"Sand Box"

The spring winds have started around here. For those of you that aren't familiar with them, they can turn a perfectly nice day in one that's cold and incredibly dusty. Hannah and I have spent some time outside on the nice days but haven't gotten to go out much lately. I made her a makeshift sand box in the house. It's a container full of cornmeal that she can throw all over the kitchen. (Thanks for the idea Kari.) It's a great inside alternative to having sand all over the house and she's learning that it's not very tasty to eat!

Happy Easter

Dyeing Eggs

This morning Hannah and I dyed Easter eggs. I wasn't planning on doing it until my friend Brooke emailed me a recipe for which I had all of the ingredients. We put on old clothes and got to it. Hannah enjoyed herself. She threw eggs on the table. Luckily they were hard boiled! And played in the dye. When we got done we had very little dye on us and only two eggs were cracked (one from Hannah and one from Mommy).

Mommy's Helper is Getting Bigger

We are still feeding cows in this neck of the woods. The grass appears to have begun to green up in the last week but we are still a long way from turning them out to pasture. My little helper now hangs out in the pickup while I feed the cows. She is too adventurous right now to be trusted on the feed wagon when it is really full of hay.

She would like to be on the feed wagon however. Here are the tears of disappointment. We normally include the "Happy Hannah" pictures and I just wanted to assure you that like every baby she cries too!

Sorry about the really dirty windows. It's just the feed pickup so who cares?!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Here's a rainbow that was out this morning. Pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Probably not, I think just the town of Newell.

Here's my first attempt at a fondant cake. Like I needed something else to do! Hey, a mind that continues to learn stays young. And I learned a lot. It didn't turn out too bad for having done it on a day when Hannah was a bit under the weather.

Screeching Halt

I came to a screeching hault today when I saw this in a field. I'm working on a grant for Ben's friend Luke and we were out taking pictures of some irrigation equipment. We were toodling down the road when I slammed on the brakes and said, "Luke did you see that?" No, he hadn't so I backed up and since I had camera I took some pictures. This poor cat was wandering around in a field with a tin can stuck on its head. I took the pictures and thought about letting the story stop here, but do not dismay animal lovers I saved the cat. It took some doin' though. I tried to gently as I could remove the can. In the end I had the cat by the scruff of the neck and wiggled and pulled, and wiggle and pulled until the can finally came off. The cat seemed to be in good shape and trotted off toward it's apparent home to hunt down another can with a tasty morsel in it. Sorry folks that's about as exciting as it gets around here today!