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New Toy, Gardening & Other Miscellany

I am going to be heading down to Frederick, SD this week to meet up with one of our grower families and our customer for work. I will be taking photos of the family and hopefully getting some video and photos with our drone too. So, I had it home last week so I could try get get more familiar with it. I made it take some pics of us. :-)




Daddy took the day off work on Friday to go down to a snowmobile swap meet near Princeton, MN. He brought back a surprise for the girls.


It's a nice little size for Brynn to drive and it is a manual, but she was doing pretty well getting used to shifting.






Clara rode with Brynn for a bit and then got into her usual duty of shoveling out dead insects from the back garage. I think we were both a bit surprised when she encountered one that was still alive. Haha. She just cracks me up.



Playing hair salon together on Saturday.




They did the dishes together last night after supper. And tonight again, too, so hopefully this is a new trend!



The garden has been coming along pretty well. Usually I am not one to be found out in it, but I took the girls out there last night to see what needed to be picked.


There are always tomatoes to be picked!





I was just saying to Dana the other night how I was surprised that we don't find any worms in the garden. I guess we must have gotten enough rain the past couple of days as Brynn did unearth a couple when she was digging potatoes. Not sure why he ended up in the bucket though. Gross.




Clara declared, "I'm a farmer!" Hehe - sure are, Clara!






Play-doh fun with Dad tonight...



Comments

theweckerlys said…
Love the garden pics! Farmers for sure :) Can't wait to see the four wheeler in action in person! Looks like lots of fun.

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