..summertime..

Ahh, the days are warming and the sun is beginning to shine, the fish are biting, it must be summertime!

My husband and his brother spent some time this past month, clearing out some places around the pond in the front field.  It has been decades since it has been in use, so we were excited to get down there with some lines and bait.  We drug down the flat bottom boat and wasted some time floating around. Didn't catch a thing, but I didn't mind a bit.

..A Beautiful Day for a Picnic..

I made my first Etsy Treasury today.  I have been daydreaming of nice weather and picnics a lot lately. Just wanted to share :)

..breach of 100..

      The temperature here has been getting up over 100 degrees for the past several days.  Today it got up to about 106!  This heat has absolutely been draining my energy.  All I want to do is lounge on my couch in the AC. And, yeah that is a lot of what I have been doing.  However, I did voluntarily brave the heat this weekend a bit, and I have the pictures to prove it.  Sunday was my Grandpa's and cousin's combined birthday party, so we headed over to the grandparents' house for some pizza and cake.  As the evening drug on and we were about to embark on our journey back home, my brother started getting ready to go down the road to a new dirt bike track to ride.  My brother used to race regularly when we were younger, so I spent a lot of time at tracks growing up.  So, Mike and I headed over to watch him ride before we headed home.  Unfortunately, the water truck was broken.  It felt like we were in the dust bowl.  And in that heat we were pretty sweaty.  Needless to say we didn't stay too long and we hit he showers as soon as we got home.

I pulled out a vintage vest that I have been sitting on for a while and stuck with simple and minimal for the day so I wouldn't get to horribly uncomfortable.  Hope everyone is staying cool!

..short & sweet..

I just wanted to share a outfit post and some of our farm livin'.  I went out to check on the chickens and one was just finished laying this odd egg, weird huh? She was totally back to normal today, thankfully.  And, we haven't gotten many peaches this year, so I was excited to pick these two!  My short are the ones that I altered to be short-shorts, and I the orange enameled brooch was an estate sale find. 

..good ol' U S of A..

Today, we had an extended celebration of Independence Day.  We didn't actively celebrate last night other than sitting out in the yard watching everyone else around us shoot off their fireworks.  So, today we went to my Grandparents' along with a bunch of the rest of my Dad's family.  We swam a bit, I shot our shotgun and my Granddad's handgun for the first time.  I like to think of it as zombie practice.  It was actually kind of fun and I found that I preferred the rifle, it was not as loud and I liked that I only had one shot at a time.  It is definately nerve racking to have a loaded gun in your possesion, yet I am glad to have the experience.  Later on we continued our family tradition of blowing stuff up, and then we cooked hotdogs and brats, Yum!  I also made another carrot cake, which went over really well!

My cousins Jon, Jessica, and Allen getting together our fireworks while I have target practice :)