WEDNESDAY UPDATE

Hello,

Chris Toby, Seth, and Kevin fly out for Montana today.  Mainly horse guys, so Rob will miss them.

Two nights ago we received a smattering of rain.  We’ve had hot, sunny, dry weather for days now.  I’m not complaining but we’re starting to need some rain.  Everything is sooooo dry and the fire alert is high.  Bill Casey did set up the irrigation system and has been faithfully watering the seeds; otherwise the dirt with the seeds would have long blown away.  Yesterday we had extremely high winds that continued into the night, but all is calm now. 

The loggers went into Fbks last night so they could be up bright and early to put together a cabin kit.  The should be home tonight.  (Thomas, Brad, Ben, Rich, Tommy)

Yesterday Chloe Mason was swinging on the rope swing when it broke.  Her leg was in an odd manner so Hannah took her to Dr. A’s.  It’s a really bad sprain from which with some rest she will recover. 

Because Jo brought some horse supplement home from Fbks, the Koehlers came by and took their mare and foal away.  Until they did that, we had to have one or two people out with the horses around the clock to keep an eye on things.  Now, the kids are taking turns feeding the baby his bottle every couple of hours.  I think some girls slept out there last night as it was easier than getting up every few hours to tromp out to the pen. 

Joey has gotten a job with the forestry.  He is going to be a helicopter medic.  He was pretty excited!

We all did receive our six packs of flowers on Sunday – lots and lots of beautiful flowers.  Lizzie helped me plant most of mine, but she left me a few to do myself which are still not planted.  I was quite disgusted to find worms on my delphiniums.  The delphiniums come back on their own, and if they pop out of the ground early, they sometimes attract worms.  The worms start in the leaves and then happily munch their way to the flower stalk which is probably wonderfully juicy to them.  Let the squishing begin! 

Prins did come on Sunday.  He preached on the difference between being prepared 

and being ready.  I’m still thinking about that since I’m not sure I grasped it.  His text was the parable of the ten virgins. Lots of stuff going on in India, seems good, but I wld not want to live there...course not knowing Hindi wld be a probe too! ha!

I better get…. Have a great day