Month: October 2021 (Page 1 of 3)

Happy Halloween 🎃

October 31, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

First Time Serving Mass

October 31, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

Where have the years gone! One moment you’re bringing the baby boy home from the hospital, the next moment they’re serving their first Mass.

Weaning

October 30, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

It was a cool 40-degree morning, with wind, but Chelsey, Tracy, Glen, and Richard, showed up to help us wean the first batch. Curt, Don, and Grandpa and Grandma hauled the calves.

I’m really counting on the 70 and 80 year olds that are helping us out to live until they’re about a 150 or so, there just aren’t people in the country coming to fill their shoes… & I kind of need them to be around until I want to retire.

Big, black baldy decided to come say hi.

Weanlings are penned and being loaded on to the truck… Cousin Richard is so calm and quiet around the cattle… the cattle seem to really like him.

I’m always a bit surprised when I bump into people from Andrew’s hometown, when they are surprised that Andrew works with cattle, he may have been a bit timid the first few times he was around cattle, now it’s kind of his second nature… Makes me wonder… do you think the Vikings that raided villages & sailed the seas were actually Cowboys? 😉 If any of you are looking for good reading material for this winter, I recommend “Letters of a Woman Homesteader” by Eleanor Pruitt Stewart, an excellent book about a woman who marries a Norwegian rancher.

We’ve got a healthy challenge of hauling water to the cattle in November and December in North Dakota. Mister engineer/problem solver thinks he has a solution to help out for this year. Hoping and praying for adequate moisture this coming year to solve our “lack of water” problems.

6th Cattle Drive

October 28, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 2 Comments

The cattle moved like molasses tonight, but we got the job done! A great, big, thank you to good ol’ Don & Tracy! Simon & Andrew worked very hard & Jet earned her oats!

Jack o’ lanterns 🎃

October 25, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Instead of checking a fence line we decided to carve Jack o’ lanterns…the dark came earlier than we expected, with the cloudiness and wind, we put it off for tomorrow.

Rossette

October 25, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

I remember milking the milk cow when I was 8 years old. Sometimes, history does repeat itself.

One of Mom’s nurses heard I made chokecherry syrup, so I was in the kitchen today canning some syrup from the chokecherries she gave me.

She thought she would help me load the dishwasher to sanitize the canning jars. We had to go over the instructions of removing the lids and rings, I gave her some slack however, since she’s 22 months old.

While the other two napped, she brought some friends to help me make monster cookies for after school snack.

In the background, if you notice a crock, Andrew used the cabbages I grew and made some sauerkraut last night.

💞💜💕

October 24, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Marie, you are so crafty!

We’ll all have a Christmas Stocking this year! Thank you Marie. 💕

Sunday evening game time 🧡. Love these autumn evenings.🍁🤎🍂

Made a pumpkin cheesecake from garden pumpkins.😋

Off the Beaten Path

October 24, 2021 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

It is so nice to see new areas of the world! We were able to take a vacation due to a school break and were blessed to see friends, family, and such beautiful fall colors!