SAD BUT HAPPY DAYS

Life around here lately has all revolved around no rain. We have had to sell calves that we normally would have kept for several months longer, sold cull cows that we have been putting off for a while & moved the other cattle from place to place trying to let some fields gain a little in the grass growing department. We have actually been feeding hay to one herd for about 3 or 4 weeks now because they don't have much grass & that always upsets me to think that our animals are hungry. I have been begging Wayne to move them to another place so they will have more grass, but he tells me it is too much trouble to move them all, so I told him I would move them by myself then......that is pretty comical since I can't back that big truck & trailer up to load them. I think it is pretty safe to say that that ain't happening any time soon. Anyways, it has finally rained enough that our grass is growing, thank the lord because the grasshoppers have multiplied in the katrillions & have destroyed everything in their paths. It isn't much fun to be walking outside and no less than 15 grasshoppers are attacking you at once, it kinda hurts when one dives into your face. My little dog Tag is having a ball chasing them around the yard. I can't get him to focus on the real reason he had to go outside, because he is hopping from one grasshopper to the next, even manages to sneak one in the house every once in awhile.

One other "Big" thing that has happened lately is my sweet little Kyleigh began kindergarten. I know I have told you this before, but I am pretty sure she is the cutest little red head that has ever stepped foot in that big old school in Hector. She loves school so far, I think mainly cause she gets to chase "Nate" around the playground during recess, or that he is chasing her! She rode the bus to my house for the first time last Tuesday & loved it (I am sure that will change when the new wears off)! This morning Leanne needed me to be there for her to wait for the bus because she had to go into work early. We sat there listening to the thunder and watching the lightening for about 5 minutes before the bus arrived. I watched that little bitty girl in her blue raincoat (that B & B bought her) stepping on that big old yellow bus & it made me sad :( just thinking about the changes that are going to come in the next few years makes me want to cry. I want her, Emma & Ellie to stay little, sweet & innocent forever. Kyleigh is very very attached to me & I don't want that to ever change, but I know the day is coming when I will annoy her & she would rather just be in her room talking or rather texting on her "real" phone instead of sitting in my lap or coloring with me :'(





I do pray daily that God keeps his angels watching over my precious little girls, keeping them safe every single second of every single minute of every single day, just like I prayed for my own kids. I know that leaving them in God's hands is the very best place they could ever be!