The coming of warmer weather has been welcomed here at the farm!  The last few nights have gotten still after the wind dies down at dusk and the stars have been bright and numerous.  When I went out to bottle feed at 0200 this morning, I found myself mesmerized by the stars and the still of the night, where only the sound of distant crickets could be heard.

God Bless!

I saw this advertisement for plastic crank handles here a while back. Now, we have a LOT of handles here on the farm. But we have found that plastic anything’s are not normally a good choice.  Things here at the farm get USED and they take a LOT of use and abuse and plastic just doesn’t hold up too well.  Even our plastic feed buckets tend to get changed out once a quarter or so, because they are used for so much and tend to crack.  If they are left out in the sun and wind and rain and other weather, that just hurries the cracking and such a bit more.  Therefore, we tend to shy away from plastic things here at the farm, except for the plastic rubber feed containers.  But even they have to be the rubber ones that are flexible so they might stand a chance of standing up to getting stepped on by the goats or the horses or whatever.

Have a BLESSED day!

…at the farm.  Things are quiet except for the washer and dishwasher running as the sun peaks over the horizon this morning.

The clouds to the North hold the promise of rain, which is MUCH needed.  I have heard people complain the last couple of years that it’s been too dry….that we need some moisture.  Now, since we’ve had three decent snow storms since the end of February and several days in between of rain, I hear people saying they are tired of the mud and want it to dry up….*wrinkles her nose*  And I’m thinking, as the clouds this morning promise rain and the forecast says we have a GOOD chance of rain from this afternoon all the way into Wednesday night or Thursday morning, let it rain, let it rain, let it rain!  You can’t have it both ways, folks.  I am thankful for the rain!  I think that, at least it’s RAIN and not ice!

Why is it that people say they want something?  And then when they get it, they suddenly want it back to the way it was?

Have a BLESSED Sunday!

Okay, I have heard of an electric guitar and such, but an exciting electric violin is a new one on me!!  Just how does that work anyway?

I guess it doesn’t really matter, as I don’t play a musical instrument on a regular basis.  Might be interesting to do some research on, though!

It would have been a GREAT day for a Spring concert!  The weather was just about perfect and the sun was shining, for the most part!

God Bless!

It’s only a month and a half behind schedule in my book!  The snow this last week was NICE and the rain yesterday and the day before was WELCOMED with open arms here at the farm.  Yes, it makes things soggy and muddy and wet when I go out to do chores.  But I will take the soggy and muddy over not enough moisture ANY day!

God Bless!

There are a LOT of coins out there.  Some are worth a lot of money in the right circles.  Others are not worth the metal it took to make them.  Are YOU in to coin collecting?

Maybe you have been to some coin collecting websites like
goldeneaglecoin.com to see what your coins are worth?  Or maybe you have looked up their values in a coin value magazine?

Do you have any Spanish coins?  How about Canadian?  Filipino?  German?  How about old American?

God Bless!

Well, I realize it has been a while since I’ve done regular entries on here.  Life has been tiring.  The days have been non-ending since the third week of February.  We had two snowstorms that dumped about a foot of snow each within a few days of each other.  And, on the morning of the day when the first storm was moving in, my goats started having babies.  We had five different Mamas drop that day with a total of nine kids.  Not all of them survived because I had Mamas abandoning them right and left, or so it seemed, and over the course of the snowstorms and the cold days that followed, we had four freeze because Mamas delivered them and then walked away, leaving them wet and exposed to the cold.  So the bottle feeding of the ones that lived began.  And THEN I got a case of bronchitis with a side of sinus infection and laryngitis in the middle of going out into the snowstorms to feed the babies every 4 hours or so.  That put me on my butt for about three weeks when I didn’t feel like doing ANYthing, including bottle feeding the babies.  The Hubby and the boyo picked up the slack, though my goal for this Spring was to NOT have Hubby worrying about doing chores.  But, I am back on my feet.  Days are LONG, as they never seem to end.  But the farm is doing okay.

We had two sets of twins born today!  And yes, the Mamas were taking care of them, as of a bit ago.

About half of our herd has dropped kids so far.  We have lost WAY more babies than we expected too, and most of them were unexplained deaths.  But they were all out of the same buck.  Now, the does that were bred by the other buck are starting to drop.  We will see if we lose the same percentage with this group as we did the first group.  Could VERY probably be some bad genes in the buck that bred the first group.  We will see, though.

Enough rambling for now.  God Bless!

One of the BEST inventions of our time for drivers is audio books.  First they were on audio tape.  Then CD and DVD.  Now there are digital copies of audio books that you can go to websites and click the “audiobooks download here” button and download any number of books. Sometimes there is a fee associated with them. A LOT of times, I have found them for free, though!

Blessings!

You know, I have thought for YEARS that I wasn’t completely sure that I liked “Christianity” and some of what it stood for.  But I had never really heard anyone else say anything along those lines before.

Well, I started doing some transcribing for a church out of Georgia last week.  They are working on getting transcripts of their sermon archive for their website.  And I am actually enjoying the series that they are sending me the audios for.

Pastor Andy was talking in the one I finished yesterday about author Anne Rice and her quitting “Christianity” and being a “Christian”.  Do you realize that the word “Christian” is only in the original Biblical text three times, and it was always used by outsiders in reference to followers of Jesus and it was a derogatory term?  Jesus called his followers something else.  Disciples.  Christianity is not defined as to what all it entails in the Bible.  Where being a disciple is.  You don’t necessarily have to be a “Christian” to love Christ and follow Him.

I’m not sure Pastor Andy wasn’t too far off when he called his church to be disciples instead of Christians.

More on this subject later, I am sure.

Blessings in ABUNDANCE!

Okay, I have to admit.  I didn’t have ANY idea who marty hanaka was when I went to do this entry. So I went and did some research.  GOTTA love the internet!

Apparently, Mr. Hanaka is involved with the sport of golf.  Or, as we here at the farm like to call it, cow pasture pool.  Now, honestly, I don’t have much use for putting holes in a perfectly good pasture, especially if you’re just going to get a funny stick and try to hit balls into those holes.  But, I do realize that there are people that REALLY enjoy the game.  I guess it’s kind of like horses.  To my Dear Husband, horses are a tool, just like most other things.  To me, there are something else….something more like a friend, if they are mine.  To my Hubby, they are hay burners.  To me, they are a stress-relieving hay burner.

Everybody has their preferences for sports, I guess.  Or leisure activities.  I guess, if you like cow pasture pool and don’t have animals to put on pasture, maybe golf isn’t such a bad thing.

Have a BLESSED day and stay warm!