Normal?

After two busy, stressful weeks, life is starting to return to normal for us.  Full time volunteers are starting to take over the coordinating and logistics that we locals had been doing, allowing us to get back to work.  The clean up is far from being done, but the work is going at a much slower pace, now that all the emergency work is done.  We are working with much smaller groups of volunteers now.

We had a very nice, laid back Thanksgiving here at our house.  It was a small group this year with much of the family going with their other side.  We have much to be thankful for!

I went out Christmas shopping Monday night for the first time.  It ended up being mostly a scouting trip.

Our loader tractor had been used in the fields north of town for debris clean up, and it came home the other night with 3 of its 4 tires flat.

We took a day off and went to the Peoria Farm Show yesterday.  The topics of discussion seemed to be more about tornadoes than farm machinery.  The first of the beefs took a trip to the locker plant also yesterday.  It was the first time in my life that I helped load cattle.  I would say it's a little easier than hogs, but because of their size, you don't push them around, and it's more dangerous.

The first seed catalog arrived in the mail today!

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
Genesis 18:7