July First!

Finally! It's been so long since my last post, I really don't know where to start!
On June 11, summer school classes started at Mar's One Room Schoolhouse. I have two students attending three mornings each week. They're both very good students. I am really hard pressed to have challenging lessons for Zach. I've been having him working with multiplying, adding and subtracting fractions, finding percentages, and lots of multiplication and division problems to solve. Wyatt is learning to count by twos and threes. He's also counting by fives and tens to one hundred, which he learned in his kindergarten class, but we don't want to forget! He is reading aloud every day. We alternate between music, art and P.E. One day, we had Bobbie as a guest art teacher. They each went home with a very nice pastel picture.



Our heifers have all calved. The first two had no problems, but the third one was unable to deliver on her own. By the time we realized she needed help, the calf was dead. Kirk came to help us and we were able to save the cow. The fourth and final one also had difficulty, but we were ready this time. All three of the living calves are girls. The one we lost was a boy.

Travis has been building rafters in our barn. He's using the lumber he salvaged from Grandma Schulte's house. She'd be very pleased to know that! Dennis and Dad have helped quite a bit. They're a hard-working crew! I should have taken a picture of them while they were working. Instead, I caught them sitting down for lunch, telling stories and laughing a lot.



Today, we put up about 475 bales of hay. We had quite a crew, and everything went well. We had Tyler coming to help when he got off, but we'd just finished unloading the last wagon as he drove down the lane. It was a perfect day for it. The temperatures were in the low seventies and mostly cloudy skies. Our crew hardly broke a sweat!