We took a trip to my parents house in Michigan for a week. The kids love their grandparents and had a blast. Their yard is like a botanical garden (I'm not exaggerating). One favorite was the coy pond with several huge coy, a water fall and blooming water lilies. Kassi's favorite was the fairy garden with a close second being all the exotic day lilies. The boys were intrigued by all the winding paths and sitting nooks. Kassi is going to start a day lily business. It will take several years but my Mother is sending her starts of all her pricey exotic day lilies. We plan to encourage this most passionately. Although top soil is at a premium in the Ozarks this is something that could pay for college and afford a little spending money along the way. Kassi is perfectly suited for this. She is passionate about flowers, knowing their names and is not scared to work in her garden.
We butchered fifty chickens in three and a half hours and survived. Our friends came to help and what a huge help they were. We learned so much from them. They have been selling chickens for a few years and had some revolutionary insightful methods. Usually after butchering Tabitha and I are at each others throats, not true for this occasion. Killing animals always makes me feel raw and irritable. Matt, Rachel and family were a Godsend. Thank you.
We have already ate several chickens and find them to be the best we have ever raised. Customers arrived and picked up chickens. Most everything went off without a hitch. We are expecting one hundred and fifty birds within ten days. Tabitha has declared that we need one hundred chickens in our freezer for winter. This seems accurate since we devoured an entire chicken the other night with no leftovers. We will soon be a two chicken per meal family. We like leftovers.
It surprised me how many unnoticed little maintenance tasks we accomplish everyday. This was revealed to me after coming home and seeing our place in a shambles. The
We brought tons of plants back from my parents. Our rocky path got an entire makeover. We dug the cracks out and replaced the lime base chat with soil and planted some wonderful ground cover. I had to use the shop vacuum to get the chat out from between the rocks. It took several hours but I think most of the plants will survive and hopefully thrive.
You might be wondering why I have no photos of these exploits. Coincidentally this also explains why I have had trouble finding my writing chi. Alas, the charger to the camera battery is missing and has kept me from taking photos of any of these activities. Does anyone know the name of the saint for finding lost things? We need an intervention here.
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After Tabitha posted your family was home, I kept checking for updates. I LOVE reading your blog. Hope your camera cord is found soon. My camera broke two weeks ago and hoping to have it fixed soon, but it must be awful to have taken picures and no way to post pics.
St. Anthony and the reason I know this is my wife has to refer to him quite often. She never lays anything down in the same spot twice.
Yeah, St. Anthony lives in one of our spare rooms. Here is the prayer: Good St. Anthony come round, something's lost and can't be found". I'll send him your way.
I have always found St. Ebay to be helpful with such lost items.
According to a search, there is St. Anne, St. Anthony, St. Antony. I lose things constantly. I just ask my Spirit Guide (everyone has a guide, guardian angel), who has never failed me yet. Never! Think me weird or not, I have been literally amazed at times at the results. My camera was found a dozen times at least.
I'm very impressed with your chicken butchering! That is fast. Glad you got your way to writing back.
Nothing to do with your post, but I was researching the use of Niacin to help children with various issues and was astounded at what I was learning. I thought of Toly and, though I'm not quite clear on how he struggles, I wanted to pass this journal on to you to let you determine if he may possibly be what they call a "Vitamin-B dependent child" (because they cannot get enough B vitamins through diet alone for normal brain function). Search his symptoms in the journal and see what you find. I hope this helps!
http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/index.shtml
Discovered your blog through a WAP meeting yesterday. Excited to read all about the great things happening at your place!
Well it sounds like you had a much-needed change-of-pace! Understand the jungle bit. Have to say I'm thankful that the summer is drying things out enough to slow down the growth rates. Congrats on the chickens!
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