It’s another beautiful morning on the Knolltop!

Last evening JW and Sarah did chores while Bobby and I went to Luke’s game in Climax. They lost but played an okay game. It was fun watching Luke play again.

We’ve had a couple of new calves, one bull, one heifer and now we are waiting for Sarah’s cow to calve. She’s due to Dundee and we are very excited to see what this calf will look like. I talk like it will be a heifer, I have no guarantees, but I’m optimistic!

I’m hoping to get another bushel of peaches today for canning, Sarah is just begging for more peaches to peel and slice! NOT! Then it’s on to tomatoes….oh those wonderful tomatoes! Since mine didn’t come on this summer, I’m looking for FREE tomatoes, I’ll just wait until everyone else gets done and then hopefully someone will call and offer their leftovers. We’ll just have to see what God provides!

Good Morning from a cool, clear Knolltop!

The Party is over, the southern chicks have gone back south. They actually left yesterday but I just didn’t get to this blog. If you read my Dairy Agenda Today Blog you’ll understand.

I was voted worst mom of the year yesterday. Luke, reminded me on Monday that they had football pictures on Tuesday and he needed his uniform washed. Yesterday I looked at his dirty uniform and thought to myself, “I need to get that washed, but his game isn’t until Wednesday so what’s the rush?” But for some reason I felt the need to get it done.

While cleaning off the counter I noticed his picture form and I decided not to wait until the last minute to fill it out but I would fill it out right then, insert the money, so when he was headed to practice I could hand it to him and look like I was so on top of things (This is rare for me.)

He was a tad late getting home from work so he was in a hurry to get to practice. He walked into the laundry room and saw his uniform sitting in the same place it was when he took it off. He looked at me and said, “You didn’t wash this?” And I smugly said, “Your game isn’t until tomorrow.” He then looked at me and said, “But we have pictures today!” And he proceeded to put on a dirty uniform (good thing it’s dark green) and I proceeded to feel like the worst mom in the world.

You see, if this were Jake’s uniform, I wouldn’t feel badly. If it were JW’s uniform, there would be no guilt because they are as bad as I am at forgetting things and when we forget things we forget that we felt bad about forgetting about as quickly as we remember. But this was Luke I was dealing with, the kid who doesn’t forget, the kid who folds his dirty socks together and puts them in the dirty laundry so they don’t get separated, this is the kid who is a self starter, thrives on routine and hardly ever has to be told twice. I wanted to get it right for him out of sheer respect for who he is.

So guess what the first load of laundry is this morning? And guess who smiled as he watched me put it in the washer? I love that kid!

It’s a beautiful morning here on the Knolltop. Cool and 48 this morning when we went across the road to the barn!

The southern belles are up visiting this weekend! They came out yesterday and will be out momentarily…so Sarah is busy cleaning up the kitchen and I need to get the rest of the house cleaned up before the come back out!

I’m not sure what we will be up to today besides a Dr. appointment for Bobby. Maybe some eating, maybe some talking, maybe some eating, maybe some talking….you know how it goes.

Better get busy!

Cool and rainy…and I mean rainy on the Knolltop today!

JW’s home from his judging trip, but I haven’t had a chance to visit with him about it. I sent him directly to the barn when I woke him up. When he gets in, he can download all of his info!

Luke had a game last night, Bobby and Jake went, Sarah and I stayed home to milk. My parents and their comrades also attended over in Adrian. They lost. They got shut out. It wasn’t good. Knowing Luke was in a bad mood and it would take some coaxing to get any information out of him, I had him sit on the couch and I sat on the floor with his feet in my lap and gave him a foot rub. It’s amazing how much they will talk while getting their feet rubbed! I practically relived the whole game and I didn’t even have to pay admission!

Today I have to finish painting the office. When I get done blogging and writing and Sarah is finished folding the clothes, we will get to work!

It’s a cloudy day on the Knolltop and a bit cool too.

Why is it that my day begins with great intentions of getting so much done, but then by 9 am, I still don’t have things done that should be done?

I don’t know what I’m going to do when Sarah goes back to school. This morning I had her canning peaches and doing dishes while I blogged on Dairy Agenda Today and put out some fires. Speaking of fires, she had one last night and I’ll tell you about it if you promise not to mention it to her!!!! You can’t tell her I wrote about it!

