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Finally got around to getting pictures of the cows...we have some nice fat black Angus.  Emily actually has a calf now so whenever the heifer is old enough Em can either show her calves or sell them and put it in her savings for  whatever may come up in the future.

WW: Horses, Horses, Horses

Ding-a-ling-a-lang...o.k., most of you probably won't get that but it is from a movie.  These are our horses that are patiently waiting for me to have this baby and get back in the saddle.

New Additions

This past week Hank went up to Morehead State University and bought five little pigs.  We had been discussing further diversification of the farm and he finally talked me into hogs.  Why did I give in so easy?  I have no clue but here we go.  Sheep, cattle and now hogs.  We actually bought four while Emily bought one for herself using her egg money.  We are already trying to teach her how to manage animals as well as money and if we are really lucky her savings account will be big enough that when she is ready she will be about to buy her first car, pay for college and maybe a good down payment on her first home! LOL  Well one can dream right?  So when Hank came home with the pigs we asked Emily which one she wanted and sure enough the child picked the best one of the bunch...a nice black Hampshire that she promptly named Pinkie.

Now those are some pigs....well I think they are nice even though I wasn't too sure about them to begin with.

Finally

We finally had enough good days in a row to get our garden out.  Emily had a blast helping Daddy and me get the garden planted.  She had to go barefooted which doesn't bother me one bit...till bath time. LOL  But what real country girl wears shoes to walk through and plant potatoes?  Here are some of the shots that I took....

First things first is that you need to measure out your rows.

Then after a little instruction Emily set to planting the onions.

Then good old Dad cut up some taters to plant...There is something wonderful about a farmer's hands.

Planting some more...

So far we have onions, potatoes, green beans, cabbage and tomatoes.  It has started raining again so as soon as it stops we are gonna try to get some watermelon and cantaloupe as well as some corn and another few rows of green beans.

WW: Real Farm Girls

Don't wear shoes!!

Mother's Day

I never really thought too hard about this day before, got my Mom a card and all that, but never really put a whole lot of thought about it for myself.  My sister last week reminded me what people believe Mother's should feel about Mother's Day.  She asked me if it was this weekend and I thought real hard and said, "Ya know, I have no idea when Mother's Day is."  Her response to that was, "How do you NOT know when Mother's Day is...You are a Mother?!"  To tell you the truth I just never think about it.  I do what I do because I absolutely adore my kids.  Yes, I said kids.  The one I have given birth too, the one that was given to me through marriage and the one that has yet to be born (about three weeks to go).

A beautiful mother and farmer's wife put it very well how most, I believe, of us farmer's wives feel.  Emily from Confessions of a Farm Wife talks about how this is one of the most inconvenient times for farmers to have to stop everything they are doing that effects our livelihood in order to celebrate some of these particular holidays and how we have a tendency to rain-check them.

This Mother's Day weekend I have been helping my farmer clean and build hog pens in preparation of some little piggies coming in next week.  I don't feel that I am being slighted in any way.  I am doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing as a mother, preparing a better life for my children.  I also hope to show my kids that I didn't have them so they could recognize how wonderful I am once a year.  Even the not so great Mom's get a mother's day card.  All I want his healthy, happy, and productive children which I guess makes me low maintenance in some people's eyes but I like it that way.  I don't need jewelry or a day away from my kids...on the contrary I don't enjoy time away from my kids and I would much rather be working on the farm as a family then sitting at a spa getting a massage and facial.