NOOOOOOOO Snow is coming !!!!!!

Hiiiii  I know it's been awhile I have been so busy getting the house and all the brats and myself ready for winter feel like I am in panic mode right now lol. Let's see what has been happening well I wrote about the fire that was a shock to my system as it was for all of us but after that things got busy around here. Started off with putting the rabbit cages together for there winter inside home,

All wrapped up for Xmas lol, I also have a open run for them to play in when I am cleaning, then I had to move the doves in for the winter and I built them a new cage for winter this year out of an old dresser,

that was a fun project, I was given a huge wardrobe closet that I think I will be making into a cage also, that will be my winter project, I would like to have my finches and my lovebird in separate parts of the new cage then I can sell my other cages and have more room in the pet room, will see how that goes. After getting them all set up I had to go clean the barn out and put all there food, hay, straw and treats in bins for the house, that took me 2 days, after that when it is all cleaned up then I start to put all my yard equipment in the barn for winter then close the tarp down and it is set to sit all winter, that took me 4 days I had a lot to sort through. Now for the big jobs getting my garden cleared up and ready for winter. I started about 3 days ago and will be another week at least to get it all done because I am moving some small tree's I have and lilac bushes around the yard, because I have been getting over this darn cold allergy I have had since moving the brats in I can't work for to long without getting exhausted so it is taking me longer this year but I will get it done. I have big plans for next spring I just hope I will be able to pull it off, I want to lay paper down around my plants and then put wood chips all around the garden so I don't have to work so hard keeping the weeds down, I am hoping I can hire a couple people to help me get it done and also get free wood chips from the city, so we will see. It's going to be a big job but I need to do something to help me out so I don't have to work so hard and can enjoy my garden more, plus I want to put a veg garden in next year I just have to figure out were I can put it cause I have a lot of shade in my yard. So you see I haven't been sitting on my butt and doing nothing I swear hahahahahaha. Winter is coming and I am more then a bit worried about my depression setting in but thank god I have so much to do right now I don't have a lot of time to think about it, so I will just take it one day at a time and go from there. Hope everyone is well and having a safe Halloween tonight, I will be sitting in the dark and writing like I do every Halloween and keeping the brats calm through the noise and myself hahahaha.

We had a Fire

So a lot of stuff has been going on but the big stress was we had a fire in the co-op, thankfully no one got hurt but the unit was gutted. I was just getting into a shower and some one was banging on our door yelling and my hubby ignored it and thought it was a bunch of kids, so I opened the door and looked there was nothing and I thought what the hell so I went and looked out the back door and then I heard everyone yelling fire, so here I am in my housecoat and I ran out and grab the hose and try and help the other lady who had another hose but it was doing nothing the fire was to far gone, then I realized it was heading towards my place and my hubby and birds were still in the house so I ran home and told him to help me get dressed and take the birds out. As you can imagine I was in a panic I knew I had to get dressed but I couldn't figure out what to put on and seeing smoke start to come in at the top of our wall made it worse, but we managed to get out with the birds and moved our car across the lot so I could sit in it cause I was in no shape to walk around, I was so scared and so upset. Everyone was safe and thankfully the fire stayed in the unit so we just had some smoke damage being we were 2 doors away but our next door neighbor had very strong smoke damage and of course there is no coverage for smoke damage. It's been a couple weeks and we still have a smell in our bedroom but if we keep the windows open that helps a lot. I feel so bad for the people in that unit it just went up so fast even though the fire truck was here right away, they said thank goodness we have fire walls between each unit that's what kept the fire to that unit.  This is the second fire we have had the first one happened 4 years and 4 days  from this one. Just after the fire we found out my hubby has diabetes type 2, so he is on pills and has to check his blood and of course change his diet. I am doing what I can to help him but I can only do so much the rest is up to him. The morning after the fire we also found out one of our neighbors relative passed away so you can imagine how sad it has been. The night of the fire all the co-op got together and had KFC and drinks and just sat around and talked some of them were outside till way into the night, I had to come home by 10pm I was exhausted and still had to set up a bed for us to sleep in cause we couldn't sleep in our room, but it was such a good idea to sit with everyone and just talk be support for each other, this we haven't done for a few years. Was kind of funny cause we had a small camp fire we sat around and the security guy came and sat with us, we thought the camp fire had been lifted but I guess it hadn't but we had a hose and 2 fire extinguishers so they let us keep it small. Everyone was laughing at me cause I don't drink so I went home and grabbed my big milk jug of peach tea, they kept asking if it was moonshine hahahahaha.
Whats so sad is that unit just got a new roof windows and doors but all that will get fixed with insurance, they haven't said how the fire started but the only thing that was in the corner was a lamp so maybe the dog bumped it, not sure will find out when they have wrote up the report. But the main thing is we all were okay the rest is replaceable.