Monday Muse

Another fifty pounds of flour into the flour bin...The Girl is baking up a storm, and her latest Apple Dapple Cupcakes with Brown Sugar Drizzle were a major hit this morning up at the school. Not a single cupcake left in the whole, gigantic tray...

Friday Finale

The Girl baked Giant ChocoChip Butterfinger Cookies for the teachers at school. She has made it her mission to bake goodies every Monday morning for the faculty in order to give us a "sweet" start to our week. Gotta love a girl like that...

Branch worked cattle yesterday and did pressure washing, yard work, and other outdoor jobs for a cousin today. He and ChubChub are soon to be off for a night of camping and "boy" stuff. The Girl will be cleaning house for the same cousin tomorrow; Josiah and Anders will be sleeping in a bit and doing homework; Stennes has been working on a cranky jet ski; Poppins will be camping with the boys and working at the property with the bulls; Mean Ol' Mama will spend this weekend trying to find her elusive "groove"...
EDIT ALERT: Anders will NOT be sleeping in; instead, he will be leaving very early in the morning to his 4-H Landing Judging competition.

Think-About-It Thursday

This beautiful stack of books needs to be read by August 19th. Hmmm. These are part of our Seekers class, and there's an additional stack of Grammar/Composition, Greek, Latin, and Math that needs to be finished, too. Go, go, go...

What's Cooking Wednesday?

ChubChub helped Poppins make chicken/venison/sausage burgers. He's a good sous chef, especially when it comes to "gloopy" ingredients...

Tuesday Tour

Our friend Guy made this unique hanger for Mean Ol' Mama's birthday. He bought vintage spoons and flattened them to use as hooks. Very special touch, eh?

Monday Muse

Just look at the work shirt belonging to Anders. Can you imagine that it's clean and actually sweet-smelling? ChubChub doesn't seem to believe that...

Mean Ol' Mama is going to attempt the impossible: there will be a daily post this week, just to make some of you folks happy! Stay tuned tomorrow...

We had a very fun vacation! Anders and Wilson had to see who was alpha male.

 

Guess who was alpha between Anders and Poppins...

Can you see the little chipmunk hiding out at Long Lake?

ChubChub was thrilled to swim to his tadpole-heart's content.

We thoroughly enjoyed a Thai cooking demonstration and delicious meal at our friends' house.

Mean Ol' Mama compared the sauces to the ones back at home. Fish sauce, anyone? Yummy! Two bottles back by the stove in Georgia..

Whoa, Aunt Gayle and Uncle Earl!!! They are sooooo much fun to be with!

On our way back home, minus the two older boys who had 4-H competitions. Boo hoo! We'll be glad to see them soon...

Mo'M's about to start teaching high school Spanish; Stennes is busy working and starting back at the college; Josiah and Anders are about to start school next week; the others are back in homeschooling; the puppies are cute and growing quickly; the steers are moooo-ving along; lots of changes going on, and we'll keep y'all posted...