Coming to the End of Summer Vacation

Bea got a bottle calf. She named it Spunky.

I was worried I was missing a chicken until the tarp moved above me.

Besides sleeping on the tarp, they try to eat it.

Dad entered his WWII DUKW and WC-52  in the Riverboat Days Parade this year.  Our friend Lester drove the WC-52 carrying the parade marshals and my dad drove the DUKW carrying 7 WWII veterans.

I drove the Big Red behind the DUKW which contained little USA flags that we were handing out.

Grandma has chicken troubles.  She found a hole underneath her coop ramp.  Uncle Darrell set a gopher trap but only caught a rat leg.  Grandma then set 2 big traps with carrots as bait.  She moved one trap so her chickens could come out.  

School begins for me on Thursday...only 24 more hours of summer vacation!

Fun Week Away from Home

This past week Mom, Beatrice, and I went to church camp at Camp Bob Marshall at Custer, South Dakota.  The first evening at camp we got hail.  Not much compared to what the city of Custer received.

My cabin participated in the talent show.

It was all "hands off" for me while the person behind me was doing all the work of 

placing sunscreen on my face.

My friend Anna, Beatrice, and I climbed to the top of Harney Peak. This was my 5th time climbing it.  Mom seems to make it up to the top each year as well...she is always the photographer.  Beatrice got a bloody nose on the way down.

Fred took care of my chickens while I was gone.  He did a good job, although all the eggs were flipped upside down in the egg cartons.  Everyone knows the fat end goes down!

When I came home I made Dad put up the roost for the young hens.  They were roosting everywhere and pooping all over the shelves in the chicken coop.  The videos below show the second evening of trying to "train" them to use the roost.  The first time around was too chaotic to video!  You've got to be quick to get them all on and settled down. There's two videos because the camera man, Fred, accidentally hit the stop button.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlIST5qK_3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAH44Yv1Zzg