Metal Time

Time for the house roof!  It's so exciting to be at this point of the house build!  It's been a while to get to this point, but the house is really starting to come together!

 

Pool Fun!

Jennifer Martin was kind enough to host a homeschool swim day at her home.  The kids had a blast playing with friends!

 

Life and Death

Nadine had her calf!  Her calf was so tiny and adorable!  We don't love that the calves have been so late this year, but we are happy to have them.  

One of Steve's yearling bulls died.  We aren't sure why.  I got to go help Katie take care of it.  It was pretty stressful lifting it with the tractor and dropping it off on the edge of the property.  The chain kept slipping and the bison wouldn't stay up enough.  We got it taken care of thankfully.  

 

Sunday Dog Pile

When Grant naps, everyone must nap :).  Maybe not nap so much as dog pile!  The kids are a lot bigger now and dog piles stack up quite tall!  So funny!  Love my family!

 

Walls!

Work keeps progressing!  More walls are going up inside the house.  Talmage and Grant are a great help!  We put up the 12ft wall between the family room and dining room.  Then we worked on the wall for Jeff's office.  Everything is really coming together. 

I have these beautiful cowboy boots that I don't wear anymore since they don't seem to fit.  I offered them to the girls.  Lorna was the lucky girl who could get her feet into them!  Hopefully she can get good use out them and her feet don't outgrow them!  

Broken Deere

I was doing more branch/log clean up at the ranch, when the tractor stopped working.  I could not figure out what was going on!  The Smiths were there helping so they did their part of investigating while I talked to Jeff to figure out a solution.  Jeff called around and talked to a John Deere mechanic who gave him a good direction to go.  Looks like we blew the fuse to the 4x4 because of the dangling wires under the tractor.  We located the fuses and Scott loaded in a new fuse and we were good to go!  It was crazy to be working with the tractor and suddenly not have it engage in gear any more!  So happy it was such an easy fix! 

 

Crazy Clouds

While we were working at the ranch this crazy cloud system moved through.  It was kind of freaky, but also super cool.  Definitely amazing to be up on the hill and so close to the clouds!