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Beautiful Days

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Beautiful Days

The garden is over, as far as produce is concerned. The leaves are turning. School has started.

I gave the stubborn hormonal hen some eggs. This involved calling a friend. She collected eggs from her one laying hen. Goldie hatched all four of them like a supermom.

It’s apple picking time. We picked two of our own little trees so far, and a fallen tree for an older couple. Apple picking brings back memories of another year, when we picked apples with my Grandma, but that’s another post for another time.

The pumpkins came came in early this year at my house. After a hard rain my garden was water logged and I didn’t want to lose them to rot.

I had Dru carry them. The biggest ones were 50 pounds. How big would’ve they grown if I hadn’t picked them early? I wonder.

One of these kiddos favorite things s a picnic. Lunches on the lawn are a happy for them. However, lately they get more help from the dog, cat, and chickens, than is necessary. Havilah couldn’t figure out where her cookie went the other day. I’m pretty sure the dog enjoyed it.

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I’m Lisl

Herein lie the events, ponderings, people, and animals that make up the cacophony of our life.

Pictures of farm and family

Church on the patio. Here we are waiting for the livestream to start. We got to church and it was so packed out that we left, opting to watch church with my dad who was home with a bad ear infection, rather than watch church on a screen in an overflow area at church. Then we stayed for lunch and the guys played Monopoly. There. I took pictures today. Bag balm and the moth. The only picture I took today. I'm struggling to make the pictures happen and it bothers me. One never knows where they will find their teenager. The kids are asking about Bible translations. They have the right man for a dad. They won't go out into the world without an understanding of how we got our Bible and how different translations happened. Chickens in the morning, waiting to be let out. My mom took this lovely picture of my house in spring. And my family came over to help us use up the compost pile. There's more, by the way, if any of you locals need it for your gardens. Fiona finally made her appearance on Monday. Directly followed by her mother's milk fever the following day and then ketosis after that. Freyja certainly did the jersey thing. She's recovering and I think she'll be just fine. Today it was spring. The rest of the week maybe not so much. Malcolm the turkey is gorgeous in his pristine plumage. The goats are pregnant with 2 weeks to go. Freckles the goose is meaner than second skimmings because his lady is nesting. Bitsy is the oldest chicken in the farm I think and still sporting her rediculous foot feathers. The chicken beside her is the daughter of a beloved chicken I lost in a water trough incident. The amount of chaos involved from me lobbying this morning to get that washer and dryer out of Havilah's room so she could have more space was worth it. Still have a few steps in the basement to do before I can wash laundry but we will be fine. Thanks to my mom and dad and Gideon (who I don't even have a picture of) for all the help. Havilah was Bible quizzing in Iowa today and yesterday. It was a perfect surprise.