Plane

Ben has just recently gotten into flying remote control planes. For a few days he was dying for me to come out and watch him. I said I would if he would let me take pictures so here they are!

Dexter/Mary Farms

Rain, rain, rain... perfect time to find some deer. I ended up taking no pictures of deer though.

On the way out, Ben stuck his head out of the window.

When he put his head back in, it looked like this.

Ha ha! See y'all later!

Macy

Armies of Plastic

Hey there, moo moos!

It sounds funny, but that's how we call the newest residents at the farm. Introducing Honeybelle and Sugar Muffin! (We call them Honey and Sugar for short.)

Sugar Muffin on the left, Honeybelle on the right

They are so cute! Sugar is two weeks old today and Honey 4 days older. I bought them for $200 each and they're pure Jersey. Right now they are being fed by nipple buckets twice a day with milk replacer. We leave a little grain and hay too. They eat the grain, but I haven't seen them do anything with the hay yet. Yesterday I went out and took a bazillion pictures of them. Unfortunately, it was just about to rain so the pictures look sort of dreary, but here's a few of them.

Sugar Muffin

Mmmm!

Honeybelle

Sugar Muffin

Honey in front and Sugar behind

Honeybelle

Bacon and her piglets are doing well. She is starting to wean them and you can tell they aren't happy about that.

We still have about two years till we can milk the cows, but I can wait. Meanwhile, I'll just play with them. :) -Leigha

Piggies!

Bacon had her second litter of piglets on April 27th! Yay! She had fifteen total, but we lost 3 due to being stepped or rolled on. :(   They are cute though.

I went out back to take some pictures of them. Unfortunately, it was very bright when I did so there are a lot of lens flare in the pictures. Please excuse that.

:)   Leigha

Nostalgia

I was going through my ballet things again. Memories flooded my mind. I thought of all the times I wanted to quit, but my mom didn't let me. I thought of when I started loving it. I thought of when it just about became an obsession. At one point I was dancing six days a week. I had abandoned God and everything about him. I had no relationship with Him and didn't fellowship with His people. Of course I called myself a Christian, but I didn't live like it. True, I was only 13, but that's old enough to understand and have a relationship. I was a good kid. You wouldn't have expected that I'd drift away from anything that had to do with Him. My parents wanted to get back to church. (We had left our old church a few years before because of a change in pastors.) I didn't object, but I was against it on the inside. We tried a few different churches. Someone thought about going to my grandparents old church, Volusia County Baptist Church. When we got there I saw my friend, Haley, and Ben saw his friend, Riley. It was probably only because of them that we joined. Right after, Mom, Ben, and I left to go to Japan. We went to Yokosuka Baptist Church. The great people there had a lot of influence on me. I went to see a special doctor for a pain I had in my ankle when I danced. He said that it could be a bone that only a small percentage of people have. Sometimes the bone shifts so that it doesn't cause pain anymore, but usually you have to take it out by surgery. When we got home to the US, I had an MRI that revealed I did have the bone and it was causing some inflammation. Long story short: I never went back to ballet. But I think because of that, I turned back to God. I was hurting, and he was comfort. He did it all for a reason and I thank Him for it.

A Walk in the Park

Recently, I  went walking with Mommy, Mrs. Buchite, Ben, and Carly. We had a good time and Beresford Park is such a pretty place.