Lately, it seems like we’ve had snow every other day. On the days when it’s warm and not snowing, the guys quickly head out back to work on the pad for the shop we’re building. They also had to build a new road to the back of our property. The …

Ok. That title is a slight exaggeration. We’re not really experiencing an “earthquake” but the earth is quaking out here! Many of you know that we are in the dirt excavation business which means we have lots of heavy equipment around. We’re building a shop out back this spring so …

I’ve mentioned before that my dad runs the train whenever the local elevator needs to haul out a load of grain. Of course, the boys LOVE to go with him. Josh is already learning how to run the train and I madet he mistake of saying “learning”. He corrected me …

We ordered new tires for our four-wheeler since they were worn out and one of them kept going flat. Tim had told Josh that he could change them if he wanted to give it a try. Of course, Josh LOVES to have a “meaningful task” and couldn’t wait to do …

It seems like all I do these days is work. I haven’t had time to “really” play with my blog in forever. I miss that, but at least March is just around the corner now that I can flip the calendar to Feb tomorrow. With March, comes the end of …

Here are some random work pictures from the job the guys have been working on this winter. If the weather would ever get cold again then they could stay home and get some of the things done that we normally do during winter “slow down.” I’m starting to think we …

Here are some more pictures of our camper. You can see from the outside that it is the “bunk” model by the double windows in the back. Above and below are pictures going in/out the door.Looking from the back end of the camper up toward the door. The couch made …

Every year I try to change one thing that didn’t work very well the previous year. I’ve tried several new systems for recording our personal finances the last few years and nothing seemed to work until last year (2006) when I decided to quit using Quicken for our personal finances. …

Last week Josh went with daddy and Grandpa for the day to help unload the big dump trucks on an out-of-town job we’re doing. Here they come Watching them unload wasn’t enough for Josh! Both of the boys went with daddy and grandpa last weekend to get everything lined up …