So much to give thanks for this holiday weekend! After a very full week, the girls (Leanne, Taryn, Ariane & Grandma) took off for a girls weekend down to South Dakota, where Philip's sister and brother-in-law live.
We were able to give Ariane a full ranching experience... complete with driving cattle, grooming, trailering and riding horses, bottle feeding calves and various other silliness.
The males on the farm stayed home and worked hard pulling all the plants from the field and getting the barn ready for winter.... (involves a lot of shoveling...).
We came home to a beautiful turkey meal with all the fixings, completely grown here on the farm.
I give thanks for family, both near and far... for good food grown the way nature intended.... for laughter and hard work. My life is blessed to include all of these!
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Spent a lot of time staring at the back of cattle,
driving them from one pasture to another.... |
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| Rode through beautiful fall forests |
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| Did a lot of grooming... it's burr season! |
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| Played some serious card games! |
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| Shared some laughs and giggles... |
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| Did I mention giggles... |
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| and more giggles... |
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| Waiting for us when we got home... |
