Humor me for a moment and imagine the Iowa State Fair grounds. Now, take away all of the activity that you’re probably visioning – vendors, displays, rides, people – except for what’s going on in the main cattle barn. Add some snow, extremely cold temperatures, trucks and livestock trailers parked everywhere, and the people that […]

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I realized I forgot to explain a few things in Friday’s post. We were working on the kitchen for a while, so I got a little lost on what I’d explained before and in the process skipped over a few few things. The Cabinets: With the exception of the pantry and open-faced cabinet that I […]

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You may have forgotten – I know I did – but we still had a few things to wrap up in the kitchen before we could call that project finished. With the holidays past and the cold weather limiting any time outside, I was finally able to focus on adding the last few details – […]

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Two weeks ago the DW found the first of the pullet eggs. Over the next week, we’d find an egg every other morning… slightly larger than the day before. A pretty good guess – there was one hen doing all the work. Still, the kiddos were able to collect enough eggs for the Sunday morning […]

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We were reconnected with the civilized world late Monday afternoon. For those of you that have never experienced what blowing snow can actually do, I thought I’d share this (you can click on the picture to see a larger version): It took a road maintainer with a large v-blade about 30 minutes to cut this […]

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Just in case you aren’t sick of seeing pics of snow, I thought I’d share a few shots of what it looked like here yesterday afternoon compared to what we woke up to this morning. There hasn’t been a car down our road since about 3 yesterday. Based on what things looked like yesterday morning, […]

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It’s been twenty weeks since I was called to the post office to pick up a chirping shoe box. The excitement for the kiddos over the fuzzy day-old chicks is long gone at this point, but thankfully not their interest in raising the chickens (though it has waned a time or two – cold weather […]

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When it comes to answering the question of how Peanut is doing, there’s a bunch of different factors the DW and I take into account. Her blood work, mental and physical development, diaper “output”, and appetite are just a few of the things we track. The most telling, and easiest to understand, though, would be […]

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Sassy and sweet…all rolled into one lil’ fireball….that’s our Lulu! Happy 4th birthday, sweetheart! Click here for a look at Lulu through the years

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Sissy has been asking me to loft her bed for as long as I can remember. My response has always been the same – I’d loft her bed if she was willing to move from a full sized bed to a twin. The idea of losing all that extra sleeping room was normally enough to […]

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