Happy Halloween

 

 

Happy Halloween!

Jack-o-lantern

It’s that time of year!  Last weekend Julianne and I carved a pumpkin - 

Well, actually I carved the pumpkin while Julianne played in the pumpkin insides that we took out!

 

 

 

 

 

And there it is – my jack-o-lantern!

Fun at the Nelson Farm

Last weekend Ashley and I took Shay and Julianne to the Nelson Farm just outside of Litchfield.  There was a TON of fun things for the girls to do and we had a great day!  They got to see lots of animals include chicks, a baby calf, goats, sheep, horses, pigs and rooster.  Plus they got to ride on a horse-drawn trolley, they each rode a horse and we all rode in a go-cart down a big hill (we only went once - it was too much work dragging the cart up the hill!).  But the girls had the most fun on the good old playground and on the slides.  They were pretty fun; Ash and I took a turn on the slide too!

Below are some pictures from our day:

Shay holding the baby chicks

The girls on the Clip-Clop Trolley ride 

Jules on her horsey ride 

And Shay on her horsey ride! 

They had the most fun just running around and acting silly! 

Getting pulled in a wagon by a tractor

And the day was complete when the girls got their faces painted.  Of course they had to get the same thing - a rainbow with a heart - what else for our girly girls! 

BFF's

Harvest Time

Happy Harvesting to all those hardworking farmers out there!  I wish you dry weather (no rain or snow please!), good-yielding crops, employee’s that show up on time (some of you know what I’m talking about here!!!), machinery that doesn’t break down, and the patience and strength to make it through yet another fall!  You have a thank-less job and I’m so proud of all the farmers in my life who have shown me what it means to be “hard-working!”

 

 

So God Made a Farmer…

 

And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!

God said, "I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So, God made a farmer!

"I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it." So, God made a farmer!"

God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, in pain from 'tractor back', put in another seventy two hours." So, God made a farmer!

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So, God made a farmer!

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark." So, God made a farmer!

It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!

(Author Unknown. Article reproduced from Paul Harvey radio show)