Colorful Potatoes

I have so many fun pictures today.

We harvested potatoes the other day and cooked some up for breakfast. We planted several different types and the color pallet was so pretty when I cut them that I wanted to share it with you.

My stepdad, Cliff Tucker, was given this "hairy hat". Cliff is "follicle challenged" and it never ceases to be the joke when he is around. It's nice that he can now have a full head of hair for everyone to enjoy.

Pops (my Father-in-law Gary Ashton) goes nowhere without his American Eskimo, Junior. Here he is feeding him something yummy from the garden

Our new barn looks almost spooky with the full moon rising behind it. The inside really is impressive. We are almost done siding it and starting to organize items so we can find it all easily. I am really looking forward to getting my red barn back.

We have so many exciting things happening at the farm. A Sheriff friend of ours came by the other day. He hadn't been there for about 3 months and he was totally amazed at how different everything looks. I love to see the changes that have been made since April of 2010. If you had told me then what it would look like now, I would not have believed it.

We had a fun time yesterday. Marvin had left the farm for a bit to do some errands. A friend and I came back from town and saw that the goats were across the fence in the neighbor's field. We drove to the house and grabbed some feed and the Kabota and went back down the hill. They were by the main road by now, so we herded them back through the fence. I asked her to stay and watch them while I went to get a bale of hay. When I came back, this little petite gal was picking up the goats and tossing them over the fence! I named her the Goat Goddess. I don't think she really appreciates the name.

We finished planting our 600 new olive trees. I really think that an olive orchard is one of the most scenic of all types of plantings. We are trellising our 1300 trees so they will be really beautiful in a couple of years.

The lightening last night was breathtaking. We had a horribly humid day. We were heading home around 10:00 last night and had the show of the year. We don't get lightening very much around here so it was really fun (especially since it didn't start any fires). It was warm and so exciting that we didn't get to bed until after midnight.

We now have 9 new calves. The last couple were born to last year's heifers. This made me feel better because I couldn't tell if they were pregnant or just super fat. I suppose some day I'll be a real cowgirl and learn how to preg test (or maybe not).

My quote for the day: Every time I stress about a work or life change, the new circumstances prove to be better than the last.