Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. ~Matthew 6:21~
An assortment of pictures from a special whirlwind visit from my sister and her two sweet girls, Luca and Aila. The weather was very, very hot. (Thus the river and the ice cream.) Luca and Aila helped us with all the milking chores, feeding the wild turkeys, and playing at the Big Tree. Just a wonderful time ~ and not long enough!
This video shows how Jeff placed the 2500 gallon water storage tank, part of our new barn project. It must be in before the walls can be added to the barn. What’s remarkable about this is that Jeff was stumped about how to lift the tank high enough to put it on the bed of sand. Mikah and Naomi came up with the solution to use the tractor from below (you’ll see it in stage 2 of the placement). The project took 2 days. Naomi was the videographer.
Here’s a video slideshow made from pictures taken of the kids and the places they went during their trip to California the past two weeks. The kids and their companions (Gramma Judy, Grampa Jerry and Auntie Jenn) covered about 2000 miles on this trip – Santa Barbara, Santa Clarita, Santa Monica, Fresno/Clovis, Shaver Lake and Yosemite – all from Oregon and back! Thank you to all who made this trip so fabulous for the kids – Gramma Judy, Grampa Jerry, Auntie Jenn, Uncle Jeremy, Aunt Sara, Cole, Braydon, Uncle Jim, Aunt Peg, Heather, Colby … We love you all!
This weekend, Jeff has really made progress on our barn project. We are adding sides to the roof-only pole barn. This involved cleaning out under it and taking down a shed — all for the purpose of being able to grade the extremely sloped ground under the existing structure. Well, he’s to this grading step, praise the Lord! He is also creating a tractor through-way at the back. A stump was in the way, which he took out this morning and I captured on video. I edited the 12 minutes of video to around 2 minutes – and I did it so the kids would be able to see some of what they’ve missed when they’ve been away. I’ll share it here because I think my mom will want to see it. And you might, too?
This wild turkey hen in this video doesn’t have any babies. She hangs around and even comes in the barn during milking to scrounge for spilled food. The goats are notoriously wasteful – and this hen has figured it out! She’s scared of me. If I come in the stall where she is, she will run in circles, frantically, looking for her way out.
I couldn’t wait for the girls to get home to give them the tank tops I made, using fold-over elastic as the binding on the arms and neck. So I sent the tops to California. And what I got back is this picture. Haniya and Naomi must have just gotten out of the pool. The girls and Mikah will be home on Sunday – we’re ready for the reunion!
Under our pole barn, which is soon to become the animals’ permanent residence, there was a shed.
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