The ipods have invaded.

Ok, so I'm a cheap skate and could never imagine spending the $$$ on an actual ipod. I have an mp3 player and it's good for me and even my techno non savvy hubby. Our boys, on the other hand, feel the need to keep current on all the current gadgets. Jesse has long been a gadget guy and I expected that he'd want something like the ipod touch. The only hold up would be getting the crowbar into his wallet to pay for it. I didn't expect Chris to be all that interested and just knew the price would be too much for him to take. I was wrong. Way wrong. The both were searching the internet for an ipod and both decided they wanted an ipod touch!!! Thud. They each wrote me a check and I ordered them for them. They arrived Monday evening. Mike is soooo amazed. They can get the internet on them, watch movies and listen to music. I know there's a slew of other things they can do but if they've figured them out, they're not telling. LOL. Right now their biggest thrill is using the google map to follow roads to other places. Chris just got lost in Auxvasse on his ipod. Do you know just how funny that is?

The house is coming along. We're waiting on trusses for over the garage and then we'll be able to finish the roof and the room upstairs. Tomorrow they're putting the roofing sheeting on the rest of the house. The boys have learned a lot about framing.

The cattle are a mixed story at this point. Calf sales were tremendous the first weekend we offered them. Sold 6 of 9 steers and 2 heifers. Since then we've not moved any. We're running an ad this week and hopefully that will lead to more sales. Last night Chris came up from checking cows and said something was wrong with a cow who was due to calve next month. I went out to check her and thought she was a little off but probably ok. I checked her again later and she was ok. Today, Mike and Chris found her dead in the creek. Not exactly what we were hoping to find. We only got one calf out of her so she was a tremendous loss. Monday we found out that Jesse's show heifer is NOT bred. She, apparently, has small ovaries and will need some medical help in getting pregnant. We'll breed her once more with medical help and then contact the people we bought her from. This, also was not what we hoped to hear. We've never had this sort of difficulty in breeding a heifer and are getting more and more frustrated. I know God has a plan for all this, but I don't know what it is right now.

Mike has been given a golden opportunity at work. He did not get laid off as we were concerned he might be. His shift changed slightly and his coworker changed. This coworker is not saved. He asked Mike something about the book of Revelations which lead to a series of great discussions. Mike came home looking for the best Bible to take back to work for this guy to read and settled on a pre teen Bible the boys had used. He told me Jesus must be on His way back since this guy was asking these questions. I was amazed.