The girles in the living room after supper, 

Noah bolting down the plates, 

Dorothy transplanting dog wood trees, 

-m-

Adeline Rebecca and Nehemiah,

Grand Daddy,-w-

Grandmother-w-

Noah transporting material,-w-

Mr. Tim and Mrs Windy,

Uncle Brett and Alan

Raising the wall,

The ladies preparing apple pie,-w-

"Frank Campana brother." it doesn't git much cooler,!!-w-

working in the rain,-w-

Michael our faithful fire starter, -w-

marking and cutting the wall members

Mr. Tim nails the brace

raising the wall -m-

the sanders helping us on friday the tenth raise the walls on the barn.

-m-

the cow is fine now, and is back up to producing 6-8 quarts of milk per milking.
[the calf, Sally, is also fine.]

Two friends

Gibby and paul -m-

Well Dad, now that I made that slight carburetor adjustment. that van runs like a top -w-

And the winner issss???!!!! "drum roll please" uuum we don't know who the winner is :] -w-

Rachel and Samuel,-w-

Martha and Bethany,

Martha and Bethany

"card shark" -w-

Nerts is a FUN game for Smortons of all ages.
however. in this round, I believe Edwin just noticed Andrew slipped an ace up his sleeve.-w-

John and Dorothy playing cards,

Getting ready to paint the fence

The cow -m-

The cow got "milk fever" and also something else [I can't remember what] and got "down" [literally] well dad called the dairyman and they came out immediately [8:00] and gave her a iv of calcium and potassium [ we lost one of our previous cows to the same thing]she was up in no time and is doing fine.

The ebersoles

we thank the Lord for their generosity in giving up their Friday and giving us much needed assistance and instructions , with out which the operation would have doubtless stalled. -m-

Mr. David ebersole

Joseph Ebersole

Alan and Katie -m-

dad looking over the floor plan -m-

winter garden

posted by -m-

The county inspector arrives

looking things over

'es right on time [" who's in charge here"]

check'n out the forms ["aught'a hold 'er"]

final check ["y'all beat da heat now"]

An update of sorts

Alas, our camera is out of action so we have no pictures of recent events so I'll have to resort to text.
First, a birth announcement; our cow [whom we named Beth] has had her calf.
The Lord has blessed us with a heifer! At last! Dad named the calf sally.
the cow is giving about 8 quarts a day and now we can finally have unlimited milk and fresh butter, cream and buttermilk again!
we are looking forward to this weekend, when many of our friends and brethren will bless our house with their presence for a scheduled barn raising.

Mrs. Kim at church this past Sunday