Knolltop Farm Wife

Good Morning from a cloudy Knolltop and they're calling for scattered rain showers! Okay, the big deal of the day is baseball pictures. JW and Luke brought home their pictures last night and I've already scanned them and will show you now. Luke is on the left and JW on the right. I asked them to get a buddy picture since both of them play and one's a catcher and the other a pitcher....they were so cooperative, they didn't argue about not having their own picture or anything. This is so incredibly special to me....can you tell? I just wish there wasn't a law against smiling! Jake is the manager of the team and is in the team picture, but the big boys put a halt on having all three in the picture...darn. JW is going to the Williamston Prom this weekend with a girl from there. She's a great gal, hard working, plays AAU volleyball but that's all I will report to keep my promise to JW. I told him I wouldn't tell everyone about her....so email me if yo...

Good Morning from a cool but kind of sunny Knolltop! Well, I know now that one person enjoys my weather report in the opening sentence. A long time friend of my family back in Fowlerville, Don Hibbard appreciates my weather opening. His wife Lou sent along a nice email letting me know they read the blogs and that Don especially likes the weather report. I emailed the Hibbards back and said I just can't seem to start writing without giving a weather report. Actually, I think that's why I have a hard time getting my other blog started, I don't mention the weather. Anyway, last evening we headed to Adrian for the boys baseball game and they won! Luke went three for three in hitting and JW had a couple of good hits...one was right on the line! They were on fire. It was a great game. And yes, we passed the bus on our way home and Luke was picking the rocks out of his hair! Sunday morning the skidsteer blew up. And I have to say at 4:30 am, Bobby called Matt Blonde, the...

Good Tuesday Morning from the rainy Knolltop! It's supposed to clear off today so that we can have a baseball game! Speaking of baseball, I wrote a silly post on my Dairy Agenda Today blog, but I've got to share it here just in case there are those of you who refuse to head to that site or you don't have time for one more click! I understand fully and completely! Anyway, Luke was out in the barn with me as I was milking. He was sitting on a bucket of dirty towels talking about his day when I noticed him picking at his scalp. I asked him what he was doing and he told me he was picking the rocks out of his hair! Of course I ran over to see what in heaven's name he was talking about and I saw there was grit and gravel in his hair, along with shavings and a little straw chaff, (he had been playing basketball in the haymow). He said on the bus ride home from baseball games he spends his time picking the rocks out of his hair. Apparently when he flips his mask off it fa...

Good Morning from a sunny, warm, breezy Knolltop! The weekend was beautiful and I've got the dirty hands to prove it! Every gardener in the country was out pulling weeds and working their flowerbeds this past weekend and I was no different. While Jake played with his tractors in the dirt that I just worked up for him, I pulled and worked in my flower beds. There just isn't anything better than a freshly weeded flowerbed....unless it's a freshly mowed lawn! JW spent the day yesterday conducting FFA regional officer interviews. He said it was a long day and it reminded him of dairy judging. He had to take notes in order to remember the people from the beginning of the day. I thought that was a funny correlation. I thought I should share a picture that's been waiting to be shared. Two weeks ago Bobby celebrated his 51st birthday. He even had a very special cake that was made by JW's friend Hillary. Not only did she do a great job decorating the cake, it was absolute...

Good Morning from a very warm, sunny Knolltop ! I just got back in from doing chores and now I'll run some errands before the afternoon of working outside. The boys have an away game today and since the gal that comes and milks for us is hurt, Sarah and I will stay home while Bobby heads to the game. I heard from my parents last night and they were in the U.P. They had found another van in the paper and the guy took their van in on trade! So now they're in a navy blue Venture and they discovered it has a DVD player in it! The grand kids will love that. Better get going!

Good Morning from a sunny going to be warm today Knolltop! The bush outside my office window is budding and it's so nice to see green! Okay, I've pulled out a picture from the past. My mom sent this picture to me. It's probably one of my most favorite pictures of me as a kid. Yes, that's me mixing up calf milk....some things just never change. Although I don't mix it donning striped shorts and spike high heels with an old man's hat, I do mix it up every morning and night. I loved those high heels. They were my absolute favorite thing to buy at the dime store in town. They were plastic with elastic straps. They never lasted too long because I liked to wear them all over the farm, but I still loved them! Now I'm off to the barn to bed the cows and feed the heifers....without the heels!

It's a sunny, windy day here on the Knolltop. I'll take it! Did I happen to mention earlier that my parents were driving to Alberta, Canada to watch my nephew John Stene graduate? I think I did. Anyway, they drove, they watched, they enjoyed and now they called me this morning, stranded in Northern Minnesota! Their van quit and they are making a decision on what they want to do. But that's not the half of it! While they were driving along US 2, talking to my brother on the phone he mentioned that one our old neighbors that lived down and around the corner had moved to Minnesota and he thought my parents were near to him. Now, these neighbors were actually a family of six. Mom and Dad and four boys. Four big, big boys. The Grill family. The third son, Tommy, was my late brother Tim's, good friend. They did a lot together growing up and had a great friendship. In fact so good it lasted through a gunshot wound to the arm. Tommy and Tim were out rabbit hunting a...