Wednesday, March 30, 2011
More babies
Today Brownie had 2 little boys. Brown Sugar was born first 11# 12oz and next was Pecan Pie at 8# 1oz. I'm having trouble getting my collages to blog now so...no pictures until I figure out the problem.
Monday, March 28, 2011
triplets
Well, White Face got her hooves done just in time to have babies. First was a little girl, Snow White 10# 13oz, 2nd was a little boy, Sleepy 11# 8oz, then quick as a wink out pops another little boy, Sneezy 9# 10oz. Snow White is all white, Sleepy has brown legs and is sleepy and Sneezy has brown tipped ears and did just that, sneezed.(I think he had a bit of mucus inhaled) but while weighing him I realized he could have been named wild indian. Quite the little fighter he is. Can you imagine carring 31# 7oz of babies, plus all that placenta and amniotic fluid and all that milk for 3 little ones! I forgot to bring my camera and by the time we fed them some colostrum supplement to be sure they all got that first dose, weighed them, notched the boys ears and put numbered tags in all their ears and put the elastrator on Prince Charming's tail, I didn't care anymore. So pictures will come tomorrow. I may even find out they look different in the daylight. White Face is acting a whole lot perkier without all that weight! Good night
Monday, dreary Monday
Another Monday, more wind, more spitting of various types of moisture, no real water to the earth just moisture in the air. We got White Face's hooves trimmed so she could bear to stand up a bit better on her arthritic pregnant legs. Her babies have dropped now so her backbone looks like she is starving but it's just all that weight dragging her down. She either has 2 very huge babies or more than that. We feel so sorry for her, probably the end of her having babies. She's had babies for 7 years now. Pat got the other 2 stalls cleaned out and we gave White Face the biggest stall so she can walk a bit more. So we have 3 empty stalls for BABIES and MOMs and probably will let Sleeping Beauty and Prince Charming out of confinement tomorrow. He is listening to his mom and comes running when she calls now.
We are getting close to 1st batch of incubating eggs being ready to hatch.
the asparagus is starting to come up and the honeysuckle leaves are unfurling. The Nanking cherries have pink buds which we are praying won't get a hard freeze and hurt our crop.
Ahh, Spring, the undecided time of year, still fond of winter against our wishes.
We are getting close to 1st batch of incubating eggs being ready to hatch.
the asparagus is starting to come up and the honeysuckle leaves are unfurling. The Nanking cherries have pink buds which we are praying won't get a hard freeze and hurt our crop.
Ahh, Spring, the undecided time of year, still fond of winter against our wishes.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Fog and creating
This morning I woke up to fog so deep and low that you couldn't even see more than 10 feet from any window. You know what belongs in the view beyond but you could imagine anything, if you did not know. I'd like to imagine a lush green lawn and zillions of flowers. And when the fog lifted, the willows are turning green. The willows loved the rain last night.
When I was cleaning and rearranging in my craft room 2 days ago, I found a quote I had copied down and I'd like to share it with you.
"Janet Oxford feels the thing that ultimately inspires all creative people, whether they acknowledge it or not, is that "we are made in the image of God". Since creativity is an attribute of God, that makes it a part of what we are."
from: For the Love of CrossStitch Sept 2001 Leisure Arts
I know that is most exciting thing I figured out about my self as I got to know God better, that He had shared His creative power with me in so many ways and that it makes my life joyful. So know that the talents God gave you are an extension of Hmself that make you His child indeed.
When I was cleaning and rearranging in my craft room 2 days ago, I found a quote I had copied down and I'd like to share it with you.
"Janet Oxford feels the thing that ultimately inspires all creative people, whether they acknowledge it or not, is that "we are made in the image of God". Since creativity is an attribute of God, that makes it a part of what we are."
from: For the Love of CrossStitch Sept 2001 Leisure Arts
I know that is most exciting thing I figured out about my self as I got to know God better, that He had shared His creative power with me in so many ways and that it makes my life joyful. So know that the talents God gave you are an extension of Hmself that make you His child indeed.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Cranes mean Spring
This morning the cranes are migrating and huge swirls of them fly overhead with their unique noise that heralds Spring. The garden is plowed and manured. The lilacs have swelling leaf buds and the plums and cherries are starting to develop buds. Oh how I love spring!
It's been a long difficult winter. The ram got me just before Christmas and I broke a couple of toes in my left foot and toes and bones in my right foot. So I spent a lot of time in my easy chair with feet up and did counted cross stitch like a mad woman to busy my mind. I burnt out on that and now I'm into crocheting. I made a cover for my Kindle and library card, a cover for my cell phone, a pocket (sort of like a fanny pack) to wear with all my clothes that don't have pockets. I assume I am getting old since I'm so into pockets that I am threatening to sew pockets, without them matching, on all my clothes. Why do they think women don't need pockets? We don't want to carry a purse around the house! Now I know why women used to wear aprons all the time, it had a least one pocket and the skirt would be bundled up to be one big pocket.
Now I am working on a rug. You know those potholders that have a double thickness with only one seam. A chain stitch that is gone around and around with no increases in single crochet. Well, I've found that they make good rugs, too. You just make them real big. I'm doing this with cotton yarn so it will be absorbent for in front of the shower.
