Sorry.

Sorry all of you guys for not posting for the....um.... past year. Here is what's going on in my life right now.

1. I am graduating on Friday, June 5, 09, 7:00 at Reformation Covenant Church in OR City

2. We have 750 chickens in our field right now.

3. My Grandparents are visiting.

4. I am writting a graduation speach.

5. My Grandfather passed away a couple of months ago.

Mysteriously signed,

The Plucky Farmer.

Hi there you guys,

To see pictures from our camping trip follow this link.

Thank you,

Tyler

The Airport.

The Portland International Airport hosted a "Air Fair" today. Part of the family went to it, and it was really fun. They had a 45 min tour of the airfield on a big bus. The tour guy was a pretty high ranking official and talked pretty much the whole time. For instance, to keep geese and other birds away they have remote controlled propane cannons that make a loud noise to scare the geese away. Stuff that you would never think of.

A short overview of the past month plus a funny video

• We had a three to five day flu.
• After that our good friends from CA came up for two weeks.
• For one week that our friends were here we went over to the coast for a week with our church for our anual Family Camp
• The next week we took a day and drove over to Central Oregon.
• Standing on a trailer with a bunch of chickens is quite a bonding expreince...not with the chickens but with a bunch of guys...Did I mention that we are gutting the chickens at this point......The only type of chicken bonding that goes on is that I now know the anatomy of a chicken very well.
• It is hot right now.
• It is supposed to get hotter.
• I hope it doesn't get much hotter
• The hot part is over...We were at an outside wedding where at 5:00 the temp was 103 degrees.
  

On a side note here is a video that I found of a Crash Derby...With Combines. I hope you enjoy it.


God Bless.

Mount Hood and a walk through the snow

A couple of weeks ago, Mother, in search of the perfect Birthday present embarked on a journey that would cover thousands of miles....not really, but it did require looking on the Internet and she found a two hour blacksmith class. She booked it and yesterday (Saturday) we drove up to Government Camp on the base of Mount Hood for it. They had a great time and during it the rest of us decided to take a hike. When we go to the parking lot for the hike we had to walk down a snowed over road to get to the summer parking were the hiking trail actually started. So we embarked on our two hour hike sliding our way through wet snow. Not slushy but wet. We spent about two hours trying to find a lake and never found it. In the processes we did get several portraits. After two hours with our tennis shoes filled with wet (or melted ) snow we went back to pick up Scott and Dad. Then together we visited Timberline. A historic lodge on the timberline of Mount Hood. It was beautiful. :-) Pictures Below ;-)

Mt. Hood from our hike.

Sara and Andrew

Mother and Jacob.

Jacob and Sara

Sara and I.

Daniel and Sara.

Dad making a coat hanger.

Scott is making...a coat hanger.

One of many fireplaces at Timberline Lodge.

One of many chimneys.

A really neat cougar wood engraving.