Ruth and Elk Burritos

Ruth H. called me today and we got on food.  I'm making Elk Burritos tomorrow, which I teased her about.  I still remember when I shared my lunch with Ruth and she about fell over at how good that left-over burrito was.  So I wrote out the recipe for her and will mail it to her.  I would very much enjoy it if she would learn to use the computer so we could write bits and pieces back and forth.  Infact, I learned this past Sabbath that when Daniel was put in the lions den that he was in his 80's.  Ruth, did you know you could journal on the computer and then print it out like pages in a book?  We'll see if she can figure out how to find this blog! 

Really though, the friends we make throughout life, it just takes a few words and we are like no time has passed, even though it's been months or years.  Ruth is one of those people.  Won't heaven be good, no more unsurmountable distances with our friends and relatives.

Ruth also told me Meghan is going to have a baby!  A little boy named Jackson.  It's hard for me to think of her all grown up and married and pregnant.  Life!

Old People

When is the last time you spent any quality time with old people?  They still need love.  They still need people to pray with them.  What if we took Sabbaath to them?  What if we let the old pastor preach to us at his bedside.  Do we let them serve us at their convenience?  Do we let them teach us?  Why don't we take potluck to them?  It seems that once people lose the ability to come to church they lose their ability to be a part of the body of Christ.  Shame on us.  They'll be in heaven with us and we forgot them and didn't feed them or let them feed us.  Convenience is a dirty word when it comes to the body of Christ loving each other. I'm going to try to do better because my time with them blesses me in a way nothing else does.

Don't blame God

Why is it when disaster strikes we blame God.  God didn't cause it.  Remember the enemy of God?  His name is Satan who was once known as Lucifer.  Satan whines constantly that God is interfering with his principality, the earth.  Satan whines that we love God and His Son, Jesus because we have it so good and if disaster came our way we wouldn't love God or Jesus anymore.  What an evil fruitcake Satan is.  We love God and Jesus because they loved us so much that they provided our salvation and hope before we even existed..  They never turn a deaf ear to our cries.  We long for our true home, heaven.  So let's quit the blame game on God and put it where it belongs on Satan, our enemy.  In doubt, read Job.  It's the true story of how Satan works and the confidence that God has in the real power of love. 

Monday's lambs

Suffolk sheep had 2 girls this am, Midnight, 12# 13oz and Twilight 12# 15oz. Then this evening Chilly had triplets, Daddy's girl 7 # 15 oz, Rambuntious, a girl,9# 8 oz and Mr. Spotty 11#. Only 4 more ewes to go; Frosty, Little Kathy, Ute and Little Girl. Phew! Lacy, the dog, entertained the women at my class with her chair chicken-pen-side and devotion to the 7 baby chicks. Then they came down and petted baby lamb heads while we numbered and notched and did supplemental feeding.

Sunday news

Woke up to another lamb. Black Face had a little girl 12# 9 oz. I named her Cutie Pie. When you see her picture you will think she's one cutie pie, too. Well, Pat has 7 chicks out of 8 now. He found out he did a lot of things wrong but considering he had good luck. Now next weekend, I think it is, his second batch should hatch. Lacy is obsessed with the baby chicks. Wonder how many roosters we'll get!
I feel better but still not great, Spring sinus problems are so wonderful. But I'm getting sleep and I'm sure I'll live.

I did want to give Storey Books a plug. If you get or are going to get new animals. Buy the book about them (and read it). They have helped us so much to learn and care for our animals. Now we are talking about guinea hens, so I guess I need another book! Sigh. But I am glad Pat is getting to be the farmer that he was meant to be and even though they are a lot of work, I love them, too. Now that Pat has figured out the incubator, I'm starting to be worried about what he plans on hatching next. When my friend Dalene moved she gave us her incubator, it's a huge box and you can hatch many, many eggs! (Like a 100, I think)

Well, My first class of the month is tomorrow and the house looks a disaster so I'd better try to tame it a bit. We are making a tea folding card, an iris folding card, a sewing themed card with a bit of dressmaker pattern glued to front (yeah, thrift stores)and a lighthouse scene card. Plus I did several scrapbook pages to try to entice them to buy some kits themselves (more money for me). I'll try to remember to take pictures of them and put on blog. The large collages I made of sheep, 4-wheel drive up Grand Mesa, etc. I can't get to transfer so I'll have to remember to do individual pictures instead.
Also, I did do some new card pictures on my Close To My Heart site. Some of them trasfered upside down and why I do not know and can't get them to go right side up! But that site is:
kathycoady.myctmh.com
Thanks for reading my stuff and letting me know you enjoy it.

Baby chickens

Today I woke up with a horrid headache, but I went to church anyway. My mind felt heavy and lost and I called Jean, Lucille and she let me know it wasn't Lucille but didn't tell me what her name was and it took me several minutes to think of her name. Sabbath school my folding chair felt like a torture chamber. Got into church and started feeling so dizzy that I decided to go ahead and leave at 11:50 and they were still telling the children's story hadn't even got to the sermon yet! Stopped at the post office so I could mail the lamb hat to Katy as she has lost all her hair to chemo now and Wyoming is cold. I thought I was going to lose my breakfast in the post office but I finally made it home by turning the air conditioner in the car on full blast! Took some ibuprophen and an allergy pill and slept a bit and now I feel so much better. But I missed my nursing home visit today. I feel bad; they enjoy it so much and I enjoy it, too.

Pat's 1st batch of chicks are starting to hatch, 2 so far and our dog is so crazy! We had to put a chair by the box the hatched ones are in so she can look down through the screened lid to check on them. We raised babies last year in the house and she couldn't wait for us to take the sheet off the cage each morning. (No sheet, no sleep for us.) So she just loves these new chicks. Talk about a mothering instinct!
This year they are in the shop.

No new lambs yet but Sneezy has Pat wrapped around his finger. Sneezy decided he liked those supplemental feedings from the bottle and when he sees Pat he runs over and starts sucking on Pat's fingers. So of course Pat takes a bottle down so he and Sneezy can have a bit of daddy time! Snow White hates the bottle and won't drink, Sleepy can take it or leave it. Their mom, White Face is looking much better now but this will be her last time to have babies. She is a very nonchalant mother this year; "maybe I don't feel like standing up so you can drink", I imagine her saying. It took quite a bit of effort the first day to get her on her feet so the babes could drink. Lambs don't drink except on their feet or as they get older, on their knees.

Anyway, I'll keep you posted on the lamb and chicken happenings.