Just for Today

Well, I did not get my room all the way clean, but I got a good part of it done!

Mama trimmed my hair this evening and it feels really nice! I hope to finnish my room tomorrow.

Me, Enoch, and Nathanael played and improved our hay/straw house that is in our hay loft. It is so fun!

In the house...

Discussing tunnels with Nathanael...

Coming thru the escape tunnel. This tunnel works like a flap door and from the inside it looks like nothing is there and then if you press on the bale really hard, it opens and then when you squeeze out it shuts again. So that is what I'm doing here. Squeezing out...

This is a pit and Nathanael is down in it...

The entrance...

Jumping into the loose hay pretending he's a mountain lion!

Good-Night!

Trip

Yesterday we went downstate to help our friends butcher a little over 110 chickens. We had lots of fun working together to get the job done. Everything went really well and we got the chickens done in really quickly because there were so many people killing, scalding, plucking, gutting, rinsing,cooling, packaging, labeling, and putting them into the freezer. After cleaning up the butchering area, we all came inside and ate dinner and visited. Everybody who ate on the back porch got laughing so hard for a few minutes because Nik was being so funny. I think every time I see a "little cup" it's going to remind me of Nik ( I'm sure you will too Jenn!).

It was nice going thru Midland again and looking at things we used to see everyday. We did not drive past our old house because it would have been a bit out of the way.

Here are some pictures:

Here is the double-decker bus that Mama, R, David and Grace rode on years ago.

I had not been down that way in a long time. It is amazing the way the scenery changes the further south we went. We could see really far because there were no big hills all covered with trees! It was neat. This is a picture of a chemical plant, there is an overlook by it, but we did not have time to stop and look around, but we enjoyed looking thru our windows!

Here are more scenery pictures...

a nice looking farm sign...

and a produce stand...

farm house...we had fun waving hi to the curious onlookers who were peeking thru the windows!

a garden and a big red barn... and a eight sided yurt? or goat barn?

David and Rachel slaughter the birds...

and then give them to Daddy and Mr.T. who scald them to loosen the feathers so that way they come off when...

Mr.J. plucks them...

Allison or Nik would carry the featherless chickens to Enoch and/or Nathanael who cut of the feet...E/N would slide the bird down to Micah and Bridgett who chopped off the heads and loosened the crop...the bird would then either go to Miranda,Gabbi,Josie,Grace or I and we would gut them out and give them to Jenn who rinsed the bird and took it into...

...the garage where Nik helped out the...

Moms to packaged them up and put them in the freezer!

Then we all came in and ate dinner together...

There was a really fun huge double seater swing and Mr. T. would push us really fast. It was soooo fun!!!!!

When we got home the animals were out. Overall, it was a fun day!

Week-End and what went on...

I have not written a post for five days! This is going to be a big long post with lots and LOTS of pics! Here are is what went on and below are the pics and descriptions!

FRIDAY: market, went on walk at market with Olivia, took lots of pictures,retrieved my lost purse,played "who?,what?,where?, when?,why?" with Priscilla, Emma,and Israel.

SATURDAY: cleaned house and got cabin and other stuff ready for Mr. Todd, Mrs. Becky, and Family,David scythed all the buckwheat,mama and Mrs. Becky went and got fruit and ginger from local farms,Me, Grace,Enoch,and Nathanael played indians with G,N,D,M and T,Men and Boys went to woods to get firewood,Girls made cookies while they were gone,Mr. Todd made chicken and rice in the dutch oven for dinner, Mrs. Becky made the dutch oven cobbler for desert with the cookies and icecream,Zach came for dinner.

SUNDAY: all the guys big and small left at 4:30 in the morning to go fishing with salmon fishing with Mr. Todd's friend Fred way out in lake MI, N and G helped do all the barn chores, N, me and Grace all made puff pancakes with peaches and pears for "ladies only" breakfast, all the gals big and small went on a walk down to the creek and had a great time, the guys went out to the woods when they got back to get more firewood(they caught 3 fish),Mr. Todd grilled the salmon(YUMMY STUFF!!!!!!!!), Mrs. Becky made spaghetti, Mama made dutch oven baked potatoes, and every one helped out with everything,Mr. Ron and Mrs. Barb came with their family for dinner,Zach came latter on too, all the children played kick the can,capture the flag, red rover- red rover,and other games, everyone sang around the campfire, and roasted, toasted, s'mores, Then at dark-thirty (late) the vehicles left our driveway as everyone headed towards their beds.

Monday: Rested from the wonderful week-end

Here is me and Olivia. It took us a while and some hard laughing to get the right picture! Even this one did not turn out quiet how we wanted it, but it is okay!

There is a really fun rope swing made for crossing the creek. It was so fun swinging across! Here Enoch is swinging. The pic is blurry (sorry).

And Me! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......!!!!!!!!!!

My happy energetic brother Nathanael hanging from a crashed tree.

Olivia took this picture of me. Thanks Liv!

This is David scything the buckwheat.

M and T dancing while I play piano.

Hanging laundry on the line.

Me and T dressed up as Indians!

Making some food by mixing corn, peaches, sunflower seeds and banana together. Then we ate it in corn husks. Yummy? (actually it was not bad:)!

Daddy, Mr. Todd, and David cutting and chopping firewood.

Eating cookie dough!

M getting ready to put the cookies in the oven.

Licking the spoon.

The finished cookies filled, and dusted.

Taste- Testing. " Yum! The cookies are yummy!"

Mrs. Becky working on making the cobbler with...

...N! (tasting the batter for the picture:)

Here everyone is waiting for Mr. Todd to dish up the cobbler.

Here is me and T.

She would always come up to me and say: "Me, me wans som'un hol me"!

Gloria holding Daffy-Down Dilly (my kitten).

Reel it in Enoch!

All right! You got 'im!

L to R: Fred, Todd, Enoch, D,Nathanael,David, Daddy.

Daddy caught one, Enoch one, and David's busted the line. The 3rd one was found fresh in the water. So they netted it up and brought it home!

Just heading out to the creek.

Walking up the creek.

What do you see M?

Walking home.