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The Color Run- Tulsa

Olof
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OMG I’ve lost my mind and I’ve signed up for my first 5k in 17 years. I have signed up for the Tulsa Color Run. A friend of mine said that she was going to do it and have a blast. Not so much run as just walk fast and have a fun time. I thought this would be the perfect way to start, hopefully, new 5K habit.

The color run is more about the fun of getting out and doing it than a hard core run but it will be a jump start in the right direction.

Of course I need new gear to start getting ready like new running pants and support bra (those breastfeeding milk jugs need to be contained and protected) but boy I’m excited. I haven’t run since before Odinn was born but now I really am excited to start. My body needs the exercise too. Since we have daylight longer during the day I have decided that I will be ready to leave the house as soon as my husband gets home and go for half an hour 3 days a week and when I can do that easy I will add a 45 min run once a week and then when that becomes easy then I will add an hour run. I know I have a ways to go here but boy will this be fun and painful. LOL

Have you done a 5K this year? It has been on my bucket list for a while now. I did a few before I was an adult but I haven’t done any since. Always thought that I had to be a runner that could run for an hour with out stop to do one. Well I haven’t been that EVER so I never went out. I’m hoping to really get into running again. I miss it. I quit while I was pregnant with my first because it hurt so much to run.  Hoping my hips will let me do this with out too much pain. My body after 3 kids in 4 and a half years is not very happy with me.

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Got Chickens on the Brain

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Yep, I have got chickens on the brain bad! Yesterday I drove all over Tulsa County trying to find the chickens I wanted for my backyard coop (that we have yet to build). I want colorful eggs and good birds. I chose an Ameraucana, a Buff Orpington, and Australorp. I also want some Icelandic hens and will be hatching some out later this spring. I found a farm here that has all 3 breeds for me and a breeder of Icelandics sending me some eggs from Washington. I´m so excited! So then I have green or blue eggs, brown eggs and white eggs!


Yesterday we set up a brooder box for the chicks and now we sit and wait. I’m using a cardboard box until I have organized my deep bins in the basement and free one up to use for chicks.  Hubby is putting together my coop this weekend. Is it so odd to be so excited about feathery farm animals? The boys keep asking “Can we go get the chickens now?” I´ll be letting them decorate the outside of the box tomorrow.

I’ve read and researched and getting my chicks now against a wiser person’s advice of waiting til April (I do value this advice just to impulsive to go by it). Just getting a little start means I am just that much closer to having eggs, hopefully. Some of the birds I´m getting are even 3 weeks old already. Hope the stench in my house won’t get too bad if I change bedding every day until it is warm enough to put them outside.

Yay for being a step closer to being more self sufficient!

Is anyone else getting ready for spring? If so, how?

Here is the book I have been reading on the subject of chickens the last 2 days.

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Dreaming of owning one of these Eglu Cubes.


And getting some of these for my kids to run around in the backyard in this spring.

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Saturday Personal Update

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This morning we went to the farmer´s market on Cherry St. and this was our bounty. We got there a little late so there wasn´t much of a selection left. But we will be able to finish this off by the end of the week and maybe get there earlier next Saturday. I´ll take my camera with me and take some photo´s of the yarn stand there which has yarn made by local fiber! Will have to look into that more next time.

This week has been full of water play dates. We spent Memorial day at my brother´s house where they set up their pool and we got one of my nephews a double slip and slide for a late birthday present and my boys really enjoyed that. We had a splash pad play group meet at Riverside Park on Wednesday and the boys had a blast splashing in the water there. This is the fun part of summer and being a stay at home mom.

The not so fun part of my week has been my raging hormones, horrific allergies, and my 4 year old testing every boundary followed by throwing horrific tantrums when he doesn´t get his way. Don´t know how many times I have asked God to grant me the Strength to be a level headed mom this week.

How was your week? Anything amazing happen?