Another Day

Okay all, I am ready to open my site up so here I go.

 

Today is Sunday, a long hard day.  I think I'm going to set my blog for weekly reports, like I did on my website.  These last two months have been hard.  You would not believe the struggles we have gone through, emotionally, financially, spiritually, you name it...

But it's funny...whereas five years ago I'd be freaking out, now I'm not because I realize God is in control and He'll see to my needs, regardless.

 

Half of our corral was knocked down today when we got home from church, however, the goats were okay.  None were hurt.

 

Oh speaking of, let me tell you a bit about myself.

Besides being an author, I am a webpage developer, web hosting, mary kay, budding foster parent, leader of our Wed. night girls group, critiquer...shall I go on.

 

Yes, I think I shall.  We also live on an 88 acre farm that has been in my husband's family since 1901, which I am not really a part of, just by marriage--not to my husband at least! heh.  But it was in horrible disrepair when we moved in, the house, which has been here since 1926 was falling down around our ears. 

 

So far we've redone the floors, sanding staining etc, then the bedroom and kitchen, bathrooms, floors and all appliances.  We have torn out part of the fire place that was falling to pieces...to be finished in march.

 

We've cleaned out the tractor barn and work barn, which you couldn't walk into when we moved in.  The stables?  Egads, I was scared to go there....manure piled a foot high..okay only six inches....and stuff torn up and laying around--again you couldn't get in it.

 

The orchard was overgrown and we had to do some major pruning and mowing.  Grass at the house was up to my thighs....water had broken and ruined anything below four inches.

 

Oh, and the windows still need replacing, and the pecan orchard still needs cleaning.  But hey, we're only human and not rich.

 

HOWEVER, we now have goats in the stables--one due any day.  They're half nubians.  Her name is Sue-ie..yeah as in the pig call--my daudghter's idea.  Mr. Billy and Mr. Wether (for obvious reasons) are the other two.

 

And we had fifty chickens, down to twenty...half were killed by a wild dog a few weeks ago.  We get about 8 free range eggs a day, the best tasting eggs you'll ever eat!

 

And then there's sue-ie.  We'll be getting goats milk in another week or two.  Praise God for his provision!

 

And then there's the house/farm animals.  Four dogs, four cats (originally six, then two added, all dead but four), one of the four dogs we rescued from the street-he was beaten and abused and starved!  He's now the best pet around. 

 

We also have one rabbit--tamed, many on the farm that are quite tasty.  One macaw--for Christmas.  One guinea pig...and I'm sure I'm leaving something out.

 

Talk about a busy life.  OH, and my husband is Christian Education Director--yeah, talk about doing work!  whew!

 

And then there's writing.

 

My writing has slowed--for obvious reasons!  hehe!  Gotcha!  not what you think.  God is changing the direction in my life.  I'm writing more nonfiction now than fiction.  I don't know why.  I have three fiction proposals ready to go out, but my heart is in the nonfiction.

 

I could go on and on about the woes the last two months, but I won't.  What I'd like to say is that, God is in control!

 

NEVER forget that.