Labor Day Labors

I'll save you all the gore - we didn't take pictures. We butchered the turkeys today. We had no idea until it was done that we had a male and a female, and the female even had eggs in her - we could have started eating turkey eggs and raised baby turkeys next year....

Except they got on Justin's bad side by pooping all over his new goat barn and by pooping all over the back stairs and after we locked them all into the pen, they kept trying to roost in the hen's boxes. Of course, now we know that one was a female, that makes more sense.

Brian worked on his new welder trailer and Justin worked on Brian's pickup. Funny story there - when Alicia was in high school some guys from Anchor Point used to do stuff to the truck while she was at school - like drain the air from the tires and stuff like that. Around that time, the front gas tank stopped working. We just assumed it was faulty and we never had the money to pull out the tank and replace it all. So Justin has been working on our fuel pumps and gas tanks and when he pulled it out this weekend - it was full of paint that someone had poured in - all those years ago.

We have a busy week ahead of us - not as busy as Rhiens, but busy for us. Justin and I both have dentist appointments. Alicia and I are going to Anchorage for 3 days for Time out for Women, Brian is going hunting for a couple weeks, we butchered the turkeys and tomorrow we are going to pick raspberries from some people at church and we are going to feed the missionaries.

We are so excited to have Governor Palin on the GOP ticket. She is one tough cookie, but she is nice about it. She has done things in our state that the past 4 governors tried but didn't even get close to accomplishing. Except for the people she has angered by her determination to accomplish things, she is very very popular in our state.

for those that think she doesn't have enough of whatever to take on the establishment - can I just say that 2 years ago, Frank Murkowski was our governor - he had been our senator for decades and had always won his elections by landslides.... Sarah took him on in the primary and kicked his butt to the curb. It wasn't even close - I say if she can stand up to someone as "Washington inbred" as Frank, she can certainly stand up to Joe Biden. Give her a chance and see what she has to offer before you decide. We really like her.

Charlotte