Meet Peekaboo – found her this morning. Her mama is Pax, and they walked all the way down to the barn together. I missed my outside “photo-opp” since I didn’t walk up to the field with the boys today… 😦
Peekaboo comes with a story – that’ll be another post – I’m workin’ on it next… 🙂 <click here to get to that post>
On our way to a day in Amish Country… 🙂
What a great day!
Mike’s sister & I had baby shower (party) here for our future nephew on Sunday. 🙂 We had fun preparing for it, and I especially appreciated her willingness to help me tidy up our house for the big event…
Ben, Kristin, Alyssa, & Addisyn are in from Nebraska for the week, so we enjoyed an afternoon of food, fellowship, & fun.
[Click here to see where I got the inspiration for this “diaper cake”…]
Gotta say, originally, my boys were NOT very excited at participating in a girl party “baby shower”, hence our naming it a FAMILY PARTY, lol…
It became more fun for them, though, when they were put in charge of “games”…
No typical party games here…
What did they do? Well, potato gun shooting contest, of course! 🙂
By the end of the day, they were EASILY clearing this oak tree! 🙂
Lord, we thank You for this wonderful day full of laughter & sharing. We praise You for the miracle of NEW BIRTH. As our family grows, use us to reflect Your Light everywhere we go. AMEN
On Friday, Mike was able to get 4 wagons full of hay – just shy of 450 bales. Tomorrow comes the “fun” part – unloading them all, lol! 🙂
We’re SO THANKFUL for friends who allow us to borrow the equipment we don’t have to complete the task – couldn’t do it without ’em. 🙂
This will probably be the only batch of square bales we’ll make this year. Since it was a mild winter here, we still had quite a bit leftover from last year. Lord willing, the rest will be round baled in the next week or two. 🙂
Enjoyed our 1st picking of strawberries on Thursday! Paul has volunteered to be our “designated strawberry picker”. He went with Grandma at the crack of dawn to a pickin’ patch. Together they picked 12 quarts. The berries tasted good, but they were pretty small. They’ll go pick again in a couple days. We need LOTS more to make all the jam we need for a year of kefir shakes, lol!
I am so thankful that Paul likes to pick strawberries…my knee joints get angry at me when I pick, and Mike & Michael hate detest don’t like picking ANY berries, lol! (They don’t have any issues with EATING them, though!) 🙂
Paul also picked a pint of strawberries from his patch in one of the raised beds. Perhaps someday we’ll get enough from his patch so we don’t need to pick anywhere else! 🙂
[Planted 20 Amish Paste, 8 Rutgers, 8 Mortgage Lifters, 8 Marglobes, & 4 Delicious tomatoes + 9 Straight Eight cucumbers + 3 zucchini plants yesterday.] 🙂
[Planted 3 Cayennes, 4 Jalapenos, 4 Habaneros, 4 Hungarian Wax, & 20 California Wonder Green Peppers yesterday in the raised beds.] 🙂
Heavenly Father, as today marks the beginning of hay season here on our farm, I come before You and lay down our burdens. It’s so easy to become uptight as we fight the urge to dwell on all the unknowns. Help us to change our perspective to how You see things. Prepare us for handling the unexpected breakdowns or sudden rain showers. May we not condemn ourselves when we realize in retrospect we should have done something different. Instead, allow us to add that lesson to our walk – so that we can remember it in the future. Lord, I especially pray for my aging body in this season. Daily, I am reminded that You have not created this body to last here on earth forever. I accept that, and look forward to my new body in Heaven when You are done with me here. Until then, strengthen me physically to be able to help where I can, and strengthen me MENTALLY to know when I need to step aside and accept help. And Lord, when exhaustion sets in as this season progresses, and our patience wears thin, bring kind words to our tongues. May we be able to practice the grace You so perfectly have shown to us. We thank You for our hay harvest this year and pray for the animals who will receive it. May it richly bless them for whatever function they perform on our farm. I’m so grateful You love me & will listen to my pleas. Amen.
On Monday, we brought Banana over to the barnyard behind our house. I missed watching her come over, but my boys said she was the best one yet – she RAN the whole way! Romeo “volunteered” to hang with her a couple days before we release her to the bigger part of Green Dragon to join the rest of the “crew”. 🙂
Just watering the little plants tonight & laughed when I looked up & saw “my audience” – God in His Rays & our cows. Thank You, Lord for revealing Yourself in my audience. 🙂
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