Catching up

WOW!!! I've been gone a loooooong time! Since February my blog has been silent!  I'm so sorry.  I'm not really sure if I even have any readers left or had any to begin with! I'm a bad blogger.  I blame Facebook!  So I guess it's time to catch up!  So let's go waaaaaaaay back to February..............

• My son Dean started dating a wonderful girl, Rachel in January.
• Dean and Rachel became engaged around Easter. Yay!!!!!! Very exciting! (Photo's above)
• I started my journey on having 12 amalgams removed in April, and what a process!! I'm glad it is done and that poison is out of me!!!
• We bought a herd of Dexter cattle.  7 of them to be exact.  I'm not sure if that qualifies as a "herd" but it does around here!
• We bought two new piglets to raise and sent the three from last fall to the butcher. Love having organic/nonGMO pork, beef and chicken! 
• We had a wedding in June! Dean and Rachel!
• Our third arrow, David, started interning at a local vet clinic.  He is doing what he loves and is awesome at it!
• I had my garden planted by the end of the first week in June and it has done amazing!!! I'm so thrilled with it.
• The first of July I started my detox to rid metals and other toxins from my body.  It ended in 21 days and I made it the whole 21 days without cheating!! 
• We received 153 freedom ranger chickens, raised them and processed them ourselves with our own equipment.   
• Our 4th arrow, CC decided to raise Nigerian Dwarf Goats and bought her first little buck....Hudson, named after Rock Hudson of course!
• We bought her, her first little doe.....Fran, named after "The Nanny".
• She then bought Fran's mother, Fern and we are currently milking her.
• We bought Fern's sister, Onyx and are waiting for the arrival of her twins!!
• Somewhere in the middle of all this we took on two adorable little kittens, brothers, Harry and Marv, named after the two hooligans from Home Alone, one of CC favorite movies! They are a hoot to watch! Aptly named!
• We currently finished putting up hay! The most wretched job of farming as far as I'm concerned!

I've canned a few quarts of beans and chicken broth and froze some peas, pea pods, zucchini, blueberries (bought), and some parsley.
So that is it in a nut shell!