Very Random Sunday Ramble

I decided to try a Sunday walkabout this week as I can't seem to get blog posts together these days!

Here is parts and pieces of our week in no particular order :) 

Kids love chicks!

414! They are doing really well and we have only lost 3 so far. Super quiet and active. It looks like a great batch this year! 

Isabel and Maggie enjoying a new patch of grass! They have really remembered that moving = new grass and act like fresh calves when ever anyone starts pounding on a fence post! 

The vanity arrived this week! Here is the bottom right out of the box! 

And here it is all placed together in the bathroom it goes in! Yay! I also got the tub drain in this week! (My first plumbing job :) ) 

The pantry floor got painted and so did some rocks...

E's painted rocks. 

J's. 

L's. 

R's. 

And mine, the monster was for J3 and the rabbit for G. 

The kids got the frames off the cement! 

Three little boys got their ears lowered. 

I tried to get a smiley S picture right before bed one night and he just would not hold still! Lol. 

J got a movie of a surprise can blowing up in a fire which I can't seem to add at the moment. I got to go out to a fundraiser with some friends and Papa chose to stay home with the kids. They had a hotdog roast with the M twins!  It was a fun night topped off by a great preformance of the Drill Team! Glow in the dark! Very very cool! 

In house news Papa got the upper cabinets in the kitchen and most of the last little cabinet built! We are slowly getting stuff together and making the house livable. This week we should be able to concentrate a little more on house and a little less on farming as the chicks are well set up and settled. 

In other farming news.  We lost a pig out of the blue last night and have no idea why. A little pig thankfully and not a sow. The calves are still out back and haven't come up to whine at the cows in at least a week. The raised beds are doing great and I didn't lose anything to frost this week! The flowers I planted even all survived! As are the raspberries and lilics! 

Papa has been driving Jack to work without a top on him! He bundles up in the morning so he doesn't freeze before he gets there! He took the kids for a ride too. 

I got this picture of a very rare two headed cow :) and this super cute kitten, who is as of yet still nameless...

Tame little male. He's super happy to get a scratch as you walk by. 

Here is a kitchen teaser :) 

Thanks for looking at our week! Have a wonderful Sunday :) 

Riding With The Top Down

Papa came home from work yesterday please as punch with himself. He'd taken a little time after work to take the top off the Scout. He says it's quieter with out it. Lol. (I didn't find it quieter but I did find if you could get it up to 3rd you sort of out ran the noise.)  I took it for a spin while he BBQed up some pork chops. I went around to see if I could see the calves, I couldn't, but I'm pretty sure the three trucks I met on the road found me entertaining, putt putt-ing along hanging on to the steering wheel for dear life over the bumpy road and laughing every time I went to shift!  

Looks pretty cool hey? Jack, as we named him, is a 1963 International Scout and those of you who live around us may have noticed Papa has been driving him to work as Jack is replacing the little black car as his work rig. Rides like a bumpy farm truck but the wind in your hair and the view make it worth it. The challenging shifting pattern; reverse is where 1st normally is, 1st is where 2nd should be and 3rd is where 2nd should be, and that's all the gears, makes shifting interesting. I still couldn't get him to shift from 3rd to 2nd! (It was only my second time driving him and I WILL conquer it yet!) 

Came home to this: 

And boy oh boy! They were good :) 

Summer Hair Cuts!

Before....

After...

Cement Pouring Day. 2014

J helping to level it. 

Beautiful! 

S smiling at a kid while Papa try's to wrangle his hand into the cement. I held his legs and Papa got his hand in. He was so excited to be woken up to go outside! 

The finished step!

In order left to right, G, R, E, Papa, Mama, J, L, J3, and S! 

Completed Sign!!

Gifts Of Love

E and R have found a new way to show love. 

Pole is Done!

Catching up for the last couple of weeks. 

Papa and the completed new pole! One more inspection and the power can be switched to the house! 

New Sign!

Thankful Thursday.

1. My kids. They are amazing. 

2. Green grass. 

3. My dishwasher...working thru it's second load of the day with another load waiting. 

4. Energy. It probably seems to you who read this blog that I have a lot of energy, but I don't always and I'm thankful for the days I do. 

5.  Work. Truly I'm thankful for work. Sometimes it's all the busy work that keeps ones head on straight. 

6. 

Grace. 

7. 

Naps. J3 and G are both still napping every afternoon and sometimes S naps at the same time as them and when that happens it is amazing! I've been admonished by a grown up to also rest for a bit every afternoon and so I do and I'm really enjoying it :) with my cup of coffee and square of chocolate :) 

Painting Pictures

Before...

After! 

The bathrooms.

And the other bedroom :)