A hop, skip and a jump...

...is what our kids do all the time, but especially when we set the pails and troughs up for them to have some fun jungle-gym time! My little "Calamity Jane" (the brown kid on the white pail) especially loves pail-jumping and will go back and forth between the blue and white pails for several minutes before tiring of that and deciding to go push her sister off the trough instead. :) We discovered 2 more kids this morning when we went out to the goat barn! Nearly all of the goats are done kidding now. We've been milking a few of our best milkers, as they produce more than enough for their kids. Goat's milk shakes anyone?
This next picture is for you, Miss Linda. :) The pattern I'm kind of following is called "Women's Panel Dress" and is from the Common Sense Patterns company (http://www.commonsensepatterns.com/csp_main.htm) . The fabric is mostly cotton, the majority of it (the blue/green dots part) being some that I purchased with my graduation money several years ago, but have never used! The colorful squares of fabric where a gift from a very dear friend of mine for my birthday this year, and the lace is from a lady who gave me all of her sewing supplies many years ago....

Well, I know you're probably tired of reading me say this :), but I'm really tired as I just got home from, yes, working in town at the nursing home. Thankfully, I'm done now for the week and can work on projects at home! The grass really needs mowing, although thankfully the guys were able to get one rider-mower repaired this morning and Mother mowed around the house, so we've got a start on it.

Andrew is off helping farmer Dave again today and tomorrow, (he, Dad and Jacob cleaned our oats seed this morning before he left though), so I'll be milking in the morning. :) Dad, Mom and Jacob worked in the fields all afternoon and evening (except Jacob came back and did the chores), and we can now see the finish line in site. If only there weren't so many rocks to pick between here and that line though, right Jacob? ;)