This IS LOVE

Just had a few minutes to come and do a bit of a check in. My stressful situation last week - ended up lowering my immune system and I so I ended up getting sick Friday and had to stay home from church on Sabbath. Thankfully they broadcast it and so I was able to watch the service. I was happy because they are doing a sermon series. And I know when there is a series - I get a lot more out of the series when I hear them all. This morning I called Dr to get an appointment and so I will be going to see her this afternoon. I need to get well so I will be up to taking care of my grandson - who has not been feeling well either. He has a check up tomorrow and we are hoping they will finally give him some meds to help him feel better. Poor baby has been sick for over a week. I am SO thankful he is a pretty happy baby because he may be more clingy but thankfully he is not a grouch when he gets sick. Wish I could say the same for my husband....lol -if you are married - you probably can relate... 

So today is a stay home and get caught up on a few things around the house till my appointment this afternoon. I am hoping I get some meds that will finally clear up this mess. 

I hope you all are doing well. I wanted to leave you with this encouraging quote. It is found in a wonderful book called "Mount of Blessings" well worth your time to read. You can find it on line- it is written by Ellen G. White. If you would like an actual book to read - just leave a message and I will mail one to you. It is such a great book - I think everyone should have a chance to read it. 

 "Whatever may have been your past experience, however discouraging your present circumstances, if you will come to Jesus just as you are, weak, helpless, and despairing, our compassionate Savior will meet you a great way off, and will throw about you His arms of love and His robe of righteousness." MB8

Sabbath Devotional

Happy Sabbath! I have recently found a really nice youtube channel that has some short devotional videos and I thought I would share some of my favorites with you all each Sabbath. I hope they bless you as they have blessed me. :O) 

"The Case of the Strange Chicken"

Thank You!!

 Doing much better today - A BIG Thank you to those of you who took time to lift me in prayers. It's wonderful to have prayer warriors in my life. When I am struggling I can count on them. And I do my best to lift my friends in prayers as well. Prayer is very important. It is our way to talk to the one who loves us best! 

I pray you all are doing well and that God blesses you in a special way!! :O) 

Asking for Prayers Please

 I have been trying really hard to take care of my self and to live life in a way where I can handle the stresses better- and wouldn't you know it - a double load of stresses falls on me. So I would like to ask for extra prayers. I will try to jump on here and update when I can. Thank you so much. 

Rejoices over you with singing

 "If you base your value on how you compare to others, you essentially deafen yourself to His voice who “rejoices over you with singing.” Don’t look to the right or left. Look at your Dad up there singing your praises like a crazy person."

~Jennifer Jill Schwirzer

Hello~ It has been a long time since I have had a chance to check in. So on this overcast Friday morning, while my grandson sleeps, I thought I would take a few minutes to say Hi! Things continue to be busy here - We are still plugging away at working on our new chicken coop. We did find out this week that it will probably be February 2023 before we get our baby chicks - but at least we will be prepared.

I have been struggling a bit with depression- it has seemed. I have had moments of overwhelming sadness and feeling very emotional. SO I had to get proactive. I prayed about it and asked God to help me and He encouraged me to do a few things -

• Get better sleep ~ This means make more effort to get exercise every day if possible.
• Start doing a "health bounce" every day~ This means getting my mini trampoline and setting a timer(for now) for 5 minutes and bouncing and moving on it. This is very good for your lymphatic system and working my core and so much more. He has brought this instruction around to me several different times over the last few months and so I am planning to do it every evening for 5 minutes for the month of November and will work up to doing 10 minutes a day in December. I have high hopes of what this will do for my health and fitness.
• Getting to bed earlier~ I had let my bedtime slip too much and had to pull it back. The sleep before midnight is 2 times as important to your body than the sleep after midnight. So going to bed earlier will help.
• Trying to eat healthier - getting more fruits, veggies, beans, legumes, nuts, seeds and grains. When we do this our bodies function much better and our overall health improves and so does our mood. We need nutrition and eating a lot of highly processed foods does not give as much nutrition as what the diet that God has provided. Getting a good amount of fiber is very important for our health and eating more fruits, veggies, legumes, and beans each day helps with this!

These are just the basics of what I have put into practice and this week has gone much better- well once I got past Wednesday. As is usual when you try to follow as the Lord leads - you will probably be attacked and sure enough Wednesday morning was rough. I asked for prayers and thankfully was able to get on track and made the changes necessary to make Thursday and Friday more successful.

Anyway I hope you guys are doing well. If you, too, are having a rough time - take some time to ask God to lead you in what you should do. He is faithful to give us the wisdom we need - we just have to ask and listen. Don't forget to listen. :O)

Loving My Clothes Line

Good morning - I had to get on the desktop to place and order with TSC and decided I would pop over here and put up a post. I am thinking I will try to do at least one post a week till I can get back into a more regular posting - of course my more regular posting may only be 2-3 posts a week - I just don't know yet. I have worked on a few ideas and such so my time away has not be a total neglect of my blog. 

My husband and I are still slowly plugging along and building the new chicken coop. We have come to realize that it could be several months before the chickens that we want will be available. So we are in no rush to finish the coop. In doing some research it has helped us problem solve some issues we have had with our current set up - which will not be going anywhere. We continue to get anywhere from 1-3 eggs a day - as we are so thankful! 

 I am loving having my clothes line fixed. 

One of my daughter in laws gave me this awesome bag - it collapses - it is perfect to fill up with what ever goes to the line - hang it up there and pull things out and hang up. It is so much nicer than bending down and pulling things out of a basket. It makes both the hanging things out and gathering the nice dry clothes later. 

It seems to me that the sun does a bit of sanitizing of the things on the line as well. 

Might even whiten then up a bit. 

And I love how things smell coming off the clothes line. 

Hope you all are doing well! :O) 

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A few EXTRA minutes spare today....

 I have a few minutes and thought I would jump on here to say a quick hello! 

So one of the things that we have been working on that is keeping us busier than usual - is building a new chicken coop. We have 9 chickens and have not been getting very many eggs at all- in fact we had not gotten any eggs at all for the past couple of months. Then a couple of days ago I found this: 

An old tin building we made into a chicken coop- years ago. When my husband built a slightly larger coop- we moved this one so they could use it for shelter from weather. As you can see the tornado blew it around and bent it up - but they happily  have started laying there. I moved these eggs- and places a few fake eggs there - chickens love to lay where other chickens lay, so if I had just gotten these lovely eggs and not replaced them - there is a huge chance that chickens would NO longer they there. Well the very next day I found 1 real egg with the fakes and today - I have already seen a chicken sitting there - so we should get at least 1 egg today. It feels great to finally be getting some eggs again. But we are still in process of building a 10x10 coop - and will be ordering 25 chickens from McMurry- after we are prepared for the baby chicks! And in about 6 months we will be giving eggs to family and selling a few to help pay for feed. 

This week I have been able to harvest a few eggplants, okra and some cherry tomatoes- I also have kale and swiss chard growing. I really want to plant some beets, rutabaga, radishes, and carrots- I just haven't had a chance yet. Hoping I can this week end. 

Well that is about all the time I have. I hope you all are doing well. I will get on and up date as I can. :O)