March 2024

March 2024
Over the years, we've always compared our family life to a wagon train heading west. Just as everyone had to do his part to get to Oregon years ago, so everyone in our family must do his/her part to make our journey through life successful. If somebody climbs in the wagon and lets the others do the work, we just don't make any progress. We all have to pull our weight and work together. Along the trail we find lots of pebbles that make for a smooth ride and some bigger rocks that jar us a little; we hit the occasional pothole that can slow us down. But if we purpose to search diligently, there are countless gold nuggets and precious gemstones along the way as well. This journal is an attempt to preserve some of those precious moments for our children, and our children's children, as together we travel this trail called life.

Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Psalm 16:11


Friday, August 5, 2011

8-5-11 Friday…

…and we’re off to WI Dells for the annual Kaiser Weekend Away. And once again enjoying travel in our new van, looking forward to a weekend of fun and family. I drove awhile, played with Josh awhile, and now it’s my job to keep the rest of the crew quiet so he can nap awhile :). Precious little boy – still has his runny nose (going on two weeks now) but hopefully soon on the mend.

A few px the kids bypassed for their posts, some pretty, some not-so-pretty, all worth remembering.

Peaches to remember.

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(from our trees!)

The part we hope is soon a distant memory.

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Another pic of the meadow/sledding hill, pre-lake stage. If you look closely you can see pink flags which mark the lake boundary.

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Lane which will not be lane next year, if I understand the plan correctly (I think the lane will be on the east side of the field so the cows will have access to a slice of the creek). This is to the right of the new driveway, looking straight north.

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Due to the outrage from the boys at the tubular gate for the new horse pen, we now have new tubular gates which replaced the rotting wooden ones which they made years ago.

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Ain’t they fine??!!

Time to wash the roof!

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(No, Kate is not stepping on the telephone wire although it certainly looks like it. I guess that’s called trick photography…and it definitely was not intentional!)

Dad & I enjoyed the beautiful sunrise when we walked this morning.

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The Hereford and her heifer twins are confined for a time so we can watch them more closely, making sure they’re both nursing ok…

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…which they are, so far.

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Kitten crop is still doing fine :)

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Another not-so-pretty.

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