Friday & Saturday

We're waiting for the sky to fall - - We worked (vaccinated & poured) and weaned 54 calves on Friday morning and they cooperated! They moved into the barn well, we seperated them from their momma's pretty well-things went WAY too smooth. We had it all done in about 2 hours time. I had taken the kids to mom's and went back home to help John & Rich (our sometimes farm help). Then, afterward, John and I had dinner together-trust me, there was nothing romantic about that or the Pit Stop Cafe where we went! Then I headed to mom's to help her with the sweet corn. Safe to say, the kids were not easy to get along with that day. WOW! We managed to get the rest of mine done and some of hers. I ended up with 62 pint, hopefully, that will last us all year. After we went home that night, I sent the kids out to play off that energy that they'd had from being at Grandma's all day. We ended up helping Daddy feed the cows and calves, my niece was around for part of the time again, and the girls and I took a wagon ride down to the creek to let the captive painted turtle and snapping turtle go. On our way down to the creek, a teenage deer came out on the road to see what we were doing. She/he continued to watch us as we turned around after letting the turtles go and walk home. Anna wanted to pet the deer multiple times. I had to explain several times that she was wild and we wouldn't be able to do that. Anna's in this thing about petting ANY animal she comes in contact with-including the fish that Daddy, Isaac and her may catch in the pond. Amazingly, we had a little over a 1/2 inch of rain overnight-it hadn't rained all summer-so it was great!

Saturday, I again, took the kids to mom's. This time I sang at a funeral for a man I had never met who had been big in our church choir back in his day and had requested the choir sing at his funeral in full robe. It was a nice and short service. Almost all of the men came, but we were a little short in the women's section, but it turned out ok. Afterward, I came home to change and pick up John and we went to my mom's for dinner. After a little play in the yard, we headed home. While Ellie napped, I basically got very little done, I was fairly tired from the week, probably from the whole month. The older 2 were fighting AGAIN, I finally sentenced them to outside play, where they soon headed in Daddy's direction to bug him. Ellie was up by the time they got outside and I took her out to play, too. We ended up going fishing for awhile this evening, which was Anna and Ellie mostly playing in John's pickup, Isaac complaining about his fishing pole and me losing several nibbles on my lines, partly because I was always checking on the girls, partly because I am very inexperienced at fishing. I did catch a small bluegill (we threw it back). Of course, then comes my BIL and his daughter and then the kids got wilder and Ellie got bored and hungry, so she and I came home. I found out later that Anna had casted and reeled in a fish all by herself. Pretty good for a 3 yr old! She'll be an expert by the time she's Isaac's age if she keeps it up.