Allison and Will

Allison and Will Dolbeer will be married June 23 at Berry College Chapel in Rome, Georgia. Will was a customer at Allison's coffee shop, Cups & Mugs, and they have been dating for the past year.

Jeremy, Kimberly and girls visit

Emma, Darby, Shelby, Kimberly and Jeremy have been visiting us the last couple days. This afternoon the weather allowed us to be outside on the farm. Here's some photos (Jeremy is with Ton Tenga's newest addition--Mugs, a minature female donkey):

Welcome friends!

Cheryl and I are inviting you to our family blog, so that we might share some experiences as Larry undergoes proton therapy treatment for his prostate cancer.

"Ton Tenga" is the name of our small farm in the hills of northwest Georgia. It is from the language we spoke with the Mossi people in Burkina Faso, and it means our land or our farm.

Larry's treatments begin April 12, and we will make regular posts during the six-weeks in Florida.

Here a "Naa", there a "Naa", everywhere a "Naa, naa"

Well, I've been saying for 3 weeks that I would post pictures of the newest additions to the Ton Tenga family, and finally, here they are. Twins!



And then 24 hours later another set of twins.



These guys are so cute and they have such a good time playing together all over the pasture. They especially enjoy the goat version of 'King of the Mountain'.



Larry was out of the country when they were born, so he missed all the excitement, and was a little late beginning to bond with them.



Last weekend, while Larry & I were in Mississippi, another set of twins was born, but unfortunately we lost one of them three days later, right after Larry left for Haiti. He's missed a lot, and Allison & I are getting pretty good at taking care of the goats. But we still have 2 more who are about ready to deliver, so maybe he hasn't missed all the fun (and the work)!
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Jason, Kelli, Abbey, Maddie & Naomi were at Ton Tenga last month soon after they arrived in Memphis for a 10 month stateside assignment. We enjoyed some wonderful family time, and the cousins had fun on the farm, riding the Kubota, feeding the animals and just being together. Everybody got their height recorded on the measuring post down at the barn.
Shelby, Darby & Emma, Papa will measure you again when you come in December!

We've been telling some of you about our "new" car, and we wanted you to see it, because our descriptions just can't do it justice! It's a 7-passenger, '09 Ford Flex. It's very roomy -- lots of leg room and head space -- and has all wheel drive, so it just kind of floats up the hill to our house!

Larry's Tractor

Over two years ago, as we were driving back home from Mississippi, Larry spotted an old Farmall Cub tractor for sale on the side of the road. He had been wanting one for a long time since his grandfather had one just like it. We stopped and he bought it with the intention of restoring it. It's just been sitting around, first in the garage when we lived at Cherokee Lodge at WinShape, and then out in the open near the barn at Ton Tenga. Larry had really wanted to work on it himself, but that hadn't happened in two years and didn't look like it was going to happen anytime soon. Then a couple of months ago, he met a guy who restores tractors and decided to get him to work on it. Here's what the Cub looked like when he came to pick it up:





Now it's back home, and Larry is the proud owner of a beautifully restored momento of another Cox farm in Mississippi two generations ago. ckc