It's a Lopper!

Miss Add and her dear old Dad went fishin' this morning and it has been reported that they caught "A Lopper!" or a "Whopper" as you might call it ;)

Anyhoo... That GOODe Ole Boy of mine earned some super bonus points with me because he caught the moment on video for Mommy! WooHoo!

Here is the big moment...



Um... please don't inform Nemo (seen here on the fishing pole) about today's activities... k?

Baby Back Ribs

Psst... Ya wanna know a secret...

The secret behind fall-off-the bone...

Finger-lickin' Baby Back Pork Ribs... 

Done faster than you can order them in a restaurant...

For half the price...

Gots your attention yet???

ALDI's baby... 

$6.99 a pack and Puddie-- the rib man 'round these parts-- just raves about them!

Told ya Martha doesn't live here...

Hey... I am all for cookin' it up like a mad woman, but no need in messin' with a GOODe thing... just sayin

And no, Aldi's didn't pay me to share this with you... how could they when they are busy selling mouthwatering ribs for $6.99!

If you give a gal a bucket...

Have you ever read the great children's books by Laura Numeroff  like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie? We just LOVE them around here.

So, when the Red Hill General Store sent me this lovely galvanized tub from their Bucket Outlet and asked me to write about what I would do with it, I immediately thought of those books and came up with my own little version ;) I present to you... If You Give A Gal a Bucket...

If you give a gal a bucket...

She'll might just ask her facebook community what to do with it...

And they might just give her all kinds of ideas that will make her want to...

Fill it with Gal's INFAMOUS Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins... and that will make her thirsty...

So she'll fill it with one of her favorite beverages...

Ice cold beverages... which will make her hubby want to ice down some of his favorite beverages...

Which will make her want to ice down some Indiana wine... 

Including some Watermelon Wine...

Which will make her want to slice up some watermelon...

Yummy red juicy watermelon...

Which will entice her daughter to sneak a piece...

Which will make her think that her Facebook pals had some really great ideas...

But then she will realize that there is one suggestion that her hubby might just take a little too far... Just sayin'

Which will make her wonder what she should do with that bucket now...

While Red Hill General Store did provide me with a bucket to blog about for this post the pictures, ideas and opinions shared here are my own and I am sure they never intended a grown man to attempt to take a bath in a 3.7 Gallon Tub... Just sayin'


If you would like to win a galvanized embossed tub (without bathing grown man-- he's all mine ladies), head on over to Real Farmwives of America and Friends for a chance to win.


And, if you want to see what the other farm gals did with their buckets, check out RFOA's Facebook page that has all of our blogs in one place!

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He sees me.

Today is mine and Puddie's 13th Wedding Anniversary.

Source: dudelol.com via Cris on Pinterest

And while I don't have a beautiful song to share like he does, I do have an observation that hit me the other day that I thought I'd share.

Puddie and I were chatting and, like a lot of times, I was being hard on myself--like a lot of mamas do I suppose.

I have so much I want to do in this life that often I get caught up in keeping all of the plates in the air that I feel guilty that in doing so much I fear that I might not always be giving the most and best attention to one of my most important roles... that of being mommy to little Miss Add.

Puddie stopped me and in great detail described a moment he had recently observed between Miss Add and I.

It was a simple moment.

Something I never imagined he even paid attention to... and something I never paid attention to myself...

But, he described it to me at that moment in such detail... to prove to me that I was getting this mom gig right.

At that moment, it hit me... like it did almost 15 years ago when I first got to know him...

He sees me.

And, in this world of hustle and bustle... it is truly a blessing to have that... to have someone who really sees you.

When someone sees you, it is like fuel to be who you really are inside. Puddie has always been that for me. Someone who has always wanted me to be me... and that is truly a gift.

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So, here's to you Puddie. Thanks for seeing me back then and every day since.

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Flying High

Special thanks to www.GOODeOleBoy.com (Puddie) for taking many of these awesome pics.

If it were Wednesday...

If it were Wednesday, I'd go wordless...

But since it's Thursday, I'll settle for speechless... 

A GOODe Tip: Don't Go Bettin' Mama

My husband likes to occasionally "make a bet" when discussing matters... 

Unbeknownst to my dear husband, my Mama doesn't...and won't...

That is unless Mama knows something you don't...

Something like the fact that the football game you are watching is a rerun...

And she just happens to know the final score...

And she has a sinkful of Christmas dishes that need washing...

And you might just be the type of "betting" son-in-law to take the bait...

And she'd be right... and well you... 

You'd be doin' a sinkful of dishes... just sayin'