harvest party

Monday, October 31, 2011

so...some of us farmer wives are lucky enough to be married to men who DON'T grow low moisture corn and DO grow sugar beets. those wives get to throw adorable harvest parties in late october. jeally (jealous)? whyyyy, yes i am. (rub it in, amy.)
that's not my life. i'm married to a farmer who DOES grow low-moisture corn that can't be harvested until december (right around christams, of course!) and alfalfa that decides to be ready for cutting just before an unforeseen rainstorm. what the?? curse it. so now we have alfalfa that has been on the ground for two weeks and corn that is 13 ft high taunting us because we know the work ahead. (listen to me acting like i have something to do with the harvesting process. yeah right.)
well ya know what weather? ya, i'm tellin' you what. this is how it's going to work for the next month or so:

1. temperatures will raise to about 70 degrees.
2. the wind will blow ever so nicely as to help dry the corn.
3. the wind will stop blowing for about an hour around 4 pm each day, three times a week...let me start over. the wind will stop blowing for about an hour around 4 pm whenever i decide to go for a run.
4. the day harvesting the corn is complete, that evening it will dump about six feet of glorious snow in the mountains so we can start our ski season.
5. thank you. amen.

so even though i'm totally jealous of amy's adorb. harvest party, we went. we ate. we enjoyed. please check out below just how crafty this girl is...

here i am in the red plaid thinking over and over about getting as much chili in my mouth as possible...obvs. but that's because i didn't know that these were waiting for me...

CAKE POPS! can you say DELICIOUS?! holy buckets, whoa mama these were good.

amy, you've changed my world for the better. you've changed my waist for the worse. and to top it all off i present...

P-CORN! now, if you say p-corn out loud it sounds pretty, umm, disgusting. i mean...downright sick. but i like it and i'm gonna say it. boo-ya! so if you know one thing about me it's that i. LOVE. p-corn. if i could eat p-corn for dinner every night, i would. get. in. my. mouth.

but, let's revisit the chili picture again...

                            

i'll have you all know that when i got dolled up in this outfit here is what i was thinking, "whoa yeah karli. work that plaid. oh...and skinny jeans tucked into your boots...this is sooooo harvest party. tuck the front of your shirt in. yeah, that's cute. slims you." i thought i was battin' 1000. when i saw this picture i quickly learned that gray skinnies are not my friend and i will look heavier 100% of the time standing in line for food. i love chili. amen.

ps. that's my smokin' hot farmer letting me go first. farmers are gentleman. 

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what's with these tights anyway?

Saturday, October 29, 2011

oh dear. in my day to day happenings there are random things that pop into my head and then i wonder, "if someone was inside my head, would i still have friends? would my husband have married me? would i be locked away?" the answers are: no, no, yes.

like just a few minutes ago, i was putting on some tights/legging thingies and i turned them around in my hands about six or seven times. opened them up from the top and really debated to myself which was the front and which was the back? there's no tag. how am i supposed to know? then i thought, "i have a booty...the back is probably a little stretched out/saggy." i turned the tights over a few more times...back, front, back, front. i still can't decide. so i put them on. all of a sudden i have a saggy front/crotch thing goin' on. ugh. take them off, turn them around, put them back on. what the???? i still have a saggy front/crotch thing goin' on!!! i give up. i hate the tights, but i love them. love/hate relationship.

• love them because they look oh so cute with tall boots and a sweater dress.
• love them because if you pull them up high enough they suck that gut right in.
• hate them for their saggy front/crotch thingy and the way they cut me in the middle.

now what do i do? pull them up just shy of my nipples? that'll hold EVERYTHING in. or do i roll them down to my hips so i'm muffin-toppin' all over the place?

i guess if this is my only debacle for the day, i'm in good shape. whatevs. i need to go dust off my tall boots. yep, the farm makes my shoes and everything else in my life permanently dusty. ugh. that's for another day. i need to go kill a fly.

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it's a blog, yo!

Friday, October 28, 2011

hey ya'll! this is a blog. a blog about yours truly, obvs. so, let's get some details straight:
i so so so enjoy using cliché abbrevs. (abbreviations!) so get ready for that. i live on a farm. in a trailer. single-wide. 500 sq ft. oh oh! we're building a house on the farm atop a hill. so we've got that goin' for us. it's pretty stressful but the day we move in will be the second best day of my life. it's worth it. i married a farmer august 07, 2010. yay! it was a rockin' wedding with lots of dancing, laughing and push-ups...in my dress...on the dance floor. i'll see if i can dig up a picture for a future post. for now you get a picture of me and my best gals. obvs. we have so much attitude.

and here is my handsome groom with all his best guys! ugh. so nerdy.

i can't wait to write down all the fun insane stories that happen out here in the amidst the sand dunes. i'll be discussing very intellectual things such as how gopher tails ended up on my kitchen counter and being chased by a husband/wife badger duo on a morning, country-road jog. (scary!) but don't worry, it's not all about wildlife. i also plan to bring a little style to these here parts!

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