Wednesday, 16 July 2008

• Pictures....Finally

  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.

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