Interesting Things

 

My barn cat ,"Casper", I guess is cooling herself. I've never seen her lay on top of the gate like this before! (June 11)

June 12

The babies are growing. They are 3 months old and quite adventuresome. They make me smile everyday as they play with each other and with mom.

We had a threat of rain so I put the hay out for the horses in the barn. If you look close you will see one of the kittens. They love when I put out the hay. They play hide and seek in it!

This is inside the feed room Doyle built me. If you will look at the top of this photo you will see a green feed scoop. It's an extra one that I set up there out of the way. I noticed one day that something was sticking out of the top of it. I pulled it down to investigate.

A bird had decided to make a nest! 

Now I'm sure you wondering how a bird was able to make a nest. Well, I usually do keep the door shut but when it gets hot I leave the door open during the day and shut it at night. 

Double Rainbow 06.07.23

 The day before my birthday brought us a trace of rain and a double rainbow! We had just got out of church and saw this beautiful sight! The second one is very faint but you can see it!

You can't see the second rainbow in this one. I wanted a picture without power lines so I drove by the horses.

I was pleased with this view! 

I just love rainbows! They are a sign of God's promise to never flood the earth again but I also see it as a sign that He keeps all His promises!

He is a good God!

Have a good one!

End of School Awards 05.25.23

Korin's end of school awards were May 25th.

Music Achievement for "Heart of Worship".

Art Achievement for "Rainbow Award for colorful expression".

Good Conduct.

Bible Character Award "Priscilla - teacher by example".

Bible Trophy for memorizing all her assigned Bible verses.

A Honor Roll.

I don't remember what the medal was for. 

We now have an official 2nd grader!

Have a good one!

Future Bull Rider? 05-24-2023

I'm not sure when it started but Kashton is interested in bull riding. I know Vanessa had gotten him the movie of Lane Frost's life for Christmas. I think it was called 8 seconds. 

Evidently Jacob has connections with a bull rider named "Hank the Yank" and made arrangements for Kashton to meet him. Here is the posts from Facebook.

Kashton with "Hank the Yank".

Personally, I hope he loses interest. I don't know that this grandmother can stand to watch him!

This guy was a real class act. Here's what Vanessa's brother had to say about this.

June 3rd Hank the Yank was riding bulls in a near by small community called Santo. Uncle Jake took Kashton to watch him ride. 

Kashton is 2nd from the right (or 3rd from the left).

Kashton sitting on the fence with Hank.

What you don't see is that Hank's hand got caught in the rope. Not sure if he made the 8 seconds. Vanessa had messaged us to pray as she said Kennedy text her to say "he got pretty tore up by the bull and they carried Hank out of the arena." Fortunately, he was seriously hurt.

Here are posts from Facebook from Hank, Vanessa and some comments.

I don't know if I could do that if I were his mom! He's still young. A lot can change between now and then.

I've since been following Hank. I've learned he grew up on a small farm in upstate New York. Which explains his handle "Hank the Yank". He now resides in Texas. Hank is a US Marine Veteran. He became a bull rider while serving in the Marine Corps. He has his eyes set on making it to the National Finals one day. He's also been a firefighter in New York. He moved to Texas in 2018 for bull riding. He worked on many ranches across Texas landing at Coalson Ranch in Parker County (county next to us) where he met Joe Wimberly who became Hank's mentor.  He has three World Final Titles with the Professional Armed Forces Rodeo Association. 2019 Top 10 Bull Rider (#7) 2021 Top 10 Bull Rider (#8) 2022 Top 10 Bull Rider (#4)

He's taken a liking to Kashton. He made a post a couple of days after meeting Kashton.

So..... stay tuned. I think you may be hearing more about this cowboy and his relationship with my grandson!

Have a good one!

Dance Recital 5-20-2023

Kennedy and Korin both performed in this year's dance recital. I don't like amount of people that attend but I do love watching the girls dance.

There was recognition of the dancers who participated in recent competitions.

This performance the girls took to competition and placed.

This performance the girls also took to competition and placed.

Both girls did really well!

Have a good one!