Friday, June 04, 2010


this is our current abode. we're nice and cozy!


yes, they do have alot of cows around here, but these ones are special. why, you might ask? because these healthy, happy looking cows, who reside at Hilltop Farms in Zenda, KS provide milk for us!

She actually drank the entire half-glass I gave her without putting it down once. I think the technical term would be "chugged" her milk. She then declared it to be the best milk she'd ever had. (i promise that was unprompted. she's funny like that. the other day she was telling me a story, and she mentioned "a brilliantly coloured elephant." seriously. where did that come from? she also told me something had disappeared.)



we also picked up eggs, and jelly. these eggs, btw, were $1.75/doz. i find that amazing. we've also found beef locally, for $2.00/lb. That's so much cheaper than the grocery store! They also make wine, cheese, and yogurt, and have chicken and sometimes pork. Then fruit trees, and walnuts. Unfortunately, most of that's just for them. More on this topic at a later date. An entire post dedicated to real food, with not a picture of my children in sight. unless they're seen enjoying the aforementioned real food.


the other day alvin, loretta and jan spent the day with us. loretta kept the kids, and we worked on the house. Patrick has worked his butt off: completely remodeled the bathroom, extensive plumbing repair, ripped up the kitchen, hung drywall, and will be installing tile floor. and we finally passed the inspection to qualify for the loan. so, there should be nothing to prevent us from closing Friday.


this is the dining room. now that charlie's feeding himself, it's so much easier to keep the bathtub right near the table to just throw him in when we're done. we're actually considering just feeding him in the bathtub, naked. efficiency at its best! actually, the bathroom is off to the right and patrick had to take the tub out to redo the floors. he asked me to come over to help him move the tub. in my defense, it's heavier than it looks. i strained and strained, no go. imagine my embarassment when the 14 yr old he had helping him on saturday did it relatively easily.


Grandma Jan was in charge of painting. She did a great job, but there's still PLENTY left, for whoever's interested! we'll pay you in local, organic farm fresh milk and eggs. And i finally made good biscuits. After trying for a few years, these were actually amazing. I could have eaten the whole pan. The secret, I've decided, is to actually follow the recipe and put as much butter and white flour as the recipe calls for :-).

the other day someone asked me what i do all day. this isn't the first time i've gotten this question, and to be honest, many days i'm not exactly sure. I would venture that most people that work in an office are not exactly productive every minute of the day either. anyways, an example of how things seem to materialize out of thin air: my daughter making a hopscotch out of her toy bins. this was better than normal; she sometimes just dumps them all in one giant pile.


i put charlie in the baby pool for the first time, and he did great. kept climbing out to eat grass, maybe he thinks he's a cow :-). it's creeping up to 100 degrees here already. sorry mom, i told you it was colder than tx!


this is what i was talking about the other day. that child had never had that much fun in his 8 1/2 mos of life. how often does an adult's face look like that?
he celebrated his 9 mo birthday by standing up for us! he's also started crawling but prefers sliding wormlike on his tummy.
david and des will be here on Monday, and we hope to get lots done on the house while they're here to watch the kids. i'm dragging patrick to an art festival in OK tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. art festival in Alva, Oklahoma, you say? we'll see!

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