Well, we're about half way through our annual black walnut harvest. That is, we operate a hulling station for the Hammons Company of Stockton , Missouri. People come in and out all day with pickups, car trunks, horse/wagons, etc loaded with black walnuts that we run through the old yellow huller. Blake, Daniel, Paul, and Logan get this job. I joked with them that whoever has the blackest hands at the end of the season wins the prize for having done the most!! With the ads we've run in the paper for this, our phone rings somewhere around 20 times a day.
Paul and I dressed about 80 chickens today. Brady, Brock and Garth always help clean up and they do a pretty good job of it.
Audrey, Maria, and Shannah were in the house all the while baking bread and making lunch. Shannah recruited help from her brothers to churn up a batch of home made ice cream.
Baby Clark is now 8 weeks old. He is such a little sweetie! He is such a patient little guy and rarely ever cries.
Blake and Daniel spent the day on Tuesday hauling beef cattle to the butcher. Yesterday, Daniel took Logan and Maria with him to pick up walnuts out of the yard of some area folks. They came home with 960#. At .12 @ pound, that's not bad for an afternoon's work.
Friend Josh from VT is coming next week to help with the bus. The bus has been somewhat neglected in the past several weeks as we try to clear away several other projects, but hopefully they'll make some progress with Josh's help.
~Colleen
