grave blanket season

Once again, it was that time of the year. We finished our second year of making grave blankets for Betty's mom and dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle, and Ralph (7 total). They came out just beautiful and really cheer up the place. It was a lot of fun and of course Dave always enjoys taking the tractor out to gather the spruce branches. It sure is a huge project, but we are so lucky we can do it here rather than buy them. It means so much more to make them by hand for the family.

Bye bye soybeans!

We said goodbye to our soybeans on Sunday. It was finally dry enough to harvest them. I cannot believe how huge this combine was. Georgia kept wanting to ride it. She did actually give a soybean a little kiss goodbye. She sure loved to pick them on our walks.

Kreet, Kreet, Kreet!!!!!

We had my friend Jill and her husband, parents and kids over for trick-or-treating "country style". Dave hitched up the wagon and tractor and with a few bails of straw we were ready to ride. It was lots of fun. The kids had a blast, and it didn't even rain. It took about 2 houses for the girls to realize that somebody would give them candy at every door they knocked on. We are really out here in the sticks so people are happy to have even one trick-or-treate on Halloween. Most of them actually waited for us outside on their porches or flagged us down to make sure we didn't pass them by. I guess it helped that they could probably hear the tractor coming from a mile away!

Kreet, Kreet, Kreet!!!!!

We had my friend Jill and her husband, parents and kids over for trick-or-treating "country style". Dave hitched up the wagon and tractor and with a few bails of straw we were ready to ride. It was lots of fun. The kids had a blast, and it didn't even rain. It took about 2 houses for the girls to realize that somebody would give them candy at every door they knocked on. We are really out here in the sticks so people are happy to have even one trick-or-treate on Halloween. Most of them actually waited for us outside on their porches or flagged us down to make sure we didn't pass them by. I guess it helped that they could probably hear the tractor coming from a mile away!