Week in randomness

Been a random busy week. Started off with some dear old friends from Georgia camping out here by Ron's new woodshop. Greg Sullivan & his family are here & the kids have had a BLAST!
Water guns, frisbee, new movies, & a cute little girl toddler have made life more abundant around here this week. I'll have to get a picture of the family up when I get them all together.

Macrae got a brown recluse spider bite, we think it is, day before yesterday. It had a big nasty yellow, pussy blister on it, so we popped it and this was what was left. All these years of having brown recluse spiders, (at least 16 years that I know of) only me, Neo, & now Macrae have gotton bitten. The skin underneath had another layer of pussy blister & a black spot. It was hard to get a good picture, he wouldn't be still it hurt so bad. There is a sure cure out in the yard though, picture below.

We mashed a pile of plantain leaves to put on it to pull out the poison. (Astringent) It should be fine in a few days.We taped these crushed & bruised leaves on his hand.

Ron, Hannah & I took this Black Angus calf to slaughter yesterday morning. He was looking GREAT! I can't wait for some yummy, clean, grass-fed steaks!! This is at the slaughter house 'waiting room' & the pigs on the left found our guy very interesting. One of these pigs looks like ours or his heritage. The black one with the white feet & white striped nose. Berkshires are known for their awesome sausage.
"Work first, play later!" Even when the cousins spend the night, we put them to work first thing in the morning. Jeremiah got his first taste of hoeing. He had a great attitude about it. It was still cool that morning.
He had this on his mind that was the reward. When the heat got into the upper 80's, he was ready to go swimming at the channel. They've found a neat sandy cliff to jump off of.
My cactus zinnias are blooming.
The first time I've ever had Calendula bloom ( or live rather). Come to find out, these blooms are medicinal, but they'll be just as pretty for Trey Riley's wedding as the Bachelor Buttons the next flower up. Yay for blue flowers!

Sweetness

Hannah made a post about our dear duckies. Read it here

No laziness for Summer 2010

Proverbs 30:24-26

²⁴There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

²⁵The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

Proverbs 20:4

⁴ A sluggard does not plow in season;
so at harvest time he looks but finds nothing.

Proverbs 26:14
As a door turns on its hinges, so a sluggard turns on his bed.

Proverbs 6

⁶ Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!

⁷ It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,

⁸ yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

⁹ How long will you lie there, you sluggard?
When will you get up from your sleep?

¹⁰ A little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to rest-

¹¹ and poverty will come on you like a bandit
and scarcity like an armed man.
Ecclesiastes 11:6
Sow your seed in the morning, and at evening let not your hands be idle, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well.

Proverbs 26:13

¹³ The sluggard says, "There is a lion in the road,
a fierce lion roaming the streets!"

2 Thessalonians 3:11
We hear that some among you are idle. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

Spring work on the farm

We killed chickens the other day. Ron is about to put another flopping one in the cone to kill,

while three or four headless ones are awaiting Hannah to put them in the scalder.

Macrae wishes he had Neo's job of cutting off the feet, but it'll

be a few more years until he gets a knife.

For some reason, Hannah is real tickled to pluck these

chickens...

Our new work. We had these rows of corn planted the first week of April, ....but .... the ..... CROWS!!! Thus the scarecrow, at the end of the row, whose face has very large fangs we're hoping are very scary. It works, when she can be out there when it's not raining.

Maybe this last rain will bring this second batch of corn up.

I don't know if you can strain to see, but the peas, butter beans, & snap beans are up!

Here is 'Nancy,' by the first row of the garden. This row

is flowers for Trey Riley's wedding this July.

There are buds on the cactus zinnias because I

planted them at the end of Feb. at the house in

seedling trays!

Faults are thick where love is thin.

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails

1 Corinthians 13:4-

This is what God says about love.
Are you giving this kind yourself?
Don't think of what you're not receiving, but what you're giving.