Summer Days 2025

Cass train ride :)

This actually happened the morning of July 4th, 2025 :)

Tyrel's parent's were offered some tickets by their neighbor who had some family members not be able to make it. It ended up being Shana, me and the boys that went, as Tyrel and Keith were working on something.

It was a beautiful trip, and so fun to get off and explore the top of the mountain, too :)

😊

I got a canopy to use at the farmers market to sell my flowers at. We set it up at the shortest level, and it was a cool campout spot for the boys!

Games at the kitchen table with flowers from the garden :)

The garden is ready to pop!

The first of many Dahlias

A flower that was new to me called Sweet William. This is not fully bloomed, but I loved the way it blooms out with 30-50 little flowers! It turned out to be one of my favorites because of how long it lasted in the vase, too!

-MarLeahJoy

 

 

Back to the 4th of July 2025

 

Last fourth of July, I saw the sun coming out in the evening as the children were playing outside, and I had so much fun capturing their play. 

It's so great to live near cousins! :)

It's pretty crazy to look back at these a year later and see how much taller Rhett has grown! :)

Happy golden-hour memories!

-MarleahJoy

Camp-Meeting and Pasture Reclamation work

* note from July 2026 *

Here's another old post that never got published. 😜

This was right after the men had built our new tabernacle for holding the camp meetings here.

I did not have any writing done on this post, so all notes are things written currently in remembering that time.

2018 Camp-Meeting and pasture reclamation work

It was so fun having my cousin, Mecia, visiting... and my cousin Bretton in the background as well. (At that time, Bretton normally came to every Camp-meeting out here 😊)

A group of the young people taking a hike. We normally try to take the young people on a neat hike every year. Tyrel headed it up a lot, but this year, he was too busy working. So Summer and I planned the hike to a place we would go hunting in the winter. Turns out, there was no view at the top like we normally got, since the leaves were very 

Several of my cousins! 😊

Loading up straw to take up to the Pasture Reclamation Job.

Random pictures from back at home. One evening, Summer and I wanted to see the sunset, so we climbed on the roof of Keith's hay barn to enjoy the view. 💖

At this point, a lot of Tyrel's work was for the forest service doing jobs that his Dad would bid on. A lot of times it was me and Tyrel doing certain jobs by ourselves, but on this job, the whole family came out. I even remember Tyrel's Grandad being there. (Who just passed away this last June in 2026)

Oh, the wonderful memories! I vividly remember Grandad eating vienna sausages out of the can that day. (Something most of us had in our lunch boxes along with a sandwich.) 😋

Just the other day, we happened to drive by the place that Tyrel rented this straw spreader from... I wouldn't have remembered that detail otherwise, but it was actually a 4 hour round trip to pick up this spreader, and another 4 hour round trip to return it later. Oh, the joys of living so remote! 😁

-MarLeahJoy