Three Sisters: August Rush

Thursday, August 13, 2009

August Rush

Where has August gone? We are on the tail end of summer and I'm not to excited.

With the cooler weather this summer, it hasn't felt like summer at all.

The upside was I never turned the air conditioner on at home at all. Money saved.

The downside is my garden never really took off and produced much other than the ten million zucchini and weeds. If the frost stays away I might actually end up with one tomato out of my garden (I planted 10 plants this spring). We have gotten just a handful of cucumbers, but we have zucchini and weeds.

August started off with the girls getting ready for the county fair.

Both girls took steers for a project

Photo by Alliance Times Herald

Krista is the second girl in.

Photo by Alliance Times Herald

This was Dani's first year of showing livestock for 4-H

Photo by alliance times herald

Dani is on the left.

Junior Champion Showman! Beginner's luck?

Dani also showed two lambs.

Photo by Alliance Times Herald

She just did alright with her lambs, but that was okay.

After all we were just happy the lambs were still with us.

http://trio-of-sisters.blogspot.com/2009/05/litttle-bo-beep.html

Fair was a busy, crazy week and we actually call it vacation.

But thanks to a good friend we borrowed a nice camper and didn't

have to drive the 30 miles back and forth each day.

Next we made a mad trip to Denver for mydoctor's appointment.

The highlight of the day was lunch at Joe's Crab Shack

It was fun and we each ate a big tub of crab meat.They had dun gee crab, snow crab, Alaska crab, sausage, corn, potatoes, shrimp, clams, etc.

It was wonderful!

Now that summer has wound down it's back to school.

Both girls start tomorrow. I'm so not ready for the routines to start again.

Or all the meetings, fundraisers, sporting events, etc. Does that make me a bad parent.

Wish I could turn back time it was June 1st again.

I can't believe all three of us sisters haven't posted for August yet.

I'm sure Sister Three is busy with her little ones.

You have now heard what Sister Two has been doing.

Now Sister One needs to tell her story and it's a good one.

As our beloved mother has moved in to Sister One's home to live.

The only thing that has moved in to our place to live is

Charlotte:

I'm sure there will be stories to come about her or maybe some recipes.

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Anonymous said...: Phew!!! I was worried that the blogging had ceased. Thanks for sharing!; August 18, 2009 at 9:19 PM

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About Trudy

I am the oldest of the trio and I live on a small acreage not too far from my middle sister. I enjoy playing backyard farmer in the summer months when I'm not teaching. I am in a war with weeds and I hate to admit that the weeds are winning.

I've held a variety of jobs, but none so interesting as Sister Three's. I've driven an ice cream truck, sold Christmas tree ornaments, run four elementary media centers, made doughnuts and tacos, and now that I've grown up, I've settled on molding young minds.

I love to read, but I read mostly children's literature. It's fun to go to garage sales and find more children's books to add to my already substantial classroom collection.

I also like to garden. I love to plan trips that I'll never take because I can't stand to be away from home. The planning is the fun part.

I enjoy board games, computer simulations, jigsaw puzzles and logic problems.

I'm now hooked on Facebook, but it has been interesting running across old acquaintances.

I don't watch a lot of television, but I'm hooked on Grey's Anatomy and Desperate Housewives. Don't bother even trying to get a hold of me during these times .... unless it is blizzarding and you're calling off school!

I am learning how to quilt which has surprised everyone that knows me. I was probably the least likely person to do so. I love it though. It is the one activity in which I can completely turn off my head and not think about things.

I like to cook (especially green bean casseroles) during the summer months, but I don't seem to make the time during the school year.

I can be reached at Trio.of.sisters@gmail.com. You can also follow me (TrudytheGreat) on Twitter.

About Katie

I'm officially sister number 2 of the bunch.

I'm a 40 something mother of two girls and one boy- Krista, Dani and Trey. I've been married to my farmer husband Keith for 17 plus great years. I'm not sure where the time goes. Even though the girls are getting older, we aren't. Strange how that happens.

We live on a farm and ranch in Western Nebraska. It is a full time job for the family as well. We are always pitching in to help work cattle, weigh trucks or wash tanks. The girls really like scrubbing tanks, especially when it's cold outside. But agriculture is a good way of life.

I work full time in town a 2o mile drive from the ranch. Both girls love to play sports and and are active in our local 4-H program. Our family is a big supporter of our 4H program. That is probally our one (and only) hobby. The girls show lambs and calves for their livestock projects. That takes up much of our time and now a new little brother keeps us busy.

Things I like: cooking, gardening, watching food network, photography (even if I don't have a super cool camera like my little sister) and fiesta ware.

You can contact me at kcarter4@bbc.net

About Nicki

Being the youngest of the trio and co-leader of my own gang, I’m caught between two worlds: the baby I’ve always been and the emerging adult that’s trying to bust out.

Running after a gaggle of toddlers, (ok, there’s only two, but it feels like a herd when we’re loading into our Civic) I’m baffled by how I ended up here. Not the birds and bees part, just the part where I’m supposed to know how to mold two young minds, when I just figured out how to cut my own meat. Actually, I don’t even cut my own meat. I became a vegetarian instead. But I cut my own tofu.

I live in California with my awesome fish-farming husband Andrew and our two amazing and overly-photographed children Isabella (3) and Anderson (1).

Before becoming a stay-at-home mom I tried my hand at a few jobs: music therapist, writer, hot air balloon chaser, waitress, telemarketer, librarian, piano teacher, maid, telegram singer, and underwear salesperson. All handy skills for a mom.

Now, when I’m not daydreaming about running away to Paris, I like going to the beach with the fam or taking pictures. (My Nebraska roots sneak up on me though. I’m always snapping shots of tractors and chickens and green bean casseroles.)

I also like Eckhart Tolle and am secretly obsessed with Harry Potter.