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A Crazy September!

Hi and welcome back!!  We hope you all had a wonderful September! :)  Ours was filled with so many wonderful friends and places! :) But overall, it went by way too fast!! Enjoy!........ Nothing can beat going to the park with friends! The younger ones were so happy to reunite with some friends that we haven't seen in a long time! Burying friends is such fun! Molly and Katherine are such great little kids! They smile ALMOST all the time,... ....until big brother takes little sister's crown! Anna's Birthday celebration!!! She's only 17!!  She's growing up way too slow!!! *wink* Happy Birthday Anna!!!  Anna has been testing out her new camera!! It takes amazing pictures!! This is Finnian!!! (See May//June blog post). Blurry, cool, and yet kind of disgusting!!! Yup! That is a snake in her mouth!  Ike and Flossy have become best buds!!! These set of pigs are amazingly tame! And probably the easiest batch we've had! They have been getting out a lot recently, but it...

August In A Nutshell

Hello folks!  We hope you all had a great August!  This month Mom, Dad, and Isaiah drove to CO to drop Peyton and Norah off, so they could visit with our Grandmas for two weeks. They were supposed to go to Germany and Austria with Grandma Mary in June, but, due to covid19, they weren’t able to go.  But they still needed some Grandma time! We also butchered around 300 chickens this month. We’ve never butchered that many at the same time before, so we broke them up into two different butcher days. (Since we had to cut up 200 of them).  And took steers to the butcher!!!  August was also ‘drought  month’ for MO. The fields turned crispy brown,  which hasn’t been helpful for our grazing cattle.   Thankfully, we’ve gotten some good rains right at the end of the month,  and things have once again greened up! Priscilla (my cow) FINALLY had her calf!! We’ve been waiting so long for her to arrive! (YES!!! She had a heifer!!!!!!) So, the process of milk...