Well youth was great.... very un-organised.... LOL! Only Clint, Neil Fenske (sawmill guy) and two of Neil's kids, Trisha (15) and Darren (12), so we sent kayaking, and then Dad talked a bit around the camp fire from Dueteronomy, and we had some chips and pop.... talked a bit and made it home around 11:20 or so. Any how Dad says he's kicking himself for not letting the younger ones go... Says he should have known that this church wouldn't be doing anything “bad” that the younger kids would be troubled by... so he intends that we will be doing youth services once they start up again after the Bible camp stops in August. On Sat. morning we rode the horse over to Galbraith's and there left Millie and Muckers... The stud was gone to another farm but we were able to see one of his colts that was a look a like.... nice buckskin paint, fish/wall eyes, good feet, moved very well for a yearling... all around nice looking colt, hope we'll be getting something like that come next June. :-) I packed up most of my clothes and also helped make cheese burger buns and tried to clean up somewhat. We went over to Fenske's that evening for supper... had good fellowship and getting to know each other better.... they have 4 children, 1 girl and 3 boys.... Trisha, Darren, Matthew (10) and Dillan (4), nice kids (and parents) they homeschool, Dad and Neil seem to have lots in common, sawmills, chain saws, like the backwoodsy feeling and so on. Elfreda and Mom seem to get along fine so I'm thinking that we'll be seeing a bit more of them... which is no problem to us kids. :-)
Church was good.... Brad preached about how God made the first move, even though we were enemies of God and sinners and God hates sin, He made the first move toward wanting us to come to Him. God sent Jesus to die on the cross to reconcile us to Him. I don't explain it very well, the end was how God gave us a message to send out to other people, God saved us we should go tell others about His love and forgivness. Very good sermon and I was blessed. :-)
Donny and Billy came over while we were eating a late lunch... they hung around for a few hours and then left.
I laid down for an hour or so... my throat is threatening to be sore and that will not be good... I'm thinking it's from the late nights I've been having... waiting up for the water heater to heat the water for a shower, I'm not a big fan of cold water showers.... LOL! Just not me. :-D So I took 16 or so D3's and been taking Vit. C every few hours and colostrum transfer (a immune system builder) so hopefully I can kick this thing and not be sick down in WA.
I'll try to find a place to post this tomorrow on the road... :-) Talk to ya'll later.
Hannah
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
The Norm
Afternoon to ya'll
It's been strange weather here (24th), hot and sunny this morning, rainy and coolish in the afternoon. Then hot in the evenging... whatever. :-) We've been working on the raspberries, hopefully we'll be able to finish them before we go down to WA... I've been weeding and pulling the old canes, some of the other has been doing one or the other. Dad needs to do some banking in Invermay before we leave for WA so I'm hoping to be able to ride along a get some of pictures posted... if you see them, then you'll know I was able to. :-D
Millie has shipping cold, so I have to give her penicillin shots for three days.... 30cc at a whack. Hopefully she will be cleared up and getting along good by the time we send her and Muckers over to spend a month or more in the stallion's pasture. :-) I might have to pick up some more Penicillin when we're in town before we leave as we might not have enough. She takes her shot well and hasn't put up a fuss for which I am grateful. (she doesn't like the shot... but she will stand OK for it) Our old Belgian cross mares had such a fuss with the needle, it's nice to have a horse that's willing to take it. :-) I still intend to ride her, but try to not have her gallop any, just lope and trot so's not to ruin her wind with her lungs being somewhat plugged up. Hopefully none of the other horses get it.
Dad's putting in a dryer vent downstairs so the person washing laundry doesn't have to bring the laundry out to the yard to dry it. Mom and I discovered when we tried to dry the first load downstairs that the dryer had no vent to the outside.... just let all the moist air out into the basement. Not good..... so Dad set up the dryer we brought with us out near the shop and we've been bringing the laundry out there to dry. Maybe next summer we'll be able to get a clothes line set up. :-)
25th.... Dad, Jesse and Zeke are heading off to go help at the Ketchen Lake camp.... Neal (can't remember his last name) has a sawmill there that he's going to be sawing some lumber on and Dad offered his and the boys help so Neal will be picking them up in a few minutes.
Us at home will try to finish the raspberries and be ready to go to Invermay on Friday..... :-) Coyote seems to have gone lame... so Lyds and I didn't ride this morning, don't know if we'll be doing any riding in the afternoon, Jesse said that Lydia could ride his horse if she wanted to go riding. I'm not sure if I will ride Millie or not..... Guess we'll see how she acts and whether or not we'll be doing any galloping which wont be good for her.
