Over the rainbow

It got to the point where we were not paying enough attention to, and regularly working, our bees, so K8 and I loaded them up and sold them to a friend...the price includes annual payment in honey. 

This is Wendy, our smallest Dexter cow. She almost died last year trying to push a huge calf out. She had been bred to our big bull, Red, which proved a mistake. The large calf got stuck and died before we could pull her out, and it was touch and go for about two weeks before Wendy stood up and started living a normal life again. I waited months for her to heal, then put her in with a small bull to see if she could have a successful pregnancy. I am happy to announce that she safely delivered this cute little red bull calf on 18 May. 

Our friend Brian dug a giant hole in the middle of paddock 6, so we could bury all the drywall scraps from the new house that Grandma is building next to our place. The dump wouldn't take it. Brian also buried the three stumps from the trees we had to remove to dig her basement. 

He did such a good job, you would never know he dug the hole except for the pile of rich earth that was left over - which will be used on Grandma's new yard.

I hired our Boy Scout Troop to camp out one Friday night on our newly cleared hillside. They spent four hours on Saturday morning picking up all the rocks and big branches left over from the original clearing operation. Now it looks even better. Brian brought his backhoe and the Scouts loaded the rocks into it's bucket for him to haul them away.

On Tuesday, 24 May, we took Kaidan to the St Louis Temple where he was sealed to us for all time and eternity. He is so cute and sweet.

After the Temple, we had a late lunch in a little Indian restaurant. The food and service were excellent. We're going back to visit both this weekend.

I don't know how I even spotted this tiny little snake in the ditch along the dirt road down near our bridge. Probably because I had just seen a big copperhead snake slide off the corner of bridge into the stream six feet away - my snake senses were put on high alert! No, I did not kill this non-venomous snake, but I certainly wish I had killed the copperhead...I will be looking for it this summer, and hope to post a pic of it's dead carcass later, along with any other poisonous vipers.

K6 is testing out his clay pigeon breaking skills with my new 20 gauge, double barreled coach gun. He had some success.  It is a fun gun to shoot.

K8 also accompanied us to this Saturday morning "Shoot" with friends from Church at a member's ranch. K8 used his single shot 20 gauge while his Seminary teacher flung the pigeons out over the pond. K8 also had good success with his shooting skills.

Was fortunate to see this double rainbow over our hill late one afternoon after a rain storm passed through. Wish I had a better camera to capture it, but, oh well...