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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, February 12, 2014

2-11-14 Bird Watch

by Kate

The horses must not have minded the snow on Saturday because they didn’t go into the barn.

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Tori, Ben, and I playing Risk. Sarah was just watching.

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Mom and I went to the library last week.

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Jacob’s plow has saved us a lot of shoveling,

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and he loves doing it.

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Jacob was thirsty during music but he didn’t want to quit playing his guitar so Tori helped him.

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Josh made this thing with the little magnet balls.

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(mom deleted the other 11 pictures of the balls)

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Last week we put bird seed out for the birds. So far we have gotten cardinals, juncos, sparrows, blue jays, and there is another bird that is a woodpecker or a northern flicker of some kind.

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Northern flicker?

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The male. We have also gotten female cardinals to eat too but we don’t have any pictures to post.

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The blue jays usually chase off most of the other birds. Sometimes the cardinals chase off other birds too.

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[editor’s note: Why we didn’t put out a bird feeder sooner I don’t know. We enjoy watching them and photographing them. Most photo credits go to Kate.]

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  1. Endress FamilyFebruary 12, 2014 at 1:41 PM

    Neat post!! Looks like you like risk as much as us. My Grandpa and Grandma have it... and when we go over there with our cousins, that's about all we do. Looks like you have the same version as they do. I think it's funner/less complicated than the newer version!!
    ~Laura E.

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