Okay we finished the raspberries.... YAY!!!!!! LOL! Good to know that those are all weeded and getting ready to flower. :-)
I didn't go riding.... Ellie, Martha and Lydia did though. Lydia rode Red (Jesse's horse) who acted up a bit so she had to work him pretty good on the ground before she could ride him.... They took some sasuage and bread over to the neighbors who just had their forth child.... we haven't been told what it is yet. :-) (we've sinced learned it's a boy... Beau Samuel, Mother and baby are doing fine)
When Dad came home from working at the camp he told us that Neal had invited all of us kids (and Dad and Mom as well) to come to a youth service at the camp on Friday (26th) . Dad offered it to us and we all jumped at it... sounds like fun, good preaching and fellowship.... But come morning Dad decided that only those of us 18 and older could go (and I thought it was supposed to be a “youth” service) those under 18 might be influenced to do wrong.... two questions were posed to Dad after he made that statement... “If you didn't like what you saw when we got there couldn't you just bring us home?” and “What is different about the people we'd being seeing at the youth service, than who've we've seen the two Sundays we're met with them for church?” Dad didn't answer either of the questions so I don't know if we'll be going or not. Dad does sometimes tell all the kids that they can go somewhere or do something and then the next day he refuses to let those under 18 do it.... He never follows a pattern and it upsets family life that he doesn't keep his word all the time. :-/ Maybe someday Dad will answer our questions and tell us why it's good for those over 18 and not good for those under 18 when all we would be doing is worshiping God and singing praises?!? Guess you just have live with it and bide your time till he deems us old enough to understand his reasoning. :-}
I'll close for now.... Take care and God bless ya'll.
Hannah
It's been strange weather here (24th), hot and sunny this morning, rainy and coolish in the afternoon. Then hot in the evenging... whatever. :-) We've been working on the raspberries, hopefully we'll be able to finish them before we go down to WA... I've been weeding and pulling the old canes, some of the other has been doing one or the other. Dad needs to do some banking in Invermay before we leave for WA so I'm hoping to be able to ride along a get some of pictures posted... if you see them, then you'll know I was able to. :-D
Millie has shipping cold, so I have to give her penicillin shots for three days.... 30cc at a whack. Hopefully she will be cleared up and getting along good by the time we send her and Muckers over to spend a month or more in the stallion's pasture. :-) I might have to pick up some more Penicillin when we're in town before we leave as we might not have enough. She takes her shot well and hasn't put up a fuss for which I am grateful. (she doesn't like the shot... but she will stand OK for it) Our old Belgian cross mares had such a fuss with the needle, it's nice to have a horse that's willing to take it. :-) I still intend to ride her, but try to not have her gallop any, just lope and trot so's not to ruin her wind with her lungs being somewhat plugged up. Hopefully none of the other horses get it.
Dad's putting in a dryer vent downstairs so the person washing laundry doesn't have to bring the laundry out to the yard to dry it. Mom and I discovered when we tried to dry the first load downstairs that the dryer had no vent to the outside.... just let all the moist air out into the basement. Not good..... so Dad set up the dryer we brought with us out near the shop and we've been bringing the laundry out there to dry. Maybe next summer we'll be able to get a clothes line set up. :-)
25th.... Dad, Jesse and Zeke are heading off to go help at the Ketchen Lake camp.... Neal (can't remember his last name) has a sawmill there that he's going to be sawing some lumber on and Dad offered his and the boys help so Neal will be picking them up in a few minutes.
Us at home will try to finish the raspberries and be ready to go to Invermay on Friday..... :-) Coyote seems to have gone lame... so Lyds and I didn't ride this morning, don't know if we'll be doing any riding in the afternoon, Jesse said that Lydia could ride his horse if she wanted to go riding. I'm not sure if I will ride Millie or not..... Guess we'll see how she acts and whether or not we'll be doing any galloping which wont be good for her.
Okay we finished the raspberries.... YAY!!!!!! LOL! Good to know that those are all weeded and getting ready to flower. :-)
I didn't go riding.... Ellie, Martha and Lydia did though. Lydia rode Red (Jesse's horse) who acted up a bit so she had to work him pretty good on the ground before she could ride him.... They took some sasuage and bread over to the neighbors who just had their forth child.... we haven't been told what it is yet. :-) (we've sinced learned it's a boy... Beau Samuel, Mother and baby are doing fine)
When Dad came home from working at the camp he told us that Neal had invited all of us kids (and Dad and Mom as well) to come to a youth service at the camp on Friday (26th) . Dad offered it to us and we all jumped at it... sounds like fun, good preaching and fellowship.... But come morning Dad decided that only those of us 18 and older could go (and I thought it was supposed to be a “youth” service) those under 18 might be influenced to do wrong.... two questions were posed to Dad after he made that statement... “If you didn't like what you saw when we got there couldn't you just bring us home?” and “What is different about the people we'd being seeing at the youth service, than who've we've seen the two Sundays we're met with them for church?” Dad didn't answer either of the questions so I don't know if we'll be going or not. Dad does sometimes tell all the kids that they can go somewhere or do something and then the next day he refuses to let those under 18 do it.... He never follows a pattern and it upsets family life that he doesn't keep his word all the time. :-/ Maybe someday Dad will answer our questions and tell us why it's good for those over 18 and not good for those under 18 when all we would be doing is worshiping God and singing praises?!? Guess you just have live with it and bide your time till he deems us old enough to understand his reasoning. :-}
I'll close for now.... Take care and God bless ya'll.
