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This week was Vacation Bible School at our church. I volunteered to be in charge of games and since I was so busy playing all the games, I forgot to take any pictures. Oops! Nevertheless, I had a great time. …

We have had some beautiful weather the past several days and have been able to put up quite a bit of our second cutting. You know how I told you I loved the sight of a freshly mowed field? Well, …

RAGBRAI was this week in Iowa and for those of you who aren’t familiar with RAGBRAI, it stands for Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa. And that’s exactly what it is. Thousands of bikers take a week-long trip across …

We celebrated Ty’s birthday yesterday. He’s a big 4-year-old now! We all had lunch at Joe and Heather’s. Then Ty opened his presents. Uncle Clint got Ty some water guns. Watch out Jakey!

After Ty’s birthday party, Beck, Marci, Abby, Jessica, Lindsay and I went to our house to do sweet corn. I was so thankful to have so much help! We had quite a system and made short work of the corn. …

We are working on putting up our second cutting of hay. We have had some rains the past couple of weeks which put us a little bit behind. But we can’t complain about rain in July! I love to watch …

Will, Rhett, Abby, and I moved our cows yesterday. (Note, these were not Werner Family Angus cows so don’t be alarmed if you see a white face every now and again.) It was a pretty uneventful drive, so when we …

We traveled down to Maryville yesterday to watch the Hays kids show in their county fair.   Jessica and Lindsay were in the same class of Home Raised Steers. The girls did a great job. Notice Craig and Dad in …

Our fall bulls and heifers started their feed efficiency test yesterday. Here Caleb is buzzing the bull’s Electronic Identification (EID) tag which sends a signal to the scale head to identify which animal is in the chute. (I don’t know …