Month: July 2019 (Page 1 of 2)

Helping prepare supper!

July 30, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Helping shell peas to add to the lettuce & spinach from the garden.

Anytime I can supplement supper with something from the garden…it makes me happy, General Tso’s Chicken, rice and sauteed peas which were from the garden. Frozen strawberries in lemonade and shelled peas (which taste like candy)…and the kids like to eat them raw. Add a little spinach and lettuce and we’ll call it supper!

Garden Progress & Fair Preparation!

July 29, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Potential Cucumber for the 4-H Fair Exhibit.

Cultivating corn…that 70 has something a 7430R doesn’t…no payments!😉

We’re getting accustomed to supper on the porch, tonight’s menu… enchiladas!

Jersey

July 29, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 2 Comments

Grandpa got a new milk cow! A Jersey! I’m excited to see how the cream tastes!

A volunteer sunflower in the chicken yard.

Making Hay While the Sun Shines!

July 27, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

Teamwork…one of the positives of Family Farms.

Running a cold treat to the hard working men!

80 bales hauled, a thousand or so more to go.

Bathing his pony while we prepare to water the trees, pumpkins, and watermelons.

The 🦷 fairy has been busy…reminds me of the song… All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth.🎶

Uffda, I understand now why some European countries have outdoor showers.

Making sure Daddy has electrolytes and a salty snack this afternoon!

In God We Trust… for sure! What a beautiful hay crop we are getting!!! Amazing what moisture can do!

Company!

July 24, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Nieces and nephews and aunts are so much fun! Planning to attend the Medora Musical with this crew and Gietzen grandparents tomorrow!

We had a couple of folks ask this last weekend if Skipper is growing…so thought I better post some pictures of him.

Kiddie pool… while waiting for big brother.

I need to weed the garden again, but the cabbage plants are sure coming along!

First potatoes, sort of pulled out by accident when weeding.

Eggs

July 23, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

I dropped a dozen eggs off with a friend who has a five-year-old son. She said, “Joshua was impressed with the different colors of the eggs 😁”. As I was putting eggs away this morning, I paused and admired them too.

A variety of chickens, makes a variety of eggs.

Imitation is the greatest form of a compliment?

July 18, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

The Fed Ex man just asked if he could inspect Andrew’s screened in porch. He wants to put screens on his porch too. Who knew Andrew! Not only could you have been a woodworker, but you have people who want to copy your work.

Fruit

July 17, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Shoutout for the Duppong farm located just north of us they have some pretty amazing fruit out there! They have U-pick and they’re selling juneberries and cherries right now.

We had more rain last night about half an inch and so with all this rain we get time to pick berries and cherries! Haymarsh is sure lucky to have a lady like Renae around! I like to call her St. Renae.

Grandpa had a bull that went missing in action two days ago when we rounded up the other bulls. Don, our good ol’ neighbor called this morning and said the bull has been located. Don is such an old cowboy it made it easy to get the bull caught.

We thought we’d run some of those Georgia peaches over to Great Grandma Mary after we picked berries.

On our way home from Great Grandma Mary’s.

I sure appreciate all the hard work Andrew put in to designing and building our home.

July 17, 8:03 pm. That cloud looks like it has rain.

Happy Heart ❤️

July 16, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

I love it when I look up and see my sons in our garden! I’m not sure why it makes me so happy, but it does.

Rain, again. Maybe Andrew and I need to research how to grow rice paddies.

The rain cooled it down enough that we could have our first supper on the screened in porch!

Heavenly view! I like seeing those hills in the background.

Busy Day

July 16, 2019 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

This morning when I woke up I saw that it rained about ten hundredths and was working out the morning with the boys. Since we couldn’t do much outside we were going to tidy up the house, do some fun crafts but all that changed… at 8:30 a.m. I got a call that our bulls got out. Typically we turn them out on July 20th, this year we were going to try to do it the last day of July because we do not like April storms, but… the Bulls had different plans for us. There was some stress & excitement getting the Bulls back in where they belonged, but they got delivered to their herds and now our projected start date for calving is April 15th, 2020. One of my mother’s favorite quotes was “Man plans, but God ordains.” So true! This afternoon we attended our last baseball game for the season, our six-year-old said he had a ton of fun!