An update

I am going to try this again, try to be better about keeping this blog updated. It is spring break around here, so the kids are home and life is good.

Katie is working on getting Honey started under saddle, so far the under saddle is going ok, but we aren't going to try a rider yet! She has a little too much energy so far with the saddle. We'll wait till she can go around the round pen without bucking and crow hopping to try a rider.

Tyler is off doing field work, a job he is not really fond of. But, as long as the tractor has a radio and he can at least hear the Brewer games he is not too mad.

I have much spring cleaning that I would like to get done, but not alot of ambition to go with it!

Well, thats all for now. I'll be trying to keep up a little better!

Venison....

Tyler has really developed his hunting/shooting skills. He shot a deer on Wednesday night after school, and again tonight after school. We have ag tags because of crop damage that the DNR requires us to fill by mid September. At the rate Tyler is going he will be able to shoot them all himself in the future. We will not go hungry around here! Good thing we all like venison.

He is really hoping that some of the bucks he has seen will stroll past when season opens!

I got to go watch the JH Football team play last night, poor kids lost 48-0. Our team is so small, both in numbers and size, compared to the teams that they compete with. We have 13 kids on the team, and one of them has been sidelined for academic reasons for a couple of games. When the other team switches out the whole field, we can rest one boy:( They do get alot of practise, but man are they tired.

Well, guess I better go, I need to plan my new catalog open house!

Melissa

Changing the routine

We NEED to change our routine! Early to bed, early to rise! Thats what we need.....instead we've been working on no sleep, get done late, eat, watch a little tv and its already 11 or later! Garry got up today, and left, while I slipped into a deep sleep. Woke again at 8....Tyler needs to be at football by 8:30! And, my calves should have been fed before I took him. He got there on time :), calves ate late:(.

Keep saying that everyone will be in bed by 10 so we can all wake up BY 7. Maybe tonight.

We did have French Toast for supper last night. YUMMY! A case of, I forgot to thaw anything, so thats what we had instead. Worked out ok.

Well, gotta go. Apparently we need baler parts and I've been elected to go to Rice Lake. Yeah....not.

Melissa

Dissappointment...

Well, I didn't get to meet up with my friend. She was busy, and we didn't connect until it was too late. But, that will motivate me, hopefully, to make and plan, time for friends! My other BFF from school, has Wednesdays off, so when school starts I'll need to start planning girl time with her.

Great News

We had Katie up to see her ortho Dr in Duluth yesterday. He said even though there is a VERY gentle curve in Katie's back, it is not even worth worrying about. Scoliosis does run in my hubby's family though, so he said we can bring her back in the spring just for monitoring. Until then we have her continue with her physical therapy exercises. Insurance will pay for 6 more visits, I hope to draw them out as long as possible to use that as a backup to be sure she continues doing the exercises and continues to get stronger. Tuesday at therapy was the first time she reported not having any pain for a couple days!

Hoping to get together with a friend from school sometime today, she is visiting from PA. Although she has only lived there for a month. I am terrible at not making time for ME, and friends a priority. Before that she lived here, within 20 miles of us, and we haven't even talked on the phone, or visited in......at least 10 years. Found each other again on facebook, and hope to keep in touch now!

Well, I better go! Kids just came in.

Melissa

Getting ready for the fair.........For the kids this means lots of time with a very large animal on a rope! Need to have these big boys ready to be on their best behavior at the fair.

Trying to get enough laundry done to have the family clothed properly during the 4 days of the fair. Course, first you have to get everyone to get their laundry to the laundry area! It would be nice to be ahead on housework so when we come home late at night, the house still looks decent.

Thats all for now!

Melissa

Maybe some day I'll get on a steady schedule! Been very busy, horse classes, lots of calves, hauling chopper boxes, trying to keep up with the laundry, and the house. Getting lots of rain so far this month.... Have to start a tracker on here! Also going to try a book list as a side bar of books read.