It took all day.
This morning has not started off like any other morning. Reagan got up and around four am all upset, and with a clean diaper I laid him down next to Sarah and I. I was way to
tiered to rock him back to sleep; or so I thought. Just minutes after Sarah gave him a bottle he gave it right back to us in the garden hose manner. As you can guess I was no longer tired. We tried to comfort him and that didn’t go well for Sarah since she had to work today. Reagan and I took a trip to the living where he and I chilled in the rocking chair for about an hour then it was to the floor and amazing enough he was happy to be there playing with some toys. I tried another bottle and shortly after that he hosed down his swing with apple juice. Called the doctor and they said keep an eye on him and give him Pedi alight so he doesn’t dehydrate. Other than that there is a stomach bug going around. I am still up and wish I got a nap time today. Did I mention; I love coffee.
An update with the pigs… I have a bowie knife now for when I harvest them; and I have a butchering kit on its way from Amazon.com. The bigger of the two pigs is about ready to be taken.
Man I am tiered. I think I may lay down for a few then finish this up.
Much better…The down side. My phone was turned most of the way down and my daughter Macey found it when she got up and now its gone. I point to the table and ask her “where’s daddies phone?” she points to the table and says “phone” err.
Reagan is still resting and should be for a bit longer.
To the job hunt. Well there has been no success yet but I am not giving up. I have sent out a few more resumes and I hope to here back from them. I am going to study up on a couple of other credentials’ and such to add to my registry. Maybe that can put me a notch above the rest.
Macey’s birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, and man she is going to be two years old now. She is doing so great with going on the potty and trying to talk to us. She plays more with Reagan now and seems to be a ton less jealous of him too. She is getting so big. And just Look at that mean face she has got on her. Wow she takes after he mama. lol. I love them both. This picture was taken right before Macey threw a fit so bad we had to leave and I didn’t get to eat dinner. You win some you lose some I guess.
Reagan is trying to scoot and trying to hold his bottles. He loves his little walker; I bungeed a steering wheel thing to his walker so he can drive, and Reagan just goes to town when the wheel thing makes noise. He and Macey got to see their peepaw yesterday and Reagan took to him quick and really looks just like his grandpa. Macey only warmed up to him when it was time to leave and peepaw had given her a bunch of chocolate. We all will miss him until the next time.
Okay well I have been working on this since 7:30 this morning and now its 2:30pm damn where has the day gone.
Reagan is feeling better now; I think.
Reagan got to hang out at the beach for the first time. He wasn’t so sure about the sand under his feet, but he like sitting in the water along the shore. We were at Fred Howard… my second favorite beach. Macey got to chase sea gulls and do a lot of swimming. she slept like a rock that night. I think we will have plenty of more beach days with the kids this year. Any one want to join us just let me know and Ill text ya when we are going.
So it might be a little hard to tell how big this guy is but he is prolly really close to 100lbs. The brown one in the back ground was how big the white one was when we got them back in March. They are both very happy here in their pen where they are feed twice a day with corn and table scraps. They are going to be some good eating real soon. Some of you may think this to be mean be it is all apart of the circle of life. so eat up.
This picture is for you “Two suns, dueling suns” people. Any digital camera over loaded with information will cause aliasing and cause your camera to create a mirror image. We do not have two suns so relax we will live on. Try taking a picture with a high quality filmed camera and you will never get “Two suns, or Dueling suns” because there is only one sun here in our solar system. Elenin could be a problem but time will tell.
You know I have two very nice cameras and two camera phone; well you would think that my wife and I would have a lot more pictures together. Well I have two months of pictures on this little laptop and guess what. There isn’t one picture of us together. I am going to have to make a real attempt at fixing this predicament. We should have tons of pics of us together. Sarah if you are reading this… I know you never do… but this time if you do; get a camera and come take a picture with me before I am old and grey and not worth photographing. That reminds me too, I really need to just start taking pictures of stuff .
Reagan has had two bottles and is keeping it down. Thank God!!!
