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Helen and I put new flowers on the graves this week.  Junior wanted a saddle on George's stone.  They all look much better now.

I did not have enough flowers to re-do Debbie's grave, so at first I just took all the big white flowers from the others and put them in her vase.

With the vases on all the stones, it does not cost nearly as much to decorate all 3 graves.  But, Junior wanted a saddle on his Dad's stone.

So I went to the $ store at Alpena and got her new flowers.  It looks much better now.

Today, I am taking the kids down on the Buffalo and we are going for a little hike.  And maybe a picnic.  My knees still give me trouble, so we will limit it to 4 miles or less.  Hopefully, less.

Catching up

I need to get back into posting. This is my go to memory bank. The pic above is the old stone well house early yesterday morning in the fog.  I walked to the blue gate, starting before daylight.  Then, we went to Branson and got the oil changed on the truck.  I took the kids to eat a IHOP because Robert loves pancakes.

Today, we all just lazed around all day, doing nothing constructive.

A couple of weeks ago, I took the kids to Silver Dollar City for Robert's birthday.  They had a good time and I survived.  Actually, I bought a couple of Christmas presents and a painting of a goat.

The first of the month, we sold a bunch of goats.  Almost half the herd.  We sold all the little billies, 1 little nanny, 2 yearling nannies and 2 older nannies.  All together they brought almost $1500.  About half of that is pure profit over our expenses for the year, so that was not too bad.  This is the first time I  have sold so many at one time.  Usually, we would sell 2 or 3 times a year, but just once this year.

Now we have 16 nannies and Earnhardt.  But, I am giving one of the little red nannies to Linda T. so we will just have 16 total after that.

It is still pretty warm.  I turned the air on tonight.  I made the house hot baking Robert a pumpkin pie.  Tomorrow it will be October.  Time for fall weather.