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Merry
Christmas in 2012!
Hey,
I’m Sunset, one of the Rob Crowe family, family cats.
I’ve been around the Crowes for almost 2 years, but
didn’t get to write the letter last year since the family was
caught up in moving into the new homestead. It took a bit of persuasion
by the kids to convince Management to let me get integrated into the
family when I showed up around the last house. Anyways, I’m
Mother to 5 adorable kittens; Sidney Lee, Patchwork, and
As far as what
“Management” (the other person that thinks
she’s in charge) has been up to during the year
I’ll tell you, but positive before negative. She enjoys being
a Missionette teacher at Roseau Community Church on Wednesday
nights to Kindergarten girls. She belly danced at the birthday (left
hand picture) party for Red Leader, one of BG’s friends that
turned 88 in June. Later in the summer she put on a “Love To
Dance” event sliding open one
of the windows and lifting themselves out. Strangely enough, both of
them had forgotten their cell-phones. Luckily, a couple of guys stopped
by on ATVs and lent Management a phone. She called BG and he came and
got them, though he didn’t get the van out of the ditch until
the next morning. Let’s just say she’s had a very
eventful year.
Daughter
Heidi and Robbie are settled into their very pretty, remodeled house in
Elk River. Heidi took a couple of days off from growing the new lawn to
visit and help us at 4-H/fair time. I was on my extended summer
vacation so didn’t see her.
Robbie and Travis have a new hobby… lawn
mower racing.
Daughter Erin, Kyle and little Reed have moved into
the great house they’ve been building for the last year and a
half. BG says Erin won the Redneck wife of the year award for buying
Kyle a UTV for his birthday. Reed loves the UTV too, maybe sometime he
can come up and visit us here on the farm. Oh, and they say Erin is
expecting something in March!
Alyssa fiddles her time away, literally.
It’s a good thing I like Bluegrass, because I hear a lot of
it when the 3 little girls are practicing.
Katelyn is the rhythm guitarist of the trio, as well
as learning to be a tough basketball player. She helps BG on many of
his projects, one of them being the tricky transmission job. She enjoys
training Shady. She’s in 8th grade
Valeri plays the mandolin, the clarinet, 6th grade
basketball and loves school. She’s good at it all.
She’s taking lessons from me on how to look good.
I’ve taught her to do a flip or a coil of her tawny hair and
come out looking like a diva. Good girl!
This
spring I started smelling trouble when the girls got two new horses,
Shady & Frosty, to keep Amber company. Valeri ended up going to
the hospital with a concussion from being bucked off of Frosty and
stayed there for a day and night. When she came back, us
The family is pretty well settled into the 80 acre
homestead here in the shadow of Bemis Hill near the big forest. The
yard is a bit full with all the implements, vehicles, 3 horses, 1 dog,
4 cats, and 14 chickens, but I hear the plan is to expand the
yard/garden/horse pens to take up part of the field to the east so I
should be able to navigate a little easier once that happens. The farm
has close access to miles of backwoods trails so cats and girls on
horses have lots of places to go. Oh, and once BG gets a sno-cat or two
fixed up to run well (no guarantees of that), there should be lots of
opportunities there.
BG kept his promise to take the girls out fishing,
see picture. His friend Telle took them all out in Red
Leader’s boat a couple of weeks before school started. They
caught lots of walleye and entertained Telle with their singing.
May God bless you all this year as we celebrate his
goodness in all things.
Sunset
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