(I like this illustration because Mr. Ferrero Rocher remembers sucking those same fingers as a little boy. Thankfully none of our children has had troubles with finger sucking!) As anyone who has ever had a baby knows, choosing a name is hard! There are so many factors to take into consideration: family names, does it […]
Harvesting Green Gold
We’ve started. Three swathers mow hay, leaving trails of green gold to dry in the sun. Three hundred and sixty acres were mowed yesterday. Only about a thousand more acres, or nine more pivots, left to cut. The rest of the pivots (6) are growing wheat and corn, rotation crops in old stands of alfalfa. […]
Keeping busy
While I am trying to finish putting together my presentation on “Using Music to Build Spirituality” for the 16-18 year old young men in our stake (visit that link to read more about it) I thought I’d share some of the things we have been doing around here. Watering our “gold” at the end of […]
Wordfull Wednesday: Summertime Alliteration
Today’s Wordfull Wednesday Topic: Choose a letter of the alphabet. Pen a quick story about your typical summer day using as many words as you can that begin with your chosen letter. “A little alliteration lets the lesson linger longer!” (a line in a grammar poem from my eighth grade teacher) Golden rays of sunshine […]
Changes
First the bad news. . . This is my constant companion now for the next eight weeks. I have to check my blood sugar levels four times a day – a fasting check in the morning before eating anything, then one hour after breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s not too bad. I found my pinkies […]
Planting
Bags crinkle in the afternoon stillness as their contents are emptied into waiting earth. Seeds are planted, one by one, in holes dug by hoes down the length of rows. Little hands help to move the soil, covering the seeds, patting encouragement for them to grow and produce a bountiful harvest. Water. The lifeblood of […]
Going Home
My dear, wonderful, ever faithful Guelito passed away yesterday evening. He was 91 years old and lived a very full and good life. I am so grateful for the heritage of faith and service that he he lived and passed on to his posterity. Guelito – age 18 He served two mission with Guelita – […]
Spring is here! Oh wait, winter is back….
It snowed while we were at church on Sunday. Snow on May 15th! Crazy. Here’s a picture taken at dusk showing the snow on the mountains to the west. Here’s what they looked like three days ago when the temperatures were in the 80’s. See how green the fields are starting to get? That little […]
Stuff and Nonsense
Ready to be scattered Seems like my brain is thinking in snippets lately. My last few blog posts are reflecting that. Sorry! Since I am sans camera – no sewing project for Tuesday’s post. There is a fun little beginning sewing project lined up for next Tuesday though! (I should get my camera back today […]
Scraps of life
Sunday night about 10:30 I came into the kitchen to get a drink of water. While I was filling my glass at the fridge I noticed something very sticky slowly dripping from the bottom of the upper kitchen cabinets. Knowing what it was but not really wanting to find out I hesitantly opened the cupboard […]
Branding Time
A hundred or so calves face off against ‘real’ cowboys on horses and ranchers waiting to ear tag, immunize, castrate the bull calves, and brand. Sounds like fun, right? It is! Unless your one of the calves… We haven’t just been caught up in doing our Easter Countdown this past week. Branding was on Wednesday, […]
Fun on the farm in spring
Ah, spring! The weather is cold and snowy one day and gloriously sunny and warm the next, only to have it turn windy and cool again. This week we took advantage of all types of weather. On Tuesday the kids talked Mr. Ferrero Rocher into giving them a ride on the grade-all. It goes up […]
Baby #9 Update
Friday was a BIG day! I had an ultrasound and found out that baby #9 is a . . . BOY!!!! I decided against posting the incriminating evidence but trust me it IS very evident. 😀 We are all ecstatic. Actually I’m pretty sure we would have been ecstatic either way, I mean how many […]
Scenes from the Weekend
Spring is coming! The air has that ‘smell’ to it – of wet and dirt and sunshine. The weather is warmer, even when the wind blows. There is no longer a bite to it. The kids raced through their school on Friday just so they could go out and play. Even little Hershey likes to […]
Age Appropriate Chores/Skills
Think of some famous musician, sports player, or artist. How did they acquire the skills they have? Chances are for most of them it took work, lots and lots of dedicated work, learned sequentially and methodically, to achieve the level they are at now. The same lesson applies to us and to our children. Any […]
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