Category Archives: Family

Spring Work – Part II

We finished planting our garden on Wednesday. Here are some pictures.

Planting potatoes

We raced to see who could get the most rows of potatoes planted!

 

Transplanted tomatoes

Some transplanted tomatoes.

 

Micah with the seeder

Micah with the Earthway seeder, a handy gadget which digs your row to the depth you set it, plants the seed, covers it and marks the specified distance to your next row! The only down side is that you can’t soak your seeds or water your rows before you plant so hopefully the seeds do well as we have not had much rain yet!

 

Sprinklers

This year the older boys rented 2 acres of land from a nearby farmer because they wanted to plant some of their carrot crop in sandy soil. They also set things up so they can have three sprinklers going at once using water from the nearby slough. If you enlarge this picture, you can see 2 of the sprinklers running.

 

The pump

The pump running the three sprinklers.

 

Genesis 2:15 – And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Spring Work

Here are some of the things we have been doing this spring.

Cultivating

Cultivating one of the carrot patches.

 

Branches

We pruned 18 of the 34 cherry tree rows and all 20 rows of apples recently.

 

Chipper Shredding

Chipper shredding the branches.

 

Micah Mowing

Micah mowing the orchard.

 

Taking down rink boards

Taking down the rink boards so we could plant the garden.

 

More pictures to come!!

Crafts and Baking for Seniors

For about the last 20 years our family has made crafts and baking and then stopped by to visit seniors in the community that don’t have many family around.

Baking

This Easter we made cross cookies and cross crafts.

 

For God so loved the world... Crosses

Crosses with John 3:16 on them.

 

Candles

One time we made dipped candles.

 

Baking

We sometimes give tracts with the baking and crafts.

 

Making Crafts as a family!

Our crafty family! When everyone was involved we would make about 70 – 80 crafts each season but now we make about half that.

James 1:27:

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.