Yeehaw!

I was going to post a chicken picture today.

And then Madeline went and broke the Osage 7th grade girls record for the mile.

Scratch the chicken picture.


1 year ago:

Newest resident

Spring self-portrait

* Rubber chore boots replace snow boots

* Chairs returned to the front porch

* Green grass

* Still need a stocking cap

I am rooster

Hear me crow!



Soooo good looking.



Lookit me and my bad self.




3 years ago:

Our Farming Heritage - Part I

1 year ago:

Train kept-a rollin'

And the winner is..

Oh my gosh (or "O.M.G." as my eldest daughter would say), you guys are good! So many answers that I just couldn't choose. I couldn't! So I handed the laptop over to Matt and made him pick.

There were a whole lot of names that made me hungry. For chocolate. And coffee. And pie. And ice cream. I thought Aileen's continuation of the Shakespeare theme was brilliant. Kristi's observation that he has George Clooney eyes - how right she is! After this contest's entry and the last one, I think Patti is jonesing for some beef ;)

So I made Matt choose, and after he hemmed and hawed (what does that even mean?) he finally went with ... (drumroll please)...Bullwinkle! Thanks for the name, Carrie! A calf named after a moose - perfect!

Carrie, please email me your pick of the photos and your mailing address to themillers92 (at) osage (dot) net.

Stay tuned, another contest coming up...soon :)


3 years ago:

Up close and personal

It's another "Name That Calf" contest!

You already met Number Six's baby a couple of weeks ago - a cute solid brownish-black bull calf. Now you get to help name him!

Once again, winner will get pick of a 5x7 photo from this collection:

Sugar Creek Farm::Images

(or you can choose the picture of "your" calf shown here!)

Comments will close tomorrow (Monday) at 9 p.m. central.

Can't wait to hear what you come up with!

(Twinville - I need your mailing address to send Zorro's picture your way. But I understand you've been a little preoccupied this week with the fire, so no hurry! Email themillers92 (at) osage (dot) net whenever you get around to it. Hope everyone is safe!)

(Judy - I also need your mailing address, and which picture you'd like for your win naming Shakespeare. Thanks!)


3 years ago:

Moved

State track

Today I drove a car full of girls down to the Iowa middle school girls state track meet in Ankeny, just one in a caravan of cars from Osage. Spring track meets in Iowa (or tennis, or golf, or trap shoot meets for that matter) are an interesting game for the spectator as well as athlete, because you just never know what kind of weather you're going to be sitting in. Today was cold (started in the mid-30's, "warmed" up into the 40's in the afternoon) and windy (20 to 30 mph). So along came the sleeping bags, hats, mittens and winter coats. But at least it wasn't raining, a rare thing this spring, and the sun was out. Except nobody was thinking sunscreen or lip balm this time of year and after 10 hours in a set of west-facing bleachers we all looked rather pink.

So though there were (many) portions of it that were long and rather boring (like 6 heats of the 1500), it was still fun to watch the girls compete at this level and I was glad I went. Despite only getting in 2.5 meets around the rain so far this spring they did all right. There was some tough competition!

Madeline ran first leg of the shuttle hurdle relay, 400 (last) leg of the sprint medley, and anchored the 4 x 400.

Here she is coming over the first hurdle (in the middle in the green & the black under armour). She just ran this race in a meet for the first time last Thursday, so I was a little nervous about it. But their team placed 4th overall in this event in the small schools division, so I guess I worried for nothing (as usual, I guess.)



She likes to run the 7 flight hurdles. And yet it seems to me like she's got a distance runner's build. But what do I know?







Just last week she started running the mile, and got 2nd in last Thursday's track meet - only 10 seconds off the 7th grade girls school record. So she's excited to work at improving her time this week and gunning for that record :)


3 years ago:

Neighborly advice

This little piggy

2 years ago:

Bottle babies

Graduate

1 year ago:

Chicken decorating

Quilt squares

Convo

Madeline & Rafe were helping Matt fix fence in the pasture last weekend where I caught them having a little convo on the tractor.


3 years ago:

Cold

2 years ago:

A new month

1 year ago:

Springtime