Temple Fun

Time for another temple trip with our homeschool friends!  So grateful for these times together in holy places!

Lorna, Claire, Lily, Lucy, Tommie, Lydia, Zander, Natalie, Mhari, Zyler, and Clark

 

Peeping Cheeps

Mhari wanted to hatch more chicks this year.  We bought our own incubator that can do up to 3 dozen eggs.  The Cabrera's were kind enough to share 18 eggs with us!  It was a little wait, but so exciting when you first hear a cheep!  Only 9 hatched out so that was disappointing.  That just meant that Mhari went and bought 6 more from Atwoods to even things out.  Now we have so many little chicks!  I know the kids are all in love!  They sure are cute when they are tiny!!

 

Spring Garden

Jeff and I went to Athens to learn more about container gardening.  We learned about wicking tubs and built our own.  It was time to put all that knowledge to use!  We picked out some plants from the store and got to planting.  There are tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, peas, cucumbers, and potatoes.  Here's hoping for a bounteous harvest in a few short months!

Spring Service

Things have warmed right up, and it feels like spring!  Well, it will be spring soon, even if the spring flowers have started to peek out a bit early.  The missionaries came out to help with some more service, and we piled more branches for me to pick up with the tractor.  The clean up from the loggers a few years back is still dragging on!

 

2nd Burning

The conditions were favorable for another burn!  Clark lit it up!  We also burned around the slabs and an old tree.  Part of the fire started getting close to the big barn on its west side.  Clark helped to stamp it out so that we didn't accidentally burn it down.  It feels good to get things cleaned up around here! 

 

Piled

We are out cleaning up old branches and logs from the slabs to build the next burn pile.  I figured we would check and see how the dogs and pigs are getting along.  They are little buddies.  Lorna enjoys spending time with all of them :).  

The kids were a great help doing many trailer loads of old tree branches.  Jeff used the tractor to haul as much as he could.  It had been sitting for so long that the branches were crumbling to dust.  It was way more work than we planned!  We got the slab cleaned up (90%) and then we worked on a construction pile and even cleared out a pile from the barn.

Thankfully the sisters missionaries, Sister Murray and Sister McCormick, came to help do service.  We got so much done with their help!  Our burn pile is back and bigger than ever!  Now we have to wait for the right weather conditions so we don't light the whole compound on fire!  

 

Neutral

I remembered that I still have left over neutral paint from painting Jeff's office.  I got motivated and started in the the kitchen.  Since I still had paint left I moved into the living room.  I ended up having enough paint to finish the bonus room too!  That just leaved the bedrooms and laundry room (besides the bathrooms) to finish painting.  It is so hard to get a good photo of the neutral color because once it's all painted it just looks white.  I have a photo of the front door because that wall is the new paint color and the kid photo wall is still primer... can you tell?  

I had been wanting to redo the kid photo wall, but I had to wait until everything was painted.  We even got a new desk for the family computer so it didn't take up as much space.  Once everything was set it was time to redo the photos!  I think they turned out better and now the room feels complete!  Yay for projects getting done!  Also a shout out to Mhari and Lorna who were great helpers when I asked for help :).