by Kaitlyn
I WISH IT WAS SUMMER!!! I am very tired of winter and I hope the weather will soon turn around and get warm. We got several inches of rain over the weekend. So everything is very muddy. The lake went up several feet because the rain came down in fast down-bursts and it ran off of everything. The ground was still a little bit frozen too. Yesterday we were hauling manure and Tori got stuck in the field. We had to get the big four-wheeler to pull her out. We decided not to go in the field while it is so muddy. Yesterday was very weird. It would snow super hard for about five minutes and then the clouds would pass and it would be sunny. Then it would get cloudy, snow, and get sunny. We didn’t get enough snow to amount to anything. I hope it warms up soon. I am ready to, swim, play in the creek, ride the horses, jump on the trampoline, swim in the lake, swing, and yes believe it or not, I’m ready to work in the garden. I’m also ready to have my school all done. There are a lot of other things I could write down but that would take a while so I’m not going too. I can hardly wait till summer!!!
Josh is sitting next to me and he tells me to write that in the summer we can play with the water and with water balloons and with the sprinkler.
Mom’s 2c.
Kate wrote the above essay for her writing today, and I just had to laugh as I read it – she captured my feelings pretty closely. Especially since this morning I heard on the radio that the average temp for today is 50, and we were forecast to hit 26 today. AND, last year was like this. Pretty stark difference!
I’m not excited about the snow that keeps coming and coming (thankfully yesterday’s flurries didn’t stick around), but I do like the hot chocolate that comes with it
Time for grass to start greening up again – cows are tired of hay!
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(ipad, of course)
We’re still getting about 4 dozen eggs a day (from 50 hens!), and occasionally a huge one shows up, but after today they will no longer be fertile. Daddy rooster jumped at Josh and subsequently got the ax. Josh wasn’t hurt, but he got a good scare, and since this wasn’t the first attack, rooster’s days are over. Dumb cluck.
Monday evening Levi taught us how to play Alabama Dutch Blitz. Very fun! Yay – Levi will be home evenings again for awhile!
Josh didn’t last long watching Dutch Blitz, but he did have a blast playing photographer. These px are what I saved of the 153 that he took. Here’s a slice of life from a 4-year-old’s perspective, and I must admit they make me smile!
Birthday party - - -
and now Ben is eleven. The first of our kids to be odd again.
Hmmm. Maybe we should have gotten him new jeans instead.
Josh was pretty enthralled with Ben’s wrapping paper, so yesterday morning we used it for preschool. Fun time!
I took my camera when I walked this afternoon – beautiful sunny day, but very cold and very windy.
Jacob had three wisdom teeth and a second molar extracted this morning, but by choretime he was back to normal and working up a storm!
Flashback to March 30, 2012.
Today, March 13, 2013.
Oh yes, there are several differences. One, of course, the lake is fuller now. Two, there are dead weeds on the lake bottom where there were none before. And third, Look At The GREEN!!!!!!!!!! I didn’t realize it before right now, as I pulled out this 2012 picture, but I miss GREEN!!!!
Walking backwards.
Kids were quite excited to find flowers coming up in the garden, and Sarah took a dozen or so px. I must admit that this peek of green makes me smile more than a little - spring IS on its way, however slowly it may be coming!
Kaitlyn, when you are feeling tired of the cold and rain and snow, remember last summer. It never rained and it was unbearably hot. There so many nasty bugs and the Kaisers had to haul water. To everything there is a season and right now we can try to be thankful for all that rain that is soaking into the ground.
ReplyDeleteHang in there, spring will come soon.