Spring Planting

Yesterday, we put in our spring garden, with some help from Justin, Tim and Ben Wright who we go to church with. We planted potatoes, onions, peas, radishes, carrots, lettuce and spinach.

Mom demonstrating how to cut up potatoes, with Hannah, Tim, Maddie and little Gabe looking on.

Katie and I planting potatoes.

Justin tilling a row in preparation for us to plant.

Dad planting peas and Katie smoothing out the row in front of him.

-Morgan

Gearing Up For the 2009 Growing Season

These are the broiler chicks that were posted about eight weeks ago, now they are full grown and ready to be processed.

This is our newest batch of chicks, they are about one week old. They'll be ready in May.

Dad and Will spreading manure over the garden. Later in the afternoon they plowed it in. We hope to plant some tomorrow before the expected rain later in the week.

Young Adult Gathering at the Wilsons' Place

On March 13th, we hosted a Young Adult Gathering at our place, we had a great time! It was rather cold and rainy outside so we played inside games such as Dutch Blitz, Guess Who and Pictionary. After the delicious dinner made by our Mom, Katie, Maddie and I went out to milk, lots of our friends came out to help us. Earlier in the week, Katie and Maddie had made a chore chart and assigned all of the different jobs, then they pasted it on a freezer so everyone could see what they were supposed to do. We had a great time and hope to have another one soon! -Morgan, Katie and Maddie

Dutch Blitz

Guess Who

"No flash photography, please"

"So it's black and white and has hooves, but it's not in the cow family?!"

(She was a Zebra)

Two New Calves

God has blessed us with 5 new calves, born on our farm over the past few months. Three heifers and two bull calves. Here are some pictures of the two most recent ones, Hershey and Dolly.
-Morgan

Little Dolly, born last Thursday.

Dolly, checking out a hen,(who doesn't look too happy about it!)

Rebecce and Sam with Hershey, who was born several weeks ago.

Hershey

"Sugar and Spice, and Everything Nice..."

Last Saturday, Maddie's LaMancha goat "Nutmeg" had twin does! These little girls are our first goat kids born on our farm. You may notice the hardly have any ears, some people ask if we cut them off, but that's just specific to their bred. Maddie decided to call them "Sugar" and "Spice" as their Mama was a spice name.
-Morgan

One day old.

Newborns.

Affectionate Mama.

Rebecca and Sugar.

Gabe Rides Snickers

After feeding Snickers some leftover collards, Gabe decided he wanted a ride.....

-Morgan

Spring in February?

Spring in February? A couple of days ago we had a 63 degree day! We children had a great time outside enjoying the spring-like weather.Here are some pictures of my siblings, Rebecca 8, Lucy 6, and Sam 5, playing Red Rover.

-Morgan