Today we moved pairs out to pasture. We had a wonderful crew of folks to help us out and Jack, the trucker, as usual was a class act. I thank God for a successful, and happy day. It’s always a day of reflecting back on the closing of a calving season…we still have a few stragglers left to calve out yet but most the herd has calved. I sort of get the same feeling as New Year’s Eve, a time to Thank the Creator for all of His protection, guidance, and beauty in His creatures. God blessed us with cool weather which was much appreciated by man and beast alike!

Cousins wreaking havoc on the creeping Jenny, Andrew calls it creeping Charlie. We hired our neighbor to plant oats. Grandpa will plant corn in the disked field (the black field).

We really enjoyed watching our young man play, he likes to hustle! Soaking up these precious days as a mother…. I’m sure any mother with an empty nest would tell me these days go too quickly!

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
– C.S. Lewis

Nice to see blossoms on our newly planted fruit.

Sadly there’s no Vacation Bible School this summer so in place St. Ann’s is having a weekly storytime with activities.

Little brother is ready to watch and learn at baseball practice. He enjoys watching his big brother and cousins play!

We had wonderful overnight guests, and by 9 am we had 11 more visitors! I remember growing up we always had company, I think some folks like to visit the country especially during the summer.

My mother enjoyed making rhubarb pie, and I am a big fan of strawberry rhubarb jam (looking forward to when we have our own strawberries). Andrew really likes rhubarb and ordered a special kind this spring, he says it’s smaller but sweeter. He’s cleaning the rhubarb now so I better get motivated and start looking up some recipes!

First day of baseball practice!