Mild and Wild November

november was all sorts of extremes, weather wise.  check out the produce from my garden the first week of november when the kids and i cleaned it out!!?  some of that stuff is proudly no-till:).  we also played flag football at the stake center that week and burned weeds and cleaned up in the mild weather.  then, the very next friday came a snow storm that gave the kids a day off from school because there was so much of it in town and it was crazy icy!

during this month we visited family for grant's blessing day in paul.  we also started feeding cattle down at gibbens.  here bentley is helping ben get the molasses and corn out of the seed tender on one of the many school outages (wish those were in the winter, so we could ski!)  by family default, we became the keepers and 1/3 owners of 4 pigs that brian had been raising at his house.  ben said the picture above is how him and his brothers slept most of the time.  all in one room, all in one bed!  ben went trucking one day in the frigid cold.  i ran and took him his lunch in his fine semi.  check out the cardboard!  and i trudged on with girls camp.  i felt like i might relapse into oblivion from the stress of it all..but with the lord on my side, i am still moving forward.  little buzz took karate at the y and several of the days were icy roads.  he is taking a break right now until santa brings him a karate suit and because santa was feeling a bit frazzled.  not to mention, his first session after thanksgiving, i got a call that he was extremely dizzy and not able to balance.  it was the oddest thing ever...until i remembered that bentley had kindly cleaned his ears out for him the day before and shoved a q-tip down his eardrum.  that's always good for the equilibrium! 

ben and i did quite a few classes at nampa fit, and that was a lot of fun until it triggered some problems for me again.  there is something always to work out...but always many more things to be thankful for that is for sure!  we've had snow twice, a bout of freezing rain and last week, a bunch of rain to help our water supply.  we're grateful for the moisture, but are definitely hoping for a white christmas!