Getting Ready!

We've been getting our pasture ready for our cows! They should be calving anyday & then we'll move them down to our land. We are really excited! We (and when I say we, I mean Aaron) have been doing a lot these past couple months - cut & cleaned up cedar trees, burned wood piles, planted seed in east portion of pasture (it's growing!), purchased electric fence & dug a new well! We have several more items on our to-do list, but we are getting closer!

Last night we went out to empty our grass clippings. Aaron & Brecken took a walk to see how our seed was coming up. Of course, I had my camera with me - here are a few of my favorite pics :)

I Spray Baby

Lovely, eh? Leighton had been drinking a bottle. I left the room & hadn't been gone more than a minute. I hear giggling...and 'I spay baby'. I couldn't quite make out what Brecken was saying until Leighton turned around & faced me. Brecken had been pushing the bag in the bottle so that it would spray Leighton in the face! Milk baths are supposed to be good for your skin, right?

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

I don't consider ourselves to be 'trashy' people or big-time consumers, but I am sometimes appalled at the amount of trash we haul to the curb each Friday.

In an attempt to 'do our part' in saving our earth, we have been using these bags for almost a year. I love them & I am actually doing pretty well at remembering to take them to the store with me! Our local grocery ALSO gives back 5 cents per bag you bring in....so I'm 'making money' with them too :)

We also have started using these cloth diapers with Leighton. We still use disposables on occasion, but I figure every time we use a cloth one, we are at least keeping one more diaper out of a landfill. They make them super easy to use & they clean up real easy too!

We also learned that our little ole town recycles too! Why don't they advertise this more???? So, now we need to go buy some bins to separate our plastic, glass & paper.

Earth Day is observed on April 22nd. What are YOU going to do this year to help preserve our Earth? As Bob the Builder says, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!