The last few weeks have been rainy, rainy, rainy! Thankfully, the weekends have been nice, which leaves for lots of catchup yard work. It seems through the week we are in twelve different directions, and thankful that Bill is around to help with all that running. With Bill & Kristin helping out some friends with babysitting and running kids to & from the charter school, Bill & Kristin are pretty busy without the extra things thrown in! The leave at 7:30, drop Ryan at school (Who is really thankful, since he gets to sleep in an hour), Bill drops Kristin off, and picks up 3 of the 5 kids, and heads off to their school by 8am. At 11:45, Bill heads back, picks up the kindergartener and heads back to the school. Now that Kristin can get the youngest off the bus at 1:30, that saves Bill one trip! Back at 4 to get 4 of them, and then take them home. Then Bill & Kristin come home. It's a full day for Kristin, as she is a sack rat, and loves to sleep in. She's been napping when the youngest comes home at 1:30, and then is ready to go with the other 4 get home at 4pm! To add to this chaos, Ryan has started drivers education. He has about 50 hours with us, and will finish up to get his license. He goes once a week to class, who we are thankfully trading off rides with my old teaching partner. I said to her daughter yesterday "It's funny that you & Ryan are having class together on Monday's again"! For 8 years they attended Monday home school classes together!
The weekend of the 21st, we had Ryan's football oil change fundraiser. Being that Ryan was away at a youth conference with his youth group, Bill & I ran all three cars into town to have the oil changed. Bill took the big truck into the tire shop after the oil change, as we had an odd feeling in one of the tires...opposite the one I had to replace last week. Turns out that tire is bad too. We think it was a result of the travel time on the chains in the mountains on our last trip. Regardless, they refunded the fee for the used tire I put on the week before, and gave us $ for the two front tires, and Bill had all four put on. Not what we planned, but what do you do.
I finished with the little truck's oil change just about the time Bill was finished at the tire shop, and we headed into the yard. 
We had a tree that needed some trimming in preparation for a new driveway to the barn, plus Bill dropped five more trees...some that had some damage, some that had overgrown into other trees,
and one that was rotting from the inside out. 
I hated to take out the plum tree, because of my fond memories of my grandfather on his several trips to Oregon, always at plum time! I will forever remember his plum stain on his shirt telling my grandmother "Nope, I haven't had any more plums"...as he & Kristin grinned with purple lips!After the trees were down, rather than clean them up, we headed to the chicken coop. Bill can cut up the trees during the week, but I was afraid of having him cut them down while here alone at home during the day.
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| Bill's sign from way back...made a nice addition! |
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| NEW FENCING--INCLUDING THE OLD COOP FOR THE LITTLE GIRLS |
Here are our new girls outside for the first time....they loved it!
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| Our Older Girls--and the reason we do this!! |
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| Little Black |
 Fuzzy Feet...one of our Dark Brahmas |
| Fuzzy Feet...one of our Dark Brahmas |
As I was out taking pictures...I came across Kristin and her best friend McKenzie. McKenzie lives in Washington and is not here very often....so the girls spend every waking moment together, and several nights of sleep over time too! Kristin works school around McKenzie and takes her breaks on the Washington spring break schedule! McKenzie is home schooled also, so the girls have a lot in common.
Of course, Kristin's Dog Lexxi is never far.... I was able to sneak up on them for this first shot....just laying in the sun, chatting about "girl things"!!
Of course, no trip is complete without a makeover hairdo!!
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