Persuasion by Jane Austen...

is a FABULOUS book! I highly recommend it - even though it took every bit of the first 73 pages for me to finally become hooked!

Favorite quotes from Persuasion:

"She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped." Isn't that the truth???

"It is the worst evil of too yielding and indecisive a character, that no influence over it can be depended on. You are never sure of a good impression being durable. Everybody may sway it; let those who would be happy be firm." Amen!

Read This!

"The Hiding Place" by Corrie Ten Boom...

This Christ-centered book will enhance your perspective, gratitude and deepen your testimony of the power of the Lord's atonement in our lives.

Horsing Around

We helped our nephew with his horses for a bit today. Here's my handsome husband rounding them up...

My husband's brother, my husband and our nephew...

SO our little guy doesn't understand why the saddle isn't big enough for him AND Daddy! We've decided he will be learning to ride by himself this winter. We're excited and scared all at once...

And up the hill we go...

Our boss...

Finally...the saddle all to himself...so cute!!!

FYI - you might be a red-neck if you use the hitch on a tractor as the hitching post for your horse! I thought this was the cutest thing...

High-tech red-neck with his number one helper alone in the saddle! All is well...

Happy Halloween!

October Snow

My beautiful plowing job pre-snow...

My husband's and my combined plowing efforts after the snow...

The tired tractor takes a well deserved rest...

The cutest boy in the world is so excited to throw snowballs at his Mommy while she takes his picture...

Cutest boy with Daddy and their snowman who was already missing an eye (thanks to cutest boy) before I could snap their picture!

My Guys...

Two Cute Cousins

Another Must Read

"Just When I Thought I'd Dropped My Last Egg Life And Other Calamities" by Kathie Lee Gifford.