Our First Week

Here it is Friday night. We arrived in NY one week ago... almost. Well we actually arrived at 2:30 in the morning early early Saturday, after being on the road for about 18 hours!!!. We actually had a very good, safe trip, just long. We were able to see some very pretty country along the way! We actually saw I guess you would say the digression of spring?! Going from full fledged almost summer to eventually buds and a few blooms and fuzzy trees almost ready to come out! I love traveling through VA and PA, some very beautiful country!

Saturday we slept in...some and then started in at work.
This is the cake that the Gorden's daughters made for us. Very cute!

Jim planted this field on Saturday with clover and Timothy Grass. Ben helped and learned.

Learning how to drive!

He dumped a few loads of manure onto my garden plot as well, where I spread it around. Hope to have it plowed up in a few days.

We both have been busy learning the routine of chores around the farm. My favorite is the calves! I like to pet them and feed them their milk. We weaned one this week. My favorite is my namesake, Bethany.
Ben has been learning many of the chores as well, a lot with the horses. He is learning much about them and getting more comfortable with them.
Tuesday we had a surprise, SNOW!!! It spit snow most of the day and became more steady as the day progressed. It continued to snow all night and into Wednesday morning, where we woke up to no electricity. It finally came on in the afternoon. We probably had around 6-8 inches but in Malone, about 20 min away they had 14 inches. Most of it melted by the next morning and has been pretty warm since.

Here is the snowman we made for you Jerrel

We thought about you and how you would like to see it!

Friday we got to see him work on one of the horses foot.

He had lost one of his back shoes so he took the other one off. Being he will be doing farm work and not much blacktop, he is ok to go without back shoes for a while.

They have also been working on getting our apartment ready for us. It is coming along

All is going pretty good. Going to bed early and pretty tired and waking up early and still tired! LOL We both smell like the barn most of the time but we try to clean up every so often! :)
The air is much dryer up here so it seems to dry you out fast. Ben is loving the weather, especially the snow! I can't wait to get things growing! More next week!