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🌹 Happy Mother’s Day! 🌹

A beautiful sight!

Our oldest says there was 1/2 in.  in the rain gauge!

A year ago we discussed adding a well to improve grazing and we had a wake up call this winter when we thought the one well we have by the cattle during calving was having issues.  Both of our home pasture stockdams are dry.  Well the fellows finished up installation yesterday, and we’re just waiting for the final steps to be able to turn it on for the cattle.  A year in the planning, months of coordinating, weeks of work, it will be nice when it’s up and running.

Andrew and I were able to attend a fun little teacher appreciation gathering last night.  Community, support, and gratefulness…what beautiful things!  

Tart and sweet sounded good today.

Twin calves are both a blessing and a bother.  We are at 125% for our calf crop thus far… would be lovely to finish at that percentage…we have just begun though.  It takes a pretty good cow to accept and take care of both calves.

Happy Feast of St. Joseph the Worker.  Gotta love that man!  He helped raise God’s son, he was humble, and yet is known as the “terror of demons.”  St. Joseph the Worker, pray for us!

Simon and Ambrose had literacy night at school last night. There was a competition that for every book students read they were able to put their name into a drawing for a bike. Guess who won the bike? Not only does reading good material open your mind to empathy and understanding of those around you (gained knowledge of course, too!) but apparently one may also win a bike.

We bought our first load of hay.  The closest we were able to find within our price range, was from our neighbor state to the east.  This is where the “Farming is the riskiest business,” quote comes in to play.  How much hay do we buy?  Do we need to sell cattle?  How many cows do we sell?  Will the skies open and the rains come?  Heavenly guidance is definitely relied upon.  We take it day by day, and week by week.  

The trucker was a very friendly man and the place that is selling is accommodating.  It’s good to hear that somewhere on God’s good earth is getting rain.  Apparently this place will deliver as far as Belfield, North Dakota.  When hay was being delivered there last week, over 20 ranchers stopped and asked where the hay was coming from?   This side of the world (Western, ND) is in desperate need of rain.

“O God, in Whom we live and move and have our being, grant us rain, in due abundance, that, being sufficiently helped with temporal gifts, we may seek with more confidence those that are eternal. Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.”

St. Isidore, Patron Saint of Farmers, Pray for us.

It’s really neat to see Andrew’s management, work, and efforts in action.  Made for some neat views and gives a person hope for the future.