Scout's Pups

We are happy to announce the arrival of Scout's puppies. Four girls and one boy! Proud mother is the Australian Shepherd "Casey" next door. They are approximately 2.5 weeks old. If proper homes are not found for them, they will be part of a friends "Traveling Barn" which, in its travels finds homes for puppies such as these! It will be hard to see them go, but I don't really need any more furry dogs like Scout, which these appear to have every bit as much fur as him! Aren't they adorable. They are starting to have lots of personality and growl and nip on each other even though they don't have any teeth yet!


Proud Daddy

They were sucking on Sean's fingers

Folic Acid, Floating Star, & Rubber Boots

As many of you know, I took a quilting class in August. I enjoyed the class thoroughly and learned a lot to boot. I sent the quilt to Deanna in Nepal so she is enjoying it now. The pattern is called Floating Star. I have some other projects I am working on, but I can't post them because they are Christmas gifts.




What happens when you mix a little boy who is supposed to be taking a nap and mommy's folic acid vitamins?? Nothing good!!! I told him to lay down and take a nap; shortly thereafter, he came to the top of the stairs saying his nose hurt. I started up the stairs and smelled vick's vapor rub, cruel parent that I am, informed him that it was his own fault he rubbed too much on and told him to go back to his bed. Fast forward to the afternoon, I began to notice him sneezing a lot; like 3 to 5 sneezes every 10 minutes or so. He came to me and said his nose hurt. I looked and noticed that it was bulging a bit on one side right at the bridge of his nose. I laid him down and looked up his nose and noticed some white stuff. I made him blow, but nothing was coming out, so I thought once we get home we can suck it out. Well, that didn't work. I brought Aubrey upstairs by my bed and asked what was in his nose. He pointed to the folic acid tablets; I asked him how many; he replied five. Well, to make a long, agonizing story short, He blew the one in the picture below out of his nose the next morning, which cleared the airway in his nose, and then blew another out with the help of Daddy's homemade extractor made from a paper clip *shudder*. Anyway, Aubrey now says he will not put things up his nose. We know that will only last as long as he doesn't find anything that fits so perfectly like the folic acid tablets!!

Placed by a matchhead for comparison


Sean, Aubrey & Owen with their boots!


Well, I am happy to say we lit our first fire of the season (in the fireplace that is). We are enjoying this cool weather immensely! Scout is especially enjoying it; he is super hyper right now. He loves the cold weather with all that fur of his!! That is about it for now. I will catch things up soon. Hopefully it won't take a month to post next time!!

This post is mostly just pictures. We have had a very busy, but fun month. The children are growing. Sean celebrated his 4th Birthday and now thinks he should get presents everyday! He went to the Boot store this weekend and got some new cowboy boots with his Birthday money. I will get some pictures of them soon. Seth was working in the back on one of the dirt piles and came across this snake, so he killed it with the tractor. This is the first, and I'm sure not the last, poisonous snake we have come across. To the best of my information, it is a juvenile water moccasin. Look at the double fangs!!






As you can tell Nadya just loves being outside and getting dirty. Look closely, she has a film of dust on her!

Sean making a silly face

Can't leave anyone out on the picture taking!

I will post more soon. I have several things I would like to post but it contains time sensitive info!