Month: May 2022 (Page 1 of 2)

Flowers & Fillies

May 31, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

The ornamental crab apple tree, which I received my first Mother’s Day at the farm, located in our front yard, flowered for the first time!

Grandpa’s mare, Babe, had a baby filly, Grandpa is going to name the filly, Midnight.

Simon and I assisted in some rotational grazing with the herd, by moving them into a pasture. Are you able to tell the pasture that they were grazing in from the one that they’re going to be moving into in the future? Let me tell you, this high density grazing, that has been researched since the 1950s, really works! Not many ranchers use it because of the amount of work that goes into it, but golly gee, it’s effective!

My right hand man and I returning a cow that had prolapsed back to the herd, she is on the mend!

The cousins gave the children some books, they were sure a hit with these three, kept them nice and quiet while Simon practiced piano.

Planting

May 27, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

We’ve been burning both ends of the candle to get our crops planted. The forage barley and Siberian and German millet are planted.

Here’s Andrew using a broadcaster to plant the millet.
Grandpa is inspirational with the long days he’s willing to put in to prep the ground for planting. He babysits for us whenever we ask, he’s showing us how to live selflessly. Hopefully, Andrew and I are able to do the same. He helps so much and asks for so little in return.

The 2 oldest boys and I were out fencing and they did such a great job helping with the little girl so I could fix fence. They make their mother proud.

After I was done fencing, they brought me bouquets of crocuses and prairie flowers 💙💖💙

Binary

May 25, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Dad is imparting his knowledge. For the Jacobson Haymarsh Summer School, today’s 1st lesson was a definition of binary. The 9 month old paid more attention to a music CD she found, but Daddy is such a good teacher he made it somewhat understandable for the 2 year old, the 4 year old participated quite a bit and the 6 and 9 year old should be able to explain what binary means.

Learning good material is a life long endeavor…it doesn’t end, just because summer break has begun…they seem to appreciate a little bit of structure.

Mowing time.

Fencing high density grazing parcels continues…

Andrew jokes that Grandpa needs a white horse to match Rosie and Blue, then we’d have a Red, White, and Blue team for patriotic holidays!

Thank God for Grandpa!💙. He’s always so willing to help us out!

4-H 💚

May 23, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

The 4-H club made shelves.

Simon’s investment. She’s a nice looking ewe.

That a Boy!

May 20, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 1 Comment

Daddy

May 19, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

Andrew is intentional in one on one time with his children….here he and our 3rd are out running fence lines.

Pretty proud Aunt here …my nieces and nephews made the line up.

Praying this crew encourages each other to live the lives God designed for them. Kindergarten Graduation was yesterday. It seems like unless a person has a strong virtuous character they may succumb to the world, the flesh, and the devil. But, if a group can be good and pure, they can encourage each other to sainthood. May these pure Little Treasures help each other to heaven!

My siblings are sharing their tasty looking rhubarb desserts. Here’s Maria’s masterpiece.

Cattle Drive

May 18, 2022 / Monica Jacobson / 0 Comments

We had an adventurous and arduous cattle drive. There were approximately 20 new calves that had to be caught and trailered as the 2 mile walk was too long for them.