Noah's Ark

Once upon a time, there was a man named Noah. He had a real big boat. He put lots of specially and gently animals on the boat. There was a great big fish that swam by the boat. It rained for a long time and the boat fell over. One day, a bird landed on his head.






Told by this precious Landry at church last night.

Building Fences

If Ant could choose a profession I think it would be building/mending fences - farm work in general. His favorite Saturday consists of working with Papaw and Uncle John. This past Saturday they were building this fence, a new boundary fence between Papaw's farm and a neighboring farm.

Papaw is teaching them how to adjust the tension on the barbed wire. The lessons and skills that Ant and Sy learn on this farm on these work days are things that can't be taught in a classroom. Or a video game. Or television.

Unfortunately there is not a lot of job openings in the fence building/mending profession so he will probably have to go to plan B but what he is learning here will be useful in whatever profession he chooses. Hard work is useful everywhere.

AND...
If Al were choosing a profession right now, it would be "picking at Sy." She MUST run faster, throw farther, hit the target first, get the last punch in, and try to beat him at everything and anything.

The red sleeved arm barely in the picture would be Al throwing a dirt clod at Sy. If only she could figure out how to get paid for this...

Spring Days and Christmas Presents

For Christmas this year Ant and Al got a kayak - only one - so they have to share. Today we went to get their cousin and his kayak giving us four teenagers, two kayaks, two baby goats (which is a whole different story), and an hour to spare. So, we did a little bit of this....

and this...

some of this...




and, inevitably a lot of this.

Test post

I have decided to begin a blog. I don't know if anyone will ever read it but me but I decided it would be a nice way to document our hectic, ever so busy, two ships passing in the night, which kid are you going with life... This is my first post and I am testing it to see if it REALLY works. It seems a little too easy so I am sure I am doing something wrong. Here goes...