While working on Dairy Agenda Today and keeping one ear open to the rest of the house, I heard Sarah stirring around in the kitchen and by the sounds of it, she was making popcorn. A few minutes later I heard the smoke alarm go off, no not the beeping kind, it was Jake yelling, “MOM, FIRE, MOM, FIRE, MOM, FIRE!” I ran out to the kitchen and sure enough there was a fire in the popcorn pot that Sarah had heated up.

When I saw the fire the second alarm started going off, no, not the beeping kind, me yelling, “BOBBY, FIRE, BOBBY, FIRE, BOBBY, FIRE!” Running around in circles wondering what in heaven’s name I should do I didn’t do anything until he came up with the great idea of putting a lid on it. I quickly got a cast iron lid and put on the pot and it was gone. WHEW!

Normally I thought I was pretty good in emergency situations, but not this one! I think I need my BFF Angie, aka, EMT, Firefighter from Calhoun County to come down and give me some private training! After she recovers from her combine derby experience from last week. Yes, the woman climbed in a combine and went “head to head” with a ring full of men in combines ready to take her out! Rumor has it she ended up with whiplash, bruises, a third place ribbon and a whole lot of pride! Way to go Angie! Better you than me!

It’s another beautiful morning here on the Knolltop!

Jake and Sarah are out finishing up chores, Bobby is running an errand, Luke went golfing and JW is on his way to Ohio for a three day judging trip.

No peaches were done yesterday, but I got a really nice package in the mail from Georgia! A fragile box filled with jars of fig preserves, strawberry and pear preserves and a jar of honey! They were so pretty, I decided to put them on display instead of eating them.

Today the peaches have to get done, along with the mowing, trimming and painting!

This sounds like way too much work, I think I’ll get a cup of coffee instead!

It’s another beautiful day here on the Knolltop! It’s sunny and cool and just picture perfect.

Sarah and Jake are out helping Bobby while JW and Luke went to get roasted beans. I’m still here working on Dairy Agenda Today stuff. If you want to read about what happened in the barn this morning go there and read the blog….fun, fun, fun.

Sarah has been hard at work repainting my office. We picked the color out Saturday and we couldn’t wait so we had to paint a corner of the room on Saturday night and then she painted more yesterday, she likes to paint I guess. It’s going to look so much better! I’ve had so many things to put on these walls in this office that I’ve been collecting, I can’t wait to start pounding nails!

But first, peaches are calling. Maybe some peach jam, and then some canned peaches. We’ll see how many I can keep out of their mouths!

Good Morning from a sunny, cool, very cool knolltop!

We had another bat this morning that sent me ducking and diving under the covers until Bobby got up and with broom in hand batted him down (pardon the pun) and I took a baseball bat and killed him!

That is the second bat killing this summer….just call me “BatWoman!”

Luke is golfing this morning, he had a scrimmage last night and he made a couple of touch downs and threw a couple TD’s too. It was fun to watch football again.

JW is on his way to Green Meadow Farms for a judging workout, Bobby is back out to the barn which is where Sarah, Jake and I am headed shortly!

The lawnmower needs to get fixed today, so I have to go to town for that part, then my wonderful neighborhood mechanic and resident Oliver lover will fix it….again!

Better get!

Good almost noon from a very sunny Knolltop! I can’t believe it’s been nearly a week since I posted, this is just not me!

I can’t say that I’ve been swamped with stuff to do, but I just can’t seem to get to this blog! The kids and I went school clothes shopping with Grandma and that’s always a blast! We’ve also been swimming a few times and yes, that’s fun too! But we are having a very normal August with nothing but daily mundane chores to do.

We may have company toward the end of the week, so we are busy getting in shape for that, but it just seems like I can’t get anything accomplished. I’m so interrupted by so many things, I just can’t get it all together any one day!

The weather outside is beautiful, sunny and 75, you just can’t beat it! Luke is gone golfing, JW is rescuing his truck that broke down last evening, Jake is at Grandmas and Sarah is slaving away at the laundry….poor gal!

Well, I’ve got to write my column and I’ve procrastinated long enough!

I took these pictures a while back, but never posted them, so I thought I would provide something to look at while I procrastinate writing my weekly column!

Two bailers, one field.

Luke took the round bales to the barn and then Bobby put them away with the skidsteer.