Got a lot done yesterday.  Skimmed the cream off the milk, made the butter, dealt with the kefir, dishes, laundry. I was quite pleased to hear and see all my "house servants" doing their work as I went outside-the washing machine, the dish washer and the butter churner.  The electric butter churn was a present from my dh.

 Did some weeding in the garden. Cleaned up some areas of the property that have been bothering me with the kids' help. The kids stacked some fire wood.

We got the mother hen and her 3 chicks and the rest of the eggs moved to the other smaller chicken house.  The hen is still sitting on her eggs, but is also taking care of her chicks.  I put a chick water and chick food right in front of the nest.  The chicks are eating and drinking-and so is mom.  She made the neatest sound when I put the food down.  After she made it, her chicks came burrowing out from under her and then did what she did.  It sounded like she was talking to them.  She did it again when she got off the nest for a few mins, the chicks followed and scratched around the ground with her.  It amazes me how God designed animals. 

I mowed the lawn and Jonah wanted to do it, too.  I love mowing the law and so does he, so we have to take turns.  He mows parts and I mow parts.  I'd rather do it all myself since I enjoy it so much, but I make myself share.  LOL  Here he is (not a great pic)

For lunch, the kids packed a picnic and piled into the wagon of the 4-wheeler.  We took a long ride on the seasonal dirt roads checking out the fields of hay and corn.  We saw a hawk close up, a game bird of some sort with a long tail and we even saw an owl flying low thru the woods.  We've never seen an owl flying before.  What beautiful grace.

We found a nice spot to have a picnic on a close friend's property and set up our blanket.  I read The Matchlock Gun to them while they ate.  It was so quite and all we heard were the sounds of red-winged blackbirds.

My dh had been gone for 2 days in a king salmon fishing tournament.  A friend of his is a charter boat captain.  They caught 18 beautiful king salmon and got 6th place in the tournament.  The prize covered their expenses with a little extra, which is nice.

The best part is that noone else wanted the fish, so he brought it all home and cleaned it.  We'll give some away and the rest we'll seal up in vacuum sealer bags and put in the freezer!  Last year's catch lasted us all year and we ate it a couple times a month-more in the summer.  Here he is cleaning fish. 

Here he is as the "maniacal fisherman."  This pose was our oldest dd's idea-LOL.  I love it.

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