Time flies when you’re busy and this spring and summer have been the busiest. School will be starting in just a few weeks.
All the trips to Birmingham to get to know Jenna and Sebastian. The 2 weeks off when they came home to stay. Camping trip etc,… The grandsons here. It’s been a wild couple of months. The garden is full of weeds. The grass needs to be mowed. The gate opener still needs to be repaired. The weather hasn’t helped in the last one. But the house is still standing and all the animals are healthy so we are doing pretty good.
Grandsons Jacob and Westley left to go home with their Dad on Wednesday. We were all missing them before they ever left. It’s very quiet with them gone but it also gives the four of us time to be together before school starts in a few weeks. Having Jacob and Westley here was perfect for the transition but now it’s our time. I know that we don’t know the kids after just a month and a half but to me it feels like they have been here all along. Sometimes I have to remind myself that we don’t have a history and they don’t completely understand us like Jacob and Westley did. That will happen too with time.
Nothing like having the rules changed in mid stream. This week we were informed that the county requires two things that we were not told about before. CPR and another 5 week class regarding behavior issues. What ever sign me up so I can fill these boxes. I did ask why we weren’t told about this before instead of six weeks after placement. Another few weeks and the adoption would be final anyway. But we are still at the mercy of the system so we will jump rope. Jenna and Sebastian aren’t going anywhere especially over some last minute technicality.
We got a new Great Pyrenees puppy. Her name is Lilly. The kids call her “Silly Lilly.” When she is bigger she will join Remmy out with the goats and cows. For now she is a yard puppy. She and Bonnie are playmates.
June 21st we had a surprise litter of piglets. One of them was not doing so well. In I found it away from all the others and it had not been cleaned off. I thought it was dead at first. Finding it was still alive I carried it to Lisa and let her work her magic while I continued to feed all the animals and get ready for work. Since then we have added a second one to the playpen in the house. It was thin and trying to eat feed with the sows. I don’t think she would have made it another day. Both are doing well. The first one is named Charlie and the second is Charlotte. Charlie still may not make it. He gets tired when eating and has to stop and rest before taking the bottle again.
Bonnie was way too interested in them so she got locked in the feed barn. She had her head and neck stretched as far as she could just seconds before I took the picture.
Westley and I harvested vegetables from the garden on the 4th of July. It was hot but we got it done. Then everyone sat in the living room and shelled and snapped beans and peas before we went to see and shoot off some fireworks.
Sebastian and I went out to check on the bees when I got home from work yesterday. It’s been nearly a month and I expected a real mess. Fortunately things weren’t that bad. One hive had some comb running across four bars that had to be fixed. The other hives needed a little adjusting but nothing serious. I added some empty bars between filled ones and tweaked some comb to encourage the bees to keep it all on the bars. I’ll try to check them again in about a week. I’ve got to get Sebastian a bee suit so he can get in there with me. as it is he just helped me carry stuff and kept his distance.
