January 17, 2011

• Did someone say this is a holiday??? Not for us; the work of the farm goes on, no matter whose birthday it happens to be. After only doing the necessities on the weekend, Monday is always a catch-up day. There are big loads of feed to be made and taken to various self-feeders around the farm, as well as the routine silo and hay feeding. We had just eaten lunch and the resident farmboy was going to sit in a soft chair and take a 15-minute quick rest when the phone rang. No surprise there–it always rings, the minute he gets comfortable. No power at one of the silos–so off he went, the handiest man in the world to the rescue. I’ve been bookkeeping all day, my normal Monday work.

  Here are some random shots of the last week or so….

                  

  A little boy I love won a Top Dog award at school for displaying the character trait of KINDNESS.

                  

  A view outside my window one day late last week showed two frisky friends, almost camoflauged against the little bit of snow.

                  

  We get a wide variety of birds at our feeders….

  Our weekend with family was so much fun! It made us very happy to have both daughters and sons-in-law and all four grands here for a little while.

               

  Addie Dear and Mimi….

                  

  Sus braided Emma’s hair….

                  

  then Sarah, Addie and Emma made snickerdoodles.

  We had a belated holiday get-together on Saturday afternoon with some who weren’t here in December, and the day was just beautiful.

                        

  My mom came out, too–we’re so blessed to have both of them nearby and healthy and active.

  A highlight of the day was an afternoon hike on the farm where my mother-in-law grew up.

                       

  First stop was a tiny family cemetery where the great-great-great-great-grandparents of these little ones are buried. Some of the family did not even know the graves were on the farm. So we had a little history lesson….

                       

  before walking up the holler. The steep hillside is a bluff-like area…

                      

   with lots of places that look to be residences of…who knows what?

                       

  The spring at the head of the holler runs year-round and creates a tiny stream that is frozen over right now. A certain sister-in-law and niece found the ice to be quite slippery.

                         

  A footlog is irresistible, and over they went…

                       

  and up and up we went to get to this rock.

                       

  The scaredy-cats down below missed out on this!

                       

  Sarah and Emma

  Wonderful January days end in wonderful January sunsets–too pretty for words!

                          

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