summing it up

Rebekah had her dance recital this last weekend.  It is hard to believe another year has come and gone.  She has been dancing now for 13 years! Her last dance of the night was a jazz number, so she is in her black and gold costume for that.  Brother and sister after that,  then the collage of abundant flowers she recieved.  It was a nice surprise that Ken could come.   We all thought that he was scheduled to work and wouldn't make it!

 As tradition, we went out afterwards.  But because of her being older and having to dance twice in the show,  it is much to late for things to be open.  We used to be able to go for ice cream.  Now almost everything is closed, in fact, we stopped at BK  for a ice coffee or shake and the eat in was getting ready to close.   Ken joined us and we visited oustide while we ate our treat. 

Earlier in the week I was coming down the road with Becky and could see something going on by the ditch.  She thought for sure it was turkey, as we have seen quite a few crossing the road with their little ones.   Instead, as we approached,  we saw it was two little spotters that were ambling around.  They  weren't as afraid as they should have been.  We had wondered it someone had poached mom and they were left alone.   We sat and watched for quite a while before they decided to scamper off.



Without significant rain it really has been a bonus to get things done here.   Sunday we were told our pigs were coming!  Tom and I had moved the old sanaan house back to the north of the barn.  He had already been putting in the 4x4's for support.  We used old heavy duty roofing that someone gave us a few years back.  It was finally put to use!   Jessalyn helped pound in the pen walls and I hurried and painted it. 

See, it is blue here,



and it is red here.



Friday after work Tom picked up some slab wood.  So Sunday after the pig pen was up,  he hauled some back to the front of the barn.



The pigs arrived shortly after he got called to hay.  They are so funny. Our friend Brian picked them up about five pigs for friends, then went delivering them.   He reached into the make shift pen in the bed of his truck and pulled out these two pieces of bacon.  A girl and a boy.  Grabbed them by their hind legs and carried them over to our pen and put them in.  They started eating grass right away.  It is so funny.   When they eat their feed, they look like a sock puppet when it talks.   A cow chews it's cud,  but pigs look like their jaw only goes up and down.   Funny!

 Tom ended up bringing home 120 bales!   A friend of his let us borrow an elevator so it really helped us out on a hot day.   Of course, you can see it was quite dark when we got done.  About 9:45!   Also, that slab came in handy as you can see the elevator isn't sinking!



As if the weekend wasn't long and hot enough,  closing the windows and getting ready for bed Tom heard the chickens making quite a racket.   I went out and found a coon in there!  Didn't get any of the chickens.  Couldn't figure out after all this time how it got in there.  Then Tom told me he had opened the chicken window~the one with no screen!!!  Closed that up quickly, and all is well and they are still laying.