I'm cold...

I'm cold... It's mornings like this that make me want to have not very nice thoughts towards certain modular home dealership people, mortgage company people, contractors in general, and attorneys. I've come to the conclusion, THAT, they are all leaches on society. (Forgive me in advance here OK... I know not ALL of the people in these professions are horrible, but the better part of them are. For those who don't know what we have been going through the past 2 years please feel free to go HERE). So it's looking like another cold winter in this house. Does anyone know how tired one gets of being cold? To have to look at a home you can't live in because yet again contractors have messed up? ARGH!!!!!!

Last night while trying to do a good deed for a goat and her feet, I manage to cut, snip, slice... my middle finger on my left hand. I dripped blood from the big barn to the milk barn. And evidently I must have got a nerve ending as it hurts!!! OH boy does it hurt... and it doesn't help that I keep banging it and trying to type with it. Right now it's at a dull throb...

So it's Thursday again... and tomorrow is Friday. We go and pick up the chicken tomorrow. And my weekend of canning will begin. I'm trying not to be disappointed about not being able to go to the NAILE . I've only wanted to go for the past 8 years... oh well maybe next year. :) I keep saying that, maybe one of these next years I'll go!

Does anyone know how hard it is to type with out the middle finger for help??? Middle fingers... they are a GOOD THING... when not injured.

30 Days of Thanksgiving.... Day 5

Today, I am thankful that I didn't cut my finger any worse than I did last night. It's deep enough as it is. I'm thankful that our bulls we shipped went by the head and not the pound and I got 3 times more than I was expecting!!! (I cried) Praise the Lord!!!! Every harvest has to start somewhere... And we are due for a huge harvest (and no I don't mean a farming harvest).

Where or where will

the cows be, oh where or where will they have gone?  :) Good morning y'all... As I was sitting here pondering the day ahead. I was wondering if the milking moo's had found the open gate and were on their fresh pasture this AM. I'm sure some of the toast colored bovines have... others... God bless 'em, they don't have the sense God gave a gourd!

Take this for example, you are trying to get your very nasty bull penned up. You have the gate WIDE open, as wide as it will go!!! He has seen other walk right on through the gate... but will he? NOPE, nodda, not one step in that direction. GRRR (which BTW was what he was doing)... We did finally manage to get him penned up.

Then last night... I had just 2 more bovines to get moved... One... her and I have issues... I love her... she won't let me with in 50 feet of her. Would she go through the gate? NOOOOOO we have to RUN like I'm trying to kill her (OK so I've thought about it once or twice... JK!!!!!! maybe). If she wasn't out of such a good cow I would have sold her long ago, but she is the only one I have. What's a girl to do???

Well I best get ready for chores, it's going to be a busy day!

Thankful Day 4

"Grass in a tree limb"

Today's Thankful moment is... SIGHT. It's something we use everyday, take for granted, can give us joy, make us cry, it can make us happy, sad, mad, ill...

Our sight, given to us by our Lord and Creator is a wonderful thing.

If we lost it, think of what we would lose besides our vision. We wouldn't be able to see the oddities, such as grass growing in a living tree 10 above the ground. The joy at seeing the the first blossom in Spring (also in my case a ceratin loud mouthed heifer... :).. )

The sorrow at reading of a friends passing and no one bothering to let you know.

The pain that a picture can bring for the slums of countries far away and the children who are suffering there... and then in our own country.

The ability to read and make new friends whom you would never other wise meet.

I am truly thankful for my sight this 4th day of November. While there are a great many things I would rather not see, there are a great many more that I would hate to miss out on!

Until tomorrow...

Thankful

"Santa Anna"

I'm thankful on this 3rd day of November for this little girl and all the other moo's, large and small. Thankful that the bank is working with us and won't be taking them. While we have many more things that are weighing on our shoulders (like will be able to keep the farm, feed prices, bills). The knowledge that what we have worked for all these years isn't going to be taken from us is, is cause for Thanks and Praise.

From more 30 Days of Thanksgiving go HERE.

ps. promise to make up the first two days!!!

Bubble Gum

I do adore bubble gum. SUPER Bubble to be exact... do you know you can not find Super Bubble in the store here anymore??? Did you know Wally World had it as Halloween candy and that me, myself and I bought four bags of the 50% of SUPER BUBBLE. At one piece a day... OK two, THREE on the stressful days it should last a while.

HOWEVER, I wouldn't want it to get hard so I may need to revisit the whole limit on the gum thing.

Hope you all have a warm sunshiny day! I'm off (as soon as the sun comes up) to sort and move bovines.

No Sunday Stills....

Being one that was never all that into Halloween and such, I decided to just opt out of doing this weeks assignment on Sunday Stills, and rather to post some random pics through the years...