Hello Collins

Hardly working We cleaned up piles of tree limbs and sticks on the property last weekend. We have a quarantine on our neighborhood due to the emerald ash borer so when we got the email saying the fire department down the road would be chipping for free...we halted everything and sent about 5 truckloads down! Our part time helper Hunter is heaven sent. Thanks Hunter! Working hard. Hardly working. Clay really wants to teach the kids to work.  Somehow my faith is waning. This place is full of distractions. It's been raining all through the month. This morning the sun came out and we went for a walk before church.  One of two longhorns I drive by everyday. They command attention.And then I think...do they get headaches?  I should really be watching the road. Chester getting the mail( kind of working here ) A neighbor proudly celebrating memorial day. I want a big beautiful american flag for the Milkbarn soon.  Last week of school comin

I love this idea.  And I really do want them to remember me. (Like the time I threw lettuce on the ground? that one is forever etched into their brains) Audrey came and got my order for breakfast.  Cute little menu! Breakfast!  I really don't like cooking on the weekend and luckily, they all made me food...all day long. Mother's Day eve at Henry's 1st piano recital with Jasmine.  He made us proud. Earlier in the week a kind friend brought me flowers.  The day before that Chester and I went to the library and I had him pose with his favorite book.  W hen he was 3 this book had to be checked out all the time.  Here are some of the things I do as a mother: Video game fridays play outside no matter the weather make blanket head wraps take poorly lit selfies with them i try and go do interesting things to remind me of who I am and what I like And remind them of what is most important to me

Bronzelee We have gotten a few questions now and then about our pig we(*ahem...Clay) got last April. Here is her story. Please, no judging. We visited her often and here is Clay cooling her down on a hot summer day. She was super pregnant. She lived on our friends property in Morrison with some cattle. The piglets.  They were loud and stinky. And they grow astonishingly fast. Bronzelee would not let Clay pick one up for the kids to hold.  She was a very good Mom.  This was her 4th litter. She seemed pretty tired. Another visit last summer. Now this is where I don't want you to judge. We couldn't take the pigs we wanted and raise them due to Clay working in Charlotte each week. And Chad(our friend with the land) didn't want to take care of  her anymore so... Here is the pen that was half constructed for a couple of piglets.  People asked questions, variations on the theme of,  "how could you eat them?&q