Checkin’ In
Thought I’d better take a minute and let everyone know that I’m still alive and kicking. We’re recovering from our latest mid April snowstorm. It seems like spring will never come, every time it starts to look up we get hit with a foot or two of snow, wicked winds and freezing temps. Weather man says it will be in the 60s this weekend, I sure hope so. Last year I had peas and spinich in the ground by now and we still have drifts that are over my knees. We have no pasture growth at all, the cows are still eating hay. John and Noah have a new job. They are feeding the 10 calves that are on milk in the afternoons. They do a fine job and take the job very seriously. They are a great help to me, I was feeding them after milking and they do it while I’m milking. Sure they take longer than a grown person and have spills and what not, but its more about raising boys than it is about raising calves. Its a way they can contribute to the home economy and thats a big deal to little boys. When news of the last storm came John and Noah both helped get some extra wood split and stacked. I split and they stacked. I’m always sure to make lots of “Noah sized pieces”, as he calls them. I had to go do something afterwards and told them to make sure they tarped the wood stack and covered the edges well. I just left and never check up on them. The next day I found the wood tarped in a fine manner and the winds had not moved it. I was proud of the little buggers, for 3 and 4 year olds they do pretty well. We decided to read Farmer Boy again while we wait for spring. It is by far the boys favorite book of all time. The boys are planning to grow popcorn this year and are pretty excited about that. I told them I’d till up spot for them and it would be their responcibility to plant, weed and harvest. It will be fun to watch. Isaiah is growing up fast. He is a little chunker, as Noah says “He’s sooooooo chubby”. He is already crawling and has 2 teeth. I can’t wait till he is big enough to join his older brothers and me with the barn chores. One last thing worth mentioning. We had 3 big gobblers fighting it out along the side of the road here the other day. They put on quite a show, kind of gets you fired up for spring season. I hope the next time I see one of them 3, I’m hiding in the brush with some copper platted #5s to throw their way.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Greetings brother, glad to see you and yours are doing well. I, too, have been so busy that I have had no time to blog. Our April has been cold as well. Due to a very warm March, the trees and shrubs around here were heavy in buds and new leaves when a record setting bout of cold weather set us back for several weeks. Now it looks like fall, with all of the buds and leaves having turned brown. This freeze has caused the forests to remain open for an extended period, so I’ll likely be logging before blogging. Even so, I have taken the day off to write. Lord willing I’ll be posting to my blog soon. God bless and keep the faith.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Scott,
I love hearing about you and your boys! I hope the weather improves for you soon, our peas and spinach are in the ground already, and we are at 6,000 feet above sea level. It’s been unusually warm and dry here. Keep the faith, summer and winter, springtime and harvest shall not fail as long as the earth remains.
Peace to you and yours.
April 21st, 2007 at 6:55 pm
Hey Scott! I do enjoy hearing your stories about your boys. Everything becomes fresh and new when viewed through the eyes of a child. We had a damaging snow storm couple weeks back, then wind and rains came last week and destroyed a lot of timber in addition to washing out bridges and flooding homes, including ours. Despite the disasters, spring keeps on making itself known in these parts, though it seems plant growth is about a week behind last year. Today was very nice. No more snow on the ground and it must have hit about 70. or even a bit higher. We’ve been seeing lots of wild turkeys all over the place. Not huge flocks but enough to go around. When do you usually go hunting? I’m going to encourage the man of the house to go and shoot us one for the freezer.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:47 am
This must be a turkey year. We don’t have any right around us, but the dogs may be the reason for that. We have a friend that says they are standing thick on her land. She is wanting someone to come and hunt them for her, they are so thick.
We had a friend who took a walk down our road, down way beyond our house. A flock of turkeys came out of the woods and tried to attack him. They chased him back up the road. =)