I hope everyone had a wonderful start to their summer.  Summer solstice was amazing out here, with a little bit of rain last night, mostly sunny all day with a slight breeze, it felt like Heaven & Earth touched.

Ambrose, Simon and Grandpa worked all day yesterday preparing the ducklings’ new home and moving the ducklings.

They actually worked all day last Thursday preparing the new duck coop site.

Hoping to get a good crop of high-quality hay!

One of our cows that ended up having a calf that passed away ended up getting foot rot over the weekend so we had to treat it this morning. Simon says there are thousands of green strawberries, I think more like hundreds, hopefully Andrew will get a bowl full this year since he didn’t even get one strawberry last year.

The children, especially Simon, Grandpa, Grandma, and I fixed up the pony pasture by pulling out a fence and fixing the perimeter.  There were three loads of scoria delivered and paid for today. Andrew wants to touch up our driveway a bit and Grandpa wanted to continue working on a road that will make it easier for trucks to deliver grain.

Mary’s maple sprouted some leaves!

By accident, we mixed up two cows on Saturday, so today, when checking the herds to make sure everyone was okay we had to correct that mistake by rounding up a cow and calf and taking them to the rented pasture where their correct calf and mother were.

We’ve had a very busy weekend!

This morning at 7 a.m. the post office called me and said the baby ducklings had arrived.  The two oldest boys have talked nonstop, especially the second oldest about ducklings this entire spring.  They asked Grandpa Russell to order White Peking and Rouen ducks.

Everytime I see Speckles’ mother in the pasture I think of the perseverance of Andrew and Grandpa.  They lifted her twice a day for 21 days straight not knowing the outcome.  It appeared that she had given up on life and then an Easter miracle!  Andrew went out to the barn to see her standing on Easter Sunday.  She doesn’t look great but she’s on the mend and she’s a testament of perseverance.  The Bible parable of one lost sheep makes more sense to me now. Even though we have so many healthy cows I get so happy when I see this one!