Rest in peace, Boo bear

One last outside adventure for my most beloved Boo cat.

He was a great kitty. I loved him so much.

The reason I hate snow, more than normal

Conveniently enough, I had been taking pictures at the barn as the snow fell on November 22nd. As you can see, the rear left side of our truck is okay.

So topping a hill, there was a Jeep Cherokee coming up. Long story short: I braked, slid on ice, smashed her Jeep and the left end of our truck. :( Went into the ditch, up the hill, then back into the ditch. Very, very sucky. Below, the damage.
Thank God no one was hurt, and that insurance will take care of things. Of course, our premium now stands to increase. I'm praying that since we've been with the company so long and have had no previous claims, they'll be favorable toward us.

The recipe box

Last week I had the urge to be homey, creative. That doesn't come around too often, but was inspired by the fact we're having Josh and Lindsey over for Thanksgiving, and I've never had the opportunity (or desire) to really get fancy with a dinner setting. So this urge led to scanning the blogs that my co-worker likes to visit, which then led to me spotting a blog about creating a unique recipe box. And thus... My new recipe box.

This was my pile of recipes I started with.

These were my supplies. I bought both 3 x 5 and 4 x6 cards so that I could make my own dividers. I used a 3 x 5 and my insurance card to create the tabs, and cut out a pattern.

And this was the end result! I bought Sharpies in cool colors to do my recipes. Of course I had to get my bright blue! The box isn't the most creative or pretty of things, but I'm on a budget, so that's what I get.

More scared of me than me of him

This is a longhorn belonging to Lonnie Ledbetter, an Appaloosa breeder/exhibitor in Granbury, Texas. He gave me and Jeannie (PHJ Editor and Appaloosa lover) a tour of his place while we were there to photograph his stallion. He has 3 longhorns, all of which are scared of humans, which is good, because I wouldn't want to be near that 6-foot spread! They were pretty cool though.
If Texas wasn't flat, it wouldn't be a bad place to live...