Apparently it has been 5, yes five, months since I managed to write a post. There are a few blogs I read once in awhile and am always impressed by anyone who can come up with something interesting to write AND actually sit down and write it on a regular basis! Maybe me, someday, in another life.
Occasionally, I think "wow, this has been a fun/crazy/note worthy day I should write a blog post" unfortunately by the time what has to be done is done I'm more than ready to call it a day. Apologies to anyone who has insomnia; let's just say we can't feel your pain.
So a few kid pictures since September. For some reason the majority of pictures on my computer are of bulls and cows. For anyone who is already checking out our sale catalogs I will spare you looking at the same cattle again. Although Jeff has become quite the photographer - taking pretty much all of the pictures of the Sackmann & JR Ranch bulls you will see in publication. He even has some pictures in a big time semen catalog this spring!
The one staged picture I have managed to get for 8 years now is at the Sunny Farms pumpkin patch. Truth be told, I made it to Othello the day after the regular pumpkin patch closed so this was actually taken in the field next to where the fall bulls spend the winter. We checked their ration while we were there; promise.
And Miss Nia; this was taken mid-January. She may walk if she decides to stop giggling while upright under her own power. Her birthday is a week from today; it has been a really fast and long (at the same time) year! She is silly, fun, crazy and promising to keep us on our toes. Every kid is certainly different but our sweet number four has already chosen to do many things none before her has done. For some reason trying to get "the bigs" to play nicer with her doesn't go very far when she seems to always laugh. A bit of a dare devil and totally momma's girl. The morning she woke up to a calf and the dog (not normal) in the laundry room was much better than Christmas!
Had to slip a sausage making picture in. Jeff's German heritage comes out at the (try to be) annual event of making german sausage and other homemade meat mixtures. Gotta' love any opportunity to get a picture of three generations making sausage like so many before them.
The other big news at our house - is a house! The crew is farther along than this picture (roof and windows are in on the outside) and working on HVAC & electrical on the inside. Pretty exciting and the kids are LOVING the giant piles of dirt. Over two hours of playing in the dirt for them today; did I mention we may be ready for spring. Anyone who wants to help us choose colors - we are taking applications.
Of course we are three weeks away from the spring bull sale. Jeff and I did all the catalog design and layout by ourselves this time around. Big project and kinda cool to see it show up in the mail.
Spring calving is 2/3 done. Fields are looking like they may want to wake up; making Jeff switch from winter mode to crazy need to do lots of things all at once spring mode. Must be the end of February. The flowers coming up in the yard say it may be spring soon.
Hope this finds everyone well. And once again I promise we are keeping busy and continuing to chase kids, animals, water, machinery & whatever else crosses our path!
