New Experience

Our two dogs had a new experience last night. Bob went out the door this morning and was back about 20 seconds later calling me to come right out. I wondered what Hoover had torn up this time. Hurrying outside I saw Hoover. She had met a porcupine! Bob said he had never seen porcupines around here. She had about 15 quills in her nose and mouth. Bob tried pulling some out with pliers. One came out and one or two broke off. You could tell it hurt. Then we looked for Nessa. She had quills in her nose and mouth also. I thought the quills might have barbs on the end. Calling the vet, I found that one just pulls the quills out - no barbs - but the vet puts the dog out. He said if they break off and part stays in it could become infected. I took both dogs to the vet. They put the dogs out, pulled out the quills, then gave another shot to wake the dogs up so I could take them home right away. The dogs were alert and ready to go when they came out the door from the vet's. We hoped the dogs would be smart enough to stay away from porcupines from now on, but the vet said he gets dogs back a third and fourth time with quills. We hope they stay away from porcupines from now on. I really, really felt sorry for Nessa and Hoover.

More Harvest pics

Just more pictures from harvest. We daily Thank God for our family!

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More of the crew-just realized we didn't have one of Jennifer. Lane is being his goofy self somewhere. Have a neat one of him and Jack in the combine tire.

Top photo is Luke driving the combine. He did well and allowed me to nap to catch up a little at times. On Wednesday, he was with me from 9:00Am until 11:00 pm. durability? Next year is already on his mind. We enjoyed all of them and had fun at the evening meal in the field. More later. Bob

This past week

We had great visitors this past week. Jennifer and kids came for a harvest visit. Gwen and Lane came out to see them when they got here. Before the Bernings got here, Gwen helped me go through books and get rid of a bunch. The boys went to ride in the combine with Bob. Gwen, Jennifer and Aubrey helped me clean out the garage from having kittens in there. It was pretty yucky in places. While we were at it we cleaned pretty good - more than I had thought we would do. Tuesday evening we went in to watch Lane's baseball game (after supper in the field)
Luke spent a whole day in the combine with Bob. Lane got to come out again. He and Jackson had a great time together. Jennifer, Gwen and Aubrey helped with odd jobs. Thursday Luke, Jackson, Lane and Aubrey got to go swimming. We had supper in the field each evening with very few flies. The Bernings left Friday morning. The kids are sure growing and fun to have around and helpful too. Paige was working in the field for her other Grandpa; so we didn't see her.
Bob has the wheat all cut now. Things really went smoothly this year - no breakdowns. We were pleased with the harvest.
I have some good pictures of the combine and of a sunset, but figuring out how to get the pictures on a blog is worse then Greek to me; so you'll have to look at Jennifer's blog for pictures. Ann

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Notice the new quartz countertops. Don't they look great in Ann's Kitchen? Of course, she makes them look great-but we were both pleased with how well they turned out. Now she's talking re-doing my bathroom and shower. It won't be quartz but Manstone.

On another note, more rain this weekend and harvest will be getting going later this week. It's always an anxious time,waiting to get started-wheat looks good,pastures are unbelieveable for late June. We had the opportunity to host Dad and Lois at Charlie's last night for Father's Day and enjoyed the time together. Rainbow Lake and the fair will soon be here!!