Tuna For Lunch

Mama's Kiddo Approved Tuna Fish 

2 cans tuna fish (enough tuna for Mama AND leftovers is a bonus!)

Mayo

Mustard

Onion

2-3 tiny dill pickles

Cheddar cheese (extra sharp in the Hauck home)

Pepper

Mixed-up salt

Garlic powder

Mix your tuna, mayo and mustard all together. There are no exact measurements. Add more mayo if you like it wetter, less if you like it drier. I like mine with mustard, some people don't. Cut up your tiny dills and onion (you only need a small amount) into small pieces and toss those in. I hate pickles, but the cut up tiny dills are delicious in the tuna and I find taste great! Sometimes I cut up grapes into small pieces and put that in the tuna as well. It's tasty! I like to grate cheddar cheese right into the tuna mixture. It puts that extra delicious somethin' somethin'. Dash on some pepper, mixed-up salt, and garlic powder and mix it all up.

Anthony and Molly love this tuna fish and I usually add a side or two of fruit to go along with it. Lunch success! See? :)

With love,
Mama Hauck

Hard Working Haucks

 

We went to the fair.

YAY!

We had a good time.

WOO!!

And then we slaved away.

Womp womp womp.

We surprised the kids with a trip to the town fair. It was so incredibly hot out, so we weren't there for an excessive amount of time. Just long enough to catch a little magic show, eat some fair food, and see all the animals. I really wish I would have brought my camera with me. It's so fun watching Anthony and Molly look at the animals. Molly had a freaken ball and loved the goats and chickens. She kept running from one animal to the next exclaiming, "Wow! Look!" all excitedly. It's nice that a few of the 4-H kids are sweet and let us pet their animals. :)

We spent the remainder of the day loading and unloading hay. We're fortunate that our neighbor down the way does hay and that's where we buy it from so we don't have to drive far at all. We also buy our farm fresh eggs from them as well as whatever is in season in their large garden. We've gotten squash, zucchini, lettuce, and most recently onions and corn. Corn on the cob and chicken for dinner tonight! Doing that hay was exhausting work. It was about 95* out too. I've never sweat so much in my life! Ugh. We got two truck loads, but will wind up getting another one here soon. It's awesome that we have lots of room for hay storage in the tack room.

Speaking of tack room, the structure is complete except for two boards missing on the side (which you can see in the photos). Hopefully we will be getting the remaining wood sometime this week so we can finish up! I should be getting my tack hooks in this week as well so I can hang up my tack....that's the fun part! :) Once that is done, it's all the "finishing touches" like a shelf for a radio, shelves for fencing tool storage, eventually power (come fall/winter time), etc. 

Sunday was another loooooong day of work. We did a general clean up of the area....like trash, tools, and tons of scrap wood. Spent hours combing what will be the arena for rocks and getting out as many of them as we could. We brought sand in to put on the stall floor. Put up a gate. Our trusty neighbor Leonard came over with his tractor and did some dirt moving and ground leveling for us in and around the barn. And to cap off the work day, Sammy and I took down fencing, moved it, and then put it back up. Phew!! Just a few more things and Nik will be in that barn. Hopefully within 2 weeks or so!

Just relaxing with the kiddos today after that busy weekend.

With love,

Mama Hauck

Porch Dweller

Check out this BIG fella......

He lives up on the ceiling of my front porch. As long as he stays there and doesn't venture inside, I'm fine. We had one living on our porch last August too. The kids like looking at him, it's like National Geographic all up on the Hauck Homestead. :)

With love,

Mama Hauck