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Cherries 🍒

June 25, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Life is just a bowl of cherries 🎶…it rained about .65 today.  The fruit truck came to town and we picked up some cherries.

Delivering mineral and salt to the heifers earlier this week.
All 3 needed to open the gate 🙂
A very pleasant game against Center.
Looks like Andrew’s on the school board again.

Grazing

June 22, 2021 / / 0 Comments

We decided to graze out the fields close to us. They were not producing like they needed to, after the herd has grazed it off we plan to replant something with a short growing season.

Andrew gets some nice views from his office…he also gets to see the boys doing their chores.
Took in one more big trip before our Bundle of Joy arrives. Was nice to see the cousins.
Fun to take the boys to the big city to a barber shop, it’s nice to see them in something other than my homemade haircuts.
Maria made a very tasty rhubarb pie! Thank you for putting us up.
Craft time while Daddy worked … Wonderful to have friends that don’t mind us stopping by💖

Working Calves

June 16, 2021 / / 0 Comments

A very nice crew of Tracy, Ed, Glen, Nadine, Jim, Priscilla, Denyka, Kennedi, and Malachi came to help us work calves today.

Helping take lunch to the crew.
It’s amazing to see Tracy’s transformation, just a couple of years ago she did not know how to rope. She trained her nice mare and her roping skills have greatly improved!
We learned a greater appreciation of well-trained, calm horses today. Jim is one of the best ropers in North Dakota. His wife, Nadine, is a great help!
Andrew has become an expert brander.
Last calf. All’s Well that Ends Well!

Prairie Rose

June 15, 2021 / / 0 Comments

My mother, even in her current state, was bragging to Andrew about her yellow prairie rose bush.  My Dad hopes we take some to transplant in our yard.  They sure handle drought well.

These roses were transplanted from my Dad’s mother’s yard, who transplanted them from old Pete Gietzen, who transplanted them from Gregor Kastner. The latter two gentlemen have been deceased for decades, sort of neat transplanting plants, sort of people’s legacies.
Simon’s peas are growing.
His beans are coming.
Cabbage with “sacrificial” radishes. The bugs will eat the radish leaves instead of the cabbage.
Tiny cucumber plant.
Tomato plant.
Buttercup squash with volunteer dill.
Ambrose planted these onions all by himself, it’s pretty windy, but the rows are really straight and neatly placed…mind of an engineer!
Bases were loaded and he got them all home.⚾

Zoo

June 13, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Inspite of a jailbreak of the heifers last night, we still had time to take the children to the zoo.   Since all work and no play makes people dull we want to make sure we give the kids some outside the farm experience. Through St. Isidore and St. Francis’ help the heifers were located after church and all except one are back in their pasture.  The one left is in our neighbor’s pasture and we’ll have to get her later.

Part of the herd that decided to knock a gate down and get out last night. We feel blessed that all are located and almost all of them back in the pasture.
She’s getting so big, so fast.

Potatoes, Corn, Trees, Pumpkins, Garden & Halter Training

June 12, 2021 / / 0 Comments

All in a days work.  Another very full, but good Saturday!

Grandpa, Andrew, and Lucas put the cultivator on the 70.
Clean potatoes and trees! Grandpa is sure handy with that cultivator! Simon, Isabel, and Ambrose did the majority of the hoeing to clean the potatoes.
Meeting of the minds.
Helping clean the garden… While enjoying a popsicle.
Daddy was able to swing over and help us for a little while! Then he was off to check on the heifers, and work on some fence. He did get a chance to plant some sunflowers, and hoe a row of corn…sounds like he enjoyed that quite a bit!
The pumpkins and squash are sure liking this moisture and warm weather.
This is before the sweet corn rows were hoed but after they were cultivated. It may be knee high by the 4th of July!
Today we planted two types of lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, and some more carrots. That should round off the garden for this season, except that I would like to plant some beets. Simon also planted some colorful corn.
Simon has been working on halter training his colt, “Rocket.”
There are some flowers on the strawberries!
The garden after today’s work! It looks so much better, so many weeds were pulled.

Goslings

June 10, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Grandpa’s goslings have arrived!

The price of goslings has risen, they are a little under $20 each.
They “chatter”, so cute☺️
Watering plants for Mommy.
Grandpa and grandchildren addressing the weeds in the potatoes.
I rototilled while they hoed, many hands make light work.
Taking care of some noxious weeds by a ditch close to one of our pastures.
Strong winds blew down a section of our fence by the herd. There was a cow on the wrong side so my Dad asked me to check to see if I could find the leak…the children thought it was hilarious when I said I think I found where she may have gotten through.
Cleaning out the seeder.
All six helped load this fallen down fence! Even Mary carried kindling.
Andrew found this cactus in the

pasture.

Well Issues

June 7, 2021 / / 0 Comments

We went to check on the heifers on Sunday and found out that the well is not working… We did two quick emergency runs of water to them and moved a tank over from a different pasture.

Much happier heifers.
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