"the rabbi"

This is the Rabbi, he is a male numian goat, here you see us discussing the finer points of life and justice.


He is so funny, lookin, smelling and acting.

rick and rabbi, randy on the roof.

#1

so this picture doesnt even come close to capturing the magnatude of the beauty of the sky that afternoon

lacking in time

SO I find very little time lately to write nice long inciteful posts so im gonna say a bit and include a bunch of pics then promise, promise that when we get settled in the new house i will spend some more time, being bloggeriffic!

sheep!

gert an kit-en getting to know eachother









Gert







Buckley

mom and me

I put her to work while she was here

Me driving the Miracle that is old squeaky

Feeding the calfs that are in the indoor pen, we have so many calves that we have run out of hutches

Apparently we are taking up fishing with randy and becky

benefit tractor pull at feild days, very long day, but thats what its all about~!







This is where our house will be in about five weeks!!!

dresses and messes

So....drumroll please...................this is my dress.












So i had my own birthday party, i cooked a 5 lb roast (made sauce with the leftovers) it was toatlly stressful (mainly for the dog who had to be on a leash all day) but great to have the whole family over.
-natalie
-becky and randy
-virginia + three -jackson 3-natalie 2 and caitlin four months
-justin virginias husband

Yeah the roast is cooked!
my mom got me this great clay baker and of course i thought that this would be a great time to tryit for the second time~ neil and ottos was the back up plan!




randy and the beckster!










natalie, mom and rick! Everyone loved my appatizers (lobster cream puffs), veggi platter ranch and caprizi salad brought by my sister.







Had to have room for eight adults!

















....take you for a ride in my big green tractor..well actually this is one of the smaller tractors. Haying season is in full swing!

Loving our beautiful life

Jeans beautiful garden

we went to the east middlebury gourge the other day, wow what an amazing place think bartlets with a teacup touch.

One of the few beautiful days of the summer rick and I went to Branbury state park and had a kick butt cookout and swam in the lake.

Rick, Becky and Randy cooking Jeans Birthday BBQ

Family boat ride at the lake house, mom , Justin (ginnys Hubby) rick and Ginny

Little man in charge with popey

Jean and jackson waiting for everyone else to get it together

We had Jeans 50th Birthday at one of the lake cottages, we couldnt have it in the main lake house because one of the uncles is living there with his family.

Rick with the merc

The girls and i deep in conversation. (Alice, Catlin, and Natalie)

Catlin, Natalie Aunt Alice and Ginny, Who is going to be my matron of honor in the wedding. Natalie and catlin will be flower girls.

Field Days Tractor Pulling

So tractor pulling is a big deal. The motto is we work hard to play hard. The tractor is a john deere 4450 and it runs about 700 horse. Its pretty amazing and great to see the boys (big randy, randy and rick) get to enjoy something together, farm life can be VERY high stress. The video is ricks first pull of the season, (big randy and chris our mechanic have gone to many pulls this year but this was the first that the boys could attend) Rick placed third in this heat. Randy got a second and big randy also got second. The guys say it is scary to drive the pulling tractor because it has so much power.

It was a beautiful day and i got some great pictures of the men and their tractor, this one is randy getting ready for his pull. The big show ring for horse showing is behind him

This was big randys pull of the day i love that you can see the power the front wheels are off the ground!!

The men of West Street Dairies, getting ready for big randys pull

Rick and i sporting our west street dairies gear.

4th of july

So on the forth i went to bristol and watched the parade with virginia and the kids, it rained a bit but was still a blast! in this photo is natalie, jackson and virginia.

Me totally pimp with myscarf and 4th of july outfit, in the new car.

Virginias van had a flat tire, perfect time for male bonding. In this one is Justin (virginias hubby) Jackson and Rick.