I made a birthday cake for a friend. She loves chocolate and is not a baker so what could be better than a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing for a chocolate loving friend? (If you are unsure still, there is a lot of chocolate in this cake.) It was not a success. I have […]

 Edited by Adrienne to add: If you look at the title of this post and the post I posted yesterday… I laughed. We are sisters, after all! This is what I found yesterday when I looked out the window. Dreaming about the day when they will be able to bale hay on their own, I […]

In one week (not this week, I don’t keep up well enough), one little boy went for his first solo ride on a 4-wheeler. He also starting crawling. A couple other little boys enjoyed our version of a swimming pool, aka an old stock trough. Another little boy wasn’t so much into the swimming, but […]

We have free ranging sheep. We also have free ranging chickens, but they are another story for another day… Back to the sheep. They started out as these 2 cute little leppy lambs that my two dear oldest boys named “Mr. Black” (the female, of course) and the other, after “What is that noise that […]

Let’s try that again…And maybe there is hope for the day after all.

Matthew had a bull get in with the wrong bunch of cows yesterday, and had to run the horses in off the hill to get the bull situation taken care of. Since we had the horses in the corral, the boys talked us into going for a ride. CT leading his (my) horse to the […]

I refer to Adrienne as “Sister”. Growing up I called her “Ade”, but when we were both in our early twenties and she informed me, yet again, that she did not appreciate the nickname, I finally had the maturity to call her something different. While trying to come up with another nickname I called her […]