Pheasant Recipes Anyone?

“I brought you a gift,” my husband said. I stopped myself from turning around right away. I carefully  measured the wet ingredients for cornbread muffins. Interruptions during the measuring process frequently cause interesting results when I’m...

Tractors and Two-Year-Olds

This boy loves tractors. From the moment he wakes up, it’s tractors. Saturday around noon my littlest cowboy looked out the window to see this. It’s fall, which means plowing time on the farm. And if you’re going to plow the fields, why not plow the...

Sunset Beauty

I looked out my front window as I was finishing dinner last night and saw this. Immediately, I snatched the camera and ran to the front porch. Nate was just getting out of his car as I began snapping pictures. He hurriedly ran inside, grabbed the tripod, and set it up...

Happy Halloween 09

We spent FHE getting our pumpkins ready. Everyone helped, well everyone except Nate who was in Chicago at a conference. This takes some concentration. And patience. After all that I forgot to take pictures of the finished jack-o-lanterns! My middle son won a prize at...

Goodbye Baxter

Baxter died after a terrible accident tonight and we had to say goodbye, so I thought I’d post a few pictures.  It helped my children to sort through the photos and find pictures of their friend. Here he is trying to get a better look at the three new piglets....

Moving Cows

Nate and Lisle saddle the horses to go find the cows. We moved some cows from one pasture to another on Saturday. Apparently, our cows were feeling a bit social and broke through the fence to mingle with the neighbor’s cows. Once all the cows were rounded up,...