Memorial Day... a day we will remember

Monday afternoon found the Sauve and Bryson families enjoying time together as we talked, played games, ate food and celebrated Timothy's birthday! Table tennis, badminton and croquet were on the agenda, porch swing talks enjoyed, a delicious lunch was had and cake and ice cream later in the afternoon! To add to the festivities and patriotic theme, we spotted a bald eagle in a nearby field and later on saw a couple hot air balloons floating across the bright blue sky! I don't think I will caption much, but I think you will get the picture (pun intended) with these following images!

... And then there was the baseball game! Though I did not play, it was great fun to watch!

Sitting by a tree with several of the young people, talking, collecting seeds, watching butterflies, taking pictures and watching the game! =)

One of the reasons for the days festivities was the celebration of Timothy's 16th birthday! Since he is also helping out with and acting in the Pendragon project movie, Mrs. Bryson was very creative in making this clicker board cake!

Singing...gift giving...

...and joke playing! Knowing that Timothy was a UofM fan, Faith and John played a little joke on him by giving him a MSU hat!

Young people in the wood fort.

Pyromania's! Josh demonstrated to us the wonder of "the black powder"! Check out the facial expressions.

Then the music was brought out around the campfire and singing ensued! Song after song we sang in praise to our great Lord and King who has given us the air to breathe and the freedoms in this country to worship Him. Blessed be His glorious name!

Happy Memorial Day!

Bring on the Dirt! 'Soilsome' Yard Work

Saturday afternoon the big yard work began as our friends the Wagners came over to take out our pool and help us get the garden plot stripped and tilled. Wow! Thank you Lord for such wonderful friends! They did so much work with bringing the sod cutter, helping remove the sod and tilling it too! Ok, so they got a really nice huge pool in return, but it doesn't even come close to all the work they did! Again, thank you Wagners.

Following are some pictures. I wasn't here Saturday, but I heard that the beginning was even more muddy fun looking, but here is a selection for your enjoyment! =)

Both projects - Pool liner and garden sod cutting.

Working in the sand pit!

Saturday they got the liners out...

...and Monday they finished getting the supports out.

Monday morning all of us Sauves were out slaving in Egypt; pulling sleds, wagons and pushing the wheel barrel of sod rolls to the wet spot in the yard. Then the Wagners came and rescued us by bringing their lawn tractor and trailer and boy did it go a lot faster after that!

Fun! God made the dirt and so it won't hurt if I get it all over me!


Washing was fun too!

Dad taking a turn at the tilling. Nice rich dirt!

All done! Though it most likely will dry up in the summer time, we were just helping it along by piling layer after layer of sod all over the mud and water. What a job but by God's grace it's done!

All the extra rolls were piled along the fence.

What a day! May God be glorified!

...Again, more pictures to come as we had a most enjoyable Memorial Day spent with our neighbor/friends the Brysons.

Kitten and Goat Fun!

Friday was adventurous and fun! No we did not separate milk but we did trim hooves and clean milk coolers. But we first played with the six kittens!

One of the good mothers.

Footprints on boots.

Carmen enjoyed being chased by Basil the baby goat! Oh, and the bathing suite was for the rain! =)

Josiah and 'Trousers/Cuddles' the adorable kitten!

Before we got to work, Carmen came out of the house with this lovely rose. Beautiful and adorable!

-Sorry, no picture of hoof trimming. I don't thing anyone would really want to see what we looked like afterwards but it was a great experience and yes, even fun!

Simple Times Farming

On Tuesday, Faith, Christianna, Josiah and I spent the morning hours helping out at the Klaty's farm. They had asked us to help out with separating the goat milk to make butter, so the first couple hours we worked on figuring out the machine which was rather complicated. However, we did finally get it working and from now on it should go a lot easier. Fun Stuff!
Meanwhile, Josiah was 'helping' Chase with chores and enjoying the farm atmosphere, catching chickens and playing with the newborn goat that followed us around.
Today is our second day and along with milk separating, trimming very long over due hooves is on the schedule. We'll see how that goes! =)




Josiah, Spence and the little goat.