Pigs and Pics
4/09/08 - 4th Day - Time Traveling. Actually I'm writing this on the evening of the 8th, because tomorrow should be a busy day, and we are expecting (and hoping and praying for) some rain. Well, today (or yesterday since you are reading this tomorrow... or today) we successfully got two of our three male pigs into the cattle trailer, then got them into the front part of the trailer as well. My thanks to Danielle, Jennifer, and Tracy for their help in the pig capture. It really went quite well. Then we drove the trailer up to the Sifford's land and backed it up to David's pig pen to hopefully capture his HUGE mammoth hogzilla hog. Getting his pig in the trailer went shockingly well too, so within a relatively short time, we had about 700-800 lbs. of pig in the trailer. I drove the trailer up to the front of the property under a cool and shady tree to wait to for us to haul the pigs to the butcher's tomorrow. My two pigs are two of the 7 that were born here on the land on September 9th of last year. One died real young, and we butchered one a couple of weeks ago. David and I swapped a pig each since he had no females, so I received a male from him. With these two males gone and with the male we received from the Siffords, I have two gilts (two young females who have not had a litter) and the one male - so three left total. I expect (if the Lord wills) for the two females to have litters sometime in August. We'll see.
Ok, so here are some pictures... my thanks to Joseph for taking the pictures. This first one is of me picking a salad out of the garden on the Lord's Day:
This next one is of my raised double-dug #1 which is mostly onions and garlic, but which also has some broccoli and cauliflower too. The onions are already way bigger than in this picture, which was just 4 days ago:
Here is me picking some succulent greens for my salad. I was thinking of how good it was going to taste and totally forgot that Joseph was taking pictures:
Delicious salad. The big bowl is for me, and the small bowl is for the rest of the family:
Ok, after the meal we are gathering together to hang out and talk. Some of the fellas are planning to help me put in a crop with this borrowed seed drill. I think you know which one I am... Elder David Sifford is on the far left with his brown shirt on. Kelly Sustaire is in the background and behind the grain drill. Larry Plumley is in the foreground with his white hat, and Joseph Honaker is in the bright flowery shirt. Chris Woods is behind Joseph with a feather in his hat that, apparently, he has called macaroni:
Ok, in the next picture we are off and running. Robert is in the back of the truck relaying messages from the seed riders to me (the driver). Robert threw down his bike in the last picture which explains his helmet in the next one. Chris, Larry, Kelly, and Tracy are riding on the grain drill to make sure the seed is falling properly and that the bins stay pretty even:
The next three are more of the same, but you get the picture:
The seeding team here asks you to pray for us to have a bountiful harvest. We need some rain. A good soaking couple of inches over several days would be great. Your prayers are needed. After the work, we all got together and prayed over the field, that God in His sovereignty would bless our crop and bring it to fruition. Here we are posing for a picture. Tracy took the picture, but she was part of the team too:
Well, maybe more later. Got to get some sleep. Y'all be cool and have a great day tomorrow (or today).
Michael Bunker
Ok, so here are some pictures... my thanks to Joseph for taking the pictures. This first one is of me picking a salad out of the garden on the Lord's Day:
This next one is of my raised double-dug #1 which is mostly onions and garlic, but which also has some broccoli and cauliflower too. The onions are already way bigger than in this picture, which was just 4 days ago:
Here is me picking some succulent greens for my salad. I was thinking of how good it was going to taste and totally forgot that Joseph was taking pictures:
Delicious salad. The big bowl is for me, and the small bowl is for the rest of the family:
Ok, after the meal we are gathering together to hang out and talk. Some of the fellas are planning to help me put in a crop with this borrowed seed drill. I think you know which one I am... Elder David Sifford is on the far left with his brown shirt on. Kelly Sustaire is in the background and behind the grain drill. Larry Plumley is in the foreground with his white hat, and Joseph Honaker is in the bright flowery shirt. Chris Woods is behind Joseph with a feather in his hat that, apparently, he has called macaroni:
Ok, in the next picture we are off and running. Robert is in the back of the truck relaying messages from the seed riders to me (the driver). Robert threw down his bike in the last picture which explains his helmet in the next one. Chris, Larry, Kelly, and Tracy are riding on the grain drill to make sure the seed is falling properly and that the bins stay pretty even:
The next three are more of the same, but you get the picture:
The seeding team here asks you to pray for us to have a bountiful harvest. We need some rain. A good soaking couple of inches over several days would be great. Your prayers are needed. After the work, we all got together and prayed over the field, that God in His sovereignty would bless our crop and bring it to fruition. Here we are posing for a picture. Tracy took the picture, but she was part of the team too:
Well, maybe more later. Got to get some sleep. Y'all be cool and have a great day tomorrow (or today).
Michael Bunker
posted by Michael Bunker at 4/08/2008 07:22:00 PM
3 Comments:
Hi. I found your blog because I have google alerts set up for my name, and it also alerts me of variations of my name. My name is Traci Bunkers--this post of yours mentioned a Tracy, which is why I got an alert for it. Also, I have an uncle named Mike Bunkers. I thought this was all too interesting, so I wanted to drop you a note. I wonder if we are related. My sister has worked on our genealogy, and I believe we do have relatives without the "s" on the end of Bunker. I live in Kansas, but my father came from a large Catholic family from South Dakota.
Traci,
Both my sister and my daughter are named Tracy Bunker. Our genealogy has been traced pretty well back through upstate New York and Nantucket Island. Don't know of any kin who came through South Dakota, and my own genealogy studies (though light) hasn't turned up any kin with the "s" on the end of the name. Anyway it is quite interesting to run across people with the same or similar names. Thanks for dropping by.
Michael
Your garden is looking really nice. Beautiful plants! :-D The planting looked like fun, too!
:-D
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