Fence Fixing Farm Fun

Of course I am going to post more pictures of the farm. I probably should have named this blog something other than Scrapbook of Memories - maybe something to do with the farm since there are a lot of pictures on here from there. Then I started to think that I just have a lot of farm memories right now and who knows, later it might be something else. I don't know, I am crazy like that - switching things up on you without the slightest hint. Be careful! Yeah. Okay. Whatever. Right?

So the Farm Fun begins with a little fence fixing. This time I decided to do a little "before and after" camera action. We are standing in the horse pen and this is the fence before...
...and this is the fence after. We removed the square fence stuff that was behind the poles and removed some smaller poles and put up some of that "sucker rod."
Here is to the left of the fence we just fixed. (Maybe "changed" is the correct word I want to use instead of fixed? Oh well you know what I am talking about.) Anyway, if you look to the right you can see the fence we just put up. This is the before picture...
...and this is the after picture. We removed the board that was on the top and some barbwire that was also attached. Alex had built a "sucker rod" thing that went into some pipe. The new "fence part" is small and sort of hard to see but it's the pole that is above the larger pipe.
Now we moved on to our third and final project for the day. Give us a break - we worked hard and accomplished three "fence fixings" or "changes" however you want to look at it - we did it! This is the before picture.
This one was a little tougher than the other two so we needed to bring out the big guns. We needed to bring in a railroad tie to be one side of the fence and those are pretty heavy. For those of you that know us you know that Alex and I are both extremely stong human beings but seeing how we had worked so hard on the projects before we were just starting to loose a little of our "umph" so we needed some reinforcement. This is when we decided we wouldn't try to be "hard"any longer and we went to the good 'ole tractor. Here is Alex getting ready to pick up the railroad tie...
This is realizing the tractor really didn't want to play. I probably don't have to point out that the tire is flat. We somehow mustered up enough gumption and threw that railroad tire in the back of the pickup. Actually, I probably didn't muster up anything I think I just watched Alex do it!! Not surprising I know!
While we were fixing this fence we had to put Colonel (left) and Captain (right) in the barn. I caught both of them looking out the window wondering when they could come back out to play. It made me laugh!
Tada! This is the after picture. We cleaned up the broken fence, got rid of the panel, put up some pipe, and cleaned up some poo. Here they are coming out of the barn to inspect what's new.
Colonel checking it out.

After all our hard work.
Feeding the bucket calf.
Making sure every last drop is out.
The bucket calf. This picture isn't very clear because Captain and Colonel kept coming into the barn and stirring up dust but I think you can grasp what he looks like.

Easter Eggs & Tie-dye

Saturday before Easter we dyed Easter eggs. Below are the pictures I took while we dyed eggs.

Here is Aunt Lindsey helping Dylan with his first egg. He picked green first because that is his favorite color.

Taking a peak to see if its green enough!
Uncle Alex helping Ally with her first egg.
Dylan showing his pretty green egg.
Ally and the Easter bunny ears.
Dylan is making a marbled egg. You had to put on a glove and then put the color out of a packet on the egg and you just rolled the egg around in your hand to make the egg look marbled. The egg was too big for Dylan's hand and it made it hard for him to not want to touch it with his other hand. We had to give him another glove for the other hand which made it much easier!

Ally getting to play with the dye all by herself.


Uncle Alex encouraging Ally to play in the dye
Messy hand!

Realizing that her hand is discolored!
Oops, Unlce Alex let her get dye on her pants! Good thing Grandma was there and was able to get the stain out!
Dylan showing off his pretty egg that he wrote his name on.
Showing off the egg I made.
All of the eggs that were dyed.

After we dyed eggs Alex didn't think we should let the dye go to waste so he wanted to tie-dye an old under shirt. It first started out going to be just a quick little project but Lindsey and I turned it into a bigger production than I think Alex wanted. Here is a picture of the whole white shirt dyed yellow to start with.
After it was all dyed yellow we stuck the ends in the other colors.
We wanted Alex to try the shirt on for us but this was as close as we could get.
The front
The back

Easter with Evan

Evan came back for the weekend but we were only able to see him on Thursday so we did our Easter with him then and Friday morning. Mom and I gave him Easter baskets Friday morning but I didn't get any pictures of that. Thursday night Mom, Evan and I went to McCook to meet with Steven and ate at Mac's (yum). Here are just a couple pictures I was able to snap.

Ham
Here we are in Wal-Mart and I thought that I would be able to give him a piggy back ride but I didn't even make it one isle. He is getting so big and I am getting weaker!!!
Here they are in the car before Steven was going home.
What a cutie!!
Playing with a ball he got from Wal-Mart.

Giving Up

I can't figure out how to keep the comments and my side bar with my pictures and links to other blogs. It's either people are allowed to leave comments OR the links and my pictures stay on the side bar. That's right, I decided to keep the pictures and the links. I think it has something to do with a classic template or something - anyway I feel as though I have exhausted too much time trying to figure out how to keep them both and have decided to give up on the comments. I am sorry for that but if you want to leave a comment feel free to email me and I will reply back. Maybe some day soon I will fill up on patience again and try to have comments but right now I am too annoyed and don't want to deal with it any more!

Real Quick

No, I do not like this layout but it's the only one I could find where the comments show up. Who knows if the comments actually work but that is another task for another day. I am exhausted and the web is not my friend today. Anyway - no comments about how bad the layout is - okay!? I am trying here!

Trey Matthew Tiller

Our friends Matt and Daisy had their first child and he is a Leap Year Baby (so obviously I don't need to mention that he was born on February 29th)! Alex and I stopped by to see them on Sunday and they all are doing so well. He is so cute!! I am not sure how long we were there but he didn't fuss once - such a good little boy! Here are some pictures for everyone to see cute little Trey. Congratulations Matt and Daisy!!!!!

March 15th Farm Fun

On Saturday Alex and I got up bright and early to head out to the farm to finish with the "sucker rod." Yep, you guessed it, by the time we got out there we should have turned around and went back in for lunch! Despite the "late start" we still accomplished a little of what we wanted to get done. The next three pictures are of Colonel and Captain letting loose in the arena. We had to put them out there so we could finish up with the "sucker rod."

Captain is the one in the lead.
Rounding the corner.
This picture looks like they are charging at each other but they really aren't.
Yes, Alex did catch me taking a break!
Bob has Dusty ready to drag some tires.
Dusty on the move.
He is finished.
Riding bareback!!!
Look at that form!!!