Forever Optimistic

 Are you a glass half full or half empty kind of person? Barb and I are what I would call optimistic. We try to look at things through rose-colored glasses, definitely a glass is half full couple. Trying to focus on the good things in life and let the bad things slide off our backs. 

Even with all that, we are not near as optimistic as the dogs. Anytime we go to "the treat cupboard" (known to Barb and me as the pantry), Dakota will sit up and give us a hopeful look. 

Any time I get a meal or a snack both dogs are ever attentive with hopeful looks. 

Anytime Barb even moves between 4:30 and 5:00, Dakota get up and go to the laundry room watching Barb's every move with ears up and eyes locked on her in hopes that it is mealtime. 

And lastly, anytime we are both gone and I walk in the house first, the girls will look right past me in the hopes that their favorite person in the world (and mine) will walk through the door. 

Ah, to live the life of an optimistic dog, is there anything better?

The weather turned on us this week going from 70's to 30's in the blink of an eye. It rained, it snowed and then the sun shined again. 

The deer and turkeys are so confused, one day they are chasing each other around, the next day they are huddle together trying to make it through the day.  It is comical watching them. 

We did get out and cut some more firewood. We are maybe halfway through all the trees that blew down in that windstorm a couple of months ago. 

With these bigger trees, I split while Barb drags the branches somewhere they can be safely burned when we get 2 or more inches of snow. Sadly, there was only one day all winter where we had enough snow to burn and that was before we had everything piled up. 

I split and stack it into the tractor bucket, when it is full, Barb dumps it into the wagon. Three bucket loads fill the wagon. We fill the bucket one more time then take everything back to the house. 

Then we stack it in the wood storage area. Each side holds 5 rows of wood stacked 6-7' high. Probably 6 face cord per side. So far, we have one side completely full and the other side has one complete row done. The picture below shows Barb blowing out the empty side as we get ready to fill it. 

Yet another day I got out and helped Kevin with a garage build he is doing outside of Custer. When I got there that day there were two walls up. I took this picture after we put up the third wall. 

By the end of the day, we had all the walls up and sheeted. We also go all the trusses up before we called it a day. 

Today is Easter. Barb, being Barb, hid an Easter basket for me filled with chocolate goodies. I love that about her!

We are headed to Rockerville in a couple of hours for brunch with Dan, Bonnie, Merrell and Vicki. Then it will be back home for a relaxing afternoon. Well for me at least, we have some special guests arriving tomorrow so Barb will be busy prepping and cleaning. Before you say anything, she tells me to just stay out of her way so I will be on the couch eating chocolate with the girls staring at me of course!