What I've been up to...

If any of you have been wondering why I haven't posted or haven't been seen around it's because of work. Rader Farm's raspberry harvest is in full swing now and I'm putting in one hundred hours a week. We're just getting busy as we come up on peak season. With the long hours what I miss the most is the good fellowship with family and friends. A big shindig will have to be planned when harvest is over.

I don't have much planned besides chickens coming the beginning of August. I will also be helping another friend process their chickens. I'll post on that later.

Bye for now.

Happy 19th Birthday Hannah!

Wait...my little sister is nineteen?! Wow, time flies!

The gals had a tea party and dance with their friends to celebrate

Independence Day Celebration

I was instructed to take lots of "cute" pictures so I started with this cute gal

Old fashioned relay race:

Pouring milk

Peeling carrots

Pounding nails

Sewing buttons

Folding towels

Running with a bail of hay

Rebekah and Kelsie. They look like sisters, don't they?

Processing Our Chickens

The W's vehicle full of ice


Catching chickens




The team, thanks everyone for the help!


Laura gutting her first chicken


The small chickens were difficult to fit your hand into



Thank you to Mrs. Weese, Kelsie, and Rebekah for the pictures!

A Call to Prayer by J.C. Ryle

I just finished reading this good little book. J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) knew that praying is as natural - and as necessary - to spiritual life as breathing is to physical life. If this book was apropos in his day, it is doubly so in ours. This booklet is Bishop Ryle's clarion wake-up call about prayer. It is a potent remedy for spiritual apathy and weak Christianity. I put this in my top 5 books category.

Moon Over Twin Sisters

Helping Friends with Chicken Processing

Thanks Kelsie for taking all the pictures! (except, of course, the last one)