Wednesday, November 12, 2008

A Look into Our Day

Hey, Folks!!
Here's a peek into our day and around the farm, this past Thursday. Sorry I'm just now getting around to publishing it-enjoy!
Here's the view from our front door, containing the precious little bit of Fall-ish color on our place!! See, isn't it pretty!? It's gotten more vibrant since Thursday, and we enjoy it so much! The little white specks down there are fluffy sheepies. Now, here in the front yard is a darling Bretski amongst the toys, looking adorably puzzled, LOL..he looks like he's pondering which toy to try next...I think he'll go with the bike. Katie dear is very elegantly reading as she watches her two boys play outside...such a sweet sister, aunt, daughter, wife and mother. And here's La-Munchskin 2 doing his precious "sniffle" face, an expression that he is paid highly for doing on cue-by the way, this is copy written, so you know. ;)
Cozy Coop Ronnie The roses are blooming beside the porch. Y'all, these lovely things smell soo good! Autumn sky Here's Wesley in the front yard trying to jump off a car or truck or two...we're the kind of folks who jump off our car with the neighbors truck to go to the shop and pick up our other car, which we're temporarily using 'till we can get the other one fixed. ;) Really, it's been such a blessing lately to have reliable vehicles! Just these two faithful slaves have now died on us, but I think they're back and running again, thanks to Wes...God has always been so kind to give us cars to get us around in, and even their breaking down at times has only given us more funny stories to tell the grand kids one day!!
Ze' zleeping hound
Now over here are Kressy's we find sleeping grand babes and the lovely lady herself doing laundry!Mikey sleeping sweetly
Little Bit {Humm...the book must have been boring... ;) oh, and check out those rolls!! Mr. Fluffy!} Downstairs in the barn, Cleveland works on the stairs-looking great! And here's Michael clipping the field-All that grass mowing made the farm smell like freshly cut hay..ahhh... And I was taking pictures, LOL. I love mirrors. They're so fascinating. Mirrors used to entertain us kids for hours, with all the neat angles you can get with them. I love it when you turn two of them at that certain angle, and you can see a 'you' for as far as your eye can see, and you get smaller and smaller 'till you're gone...I showed this wonder to Mikey the other day, and he wasn't as impressed with it as I was when I was a child!! We were simple little girls. :)
Alan, Darth and the little boys were all looking at something interesting on the computer...
And Marth was upstairs knitting! She's so gifted at that. Look, isn't this beautiful!? The kaki is so pretty. And over at Rachel's house, I found her and her darling baby re-organizing her home! Wesley had built her shelves that morning, and she was getting everything looking so nice and neat.

And our precious Daddy and Mama were out of town, and we were missing them so much-but they're back now!! Just got in last night. It's soo wonderful to have our darling parents home again. Anyway, Hence the absence of their pictures in this post. :)

Well, ta-ta for now, folks! Have a great day.

Sunday, November 09, 2008

"Proper Hatage"

...As our dear Andrew calls it, was the order of the afternoon after we found our find of the year at Goodwill-Aren't these old hats just precious! Especially on such cute little men.
Beside the old Chevy
"Blue hat, green hat, black hat, gray,
Which hat should I choose to wear today?"
This was a little blurry, but they were all laughing so sweetly!! Cheese! Sideways Smile
Seriousness Cycling
Little (and big :) men Samuel
John
Edwin


Laughter...
And hats off to our precious brothers and...hats!!

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Kitty Intro


"Oh, well-I'll just try again later!"

Monday, November 03, 2008

Story Time...

The other day I walked into the girl's room, and found this scene. How precious. What a wonderful sister Martha is!! She's such an inspiration. And what a gift of story-telling she has! She keeps all her little listeners spell-bound, and they're always begging her to tell them another "Opie Story, Martha!!" :)
We love you, Marth, and all your wonderful tales! Thanks for being such a great sis to us...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Corn Etc.

Here's the corn, all ready!! Isn't pretty!? Daddy dear is so good at (doing, teaching and leading us in) the garden work~he has such an amazing touch with plants! One that I hope to have one day. ;) I really think plants grow for him because he lovingly tends them, and does it all as unto the Lord. Thank you, Daddy, for loving God and gardens!

The other day, Marth and I went out to pick some of it, and some okra, too, then we took it all in, and Dee boiled and fried it up for supper, and it was soo good!!! It's so neat to go pick things out of your garden for your food! What a blessing. Happy thoughts!

Yes, um, corny, isn't it? Our "grab some shoes" mentality left us with two leftie flip flops and Sam's-er, no, John's water boots. Such footwear always completes an ensemble quite nicely. ;) Marffa dear "Corn, corn, corn. It's all corn."

With our baskets...

We hope to be planting some cabbage, broccoli, and other wintery stuff like that soon, Lord willing-we'll see how it goes! One of the many great thing about being so far down south is you can practically have a garden year round, so that really nice...By the way, does anybody know how you can use kale? In a salad? Just curious...

Anyway, y'all have a great day! Come back and see us!

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Ze' Deer!!!


"A crowd has gathered to greet you!!"


After we heard the news of Wesley's fete, we tumbled and tripped in the chilly fall air and all gathered around the specimen, hooked onto the clothesline for butchering! Kress says that "she is in a state of complete shock." ;)

Wes is the very fist man on our farm to shoot a deer after many years of faithful hunting. (Truth be told, every man and his brother around here hunts deer for a living in the fall, so there really aren't that many to hunt, actually. Least it seems like it. :)
"Mr. Grumpy Gills!!" "Ummm...that looks good!"Food!!""Feel her paws."Wes demonstrating how he shot the young buck...
John and Mama dear look on at the proceedings...
Proud, happy housewife....A whole cooler full of tender, flavorful meat for her winter's menus!!

Three cheers, to Wes, our "great white hunter"!