Cleaning our "Farm"

 In my previous post I mentioned that my husband and I made a recent purchase of some land. We bought about ten acres of land south of the town we live in. While we were in the process of the purchase, my husband showed me the land twice. . . at dusk. He also mentioned there were a few animal carcases on the property. So, the day we closed I finally saw it in day light. A few was an UNDERSTATEMENT. There were probably thirty to forty animal carcasses in one area. Mostly sheep, there were also a few calves and I even found remains of a couple of coyotes and I think someones pet dog.

After the purchase it took us a few days to come up with the best plan for the dead animals. We decided to spread them out and till them in. The day came, Ryan spread them out with a tractor and then took the kids for a tractor ride on the other side of the "farm". While they were gone I cleaned up all the garbage so we could disc the ground. Among all the garbage there was a lot of bailing twine. Some of it was buried, so I had to pull a little harder. This is what came with the twine (enough times that I finally thought, "this is gross, I should take a picture to remember this grossness!")

 
 Most everything was decayed enough that the smell was not too bad. There were a couple of times I saw a plastic ear tag on a calf, so I went to pick it up to throw it away and the dried up ear came with the tag.

All in all, ti was a disgusting, but successful day of work. Ryan and my dad went out a couple days after that and disced/plowed everything in. It is a nice dirt patch now. :)

We tell our kids that Grandpa Bramall has a big farm, and we have a really little one now.

Our next adventure will be putting up a fence once we have enough money saved to buy the materials. I'll keep you posted. 

It has been a while

I am ashamed that I have not posted for more than six months. . .  Life has been keeping me busy! Here is a quick overview of the last six months:

Toward the beginning of this year, we finished redoing our basement. Our boys had damaged the carpet badly enough that we could not repair it. We ripped all the carpet out of our basement--minus one bedroom-- and epoxy painted the cement. I am still loving it. It is an easier clean up than carpet was with little children. When our youngest child is about five. . . we will consider putting new carpet in. We also repainted all the walls and put in new floor boards. I like it :)

I started a new job at the local health and rehabilitation center in town. I am a part time Activities Person. I only work two days a week, and in August I will cut back to one day a week. For those of you who don't know, I was a full-time Activities Director at a Nursing Home before I had children. It is a blast! I love working with elderly people, but right now my priority is my children.

Brycen successfully finished kindergarten and will be a first-grader in the fall. He is currently taking swimming lessons, and LOVES showing me how he can hold his breath under water now.

We tiled our basement bathroom floor. It turned out nice. :)

Our most recent adventure has just started. We purchased a small parcel of land south of the town we live in. Now we tell our kids that grandpa has a big farm, and we have a little farm. We have owned it for a week and our adventure has already begun. I'll have to post more on that later.

I am twenty-nine today. I am not sure if I am going to age gracefully. . . I definitely feel older today. One more year and I will be thirty! I did not want a cake this year because my body seems to not be tolerating sugar very well. My sweet mother-in-law made rice krispy treats for all the kids and gave me a large plate of veggies. :) At the end of the night I did make myself a dish of raw chocolate ice cream and ate it with a smile.  This is turning into a novel. I'll try and write more soon!