woke him up after 4-1/2 hours), but other than that the fever was the only symptom he had. Thursday was the same, but the fever was gone by Friday, so we went to a welcome home party at the base that night. He was happy and hyper at the party, but when we got home he threw up a few times and had some crazy gross diarrhea, which persisted for the next two days (no vomiting, though). Yuck, yuck, YUCK! Thank goodness Phil was home, because that would have been really tough to deal with by myself... J had about 5 baths in the span of those two days and I think I did about 10 loads of laundry. We don't know what he had, but thankfully it seems to be gone now.

Before the sickness, we went to visit Daddy at work for lunch one day. We were hanging out in Phil's office for a minute, and when I turned around Jackson was gone. He had made a beeline for the pool table in the squadron bar.


Emmett loved the pool table, too...


After the sickness, we went to feed the chickens and collect eggs again. Sadly, the two gorgeous male ducks and two chickens have become the victims of nighttime homicides. Some unknown animal is getting into the yard during the night and eating the birds! All that's left in the mornings is a mess of feathers and a few bones. We're trying to catch the culprit, but no luck yet. Here are the long-awaited bird pictures!


Here are the poor female ducks minus their husbands... Alexis thinks the two males were killed because they were trying to protect the females. What brave ducks! So sad! They always seem to stay in a little clump like this.


The two goats like to stay close to each other, too...


Here is Hobble, the turkey. She's so sweet with her gimpy foot, and she's not going to be Thanksgiving dinner. Hooray!


And here's the rooster. That is one lucky bird - he gets a lot of action. :)


Here's a video of J chasing the goats around. I'm trying out youtube for the first time. I hope it works.



We also painted our master bedroom and bathroom this weekend. It was rough. I think I'm getting too old to paint. It used to look like this...


and now it looks like this...


Phil is going to put crown moulding around the ceiling. I was way happy to avoid all of that edging. It's dark in there, but that's good because we get direct morning sunlight. Not that we ever sleep in past 6:30 A.M. anymore. Someday, maybe!


The boys took a bath together for the first time the other night. Emmett loved it!


They're getting to be good buddies...


Last night I hosted a meeting for a book club that I'm in. We're reading classic novels, and last month's read was Robinson Crusoe. I didn't love the book and didn't finish it, either. Luckily, Cliff's Notes has a great website... I was able to read a synopsis and analysis of each chapter that I skipped. It's okay to cheat a little for a recreational book club, right? I'm going to try not to do that again. This month's read is Sense and Sensibility, and that is one of my favorite movies of all time, so I should be okay.

** Just realized I could have added "Books" to the title of this post. I thought that might have been overkill, though.