Speaking of Kindles, Pat gave me one for Valentine's day. I can't afford to read much on it but I found out you can get 2 free first chapters of a book, so if I hear of a book that sounds good, I read the first two chapters for free and then try to find the book in the library. So far I've found and read, Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (she's the editor of Gourmet magazine), The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer (which I didn't finish as I ran out of time and others were a faster read. It was a good book but one you should own it so you could take your time and digest all the facts.) Now I'm reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I have One Good Dog by Susan Wilson waiting next on the table.
I got into a bit about trying new recipes for about a month and found a few new ones we liked. Korean Won tons, Cranberry Biscuits with smoked turkey (sandwiches) and Sweet and Sour Meatballs. It's awful what a rut you can get into cooking the same thing all the time. But one of the best things for my taste was the trying of putting about 2 cups of dried lentils into my Zatarain's dirty rice mix (one box) and added appropriate water,for the lentils, cook til lentils tender and liquid absorbed. It's a great veggie option that Pat likes too, if he has some meat along side.
So other than stamping and teaching classes and visiting my 3 ladies at the nursing home and taking care of Gene's leg ulcer and working on Mabel's house to get rid of and organize many, many years of hoarding; this is the story of my life since I last wrote. The Sabbath school class that I facilitate (we're reading the Bible through) is in Ezekiel now is going good. We are all learning new things and identifying with the various people in the Bible.
Pat's sister, Katy, has cancer on the larynx and metastasis to a lymph node in her neck and is undergoing chemo therapy at the present. She has a severe case of thrush secondary to the chemo right now and is miserable. We pray that they are able to eradicate the cancer. Pat's dad had a accident about 3 1/2 hours from home and rolled his truck. He broke 2 ribs and was battered and bruised but otherwise is okay. The insurance is fixing his truck so it wasn't totaled, thank God.
One last thing, the earthquake in Japan and the tsunami, doesn't it seem to you that surely Jesus is coming soon and Satan is trying to wipe out God's children as fast as he can? Make the hymns and bible texts your comfort now so they will be in your mind when you need comfort later.
I'll try to do better with keeping up this blog this Spring. Thanks for being patient with me. My love to my readers.
It's been a long difficult winter. The ram got me just before Christmas and I broke a couple of toes in my left foot and toes and bones in my right foot. So I spent a lot of time in my easy chair with feet up and did counted cross stitch like a mad woman to busy my mind. I burnt out on that and now I'm into crocheting. I made a cover for my Kindle and library card, a cover for my cell phone, a pocket (sort of like a fanny pack) to wear with all my clothes that don't have pockets. I assume I am getting old since I'm so into pockets that I am threatening to sew pockets, without them matching, on all my clothes. Why do they think women don't need pockets? We don't want to carry a purse around the house! Now I know why women used to wear aprons all the time, it had a least one pocket and the skirt would be bundled up to be one big pocket.
Now I am working on a rug. You know those potholders that have a double thickness with only one seam. A chain stitch that is gone around and around with no increases in single crochet. Well, I've found that they make good rugs, too. You just make them real big. I'm doing this with cotton yarn so it will be absorbent for in front of the shower.
Speaking of Kindles, Pat gave me one for Valentine's day. I can't afford to read much on it but I found out you can get 2 free first chapters of a book, so if I hear of a book that sounds good, I read the first two chapters for free and then try to find the book in the library. So far I've found and read, Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl (she's the editor of Gourmet magazine), The Help by Kathryn Stockett, the time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England by Ian Mortimer (which I didn't finish as I ran out of time and others were a faster read. It was a good book but one you should own it so you could take your time and digest all the facts.) Now I'm reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I have One Good Dog by Susan Wilson waiting next on the table.
I got into a bit about trying new recipes for about a month and found a few new ones we liked. Korean Won tons, Cranberry Biscuits with smoked turkey (sandwiches) and Sweet and Sour Meatballs. It's awful what a rut you can get into cooking the same thing all the time. But one of the best things for my taste was the trying of putting about 2 cups of dried lentils into my Zatarain's dirty rice mix (one box) and added appropriate water,for the lentils, cook til lentils tender and liquid absorbed. It's a great veggie option that Pat likes too, if he has some meat along side.
So other than stamping and teaching classes and visiting my 3 ladies at the nursing home and taking care of Gene's leg ulcer and working on Mabel's house to get rid of and organize many, many years of hoarding; this is the story of my life since I last wrote. The Sabbath school class that I facilitate (we're reading the Bible through) is in Ezekiel now is going good. We are all learning new things and identifying with the various people in the Bible.
Pat's sister, Katy, has cancer on the larynx and metastasis to a lymph node in her neck and is undergoing chemo therapy at the present. She has a severe case of thrush secondary to the chemo right now and is miserable. We pray that they are able to eradicate the cancer. Pat's dad had a accident about 3 1/2 hours from home and rolled his truck. He broke 2 ribs and was battered and bruised but otherwise is okay. The insurance is fixing his truck so it wasn't totaled, thank God.
One last thing, the earthquake in Japan and the tsunami, doesn't it seem to you that surely Jesus is coming soon and Satan is trying to wipe out God's children as fast as he can? Make the hymns and bible texts your comfort now so they will be in your mind when you need comfort later.
I'll try to do better with keeping up this blog this Spring. Thanks for being patient with me. My love to my readers.
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