My Crazy Life as a Farmers Wife

Today

The weather was beyond beautiful...the past few days have been filled with nasty wind, so we were glad to wake up to calm breezes and not a wind storm! I had several errands I needed to run, but the kids begged me to stay home all day and not make them go anywhere. I gave in. They spent all morning riding their scooters around, blowing bubbles, and having fun outside in the 75 degree weather. I snapped some photos of the bees covering the trees in the front yard...they are blossoming and the bees are swarming the trees.

David started planting potatoes today. Kate was excited to go see dad in the field and go for a little ride...

She decided to play a game on my phone while dad had to stop and weld a repair on the planter...

We spent most of the afternoon raking and burning leaves and debris along the lane and around the slip and slide hill...

Grace was taking photos, and I guess Lily wasn't in the mood...LOL!!! (Yes...she's wearing her swimming suit...I'll tell you, she thinks it's full out summer now!)

Yeah...I pulled a face for Grace too...

You might think they're crazy, and I won't argue with you, but they talked grandpa into starting the slip and slide. I believe this is the earliest anyone has ever gone on the slide. It's fed with canal water, which comes from our river, which comes from MOUNTAIN SNOW RUN-OFF. Can I just say the water was FREEZING!!!! But they played on the slide for almost an hour!

Around Here

Baking fresh bread. We bought a bunch of flax seed, millet & rye for our food storage, and so I put a mixture of the three, along with wheat in my mill, and ground them all together. It made the most delicious bread!

The Pussy Willows are now brightly colored and in full bloom...it's only a matter of days until they are swarming with millions of bees...

Morning Chores. Actually, I had them doing other chores, but when Kate saw me scrubbing the grout lines in the kitchen, she thought it looked like fun...

Soon, Lily joined in, and eventually, they older two. They had the grout clean in no time!

We've been spending a lot of time outside in the beautiful spring weather...

The kids like to take their barn and farm animals outside to play...

Even though there are two swings on the swingset, Lily and Kate always fight over who gets the one particular swing. After a long argument, and plenty of whining, they finally decided that they could both swing on it together...

 

Trucks have been busy hauling grain to the mill...

our wild turkeys have starting laying eggs and nesting...the kids are watching the nests every day to see the egg numbers rising. Grandpa Barry informed the kids that their turkeys had a nest they didn't know about. One female has been sitting on her eggs that she laid in back of one of the farm trucks!

Our new tractors have been arriving. We've gone GREEN again. David found the technology that RED tractors don't offer yet...

We got a couple of new ducks. A pesky skunk devoured our flock last year, and Grace has been heart broken ever since.

June is obsessed with the ducks...she can't stand herself when the ducks are out.

Farming Season has officially begun. David has been busy planting spring wheat and marking rows for our potato crops. Shelby, the kids and I even went to the field for a picnic...

AND...we sent off our registration for the National Fiddle Contest!!! I have three entrants this year! Grace, Russ & Kate all plan on entering!!! We're so excited!

This Weekend

1. Riding in the Ranger with June 2. Russell & Carson showing off their muscles and having a sleepover 3. Kate falling asleep on the couch 4. Playing on the icy canal 5. My embroidery project I've been working on 6. Lily lost her very first tooth...and the tooth fairy came 7. Rubber boots 8. Grandpa and Grace working on some guitar chords 9. Party at Rupe's Burgers after the kids' basketball games 10. more "ice skating" on the canal 10. Grace downloaded the Stachmatic app on my phone 11. cowboy boots 12. Shelby giving Grace a guitar lesson 12. Shelby stayed with us all weekend 13. Grace and I playing wtih Stachmatic 14. David and Russell building a tin can robot

I'm feeling under the weather today...not sure why, but I am just not feeling well at all today. I took a long nap and spent a bit of time uploading photos from this weekend. I'm hoping tomorrow I will have my energy back to start the week ;) Hope you've all had a wonderful weekend!