Our Snakes

by Jewel

We have three snakes right now. One of them, 360, isn’t shown in these pictures, but the other two are.

This is Almond, our little northern garter snake. We named him that because he’s brown and nutty.

You maybe couldn’t tell in the other picture but he’s actually only about a foot long.

This is Klayton, our bigger garter snake that we have.

Jesse built this cage and screwed in the branches for a big black rat snake, and now we put any snake about Klayton’s size or bigger in it.

Snakes are so cool the way they twist around.

Today we took Klayton outside for a while and put him on the grapevine.

He sort of started to tie himself in a knot.

We liked to watch him drop and climb around on the vines.

It wasn’t until later that we noticed he was in the shape of a figure eight or pretzel.

If it weren’t for the grass, you wouldn’t be able to tell how big he is, and even then it’s still kind of hard.

Fun With Cousins

by Sarah

Tuesday Jewel and I went out with cousins for the day. Left to right is Kinsey, Amy, Jewel, Me, Kate, and Jenna. We did games and trampoline at Kinseys, then went out for lunch at Steak’n’Shake, and then went to Wildlife Praire Park in the afternoon. Aunt Joyce took us out, although I don’t have any pictures with her in them.

Being goofy during the car ride.

Posing with the colt at the park, although you can hardly even see it.

The otters were so cute. They would come up to the fence and just look at us waiting for a treat.

The cougers were probably my favorite animals. They were so pretty.

These coyotes were cute too. There were also some really pretty white wolves but I don’t have a picture of them.

Afterwards we came back to our house for snack, horse rides, and more trampoline. Amy’s on Diamond.

In this picture you can see Jenna in the background.

Here’s a closer one.

Kinsey.

Thanks Kinsey and Aunt Joyce for the awesome time we had!

Gray Weekend

Dad & I ran around Morton awhile on Saturday morning while the girls did my kitchen list and the boys worked on Dad’s list. Then, between rains, the last of the wood was shedded. Always good to get that job done before gardening and mowing start.

Always a little time for target practice.

Fun to have U. Mark’s come out for some trampoline time… glad they stayed for lunch.

A. Renee wasn’t much impressed with our new pet Almond.

He’s kind of a cute little feller. Makes me kind of wish I liked snakes. Kind of.

Saturday afternoon banking time, right at the kitchen table.

Sunday church was a blessing as usual, and afterwards Ben did a little target practice. I’m not sure what he was aiming for. I think he was showing me how I could pick off blackbirds while I’m doing dishes.  Right.

Glad to have another full table for supper and another full house for the evening; but this is the only picture I have to share. Not sure what Jesse was telling us about but based on (almost) everyone’s rapt attention it must have been good.

That’s it.

Summer Day

We loved our summer day in March. Sunny & 75 until it got cloudy; and it was still pretty warm after that. Was fun to have Levi & Echo stop by for a while in the afternoon. 

Boys are determined to put an end to the muskrats that plague Dave’s Pond. Hopefully this new tool will help.

Sweetest little one enjoyed a nap outside.

Introducing Rascal to the newest pet.

Kids did an excellent job on their program at Restmor tonight – only a couple pictures to share.

Monday Evening Woodshed Work

A Few Signs Of Spring

But first, back to Friday evening sunset beauty.

And back to Saturday evening guests.

Back to Sunday morning beauty.

And back to Sunday afternoon mining fun.

And Sunday evening fun at Grandpa Kaiser’s.

Four older kids helped to Pack the Pews at Cissna Park yesterday. Ha. Have fun trying to find anyone you know. And see the shadow of the drone – pretty cool.

And finally – a beautiful day today – and a few signs of spring. More mining fun, and Josh measuring the size of the coffin mine.

And that’s it.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Colossians 3:20