Too Much Fun!

Hey All!

We had a warm weekend, and knowing it could well be our last of the summer, we made it a pretty fun one! Took lots of pics and videos, but yesterday was spent catching up on the shops so I didn't get a chance to post em until now...

Saturday ended with a swim, then Sunday morning we had our Busking Barn performance at the Porcupine Mountain Music Festival. After that we went down to the beach and met the girls there, who chose to ride their horses down because...


  ...there's nothing quite so fun as having a horse in water!

  Everybody got rides.



  Swim! Swim for your life!! ;)

  Splash those sisters! How dare they choose to stay dry in a lake?

  Sunbathing while Johnny prepares for something epic...

  Didn't catch it Johnny, but Starlight didn't think it was too epic...

  Mikey takes a shot at this whole horse diving business...

  Ooo, I'll bet that one was more along the lines of a belly flop...

  Theresa's gonna try it. Everybody wait! Just hold on and wait for---

  Oh ... never mind.

  Lizzy goes for it...

  A bit of horse lovin'

  Theresa take two... everybody wait!

  Cannon baaalllll! Haha, I love this picture! ;)

  Off the back end...

  Lena doesn't seem to mind it'all.

  In fact, Theresa said she seemed to fall asleep to the rhythm of the waves at one point while the kids were still climbing all over and jumpin' off her backside..

  Lizzy is doing SO well with Starlight... they seem like a match made in heaven!







  Together now!



  With Daddy...

  With Mary...

  With sisters...

  With Donna...

  Cantering down the beach...
  A very fun day had by all... hopefully we still have a few of these kinds of days left before fall sets in!

Funny Farm Toy Barn Featured!

Hey Readers!

Just thought I'd invite you to share in our fun of being featured in this months issue of artizen magazine! It's an online magazine, so you can check it out and read from my interview HERE.


 Corn processing, blackberry picking, a horse back ride and a mushroom hunt occupied today's afternoon. I'm negligent with the pictures, but I'm sure you'll believe me when I say it was a lovely day! ;)
 

Music in the Park 2012

Hey!
Just got some videos from this year's music in the park concert, if anyone cares to rock out with us, take a listen:

Everybody say "hey Johnny!" :) ... and try to ignore Stephen's neurotic knee... yeah, it distracted me too...
 

At the beginning of the show, I introduced Mike as our "cool dude" who has "some moves... actually, just one move" He does that "one cool move" in this song and, try as I might, I can't pull it off... Leastways, not nearly as "cool-y" as our cool dude bass player can. ;)
 

Lastly, let's end rockin' some booty!!! :D
 

If you're not quite done dancin' yet, more noise can be found on our youtube channel HERE

Thanks for rockin with us! :)

Harvest, Stormy Skies, Flowers, Cats and Kids

Wow... I think that title says it all, don't it? Anyway, here's a whooooole bunch of pictures to update on what we've been doing around here...

Cukes into pickles. We're getting about 5 gallons a day... that's a lot of pickling!

Donna helps Theresa harvest... of course our zucchini is amazing, as always... Chocolate zucchini cake on the menu! 

She's getting to be such a big girl!

Rainy morning... cards and guitar plucking to the rhythm of the rain on the roof...

Storm coming in one evening...

Lightening...

This sky was incredible... we just sat in the yard and watch as it rolled in over the pasture with all it's distant booming and flashing...

We've been enjoying a lot of these evening storms... I guess you might call them the fall rains, but I hate to admit it might be those already...

A cozy home to retreat into when the rain starts splattering around you...

Then, morning comes and the gardens and flowers are all vibrant; perky and happy!

Lots and lots of flower pictures...

Kids have been practicing flower photography...
















My hair cut started a bit of a trend around here...

  Cindy, Annie's black cat, gave birth to this little black blob.



Annie's other kittens are getting big...



You walk out on the porch and get swarmed by these creatures...





Pick em up and you're even more attacked! :)

Last night, after a long day of work, the boys pulled out our apple juicer washing machine and scrubbed it out.

And proceeded to make a few gallons of juice from windfall apples they gathered. Mmm, the first sips of fall! Nothing compares...


 My job... Stuff to wood burn, oil, paint, sand... I've been doing this a few hours a day lately. Not complaining though--it's pretty enjoyable handiwork...

Dad's been mowing the back pastures with our new riding mower.  The weeds really need to be cut before they go to seed, so the timing is good. Johnny loves sitting on his lap and driving. :)


Life is good, food is good, work is good. Missing Annie and Andrew, but surviving. :)


Before I leave... Can you spy Johnny? Look hard...
    See him yet?     Alright give up?
Here he is... 

There. Now you'll have to go look at the other picture again. :)
Okay, I'm off to eat a deeelicous lunch. Thanks for visiting!