Happy Birthday Erin!!!

Horses for sale

We've got a couple of horses for sale. We're selling Spot, our 3 year old leopard POA gelding; along with Lucky, our yearling POA gelding. You can see pictures on our craigslist ads:

Spot:




http://bn.craigslist.org/grd/1200363391.html

Lucky:


http://bn.craigslist.org/grd/1161680549.html

Video of 2008 pictures

I've been trying to learn Sony Vegas Studio to do more videos for church. Here's a compilation of pictures from 2008 of us on the farm.

What now brown cow?

So we decided to punt on the new barn. To get what we wanted would be way too far out of our price range. So for now it is just the same old stuff. Owning horses in the winter really isn't that fun. Turn them out in the morning, clean the barn at night, feed, turn them back in.

We've been doing the Facebook thing this year. Kinda neat to see what everyone is up to. I really like being able to see pics of all my friends, and hearing what they are up to outside of work and stuff. I just posted some old pictures of planes and helicopters I've flown. A bit of a trip down memory lane....

Thinking about another barn

We're thinking of building another barn. Mainly because of the weather here in Central Illinois, we just don't have a good place to ride the horses. It is either too cold or too windy. We maybe have 10 good days a year when the weather is great. Someone remind me a again why we live here??? Oh, that's right. It's where we work.

Regina and I have started "doing" Facebook. It is pretty cool seeing what everyone else is up to. It is a lot easier to follow than a bunch of blogs. It is also neat to see everyone's pictures of the holidays, parties, and the like.

We're keeping busy at church with teaching the 1st through 3rd grade Sunday School. We are having the kids spend a lot of time in the Bible. GO FIGURE! It is going pretty well.

Stay warm everyone! It will be Spring in no time at all!

Christmas 2008

Christmas time has come and gone, and we all had a great time with family and friends. This year the girls dressed as elves. Oh my, you should have seen their socks!

Harvest time has arrived

The girls have been cleaning out the rest of the garden. They took two loads of tomatoes into the elementary school last week to hand out to the staff. I think there were close to 75 tomatoes total, with another 35 going in tomorrow. We also got some good broccoli out of the garden, and some green beans. The lettuce didn't do that well, and the potatoes were a bust. Since we planted tomatoes so late, we are the talk of the school with having fresh produce this late in the season!

Shankel Farms is harvesting corn just east of us. It looks like it is going to be a pretty good harvest. The beans are still growing and are pretty green in spots. There is also a lot of green corn out there, probably because of delays in planting.

Thumper, our yearling POA gelding, ran though a pine tree this week. It was about 3 foot tall and it cut him on his chest. He had about 15 stitches, and he's still pretty uncomfortable. I dug the tree up and torn out three others from the pasture. Horses are a lot like kids - if there is something out there to hurt them, they'll find it!

I've started posting articles on the website for the Heyworth schools. It's pretty neat getting to work with the kids and staff. I'm hoping to be able to publish articles about all the good things going on in Heyworth.

October 5th through the 11th is Fire Prevention Week! Don't forget to check your smoke detectors, fire extinguishers, and escape routes!!!