Silver Linings

It is too bad that it takes a funeral to see far spread members of the family, but it was great to see both Jason and Josh in one week. After two trips to Altmar in four days Grandma will be sleeping well for the next few days, but it does her good to see other people, she is much sharper during and afterwards. It was nice to go and visit snow. It makes it so nice to come home to our bare ground, green is such a pretty color.

I am glad that Jess will be home tomorrow so that Grandma can stay home while Polly and I go to meet with the other livestock superintendents for the county fair. (I am the beef cattle superintendent, last year we did not take a cow, go figure. We showed goats, pigs, and ducks and a goose.) If Grandma had to go to the meeting we would just get there and she would be saying it was time to leave, before we even had a chance to start doing the work we need to get done before Monday night. Then she would spend the trip home telling us how patient she is. We have not left our book changes to the last minute or anything. Then when we get home Polly will go to bed after having been up working all night and I will get to type up our changes before Monday's meeting. Hopefully Jess will be out of class so that both Polly and I can go to the meeting, as she is assistant superintendent for beef, sheep, swine, goats, and unofficially dairy. That translates to she is young and gets to do our running for us. She was lucky last year in that we had two very nice strong teenage boys who were always looking for us to need some help and jumping right in and doing the heavy work for us, we told those boys they have to show there forever.

Mike is hurting tonight after a goat knocked into his bad knee today and knocked him down. He is not real pleased with my babies, to put it mildly.