Life

Well, here is a quick update for those of you who are still checking this occasionally. Cows are milking well. Spring is springing. It looks like we are two weeks away from cutting small grain for hay. We have two new families of kittens apparently. Please come and get some... Or at least run over some of them accidentally...
In other news, I have a great wife. Wonderful kids, most of the time... I have to be honest, you know, kids are kids after all...
Of course parents are parents after all as well...
Ok, I think that's it...
Oh, what does it mean to be obedient unto death?

Mending

I am finally on the mend. My family is on the mend. How nice... We finally went in to Urgent Care on Sat. evening. Aleya had a raging fever because of two ear infections. I was on the verge of pneumonia. So, I spent yesterday sleeping and today I worked. I am feeling tired now but still feel better than I did this morning. Wow, it was miserable.
Thankfully the wife never got sick, not even the slightest sniffle. Which is or could be annoying but I decided the benefits from her not being sick while everyone else is sick highly out weighs the fact that she avoided the whole thing...
She was somewhat proud of her ability to remain healthy. She should be, every direction she turned someone was sneezing, wheezing, coughing or some other such thing in her face...

Memories

Rachel's dad is currently looking at a photo album from his childhood. He is reminiscing about his growing up years. Good memories are such a blessing. I have lots of them and I hope you do as well. Memories determine how homey your home really was. There are so many people who don't have good memories concerning life in general. This is a sad state of affairs and we, people, let this affect how we relate to those around us. When we don't move past our hurt and pain we end up causing others pain and the sad cycle continues.

Pit-Y-Full

Sunday night I was getting the cows in when I heard this splash. I knew, right away, what it was and I wasn't happy. An animal had gone for a swim in the manure pit. So, I get this board and poke her and she lunges around. She finally gets out of my reach. So I toss my board out on top of the manure and walk out on the board. I poke her some more. During one of my pokes I lost my balance and fell in the manure. Once again I wasn't happy....
About that time she decided she had had enough of this swimming lesson and I was able to direct her attention to the open gate.
Now, I wasn't covered from head to toe but I was covered from toe to waist or so.... What a mess...

Kaiden James

Spooked

Last night, about midnight, I heard this rumbling noise. I assumed it was ice/snow sliding off the barn roof. The noise spooked the cows and they had a glorious time racing around the barn. The bad thing was they tore a gate down and my high cows got in with the low cows. So about 25 high cows went through the parlor twice. I didn't milk them but it took longer to finish milking. Anyway, today Dwayne, the neighboring farmer, wondered if I had heard thunder last night. He said his wife had seen lightning and then heard this rumbling of thunder about midnight. So, have experienced my first thunder snow. It sounded completely different from a thunderstorm. A more muffled sound. The lightning probably would look different also. Wish I could have seen the lightning. Have you ever seen/heard a thunder snow?