Great weekend

Friday was our first day of homeschool coop for the semester. We had a real good time, and a good turn out, even though several families were gone to another event. All the kids were glad to see each other after the winter break.

Friday night was our "Love Banquet" at church. The church youth group cooked and served the meal. They did a very good job. We had salad, cake, veggies and cream cheese stuffed baked chicken. The youth group also provided the entertainment.

Saturday JD, Rebecca and I, along with our friend Randy went to St Joseph to Lowes to pick up a barn. I bought a wooden barn off of craigslist from the shed company that supplies the sheds/barns to Lowes. It was a demo shed, all put together left over from last year. The shed was orginally $1200 and I got it for $300. It is a nice shed, built on metal runners.

Saturday night, we went to the Lathrop Antique Club meeting (we are members). As usual, the meetings start off with a carry in dinner. Following the meeting we had a white elephant auction.

Today (Sunday) we had church this morning. Emily and I were in the 2 yr-4 yr nursery. That is always fun. Then this evening, the church had the skating rink in Liberty rented for 2 hours. We had a lot of fun skating (and for me watching).

Fire by the barn!!

It is cold on the farm. It has been below freezing for several days, so all the tanks and waterers have heaters in them. Or did. Last night one of them burst into flames and caught on fire. It was a brand new stocktank water heater, that is the worst of it. If I can find the receipt, I am going to try and take it back to Orscheleons and get a new one in a few minutes. Luckly when it caught on fire, the girls and JD were in the barn and were able to put it out. That is the second fire we have had in less than a year. The first one was in the chicken coup. (Proof that chickens are dumb--they all ran INTO the buring coup..)

This is the time of the year when the girls and I really do not enjoy farming. The water hoses freeze, and we have to watch the tanks. For some reason the cows and horses delight in pulling their heaters out of the tanks. The rabbits water bottles have to be switched out several times a day with thawed ones. Eggs have to be gathered several times a day or they will be frozen.

Emily enjoyed her internship yesterday at the library. This afternoon she will also be helping with the Discovery Club class. She got to check in and out books and pack and unpack books for library to library loan. Now she is talking of being a library page when she turns 16.

Later today, I need to work in the basement pantry. After my last Aldi trip, the girls put the cases of canned goods away, and some of them are not in the right places. I also need to make sure items got rotated out. The girls are pretty good at doing that, but I still like to double check.