Tomatoes,Beans, and our first Watermelon!

The Picture below is everything,but the skin and seeds after it went through our juicing machine(I don't know what you call it)                                         

The picture above is when were smashing the tomatoes down into the blender part! Every ones favorite part of this process!

 Tomatoes waiting to be used!Fresh picked tomatoes!

We cook the sauce all day with herbs until it thickens.  I stirred the sauce then to a picture, that's why it looks kind of weird!

Pizza sauce! Sorry about the terrible picture quality!

Our first watermelon of this year!! Yummy!  I totally love watermelon!

Here's the beans we got out of one row on our first day of picking beans! lol,we pretty much at all of them before my dad got home that evening!

My next post will be fair pictures I promise! A few horse pictures,but mostly my sister and I when we were showing goats! And pictures of a new pet to our tiny farm (if you can call it a farm)  ; )

Update on upcoming posts ; )

This is the month of August and at the beginning of the month our beans needed to start being picked (and still need to keep on being picked).Also, right now we have I think we have about 80 tomato plants,so......
80 tomato plants + the month of August + jars + herbs = Tomato sauces! Yup! My parents were gone yesterday afternoon,so my older sister started washing, slicing tomatoes,and etc...  My lil' sister and I started helping(it was mostly done by my 2 sisters, I was washing the floor and stuff. note: My sister  was smashing/making the juice stuff  outside) and today after it has been cooking on low for a loooong time, its time to add spices and herbs! So my house smells like tomatoes,herbs,and spices!! We also successfully grew a watermelon that's the size of the store bought ones and tastes as good too! We actually have about 5 growing,but 2 days ago we picked the one that was full grown! We always used to grow  like one or 2 extremely tiny ones that had about a big handful of pink fruit inside! So I'll be doing a post with pictures soon! My sister is also getting a puppy tonight that is staying in my room! ; 0
So stand by for those posts and more fair pictures!

Random post and an idea for a blog contest/blog party!

While I was cleaning,  and my little sister and I were also helping my older sister make tomato sauce. We were  listening to music and singing along at the same time, ( we do this actually whenever we are cleaning  or on the road)! I was thinking about how fun it would be to go to nursing homes and sing hymns for people there etc....! Like the Wissmann and Bontrager families! But  we (my sisters , brothers and I) might hurt the people's ears that we are singing to though.  : ) I'm not the best violinist or singer! But if we were good at music I think that would be, so much fun! By the way, I know this is a totally random post!


Hey, wait I got an idea if I hosted a talent show/blog contest how many of you would enter?? ( I just thought this up as I was typing this post out)...  Here's what we could do, the ones who enter will take a video of themselves playing an instrument, singing or something like that and then I'll link them in a post and put up a poll on my sidebar for you all to vote for the best one!!  What do you all think?? 


I would type out  rules and things you are allowed to do etc.... but that is just what I came up with so far! Please comment if that sounds fun to you and then I'll probably do it if enough of you comment saying you would do it!

Fair

Well, it was an extremely hot week! I only brought my camera the first day and the day I did a goat show! I'll put more photos up soon! I unfortunately missed a day that only  my sister went to feed the goats. I stayed home to make cookies for a contest the next day(Which I got 2nd in by the way ; )  ) But the day I missed was the day all the horses and riders got into costumes! And my sister didn't bring her camera! Oh,well!
we sold 2 goats in which I'm happy there gone,so we can start getting some barn space! I don't mean that in a mean way,but since you've had 7 baby goats in 2 months and your barn is kind of crowded and your sister plans to breed in the fall....... you get the idea! (at least I hope you do ; p )
So for 4-H I got 1st in Showmanship and 4th in Dairy goats! In open class showmanship I did horrible since its based on your age Not experience! The judge placed 3 people and the other 3 (one of which was me) all got second!  But here are some photos..(I'll post more at the end of the week..I'm going to try to stay of the computer for a few days)

This horse was wonderful and beautiful! Her head kept in the perfect position pretty much the whole entire time!A Friend waiting her turn to ride!In the photo contest I saw this cool photo! I love the bird shadow. Don't you? They choose these photos horribly. The bad ones got good places and the good photos (like the one  above) got nothing!

Someone I know did like 4 pretty paintings(They all were different from each other) But I liked this one!

Texas longhorn!

My sisters regency dress actually got 1st,but the person who put the ribbons on  didn't read the placing list they put up I guess!

I loved this cute painting. I wish I could paint like this!

This cute quilt would go perfectly in someones sewing room as a wall quilt!

I saw this horse out of the corner of my eye while watching my friends ride. So of course I snapped a picture not realizing until right now that his tongue was hanging out!

2 of the other dresses my sister made! The adult size one they had it turned backwards! (which was another mistake they did on a few dresses.Which is funny cause its extremely easy to tell the front from the back)