Practicing with Borrowed Chimes

I was able to rent these chimes from Hope Lutheran Church for my music class. I brought them home to practice with them over the weekend. (It's great to have a large family at times like these) :-) After an introductory lesson we worked together for about ten minutes on this song to get to this stage. (BTW Abbey has never read music before!)

Family Pictures at the Pasture

Losing Joker . . .

Late Saturday night or early Sunday morning we lost our companion and faithful friend Joker. I printed a picture of each of the ids with Joker and they each wrote him a note and then buried it with him. Here they are holding their notes.

Nathaniel reading his note before dropping it in the hole . . .

Ellie reading her tear filled goodbye . . .

After Daddy starting filling in the hole . . .

We will all miss you Joker . . .