Well - here you all are, I have finally kept my promise and have pictures to post..YAY!!
I was looking through a couple old posts and saw a little baby kitten post of Gracie, our newest mom...

She was soo tiny..then she got pregnant... Look at that belly! The picture really doesn't do her justice...she looked like she was going to explode!

Then one very stormy night she climbed into the smallest box she could fit in
and had 5 beautiful babies 
They're over 6 weeks old, but she still doesn't have them completely weaned... here she is earlier today using a soda can that blew out of the recyle bin as a pillow as she lets the kittens nurse for a minute..,There are some real personalities in this group...Take CC for instance She is mostly white with a grey head and tail, and 2 different colored eyes....and then there's Griffin.... He's a tiny little version of his mom, and really thinks he needs to be in the house. He follows us everywhere and loves to be held and played with...Brad wants to keep his as a house cat, but I still don't really think we need a litter box in the house.

I told you we have chickens... and in case I haven't mentioned it...I'm scared of birds, but I'm learning to cope -- Brad even got me to hold the rooster, who I've lately taken to calling Brewster He really isn't so bad....
I don't think I've mentioned this yet, but we lost one of our sheep  Elvis died a couple weeks ago. We think something attacked him in the barnyard and ripped off a bunch of skin, and it got infected, we gave him antibiotic, but I think we was past the stage that it could help him...I really miss him, he was a very sweet barn baby. We got Eddie shorn just a couple days after Elvis died...What an adventure that was...Brad has sheared sheep before, but it's been years, and even though I shave men's heads daily...sheep are much different           yes..That's the same sheep! He's a totally different color than he was before we sheared him. I think being in the sun is bleaching out his black wool because when we first got him shorn there was just a little grey around his neck and he was black everywhere else...now he's mostly grey. We also realized that while he did have a ton of wool on him, he really is a rather round sheep...

I told you that we had to replace all the flooring in our house. We decided to go with Konecto (well the Home Depot version) It's a floating vinyl floor that look like wood, and if we have water come in again it can be lifted until it's dry and won't mold or so we've been told...
We started by tearing up all the tack strips and filling the holes that were left when we pulled the nails out of the concrete. Then the floor went down in a hot minute...way easier than I ever expected That's the hall before the doorways were trimmed in.
Then you have take a 100 lbs. roller over the whole floor
The dogs don't really like the new floor...it's slippery for them and they fight over the rug we put down for them to lay on I'm really glad Brad was home to help during all of this...I don't know what I would've done if he'd been on the road working..

One final photo - this one is really for my dad. It's a picture of our house with the roof on - as you can see it's still not completely enclosed, but it keeps the water out and has done wonderfully standing up to all the wind we've had this summer I really need to get out and do some landscaping....if the ground ever dries enough I at least need to mow

And just an FYI...Brad is back on the road now, working outside of Fort Wayne, IN on another ethanol plant..the job is scheduled to be done the last week of July which will put him home just in time for VBS...I think he's glad to be missing all the planning and work that's going on right now, but it is coming together. Pray for us that our VBS program this year will reach the children and bless the workers.

There's not been too much going on around here, just a lot of work for me and Brad just had surgery on his shoulder late last week, so he's all 'bummed up' as my grandmother would say. He's in a sling 24/7 till we go back to the doctor this Friday. I think it's killing him to sit at the house all day every day, but he's not allowed to drive, I have to work, and even when I'm home, we don't really go anywhere b/c he gets car sick  I really feel for him...but it'll all be over soon enough and he'll feel much better in the long run.

We did get the roof done...finally...A few of the guys from church came out one Saturday and helped Brad get it done. We are about ready to shear the sheep -- I can't wait...they are sooo shaggy right now, and I really want to play with their wool. I checked out a couple spinning wheels at the Fiber Event Saturday ... I want one soo bad!

Anyway...not too long to write right now, but wanted to let everyone know we're still alive and doing OK. I'll try to get pics of the roof and our shaggy sheep posted soon.

Well, I've been promising for a long time so here they are - some new pictures. Sorry, but I'm a very bad puppy mommy and don't have any new puppy pictures - she really doesn't like to hold still long enough for us to get a good one. But here is the new little litter of kittens

The four of them together barely take up any space at all in their box on the porch - Really...look at how tiny they are...

I think if I could get them all to hold still all 4 would probably be able to sit in my had together.

Did I mention how much better the sheep are doing? They are great - They actually will come to the fence when I talk to them...of course they still run from Brad...but I'm the one that feeds them, they should like me more.
Here they are coming to see me at the gate - Elvis is in front  - Look at how big Eddie's horns are getting - they told me when I picked them up that their horns wouldn't grow very fast because they'd been banded (similar to being castrated, but without the surgery) So I've made Dad and Brad check his "boy parts" to make sure they weren't still there...Of course if you look back at pics of his dad (Shameus, who went to live with our friend Glenn) his horns are huge and absolutely gorgeous.

Elvis for a long time was the sweeter of the two sheep, but Eddie has recently had a major change in attitude and is almost always the first to come say hi. If Elvis beats him to where I am (or where Roxy is -- they love the puppy) Eddie will wait patiently for a couple minutes then he starts to push him out of the way - he's quite an attention hog

And he loves grass from the outside of the gate -- I guess he really belives that the grass IS greener, and tastier, on the other side.

So there you are - new pictures from the farm. But I've got to run. I just got back from Indy - I drove my grandparents up and we met Grandma's brothers and sisters at Aunt Velma's house and went out to lunch, then went back to her house and visited for a while -- it's really nice to have almost everyone together (Aunt Ada wasn't able to come with us since her daughter is on vacation and we didn't think her little oxygen tank would last for the whole trip). Now I'm headed to Seedline - They print and assemble Bibles and John & Romans to be distributed by missionaries. They are having a tent meeting this week and our church is providing dinner for them tonight - so I need to head that way with my contribution....Then tomorrow it's back to work for a week - this is going to be my first Sunday that I have to work, I can't say that I'm looking forward to it, but we all have to do it from time to time...And no I didn't find shoes yesterday...Thankfully it's supposed to be warm the rest of the week and I'll be able to wear sandals...