AAHHH.....Monday

Yes, I'm actually happy to see Monday and a start of a new week. We survived last week and the weekend! We picked 10 loads of chile, 5 loads of pumpkins, and I have lost track how many bags of chile, well over 100.

God has blessed us with such great friends and family, and we utilized them this week! On Thursday night, Tyler came over and he and I picked up bales out of the field while Jason finished baling. On Friday, Tammy and Stephen came over and she helped me roast chile all morning and we're not exactly sure what Jason and Stephen did.....drove around maybe?? No, they did keep very busy, but it sure felt like Tammy and I were doing all the hard work! ;) But talk about a wonderful friend because she brought with her breakfast burritos and sandwiches so that I did not have to worry about anything extra. Plus she sent all the extras with us on our unexpected trip to New Mexico! Thank You, Thank You, Tammy!!

So to top off a very LONG week, on Friday at 4pm we headed to Roswell, NM to take care of some unexpected business. Long story, long trip! But we made it to Alamogordo, NM around 11pm and could not find a room. Dream works production was in town filming the new transformer movie, they were having a hot air balloon festival on Saturday and Sunday, and a bike rally in Ruidoso. We finally got a room at the third hotel that we stopped at and we we got the very last room there! We had a hay rake on a trailer and we were asked if it was a transformer! I told Jason that we could probably sell it for lots of money!

We made it back home the next day around 7pm and Jason baled hay until 11:30pm. So on Sunday we slept in, he raked more hay, we napped, and then we picked up more bales until around 8pm last night.

Just a little side note, we are now down to just 2 dogs. Cash bit one of our biggest fresh chile customers on Wednesday, so now we just have Cody and Milo. It's really strange not to have Mimi's dog, Coco, or Cash around anymore!