Fourth of July Fun!

Early in the morning Michel went to Moe's farm to meet with Moe and Gene (Sebastien's godfather). Gene is a vet and was going to determine if Cleopatra had been bred. She had been at Moe's farm since March. According to Gene she is three months pregnant. Good! In the trailer she went. Easier said than done! It took them forty five minutes to get her in there, even though Moe has a nice arrangement to move cows around. She is home now, Leif and Eric the Red have quickly learned to respect her. She is undeniably the queen around here.

Here are the two youngest ready to go visit the little ladies at the Special Care Hospital.

For dinner, Lydia and Raphael fixed a scrumptious feast. They made potato salad from William-Sonoma: Potato, hamburgers, grilled corn on the cob, and red, white, and blueberry sundaes from Complete Party Planner, by Annabel Karmel. Although she calls them sundaes, they are not ice cream but layers of jello and fresh strawberries, whipped cream and of course blueberries. Don't they look pretty? It took the children two hours to gather the blueberries, they came home with more than two pounds of them and too many dirt ticks bites to count!

At night fall they watched stars with Raphael's telescope.

Michel set off a few firecrackers. OOh...! AAh...!


When everything had cool off, they just had to have a closer look. They also found this strange looking horned beetle?


Farm life, work of mercy, good food, awe at God's majestic creation, firecrackers and creepy crawly things... a blessed day for little (and big) boys.... a time to keep!