Here's what I can remember from some funny things my sweet little boy has said recently. He continually cracks me up with his conversations, his addiction/obsession with the farm, and his love of helping his dad and grandpa.
C: Grampa Lowell? You got any minner and salt blocks? I need some. Bye.
(This was his imaginary phone conversation with my dad in the car one day.)
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C: Mom, you need get those matoes out of my wagon. I need to haul 'nure.
Me: Can we just leave them in there until I'm ready to use them?
C: Okay, but I need to haul 'nure. Morrow you can get them out.
Me: Ok....(but I'll leave them in there as long as he forgets about them.)
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Last week, we found Clarence at the foot of the deck with two chairs turned over on their sides, the cushions for the chairs on the ground, a garbage can, and the wagon, all in a circle.
Me: What are you doing, Clarence?
C: Going camping, Auntie Mary's fair.
Me: You are at the State Fair?
C: Yeah, camping. Dina, lay down and sleep. (Then he lays down with her on the cushions and they pretend they're sleeping and camping.)
Later on, I saw he had Ruby in his "pen."
Me: Clarence, be nice to Ruby.
C: She's my heifer, I need to load her in the trailer (his wagon).
Me: Ok, but if she wants to get out, make sure you let her. You have to be nice.
C: I be nice.
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After Matt got home and saw his mess, he said:
Matt: Clarence, come with me; I have some panels you can have and you can make a real pen instead of making a mess right here.
C: Ok... (He's so excited about the possibility of real panels!)
Matt: (Goes to the barn, comes out with six sheep panels.) Will these work? Where do you want me to set them up?
C: Mom! I got panels!
Me: Set them up by the sandbox.
C: Yeah!
Minutes later, after Matt had the pen all set up, Clarence had a rope around Ruby's neck and was leading her over to the pen.
Me: What are you doing, Clarence?
C: I need to get this black pig in the pen.
Me: Oh, now you have a black pig named Ruby?
C: Yep.
From this poing on, Clarence has spent countless hours at his pen, opening gates, getting dogfood to lure the puppies and Ruby in, bringing the baby kitties out there, etc. He's obsessed...it's his own little pen to do whatever he wants with (as long as he's nice to the animals).
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Adina's been really busy lately. Her black cat, Regan, had kittens about four weeks ago. She's been faithfully petting and training those five cute kitties ever since.
She begs to go outside to see them. She'll pet them, wrap them in blankets, carry them around in buckets (nicely), and feed them. She absolutely loves them! And, I'm so thrilled that we now have nine TAME cats right out my front door. Oh, and I forgot to mention that Rocks, the gray cat who had kittens in May or June is going to have another batch any day now. I'm so excited..........
Anyone need any tame kittens?
Adina's a great cat-tamer! She's taught them a lot of tricks! And they are eating catfood already.
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We've had such a fun, busy summer. I can't believe school's already started and we're back into having schedules to live by. Clarence starts three-year old preschool on Sept. 18th. He has it Tuesday and Thursday mornings every week. He's really excited about it - the fun things they get to do and seeing his friends a couple times a week. It's hard for me to know he's already old enough to be at school a little bit, and that he'll be riding the bus!
We have two pastures north of our house that have ponds in them. Dry ponds. We had to bring the cows home from those pastures this last week...we even had them dug out - 8 feet down, with only mud and dry dirt coming out...no water. We've been checking one of the ponds, and thankfully there is water coming back into it slowly from an underground spring. This might allow us to bring the cows back up to those pastures in a couple weeks. Hopefully! Please pray we (and all the other dry areas around us) get rain and plenty of snow this winter. If we don't, it'll be hard to feed the cows next summer. Kind of a scary thought.
Well, off to do something productive before my 'nure spreading helper, Clarence, wakes up from his nap. Adina's at her friend Payton's house today, because she's a difficult little girl to entertain in the tractor for an entire day. Plus, she's so excited to go and play with her friends, that it's fun for me to bring her there because I know she'll have tons of fun. It's all Clarence ever dreams of, though. An endless amount of farm work to do. He sits and talks to me about working his cows, feeding them oats, combining his beans, combining his sunflowers, etc., all of which is imaginary or has to do with his toy cows in the house. He's a funny and interesting little boy!
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