The past few weeks have been vacation and chaos. Shelby-Wayne is married. Seth is back from driving. We are back together, right where we need to be.
We were able to get our garden planted Monday. We both love to garden and it is fun watching plants pop up and grow. We use the food that we grow for our food storage so hopefully one day we will be stocked up enough to actually survive off of. Last year we canned a lot but I don't think we will do very well on three different kinds of pickles and jam. We actually did a lot more than that but hopefully we can add to it. We don't have a great place to store our food storage now so we are starting out slow until we get our house built next year. We have a pantry planned out that will fit all of the food storage we will ever need. Until then, we have a drafty mouse infested basement to keep things in. Not a very smart place to store food at all.
We are branding this weekend so we are definitely getting back into the swing of things at the ranch. We have to move cows to our summer pasture up in the black hills by the end of this month. Last year when we were moving cows home, our side by side trailer broke on the way home while I was driving it. Right behind me was Seth with the horse trailer and then Cody with the semi-truck. Cody just barely got the semi truck home because something went wrong with the radiator. Here we are almost a year later and we still don't have those things fixed, and we needed them done yesterday. That is usually how things go around the ranch. Hopefully things will slow down a bit, but only enough for us to catch up.
I decided when I started this blog that I was going to write things to help our families and friends get to know both Seth and I better. Every few weeks I will answer a few questions about us so everyone can learn who we really are.
This week the question I picked was, "Do you play a musical instrument, and if so, then which one?"
Seth used to play the drums in high school band but he no longer plays. We have his old drum set out at the ranch so maybe I can get him going again! I play the flute, piano, and violin. I starting playing the flute almost ten years ago. I can hardly believe that myself. When we used to live in Florida my mom taught all my brothers and sisters a little about playing the piano. When we moved to South Dakota there wasn't a lot of room for the piano so I skipped a few years until I moved to Newcastle. Donna has a piano that I enjoy playing every time I have a free moment. I am not very good but sometimes I help out with the primary at church. Seth bought me a violin this last Christmas and I have been working at it. It is much harder than the other two instruments but one day, I will be somewhat decent at it. We will see!
If there are any questions you want answered, comment on the link and I would love to answer them for you! See you next week!
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