The Bed

This is the calKing bed Ken made for Jesi & Ryan. It is made from hard maple. Ken's 'signature' cross is carved and placed in the top rail of the headboard. The cross is walnut.



This is the post for the headboard.



Almost finished.....

The Table

This is a table Ken made for Jason and Katie. We delivered it July 4th when we went down to visit. It is made out of white oak. The top is approximately 2" thick and the legs are about 4.5" square. The two benches mimick the table design. We almost couldn't get it into Jason's house it was soooooo heavy!


The cross is one of Ken's 'signatures' he puts on his pieces. It is made from a piece of acacia wood that Ken brought back from Africa.





This is another 'signature'....taking a branding iron and stamping the bottom, then signing and dating it.

Here we all are enjoying dinner on the new table.

Grammy and Jonah

Grammy and Jonah at our favorite place ... the beach

The Abandoned Bull Calf

After leaving Pete and Kathy's, I was driving Rocki home and we saw a new calf in her front pasture under a tree....no cow in sight tho. We hopped the fence and sure enough the mom just left him there. We then had to get him to his mother so we tied a rope around him and pulled him, then carried him up to the front pasture (she has a 50 acre ranch, so it was a long, long way). His mother didn't want much to do with him and kept kicking him each time he tried to eat. We then decided to take him up to the squeeze shute so that we could contain 'mom' so that the calf could eat. By the time we did all this we, as well as the calf, was exhausted. While getting the cow into the squeeze shute we disturbed all of the wasps that were living in the pipe and I got stung in the hand. We delicately 'danced' around all of the wasps (while trying to spray them) while trying to get the calf to eat. He wouldn't eat, so we then tried to squeeze some of the milk into a cup and pour it into his mouth. That didn't really work either, so Rocki ended up bottle-feeding and probably will have to do that. After an exhaustive 3 hours of all of this, we called it quits and I went home. By the time I got home, Rocki called saying that she had just gotten a call from a neighbor (most of the neighbors have 50 acres as well) saying that they saw the calf early that morning with 2 coyotes lurking around. We couldn't believe that the calf was still alive with the temperatures up to 95 today.

Elmer's Roofing Project

What a crazy week it has been, especially today. A bunch of us from church met at Pete & Kathy Elmer's to help clean out their shed and put a new roof on it. Kathy allows us all to come over and work in exchange for her extremely great cooking. Pete and Kathy are in the front in the middle group picture; the dog in the front bit me in the leg when I arrived.