Finally Friday!!

What to do today, I actually really need to get a field sprayed for weeds before the rain starts. We thought it was going to be raining by tonight but it looks as if it has been pushed back. I need to take advantage of it. Also need to get some tomatoes picked at least the ones that are close to being ripe. I hope that will help the others ripen up and I really should do some more shearing. A little bit everyday and I will eventually get done.

This afternoon will be filled up with football and errands. Have to run farm donations down to town for the volunteer fire fighters and to the FFA for their dinner and auctions coming up. Going to throw in a donation for the CSA and hope that might help drum up a little bit of business or at least some interest for next year. Then it is practice and the homecoming game. # has to go to do a presentation during halftime for the youth football program. Then its home, bed, get up and get ready for a game in Estacada. After the whooping they got last week I hope they will pick it up and kick some butt tomorrow. They can do it, they just have to get it together. I'd like to see # get some good sacks.

Oh one last thing, I've seen where people don't put the names of their kids on here and I think that is a good idea. So I give them all sumbols. I'll leave it up to you to figure out who is who. Or you can just ask me.

The first family post

Hey, 

So this will be a quick post, it is getting late and the bed is begining to call.  I don't want to miss that since the last few nights I have found myself laying awake around midnight wishing I could go to sleep then waking up at 5:30 to the alarm wishing I could go back to sleep.  :( 

Was a rainy fall feeling day today.  Did a quick browse out to the garden.  Everyting has stopped, no slowing down or gradual die down of growth, it is done.  I was hoing to get a couple more weeks of cucumbers and summer squash before it all ended.  Time to get the hoops and cloth back over the things I want to ripen.  I did finally get enough tomatoes to can 2 canners for us.  The CSA people have all their canning veggies so the rest belongs to me.  I would really like to hit my 100qt goal this year.  We're 14 closer to that woo hoo!...?   Spent several hours shearing Christmas trees, but weenied out when the blisters started to form on my fingers. Tomorrow its tape and hopefully batting gloves (if I can find them) to make it less painful.  That is if my arm will work, it is pretty tired tonight.  Finished up today at football practice with C.  They had a bad game on Saturday, the boys weren't "feeling it" and played badly, more like the 3/4th team instead of the varsity players.  They spent some quality time pushing the coaches son around on the sled.  Hopefully the will "feel it" this Saturday when we play Estacada. 

A Change of Plans

I have obviously been doing badly at keeping up with this blog as a farm blog.  I have been using a blog on wordpress for farm stuff and think I will continue to do so.  So my intention at this time is to turn this blog over to a family blog to help me keep family members who I should be calling more in the loop of waht is happening around this zoo we call home. 

That being said, if you were following this blog (or what little I have wrote) for farm stuff please check us out at snowlinetreefarm.wordpress.com  or look us up on facebook"snowline tree farm"  those two places will have the most up to date info on what is happening farm wise for us. 

Thanks
Denise