Well, the crowning moment of our black walnut harvest happened last night. A semi came and emptied our front yard of over 20 tons of bagged walnuts. Have to give that trucker credit as I know he eyed our narrow road and driveway with trepidation for fear he'd never make the turns, but he did it! Somehow I don't think he believed me when I breezily told him that trucks come in an out of here all the time.

So, you would think our guys would have little to do now that they've ended the walnut harvest and sent the nuts on their way to Missouri. No so. Our breakfast time conference was spent dispatching our troops to varied and sundry locations.

Maria and a number of smaller folks are on pig duty. That is, extracting said pigs from the neighbor's field and securing them in our own. Those who aren't doing that just now are taking the parade of cows down the road to a rented pasture. I call it a parade because the little neighbor children clamor for a front row seat along the road to watch the unseemly procession both morning and evening.

Paul is about to launch a very lengthy journey hauling beef cattle from place to place. But, the very important cattle trailer renovation took on new proportions since its last mention here and it isn't done---yet. Blake has been steel reinforcing it of late and I suppose that job is about to hit a fevered pitch to make it road worthy in the next hour or two.

We've had some discussion during our breakfast conference, too, about diplomacy. You know, when you have to tell the ATV repair shop that the engine rebuild job they did some time ago really didn't turn out too well. Someone will be taking a four wheeler back to the shop today.

Our friend Josh will be leaving us by bus today. We've greatly enjoyed his visit.

What would this update be worth if I didn't mention Clark? He is napping. His big feat of the day? He had a bath.....

~Colleen