Just Breathe

We have had a pretty busy and crazy week! Today is the final day of bottle feeding the fawns! We are always excited to start bottle feeding and even more excited when it's done! It's like the end to our busy season. I have started to feel a lot better and I have a lot more energy. Everything I have read says you will start to lose the energy you had in your 2nd trimester when you start your 3rd. Well I didn't even get an ounce of energy till my 3rd!

Last Thursday we went and picked up Big Boy from OKC! It was kind of last minute and we left the ranch about 5. The hurricane had made it to OK but we hadn't had a drop of rain and it was cool enough to go pick him up. We needed to asap because the rut is about to begin and the bucks are starting to fight. We made it to OKC about 7 ish and it was raining like crazy! IT took us forever to drive through it with a big ole' trailer and we didn't make it to pick him up till 8. By that time is was already dark, wind was blowing like crazy and the buck was way to skittish and wouldn't let us get a good shot on him to tranq him to load him up. So we ended up staying the night in OKC and tried again Friday morning. We tranqed him about 7:50. After waiting till he dropped, to giving him shots, to loading him up and waiting on the reversal to kick in it was 10:00 before we headed home on the 2.5 hour trip and it was starting to warm up! We got home and unloaded him and he was still drunk and not looking too good:( We put him in a pen by himself and he layed there all day still looking drowsy from the meds. Cody turned on the water sprinkler for him since it had warmed up pretty good that day and he just layed there all day. That night when we went to bottle feed we put two of the calmer doe's that we want him to breed in with him(we picked the two calmer one's that night because it was getting late and we were able to walk them like a dog to his pen:) to give him company. The next day he was cheered up:) and is doing good!
I have been putting off going to OKC and ordering our baby bed thinking they would have it in stock and I wouldn't have to order it, just go pick it up. Finally made it Saturday afternoon to Storkland in OKC and they didn't have it in stock and it was gonna take 12 weeks to get if we ordered it:( Luckily they have a Storkland in Tyler and the bed we wanted was there in stock so we will pick it up next month when we come in for my baby shower. Cody went with me because he didn't want me to drive by myself that far. Well........glad he was with me! We get halfway there, the wind is blowing like CRAZY, I'm going super slow because the wind keeps throwing me from side to side and Cody even kept giving me a hard time because I was going so slow and it's usually the other way around :) We pass an 18 wheeler flying down the road and the wind hit us just right it felt like we were in a wind tunnel and we heard a loud POP on our roof. We didn't think anything of it except it just scared us a little because the wind was so powerful it really almost made me go off the road. We get almost to OKC and we hear another loud pop and then something travel down the back of our roof. I look out my rear view, didn't see anything and Cody turns around and didn't see anything either. We both kind of look at each other curious to know what that sound was when a truck passes us and everyone in the truck is staring us down like we just ran over their dog. I pull over and Cody checks the car out and this is what we find........

The top lights on my hummer BLEW off! Only the 2 on the side survived, lol. All the wiring is still there, the bolts to hold down the piece is still there but everything else is GONE! We were thinking no biggie, a piece of plastic and 3 lights can't be too expensive......wrong......lucky for us we can file that on insurance!

Today I went over to the hunting lodge to finish cleaning and as soon as I opened the door I see this HUGE black think by the kitchen table. At first I'm a little confused on what is was.........as I get closer I realize it's a HUGE spider! I call Cody hyperventilating thinking it is a tarantula because it is so big and hairy and he informs me that it probably is!!!!! I didn't think we had tarantula's in the USA! He was busy doctoring a deer and I had to wait about 15 minutes before he got there to get it so I just put a cup over it. I had a 15 minute anxiety attack and surprised I didn't make myself go into labor before he got there. Cody eventually saved the day as always! I am glad I married Tarzan, he makes me feel safe!

Not sure if it was the 4 hours of cleaning or the 15 minute meltdown but I was exhausted when I got home!