Sunday happenings

Good afternoon family! Caroline and I had a very busy day today, despite my wondering earlier in the day about what we could possibly do. We had a wonderful time at church, and were very thankful that the Wiebrachts came and sat with us in our very empty seat row.

I was thinking of you Daddy when we made blueberry jam! I promise it won't all be gone when you get back. LOL

Here is Caroline at the stove stirring a pot of sheep milk and tending the drying jerky and apple slices. I had to leave the oven open because the temperature to dry the jerky was supposed to be 120 degrees, our oven only went down to 170. A very interesting bit of information I'm sure you all wanted to know about:-)

Valerie, you're little dog is in big trouble right now. I was shocked at what she did today...

Some lovely smelling meat sitting on the counter...who could resist?

This is the story.

I had to go outside because Kyle Moore and his friend Sebastian wanted to go see the sheep again. (They wanted to see them yesterday too.) Anyway, while I was out, Anna pulled out of her collar, jumped up on the counter and pulled the towel that had about a Lb (or 4$ worth!) of meat on it. She ate every scrap of the meat by the time I came back inside. I truly had no idea that she was capable of doing something like that! It was disappointing. But it was fortunate that I did two different recipes, so the other half of the meat was still in a container with a lid on. I just hope she doesn't get sick!

My first jerky ever! Here's a few pieces that are finished drying. It is a barbecue recipe. In my humble opinion, :-) it is quite tasty!

This was a very interesting experiment...sheep's milk cheese! It's very good too, although we didn't put enough salt in it, so we're sprinkling it on.

Ha ha. Remember that skirt I made? The fabric was the closest thing we had to a cheese cloth :-) It worked very well!

This is pure honey taffy we made.

Yeah I know, my hair's a mess:-)

Dinner! Glazed chicken stir-fry. I had been looking forward to making dinner for several days and this was what we both decided on doing tonight.

This is by far the most interesting experiment yet! Coffee substitute! Some of you would never guess what it's made out of. I could torture you a little and wait to explain what it is until later, but I'll be nice. It is chopped and dried dandelion root.

And yes, we tasted it:-) We tried it black first. I told Caroline that it wasn't awful, but it certainly wasn't good either:-) I concluded that coffee is not a survival food anyway (unless you're Grammie of course) so I wouldn't bother spending the time digging up those deep and hard to dig up roots for a half disgusting drink you don't need:-)

We didn't make more paper today, but these are the completely dried result of yesterday's.

That's it folks! Caroline and I will probably finish watching National Treasure and crochet, and go off to bed.

Have a good night!
Lydie

Daniel's Wedding!

We thought of Lydia for this picture. . . . . a shepherd holding a lamb.

Daddy and William
Daddy and Emma

Kyle walked Grammie down the isle. I'm so glad I got this picture beforehand,

as the actual one turned out blurry:(

Christina and Emma

Da Boys

Emma was a flower girl and did great!

Caleb was awesome as a junior groomsman!

Stephen and Christina

The bride and the ushers?

Emma was being absolutely adorable and soooo good!

The proud grandparents!

The happy couple!

Kyle had a blast dancing at the reception!

Blog post just for Joseph!

When we walked into the barn I saw this and thought of you Joe! I thought you might like to see the Gator. It's not as good as a big tractor I know, but it's still got the green and yellow paint!

(Hopefully you won't ask your Mommy to go back to this post 3 times a day.)

With lots of love,

Lydia

Day Three!

Hey everyone, this is Caroline! Hope you had a good time at the wedding and that everything went okay!

It has been quite an uneventful day here experiment wise.

As usual silly Lydie woke up at 4:30 and I woke up at 8:00.

After breakfast I went to feed the goats. It seemed like Wish was on a mission to upset me today. She was in Sunny's little creep feeder this morning and of course had eaten all of Sunny's grain. Then when I tried to clean out the little barn, Wish kept jumping into the wheel barrow and knocking it over which of course spilled all the hay out of it. After I had finally finished cleaning out the barn I decided to fix the little hole of the feeder so that Wish wouldn't get in anymore. Wish of course wanted attention when I was trying to fix it and was constantly pawing me and getting in my way. After I had worked for like an hour I finally got it fixed so that I thought Wish couldn't get in. But Wish fit into the whole like it was nothing. No matter how small I made the hole, Wish somehow was able to get in. It's like she has a PhD in making herself small! :o) I finally just gave up. Crazy goat. :o) I still love her though!

There she is acting all innocent and sweet! :0)

After that I decided to give Allie a bath.

Don't you just love those eyes!

While I was washing Allie, Lydie made some of her yummy cookies!

After Allie's bath I practiced piano. Then we both got ready to go to the Hall's anniversary party with the Holborns.

There was lots of yummy fruit and even brats at the party!

They played a little game and Mr. Hall won.

Here they are with crowns on their heads and few other little prizes, too. :0)

This was the stage. (Notice the trampoline on the roof.) :o)

Here is one of the Mcgraw's horses. They have such a pretty house with white fencing all around their property, and their barn was HUGE!

Here we are in the doorway of the big barn.

Well that's about it folks! Sure do miss you all! Give 20 kisses to Joe Joe for me!!!!! :o)

P.S. We took pictures of a little John Deere gator for Joe Joe but forgot to post it, so there is another post coming just for him! :o)

Our Second Day on the Road!

So, there we were, travelling down the highway, when we saw this in the lane right next to us. The truck was pulling a trailer with some cows in it. Victoria and I thought . . . THIS is what a REAL working dog does . . . . rather than the one pictured below . . .

Timothy took this picture! What goes on in the camper! A few scenic pictures along the way! Our house in Flagstaff! Remember "OUR" mountain? Our Flagstaff church! We visited Susannah's grave site. Her little name plaque was quite over grown with grass.

We took a kitchen knife and Ted cleared the grass away.

The first time Timothy and Joseph really heard about the sister they have yet to meet.

The temperature as we pulled into Grammie and Papa's house at 8:30pm was 93 degrees!

What a greeting!

The boys went right to this colorful wooden train Papa and Grammie had waiting for them!

Grammie's fudge . . . . YUM!!!!

Joseph popped his whole piece in his mouth!

And finally, what the boys have been waiting for . . . .

Timothy at the controls!

Papa even has two John Deere tractors! Of course, that was the highlight for Joe-Joe!