Cowgirl Wins a Prize

This heat is getting to me. It’s getting to the animals, too. It’s getting to the grass that’s turning yellow in their pastures. It’s getting to the grasshoppers that eat the grass that’s turning yellow in their pastures. Actually, it’s not getting to the grasshoppers, but I wish it were. Thursday morning I spied several cattle grazing on our... Read More

July 20 – Ecclesiastes 3:1-2

July 20 We’re all waiting with you, Annie — a lot of us remembering our own waiting. Two or three weeks before our due dates, we think, “It could be any time.” Every night I’d go to bed thinking, “Maybe it’ll be tonight.” And the due date comes and goes, and that contented little ball on the front of you doesn’t even give... Read More

July 19 – Psalm 37: 1-11, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 8:28

So I’m thinking — heat and drought and grasshoppers. how do I, in practice, live with them and still live “above” them? I remember reading about a boy that they said was the first to actually survive rabies. When the reporter asked the staff at the hospital how they did it, they said they just dealt with each symptom as it came up. I can do that. Get... Read More

July 18 – Colossians 3:2

I didn’t want o get out of bed this morning. Every time I check, the forecast for the next week is 1 or 2 degrees higher. Now it’s up to 106-108 degrees. And the grasshoppers are destroying everything. Squash, corn, sweet potatoes. The peach tree and the lilac are completely defoliated, and they’re starting on the apricot. No! Not my apricot! But I did... Read More

Annie Had Her Baby…Shower!

Last Saturday we threw a “Bee My Baby” Shower for Annie! She plans to use Burt’s Bees Baby products for her little boy, so we had fun planning a bee theme, with some daisies thrown in for good measure. (Click any image to view it larger. Click here to view my bee baby shower idea collection on Pinterest with links to ideas and places to buy supplies.) I had just... Read More

July 17 – John 4:14

It was kind of sad driving down to your place yesterday. Except for the irrigated ones, all the fields were stressed. And then you showed me the corn fields, acres and acres parched beyond recovery, not even good for ensilage. Without water, it can’t live. And without Water, we can’t Live. Annie, we HAVE Water, and there are people around us, dying because they... Read More

July 16 – Psalm 78:5-7

The ducklings and guinea keets (wish I’d known that word for your shower!) came today, with a 6AM call from the post office! Each little beak or bill gets dipped individually in the water, so it will know where to go when it gets thirsty. Some drink then, some come back later when they’re thirsty, but they all know where the water is. So true of our own little ones. Psalm... Read More

July 15 – Psalm 1:3

Psalm 1:3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. All day long I’m pouring water from three hoses just to keep things alive. But if they were planted by streams of water, I wouldn’t have to water them, and my trees wouldn’t be just surviving, but thriving. The... Read More

Fascinations of the PODS Moving and Storage System

We’ve had quite a “buzz” of activity around our house recently. 😉 The post with those pictures is coming later this week. Meanwhile, some lesser events in the new household… Oh – and if you’re here looking for my experience with the POD, scroll on down toward the middle, to skip the rambles about my family life. When my sisters and I were growing... Read More

Aaaaahhh…..

We’re HOME. I’ve been waiting a long time to write those words! This has been a jam-packed week, and we’re only gearing up for more! There have been the usual frustrations with moving: – a sprinkler that won’t turn off and is watering the paved drive – a gas fireplace that is stuck in a no man’s land between on and off – a hitch... Read More