Brian's Birthday...

The 26th, Sunday, was Brian's birthday. It was also Patrick's half-birthday. :) We didn't do too much to celebrate really, but we plan on taking a road trip down to the Shiner brewery sometime this summer. Brian has been doing a little bit of welding lately; he's building a smoker! Woo-hoo! Once he can get a hold of a plasma cutter, we can really get to building it. That was sort of the plan for last weekend, but we ended up fixing the mowers and trimming all the trees and crepe myrtles instead. The weather has sort of brought out some unwelcome guests. Saturday, Brian took care of a pretty big rattle snake. That's number two for us here at the house so far this season. The dogs are pretty good at letting us know about the ones that get close to the house. The one on Saturday was out in the barn. I could post a picture of it, but I'm not sure how that'd go over with everyone. I'll put up a "6 month" picture of Patrick pretty soon. :)