9/7/22

Jacob took the air conditioner out of the window in the pottery room and packed it away.  I scrubbed the windows in there because they were really dirty.  I worked on trimming mugs and adding handles.  I cleaned the fish tank.  Took Jacob to school at 1:30.  Finished putting knobs on my handles when I got home.  Jared got home early.  I made popcorn to take to the soccer game.  I also put some burgers on the grill for the boys to have while were gone.  The varsity team played at 4:30.  We didn't find out until too late that the team we are playing doesn't have a jv team.  Mom got here before I could tell her.  Our varsity team won 8-0 with a mercy game just after the second half had started.  Adam's team did scrimmage with our varsity team for a little while.  Mom took us out to Culvers after.  Thanks Mom!!  Jared took Wyatt outside and he ran to the neighbors house.  We played some bedwars with Adam.  

9/6/22

I made Eli some scrambled eggs for breakfast.  Today I threw mugs on the wheel.  Jacob woke up around 9:00.  I dropped him off at school around 10:00 and headed to Vikki's house.  I stopped at the gas station to pick up Peyton and Isaac's a birthday treat.  Vikki and I sat on the deck for a few minutes and drank some coffee.  Then we went outside and took apart the raised bed around her maple tree.  We dug up some plants and replanted them.  Then we worked on emptying all the big flower pots around her house.  There were a bunch of them.  I set up her raised flower garden and filled it with the dirt from the pots.  We stopped to have lunch.  Vikki had made yummy roast carrots, potatoes, and biscuits.  She also made fruit salad.  After lunch we went back out to work in the yard.  We had to stop when it was time to leave and get our kids from school.  Jared got the new tractor tire today.  He picked Adam up from soccer at 5:30.  Eli had to be to soccer practice from 6:00-7:15.  Jacob had band practice from 6:30-8:30.  We grilled chicken legs for dinner.  I got to drive the new tractor this evening.  Its so nice!  

9/5/22

 Today we took a drive to Hartwick pines.  We got there around noon.  We brought some granola bars and water but forgot to eat or bring lunch. We first walked through the little museum.  Then we hiked in the woods.  Jacob and Eli were walking ahead of us and a lady asked if they were twins.  We took the 3 mile hike around the ausable river.  It was so pretty and a nice hike.  It was around 3:30 when we got back and we were all hungry.  Jared and I had talked about going to Pizza Hut.  We took a drive through the campground and then headed into town to the Pizza Hut.  We all thought that sounded good.  When we got there we found out it was closed.  There wasn't another good restaurant until we got to Gladwin.  We stopped at Pizza Hut.  Got some cheese stuffed crust pizza and some breadsticks.  It was so good.  We got home around 7pm.  Jared and I took a walk around the flower beds and in the woods.  Then we sat on the swing and started a fire.  We called to talk to Grandma and Grandpa.  

9/4/22

Eli’s sheep, Dob

 After church we went shopping.  Picked up pizza for lunch.  It was a nice cool day today.  Jared and I worked on separating sheep from the ewes we are keeping.  Eli helped us and so did Wyatt.  We are keeping 5 ewes and Han.  We sheared the ewes and put them in with Oscar.  Then we sheared Han and put him out with the other ewes and the lambs.  Eva sure has alot of lumps and they have gotten bigger since last year.  Fyrne has a lump too.  Jared changed the light fixture out the back door.  Adam went to Claire's uncles house this evening for a firework show.  There were a bunch of other people there too, including Sawyer and her family.  Claire had put together a show with some music to fireworks.  Adam got to help Claire and her uncle.  We had popcorn pop and ice cream and watched tv.  Adam got home around 10:30.  He had alot of fun.  

9/3/22

 We left around 7:45 to head to Bay Shore camp for the CMA rally.  We stopped for our Sat goodies on the way there.  The boys were a huge help with setting up.  I didn't unwrap any pottery because the boys took care of that.  They sure had fun setting it all up.  We also set up a booth next to our to do snow cones and popcorn.  It was a very hot and humid day.   Adam walked around wearing Papa's Vietnam hat.  Haha.  Jacob and Eli had fun helping with the popcorn and snow cones.  Jacob also took care of selling and wrapping pottery.  He said he sure enjoyed talking to all the people.  Mom had sandwiches or chili for lunch.  Vikki, Rody and the kid came too.  Later Melissa, Hailey, Jack, and Evan came.  We sure had alot of fun.  The motorcycles went on their drive around 3:00.  There was a storm coming and it was getting windy so we packed up around 5pm.  We had lots of help.  We took a couple fun golf cart rides with me driving.  It really cooled down and felt nice out.  Then Dad took Jared, me and Vikki for a ride on the golf cart.  We got home around 8pm.  The boys played some minecraft.  Jared and I put pottery away.  

9/2/22

The boys had off school today.  They were up around 8am and watched tv.  I got out a bunch of pottery out and the boys helped me price and pack it up.  The boys cleaned out the van and we got it packed for the CMA rally tomorrow.  Jacob had school work.  Adam did work in the yard this afternoon for a couple hours because he wanted to earn some money.  Eli helped me with some yard work too.  Jared came home early and worked on fixing the lights on the tractor.  I needed a new relay switch.  He went to take off the mower deck with the drive off feature and it blew a tire!  The tire rubbed on a sharp piece of metal.  Such a bummer.  Jared ordered a new tire and it should be here on Tuesday.  Eli helped me roll up a bunch of fencing.  We wanted to make the rolls tighter.  We had mashed potatoes from the garden with our dinner. Jared grilled chicken legs too.  The boys had alot of fun playing Minecraft.  We played some bedwars with them later.  We sat on the swing in the woods for awhile. 

9/1/22

 Took Eli to school.  He had left his shoes in Daddy's car so  he had to wear Jacob's barn shoes.  There a little small but worked ok.  I worked in the flower beds this morning.  Around 11:30 I took Jacob to school.  The man came to drop off our new tractor around noon.  We facetimed Grandma.  Jared had to get back to work for a meeting.  I took Jacob his clarinet because he forgot it.  Then I worked on getting corn off the cobs and into the freezer.  Jacob and Eli helped me take down the fence around the garden.  Jared picked up Adam after soccer practice.  He ran out of water and was super thirsty. I grilled burgers for dinner. Jim came over to see the new tractor.  After dinner Jared put on the mower deck and had fun mowing in the paddock with the new tractor.