Daily life

This is Todd working with Tyler's calf, "Mittens." I personally think she should have been named "psycho" but you can't tell a 5 year old that the calf that he picked out for his is a little crazy. All 3 of the new calves got baths last weekend. We like for all of our cows to be as tame as we can get them - it makes working with them a LOT easier if they aren't too crazy. And actually, Mittens is doing much better since we've been working with them every other day or so.

We've been a little blah lately - sort of stuck in a rut. Between homework, soccer, chores, housecleaning and work - there isn't a whole lot of time for fun. Hopefully that will change this weekend. Then again, Todd's ready to cut our 3rd and final cutting of hay, so if he does that tonight as planned, the weekend could be pretty full. I'm not 100% sure why we are cutting it - we have about 90 round bales in the barn, and about 400 square bales. We are down to 4 cows, the bull and 7 calves. So we won't need more than 1/2 the hay we have, but I'm thinking he's hoping he can sell some next spring - it's been so long since we've been able to sell any hay, and usually we are the ones buying it come April.

Jessie's getting along very, very well with her arm. She wants to play soccer in the worst way on Saturday, but we compromised. She can go to both practices next week and see how it goes. If she is ok - she can play from there on out. I'd rather have her decide at practice that it's not going to work, than in the middle of a game. She's riding her bike, jumping on the trampoline, running around like a mad girl.

Tomorrow I'm going out to our corn patch and cutting down some corn stalks to decorate outside with. Then we'll hunt up some pumpkins and decorate.

Gotta love fall.

Kris

PS - the coat DID NOT fit my niece - so it's off to the drawing board for me....