Today is our Anniversary!!!
We're going to the livestock auction this afternoon to "celebrate" lolol
I want to thank ALL of you for sharing in our excitement and wishing us well and congratulating us on the new place.
It's wonderful to have friends who are genuinely happy for us and with us!
Yesterday our neighbor had a baby shower for her daughter. I took my camera up and they were thrilled that I had because none of them had theirs with them. So I took lots of pics for them and plan to get them printed and put on cd for them as part of our baby gift for them. The mom-to-be was 10 years old at our wedding 12 years ago
Then last night, my mom watched our kids for several hours so we could "go out" for our anniversary. We didn't go on a "date" but went to my brother's MIL's house, because my brother JUST got in from Germany last week
We spent a good 2 hours visiting with my brother and his wife - which was wonderful.
We called mom to let her know we were on our way home, and to expect us by 11 pm. Well, it was an hour later than that when we got home because we almost killed 5 dairy cows with our van!
We were cruising down the main road - which is an extremely busy and 55 MPH road - and came right smack into a herd of dairy! E slammed on the brakes - and we weren't getting stopped!! He had the brakes smashed too the floor and all we heard was "screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech" and then bam! (and several cows pooped!)
We hit - well, actually bumped into - because by then we were
almost but not quite stopped - one of them. It actually gave us a look like, 'do you mind? i'm walking here!'
The worst part was, another car was coming from the other direction - and once all of the cows moved into our lane, the other car didn't slow down at all!!
So we stopped at a little house on our right - and they directed us to the farm that we had just passed. Went down to that farm, and the farmer comes out with a light and he and E walked the road with E showing him where we saw the cows.
They never found the cows. But, E walked to the man's barn with him to see if his cows were in there and then they walked to the pasture to see if his cows (he said he only has 9 head) were back there. I in the meantime am sitting in the drivers side of the van, keys in the ignition, windows up and doors locked, watching to see if that man came back a lone - you know, because of all those scary movies E watches where when the people trying to do a good deed get whacked off by the person they're trying to help?
I'm not kidding, I was praying while E was out of sight and said, 'Lord, if that farmer comes back and E is NOT with him, I'm going to run him down with the van and go for help - so please forgive me!"
Yes, I realize that wasn't rational - but it was past 11 pm at night and PITCH DARK and he WAS a stranger!
But, they both came back and the guy was a super nice and they said his cows were still in the back pasture.
As we were leaving he said, "If ya'll need firewood, I've got a bunch back there free for the taking if you come cut it up and clean it up."
We might take him up on that!
On the way home, E told me that while they were in the pasture and the farmer (who was 74 years old, but he only looked 50!!!!) was shining his light around and they saw a little kitten. The farmer said, "Oh look, a little stray kitty out here." E said he looked closer and said, 'That's not a cat! it's a baby skunk!" so they both took off through the gate
So it was a good night - with an OK ending - and today it's back to work with the Amish logging - lol
And this afternoon, we're going to Auction!! WHOOT!!!!
I'm excited for you! 
