It's fair week!
Sterling and momma are super excited to get going on fair. This week will be filled with running back and forth from the fairgrounds to deliver projects and chickens, after fluffing, primping, preening, washing, drying, waxing, doing their toenails and whatever else Sharon deems necessary and then to show! Sterling and Sharon will both be showing animals! The birds are ready to have their day! The roosters seem to know, and are strutting their struts in preparation for the big day!
Sheep are stupid
Thats right. They are. Stupidest animal ever. We went to our farm friends house, who we work-trade with sometimes, and we had to put their sheep in a new pen...
First of all never say, "We should be able to figure it out..." when it comes to livestock. Second make sure you plan more than a "quick visit" when it comes to said livestock. You would think Sheepherding is pretty self explanatory, right? Wrong. These bastards ran in all different directions. We even went slow, tried to anticipate them. Its insane, you think they will logically go away from you, but they don't. They run in all different directions, 100 miles per hour straight into electric netting, apparently. After running around a five acre field like complete lunatics, recently released from the funny farm, trying to herd the animals, trying to untangle the fools from the netting(by the way when they do this, they flip and flop like a fish out of water compounding the problem) trying to stop the utter chaos...we caught them. As Sharon and I swore to the gods, yes all of them, and maybe AT a few...we decided that we wouldn't be getting sheep...ever. But tackling livestock is kind of fun.
Views from the clam-beds.
When you stand on the edge of the country, looking out across the straits, the sun is smiling down, your family is playing and working for the food your going to eat that night, it is easy to realize that we live a piece of heaven everyday. These moments that I experience up here are heaven. Watching the boys, fields and animals thrive, strengthening our relationships, working the gardens, clam-beds, oceans, and forests for the food that sits on our table, all of these things truly are that heaven for me. It has been a struggle to move and have no social or family circles really. Uncle Dana is here and that's awesome, but we miss our families and friends all the time...
I am so glad we came, if for nothing else, for the boys. It didn't seem like Portland had what we needed to raise the boys in the way we want to. SO for that, it is worth it. Every smile and excitement about whatever new thing has their curiosity, every "I love summer", every wrestle and fun filled country day...IS worth it!
Sometimes I feel like I have so much more to say, and then I get all wisdomy on stuff and I feel like I should just leave it there...so with that, I depart with the non-word, wisdomy.
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Enjoy!
