Month: June 2019 (Page 2 of 3)

Starting discussion of Morton County Fair happening August 1-4 at the New Salem Fair Grounds.

Grandpa Gietzen surprised us by providing some fresh red scoria. He noticed that we were struggling with mud when it rained. He had a friend that knew a fella who has some good scoria. He did ok it with Andrew first. He had the road flattened out for us when we got home last night. The red looks so pretty against the green grass.

Grandpa gave us a lot of cream from his milk cow. So I was encouraged to make kuchen by Andrew. I made peach kuchen.

The boys are helping me wrap up the garden planting… The weather is heavenly, praising God (& Andrew) that I’m able to be with my boys… truly a gorgeous day! We just planted Daddy’s crimson red rhubarb, and now we’re planting wax beans and Bush beans.

One of our hens set & had six baby chicks!

Today we moved pairs out to pasture. We had a wonderful crew of folks to help us out and Jack, the trucker, as usual was a class act. I thank God for a successful, and happy day. It’s always a day of reflecting back on the closing of a calving season…we still have a few stragglers left to calve out yet but most the herd has calved. I sort of get the same feeling as New Year’s Eve, a time to Thank the Creator for all of His protection, guidance, and beauty in His creatures. God blessed us with cool weather which was much appreciated by man and beast alike!

Cousins wreaking havoc on the creeping Jenny, Andrew calls it creeping Charlie. We hired our neighbor to plant oats. Grandpa will plant corn in the disked field (the black field).

We really enjoyed watching our young man play, he likes to hustle! Soaking up these precious days as a mother…. I’m sure any mother with an empty nest would tell me these days go too quickly!

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– C.S. Lewis

Nice to see blossoms on our newly planted fruit.