Saturday, October 6, 2012

Dairy Heifer Show

A New Family Adventure
Arkansas/Oklahoma State Fair

I think Andrew likes the Jersey heifers the boys
gentled down to show.  Josh and Andrew, along with
their Mom, Dad, and Grandpa spent many hours 
preparing for this day.

The picture above is like a sweet blast from the past.
Katie working with her daddy at a heifer show.

No comment needed here.

 Nathan is entertained no matter where he is.
He is playing with a new birthday gift....Star Wars - 
with a heifer right beside him in the dairy barn at the fair.
  He is a happy boy!

 The boys are doing what they came to do, and 
doing it well for first timers.
 Check that Red Ribbon out in Josh's back pocket.

 All of us were tired by this time.
It was hot and dusty.

 This was another class they showed in.  The judge liked
the boys three heifers on the end, but no way could they compete
with the much older, larger heifers.
 This is a crew.....I love all of these guys.
They won a red ribbon and a few blue, but the 
important thing is the experience gained.
Showing cattle is a family affair...
Quality family time.

Okay, okay.....I stole this picture from Katie's facebook.
I just love the look she captured here. 
Looks like some very contented young heifers.


Sunday, September 30, 2012

Happy Birthday Gillan

Gillan, our handsome, oldest grandson will be "15" tomorrow,
October 1, 2012
I say this about all of the grand kids, but they really do
grow up way too fast.

Happy Birthday Gillan!!!
We love you!

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Happy Birthday Nathan


Nathan, our youngest grandson celebrated his
4th Birthday yesterday, September 25, 2012.
He is a deep dimpled dandy!
Happy Birthday Nathan!
We Love YOU!


Happy Birthday Gracie


OUR GIRL GRACIE
 
I am behind with the grand-children's birthday post.
Gracie is a teen now.  I can't believe how fast time goes.
She turned "13", September 23, 2012. 
We Love YOU, Gracie!!


Saturday, September 8, 2012

Blue Moon


The Moon

by Emily Dickinson

The moon was but a chin of gold
A night or two ago,
And now she turns her perfect face
Upon the world below.
Her forehead is of amplest blond;
Her cheek like beryl stone;
Her eye unto the summer dew
The likest I have known.
Her lips of amber never part;
But what must be the smile
Upon her friend she could bestow
Were such her silver will!
And what a privilege to be
But the remotest star!
For certainly her way might pass
Beside your twinkling door.
Her bonnet is the firmament,
The universe her shoe,
The stars the trinkets at her belt,
Her dimities of blue.


I am proud of my two moon shots.  I have tried many times to get a good picture of the moon, to no avail.  The full moons have been fascinating recently.  I made several attempts last week to get a good picture and I was able to get these two.  No editing! Straight out of the camera. It was a very dark night, but the moon was shining bright.  In the top photo I purposely took the shot through the trees in my front yard, the moon was low.  The second one was taken out in the wide open spaces on the farm.

Maybe you are like me and didn't know or remember all of the facts about the moon, blue moon, full moon, and such.  I have added some interesting facts below from the internet.

FYI - Blue moons aren't actually blue, unless clouds of smoke or volcanic ash in Earth's atmosphere lend them that particular hue. Rather, they usually look like any other full moon in the sky.

Friday's full moon was the second one to rise during the month of August, following the full moon of Aug. 1. This qualifies it as a blue moon, according to the popularly accepted (but incorrect) definition of the term.
"Blue moon" originally referred to the third full moon in a season that has four full moons instead of the usual three. But in 1946, a writer for "Sky and Telescope" magazine erroneously reported the second-full-moon-in-month meaning, and the definition stuck.
Friday's blue moon rose on the same day that late astronaut Neil Armstrong was memorialized in Cincinnati. Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, died Aug. 25 following complications from a recent heart surgery.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Children Are Priceless

I found this on facebook on a friend's page.
I hope she doesn't mind that I am sharing it here.
I just thought it was so cute and so true.
I know all parents hope they helped fill their
children's buckets with self-esteem.