The Home Front

It's been a busy month.  The last couple of weeks have just flown by. 

We've started haying, which totally consumes our life once it starts.  On top of  that, Matt's been AI-ing heifers, too.  Today he'll be working on breeding most of the heifers we have at home. He did a few yesterday and a few this morning, but most of them will be ready by this evening,  I think.  We also put bulls out last night.  They always get so riled up when we bring them into the yard and put them in small spaces...they snorted and mooed and fought all afternoon.  I'm surprised they didn't break through any fences.  I like watching the bulls, but I don't like to help with the bulls.  They always seem ornery and huge and scary to me.  I'm really no help for Matt when it comes to working with the bulls. 

We're also just doing the daily/weekly yard work - keeping everything mowed, picking up toys, and working in the garden.  I'm pretty excited about my garden right now.  Everything's looking really nice.  I watered it on Monday, and it seems to have grown inches since then.  The watering and the heat have really helped. 

The kids are having fun outside...most waking hours of every day are spent outside.  They go with us and help whenever we're on the go, and they like swimming in their little pool, naked, every chance they get.  Yesterday Adina rewarded me with a surprise...I let her go naked a little too long.  She pooped and peed on the floor.  It was gross.  I'm really glad we have hard-wood floors instead of carpet downstairs.  That would have been even more disgusting.  Eeww.

Matt's little sister Mary had surgery last week on her jaw.  She had an underbite and had it fixed; her bottom jaw was shaved, and they added other things to extend her upper jaw outward.  She looks like a totally different person.  Sunday evening, we went over to visit her and when we saw her, we all just looked at her.  It was hard not to.  Her face was still swollen, and she couldn't talk much at all.  We saw her again on Tuesday, and she seemed way more comfortable with everything; she could talk way better, laugh better, eat better, etc., and the swelling had gone down some on her face.  I'm glad she's doing so well; I just hope the next 7 or so weeks go by quickly for her so she can eat real food again.  Get well soon, Mary!

This weekend, it's heritage days in Lancaster.  There will be lots of fun things going on.  We also hope to go to a rodeo in Greenbush on Saturday.  I play organ on Sunday, and then I'm not sure what we're going to be doing.  Probably just the usual - haying, working, etc.  because we are hoping to go camping somewhere next week over the 4th. 

Hope you're month is going great!