The Roundup

Another "livin' in the country" event. In the picture below, you can barely see our neighbor's calf, Ground Round. He doesn't belong in the marshy area in front of our house, but he managed to escape his electrified enclosure. Lisa spotted him on our street and called our neighbor Molly, and eventually her father-in-law and I joined her in chasing him around. We actually got a leash and collar on him twice but it came off both times. Lisa, carrying Jake, took pictures. Finally, we managed to surround him and guide him through an opening in the fence and back to his proper home. It was my first cattle roundup. Quite the excitement.

Last weekend we had Lizzy's wedding, in which Annika and Abby were the flower girls. It was one of the nicer and most fun weddings we've been too. The girls loved all of it, especially the dancing at the reception. While they both started to melt down around 9:30pm, they both got a second wind. Eventually, around 10:30, Annika was still out dancing to the deafening sounds of Bon Jovi and Outkast, while Abby had completely crashed on Grandma Dekker's lap and slept through the same music.