Rosie had her baby!

He is adorable! His name is Oliver.

The new evening chore

Dad milking Beatrice

Straining into jars

Ready for the fridge

A Sunday Morning Surprise

Beatrice had her baby yesterday! It's a bull calf and his name is Colin.

He is so sweet.

Meet Beatrice...

our lovely new Jersey cow!

She is due to have a calf on September 5 so we'll have milk, butter,cheese...wonderful.

Summer Days

As Sweet Pea the parakeet enjoys the nice weather, Henry and Milo become curious. Sweet Pea didn't seem to mind though.

Ashlyn eats strawberries at Grandma's.

Milo watches Dad fix a flat tire on the hay trailer.

Ashlyn is quite fond of catching lightening bugs.

Henry and I sit on the hay in the cool of evening.

Hope you all are enjoying June!

I was playing with making pictures black and white :)

A Few Exciting Days

On Monday, Dad sold two of our cows, Posie and Hannah, and one of the boys, Jonah :( He said that he might buy another cow and, sure enough, who should come home but an adorable little heifer. She is a "fixer-upper". The poor thing has a cold\ear infection. Caleb named her Lulu. I don't have pictures (yet).

Wednesday was Caleb's 9th birthday! The birthday breakfast was doughnuts, lunch was pizza (homemade by Mom and very good), and after lunch was cake.

It's time to cut hay again! Dad took Caleb along.And...two little pigs. They are girls and will one day have piglets!
I don't have a picture of the other girl, but they are almost identical.

Introducing...

our new piglets!

Their names are Churchill and Knightley. My love for Jane Austen's Emma did not have anything to do with these names. ;) (OK, so maybe it does a little bit)

I can't get too attached to them though, as they'll be ready to join us for dinner around September.

What I Love About Spring...

Fresh grass for the baby boys, Willie and Jonah...

blossoms on trees...


pansies...


chickens running...


and misty moons.

What wonderful, simple displays of God's handiwork!

Noah

Our steer, Noah, went to market this morning :( He was such a baby even at over 1000 pounds. He had a happy life. We are going to have meat for a very long time.