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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


Wednesday, August 15, 2012

8-15-12 Deer Drive

by Tori

First some px. Sarah found a fun place to read.

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Four-wheeler rides are the best! (Although you wouldn’t know it by our faces)

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The cows will be calving in the next month or so.

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Note the dry pasture? We need rain and we need it bad.

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Sunday night we went on a deer drive after supper. We usually do 1 or 2 drives a summer but we’ve been so busy this summer it just hasn’t happened. So Sunday evening we drove around for awhile and ended up at Culvers in Pekin for ice cream. We get out to the van afterwards and it’s locked. Well, okay, Dad’s still in Culvers, and when he comes out with the keys we’ll load up. Dad comes out and guess what? He doesn’t have the keys. Katie climbs up on the windshield and there sit the keys in the cup holder. Great. We called up Aunt Sarah and she drove to our house, got Dad’s keys out of his car and brought them to us. (Thank you Aunt Sarah!!!!!!)  It was actually a lot of fun. Dad was having trouble seeing the humor in our situation, and stated, “We could be here till midnight, all because someone locked the car!” and his exaggeration made it even funnier. We all tried to tell him, “This is one of those times you’re never going to forget, and we’re going to laugh about this for years,” but he still failed to see the humor in it all.

Oh, and we saw some deer too! These 2 ran across ahead of us and then waited for their buddy on the other side. We also saw a litter of half grown raccoons and 2 wild turkeys. 

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All said and done, it was the best deer drive ever.

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