So happy to be himself
Michael Trump
Daddy and his little girl Macey having fun at the beach. I love this little girl so much. she is learning so much so fast.
Hi Arianna Lore Shirk, you father loves you.
Trump did WHAT?
Two Thursdays ago my buddy Steve and I took care of a couple of livestock issues I had. My two penned up wild hogs are growing into fine looking pieces pork. After we handled the pigs and cleaned up the little mess I got a phone call from Birmingham Alabama. That phone call leads to a road trip; that road trip may lead to a move here in the near future.
So as far as Steve, the two yummy hogs and I go; well we, Steve and I, castrated my two bore two Thursdays ago. It started out when I first got the two oinkers; see Steve warned me that if I didn’t give those two the old snip-snip that the meat would be extra gammy and that the bore could and would most likely become very aggressive. Where does Steve get off telling me how my two male hogs will be; you ask? Well he has been around the woods a time or two and I double checked online with a few easily searched sites for his accuracy. This time he was balls on (no pun intended, lol). Weeks before we preformed act early meat preparation, I took it upon myself to do a little researcher on how to properly castrate a pig; just like any good pig farmer would do. Well after lots and lots of You Tube videos and a wee bit of reading I was confident I could perform the task ahead if Steve chickened out. At my friend’s house (not Steve’s) is where we did the deed, since the neighbors here where I live would think I was killing a kid and call the law on us. Steve took the first pig just so I could see it first hand and to instill the thought that I too could castrate my own live stock. Well when it came to my turn; it was a lot easier than I thought it would be only because it was not as gross or bloody as I thought a castration would be. Sure my pig did a lot of squealing but I think it was more because Steve had his knee on the bigger pig’s neck and less because I was cutting off his pig-hood. I have got a few hate mails and comments from the videos and picture but I think it was/is because they just don’t understand what and why that happen. So out of rash emotion they comment wildly instead of taking a step back and going “is there a reason they are doing this and is it normal” we yes it is normal and I stated the reasons above. So if any of you think this was cruel and unusual well go out in the woods tie yourself to a tree and cover yourself in something yummy. When animals come to consume you try to tell them that what they are doing in mean and see how far that gets you. Oh, your Obama Christ, yeah he won’t save you there; sorry to disappoint you. Hey, why don’t you go find something for free. It has been a couple of weeks now and the pigs are doing great, plus they love all the leftovers that Sarah, Elvis and I give them. I can’t wait to eat them.
Now about that phone call I received shortly after washing up from barring the pigs. I had just tossed the testicles and cleaned up our mess. I had already missed a phone call from my boss when the phone started to ring again. At first, I thought, that maybe my boss was calling me from another number, that made me shutter a little and I almost stuck my phone back into its handy case. Just incase it was a telemarketer I decided to answer and have a little fun to calm my nerves from all the stress minutes before. At first is was convinced the female on the other end was going to drill me with questions. Then with perfect timing she said where she was from and I remembered that like a month before I had sent them a resume. Now this was a Thursday, she relayed to me that she needed me by Tuesday; wow that doesn’t leave me much time to plan a trip but hey, this is me we’re talking about. I got there Monday. Tuesday was the interview and it went well I thought; maybe I could have scanned a little better but I am a little out of practice and could use some extra scan time. It is now Friday and I haven’t heard anything back yet from them but these things with this company can take a while I guess. Alabama is damn beautiful; I would like to find a job up there even if it isn’t with my first try. Truly Florida has nothing on the beauty of Alabama sure we have beaches but you can only use them a few weeks out of the year comfortably. Perfect vacation time yeah? We will see (Pictures to come)
I have… I hope… soon to come a new post about old time radio, as you may or may not recall I wrote an essay for school about old time radio shows. Well I hope to have another one coming soon, there is some more to add to it and a link or two also.
It is really late and I have a double tomorrow but the kids are great and I still miss you Arianna Lore Shirk
Yours truly,
Michael Trump
Michael Trump 