Golden Circles

Christopher & Brett have been busy taking turns in the tractor baling straw.  I don't know if they will ever finish!  Our neighbor offered us the opportunity to bale some of his Winter Wheat straw.  We knew it looked like there would be a lot of straw there, but never would have guessed this much!!  It seems like the "boys" need to stop about every 150 feet to tie another bale.  I think they might be wishing they would not have taken quite so many acres of straw!  Oh well, we will have plenty of bedding for the cattle this winter.

Some more of the Golden Circles (straw bales):

July farm update

It has been a while since I have posted anything here.  We have been busy.  The men are making hay, spraying crops and the never-ending checking cows & fixing fence.  I have been the go-fer and kept busy with book work. 

Mark & I took my parents and ran away to Fargo/Moorhead for one weekend.  We went to a most awesome wedding, reception & dance on the Saturday (Congrats Sonja & Brad) and to my great-niece's first birthday party on Sunday. 

I also got the chance to be  4-H aunt too!  Our boys were in 4-H for all of the 18 years they could be so it was fun, after a couple year break, to be a part of that again.  It was our county's Achievement Days so I helped Travis get his baking, and fresh flower & rhubarb picking taken care of.  Then off to the contest where I was a helper. 

We also hosted a memorial service for our cousin, Capt. Anne M. Rockeman Montgomery.  She was killed in a night practice session in a US Army helicopter last December in Washington state.  It was fantastic to see so many members of the Rockeman clan. 

Through in a trip to Bismarck for dear mother-in-law and it has been a very busy couple of weeks.   No photos to share at this time as I haven't even downloaded them!