First Real Post

Howdy Friends and Family,


This is my first real post on my personal blog, and I am using mama's camera on her cell phone, so the picture quality may not be the best. However, I hope y'all enjoy the update and the pictures.



What we've done lately:




Well, my two younger brothers and I have been working 5 or 6 days a week at different farms around here, and with a family we go to church with, so we have been real busy. Our work varies from building fence, throwing hay, working on tractors, logging, splitting firewood, and various other jobs. The Lord has been good to us, and given us plenty of work. Come winter time, I have been offered a job at the local feed store, as our line of work starts to slow down, I'll probably work there.




The rest of the family has been holding down the fort here, taking care of the animals, the garden, and everyday life. This past weekend, Daddy was here, so we got alot of work around the property done, and I have some pictures of that.

We are getting some more chicks in later this month, alot of layer pullets, and a bunch of broilers to replace the ones we just butchered. The Lord has given us many new friends that our in our church, and one of those families has a chicken slaughtering operation set up that we can use in return for help slaughtering their chickens. It sure beats doing them by hand. Our friends, the three oldest boys in our family, and a couple other friends did over 300 chickens - slaughtered, packed, and ready for sale from 9am-2pm. Talk about quick......


Well, I have ten minutes left to post this, and add pictures, so that's all I'll write today.

P.S. I also have a few pictures from the "Defending Your Faith Conference" in Branson, a Vision Forum, and Answers in Genesis conference.

Gabriel (A buddy of mine), Matthew (My younger brother), Peter (My cousin), and me after the conference in Branson.




My cousins and I playing music at a friend's house.






Stricklens, Grandmama and Grandaddy, and us.




The whole Frodge clan minus Uncle Jay, Aunt Ashley and Savannah - after church.













Some of the trees we felled. Most for firewood, a couple for the sawmill.

Mama with some of our tomatoes.

Daniel Dodgers' (Our nickname for our slightly over-descriptive younger brother) homemade shelf, he felled the trees with a fork, and carved it with his fingernails. He killed kodiaks to use their teeth for the pegs.

Some of us cousins playing music in Branson.

Our Faithful BBQ Smoker. We've smoked many a chicken, pork roast, ribs, and beef roasts on it,
and we can't wait to try our venison on it come deer season.

Our chicken pen, converted from a hog shelter. It works well
for us, and we just finished building a brooder in half of it.

Our pig, a hampshire barr. We have it in a movable pen, down along the creek bottom.
I'm hoping to show it in the county fair this year.





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