Hannah
Monday, June 22, 2009
G'day
G'day to ya'll!
We washed the horses the evening of the 19th.... Millie stood better than I thought she would for all the water and soap, I guess she's used to my unusual ways by now. :-) Lyds and I rode 7 miles the morning of the 20th and then 9 miles in the afternoon. Millie and Coyote don't mind being ridden for that long except that their feet are tender on the gravel. We try to travel in the ditch as often as possible to save them from limping. Millie like to be right on the edge of the ditch and the road, just where the grass is growing but not on a side hill. I would like to find someone who could trim Millie before we left for WA, or maybe have Dad trim her. She hasn't been trimmed since before we left for the long ride in Sept. of '08. So she does need a good trim. I want to do it couple days before we leave for WA to give her a weeks worth of time to get over the soreness that always comes after a trimming.
21st was church in Endeavour a visiting young preacher shared with us that morning. About living water flowing from you, not having a bag of faith but having the living faith in your life. Good talk with people after service. Brad (the pastor) can tell the greatest storries.... no wonder kids love being around him so much. I hope to learn a lot from him, Brad believes that souls are much more important than having the perfect place, the perfect family, the perfect look.... He'd rather be saving souls for Jesus. :-)
22nd Lyds and I didn't get up in time to go riding this morning..... I got to bed late (10:30 or so) and Uriah woke me up crying around midnight, said his left knee hurt so I rubbed his knee till he stopped crying, then I went back to bed.
I was reading my Bible this morning in Psalms and this verse caught my attention.... I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth Psalm 34:1...... I know myself that I do not praise the Lord enough. I'm not thankful like I should be.... I complain a lot about things that don't go my way. I want to rememeber this verse and remind myself to always praise God no matter where He puts me. :-)
We're getting ready for the trip down to WA.... Lydia's decided that she should probably start sewing as she only has a week or so to get her two dresses done.... :-) Nothing like leaving things till you have to get them done. :-D Mom wants to pick up all the food stuff for the trip today in Preeceville and I need to get some vitamins, AA batteries for my personal CD player (so someone can be listening to that while we're on the trip) and some shampoo and conditioner... this water is kind of rough on my hair so I want to try to get some on the nutrients back in it by getting organic shampoo and conditioner. Hopefully I will soon see a diference and not have my hair so dry. I like hair that's somewhat easy to work with. :-) I also need to try to find another set of ear phones so I can use them for my computer... I bought Naomi a set in Mellville, I should have piced up myself a set.... Oh well, I'll try to find some in Preeceville. :-)
Hannah
We washed the horses the evening of the 19th.... Millie stood better than I thought she would for all the water and soap, I guess she's used to my unusual ways by now. :-) Lyds and I rode 7 miles the morning of the 20th and then 9 miles in the afternoon. Millie and Coyote don't mind being ridden for that long except that their feet are tender on the gravel. We try to travel in the ditch as often as possible to save them from limping. Millie like to be right on the edge of the ditch and the road, just where the grass is growing but not on a side hill. I would like to find someone who could trim Millie before we left for WA, or maybe have Dad trim her. She hasn't been trimmed since before we left for the long ride in Sept. of '08. So she does need a good trim. I want to do it couple days before we leave for WA to give her a weeks worth of time to get over the soreness that always comes after a trimming.
21st was church in Endeavour a visiting young preacher shared with us that morning. About living water flowing from you, not having a bag of faith but having the living faith in your life. Good talk with people after service. Brad (the pastor) can tell the greatest storries.... no wonder kids love being around him so much. I hope to learn a lot from him, Brad believes that souls are much more important than having the perfect place, the perfect family, the perfect look.... He'd rather be saving souls for Jesus. :-)
22nd Lyds and I didn't get up in time to go riding this morning..... I got to bed late (10:30 or so) and Uriah woke me up crying around midnight, said his left knee hurt so I rubbed his knee till he stopped crying, then I went back to bed.
I was reading my Bible this morning in Psalms and this verse caught my attention.... I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth Psalm 34:1...... I know myself that I do not praise the Lord enough. I'm not thankful like I should be.... I complain a lot about things that don't go my way. I want to rememeber this verse and remind myself to always praise God no matter where He puts me. :-)
We're getting ready for the trip down to WA.... Lydia's decided that she should probably start sewing as she only has a week or so to get her two dresses done.... :-) Nothing like leaving things till you have to get them done. :-D Mom wants to pick up all the food stuff for the trip today in Preeceville and I need to get some vitamins, AA batteries for my personal CD player (so someone can be listening to that while we're on the trip) and some shampoo and conditioner... this water is kind of rough on my hair so I want to try to get some on the nutrients back in it by getting organic shampoo and conditioner. Hopefully I will soon see a diference and not have my hair so dry. I like hair that's somewhat easy to work with. :-) I also need to try to find another set of ear phones so I can use them for my computer... I bought Naomi a set in Mellville, I should have piced up myself a set.... Oh well, I'll try to find some in Preeceville. :-)
Hannah
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