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| There is something wonderful about spring! The grass is so green and the trees are starting to get their leaves, the days are getting longer and everything is blossoming and blooming.
I love these warm days and evenings. You can drive around with your windows down, singing along with your favorite country song. It's flip flop weather! Volleyball and lemonade weather!
The whole campus has become alive it seems- everyone is out these days. The grassy sections between dorm building become beaches with students lying everywhere on towels in bathing suits. It's truly a different world.
I've so enjoyed going out to the beef unit this past week. The show is this Friday, so we've been busy getting all the heifers clipped and show ready! I have such a great Angus heifer this year! Some people say animals don't have personality, but I very much disagree. She has such a great temperament, and is such a curious thing. She always wants to know what's going on and has to have her nose into everything... including my head when I'm washing her and working on her legs.
All the heifers have a pretty bad case of ringworm. Someone donated a little heifer to the unit not too long ago, and we didn't catch it until she had spread it to the entire herd. My poor heifer has a few bald spots on her pretty face- something that will be there on show day I'm afraid.
I bought a container of strawberries at Food Lion the other day and ate the entire thing for lunch. It wasn't even close to our farm's berries, but I ate them anyway and just pretended they were. Strawberry season is fast upon us... but not fast enough!
I ate them when I got to the beef unit and as I munched away, I overheard some of the girls asking each other "just how many strawberries can you eat before you gain any weight?" Good question! This spring I sure tend to find out! I know when I was 9 I ate a complete gallon by myself. I remember feeling pretty good, maybe a bit crampish, but not too bad.
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| Spring break has come and gone. I can't believe it not only got here so fast, but that it's now over.
I drove home Saturday morning and picked up Hopie and Gram (the younger kids were in Asheville for the weekend at a retreat, and Mama and Daddy were on a weekend get-a-way).
I picked them up in the pouring rain, and we drove to my Aunt and Uncle's cabin the mountains. We had such a great drive up, singing, eating candy and sharing stories back and forth! I'm so thankful we had that time to just visit, just us girls!
We arrived Saturday afternoon at the cabin and had such a great afternoon and evening with my Aunt and Uncle! They have the most awesome log cabin, and after enjoying a wonderful meal we girls (my Aunt, Hope and I) enjoyed the hot tub for a bit! What a treat! We spent the night and the next day Hopie and I raced the snow and ice home!
Everybody got in Sunday afternoon, all the kids, Mom, Dad and Sebron. It was so great to be home with everyone and watch the snow falling outside... Snow in March, that's a first for NC.
The rest of the week was spent in the snow, working, eating, sleeping, runs, coffee shop visits with friends, and more sleeping.
Our good childhood friend Samantha came for a visit while I was home. She is now married with two little boys! It was so neat to see her as a Mom! The two boys were so much fun!
We were all getting in some practice for being Aunt and Uncles. My olderst sister, Faith is pregnant and due in September! What a blessing that little guy is and is going to be- to all of us! I seriously can't wait! I can't wait to go shopping for baby cloths! I love him/her so much all ready and cannot wait to meet Baby and love on him/her in person!
Sebron and I are both back up at school and I'm trying to get into the swing of things again.
It's a beautiful day and I played volleyball for a few hours after classes.
Praise God for the Spring!
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Jumping off the sand dunes at Nags Head Beach!
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