Searching to find understanding...

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

  • The turkey is in the oven.
    I ran out and picked sage, parsley and thyme to stuff inside with the celery
    and yes I added rosemary-- (for those who know your tunes)
    The turkey neck and giblets are simmering in the pot.I should run outside again to pick more herbs for that
    The washer won't spin out the water from the clothes  (And Isaac needs clothes and I need clean dishtowels)
    The big kids are long off to work
    I'm letting the middle kids sleep a little later
    The Thanksgiving table is set. It looks great
    We're out of bread...
    yesterday made the rice and beans for Thanksgiving supper
    boxes await some strong arms
    still feel a lil grumbly about young teen boys who argue w/their mother
    An egg and Irish Breakfast Tea with pumpkin bread...
     "You made me fruitful in the land of my suffering, Father..." -Matt Redmon

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Monday, 23 November 2009

  • Preparations for Thanksgiving Day are underway. We're hosting my family, and expect to feed 25. This is my first time attempting a large sit-down meal in this house and it feels exciting. I'm pulling out bowls and platters to make sure I have enough and double-checking my supplies. Two more days!

Sunday, 22 November 2009

  • sundaythyroidmusings

    Well I've read  thyroid medical articles for several hours now so all i can think of at the moment is hypothyroid medical info...  the recent "shortage" lack of availability of natural replacement thyroid controversy... foods to stay away from... what to try... my head is processing.... there are a lot of possibilities... but which is wise..?

    I just wish  you could buy the stuff w/out a prescription and test yourself. Paying a dr. for all that is starting to seem more and more ridiculous. I took Armour thyroid since 1993. Last yr the lab bill was $100 in addition to the office visit and then they wanted to retest and I just didn't go back. (before that it was $15 to test) In June my prescription ran out and i just quit taking it. I was a little worried I'd do poorly but here I am 6 mo later and I haven't fallen apart, I've been able to work hard physically and haven't had prolonged depression. So I know I'm not totally dependent on it. So much for that fear. BUT winter is coming up and I know I tend to feel poorly when cold. My body temp is already lower than the average and when it's not warm enough over time I suspect my body energy starts going toward survival and there's a lot less for anything else. So, I don't know what it will be like this winter..   Thankfully we get free natural gas with this property so I can keep the heat reasonably high in here.

    I don't even know if I want to go back on replacement thyroid anymore. Surely there are more answers than that. What about the way God intended it to be? (and that's NOT mandatory government health insurance either)

    What I really want is to be healed. Is there hope? Is there anyone to believe for me?

Friday, 20 November 2009

  • Photos of work @ Jim's

    I took pictures of Ted and I working today..
    (YaY! I can resize my photos much faster now so this is much less of a pain to upload)
     
    First we walk up the back lane to where the tractor is parked.
    Ted standing by the tractor/wagon rig



    To the right is a steep drop-off and the Kokosing River (in the background)


    This is our rig! There is a suction motor between the tractor & wagon.
    Ted runs the leaf vacuuming hose and I drive the tractor.
    8 months ago I had no clue how to drive this thing...
    my legs have had to get stronger from inching along... clutching and braking, uphill and down.
    The vac motor is so loud we have to wear noise muffling ear things (that hurt over glasses after awhile)


     



    The trailer is full! Time to unload...
     I backed it to the edge of a hill both times! I'm getting better at backing trailers...
     

     

      After we unload, we drive back past the house to finish a section on the front lane.
    This is the view of his house from his front driveway. It drops way off to the right--- down to river bottom land.

    Look Ma-- hardly any leaves...
    The leaf-vacuuming is coming to an end! Good thing too, because it's almost December.

  • I guess this is my week for over-commitments..., SAndwiched inbetween the morning work and evening stuff Ted and I have been working every afternoon getting all of Jim's leaves up.. I'm as antsy as he is to get the project done...
     Doing the Ladies Night Out on Monday eve, Re-organization Weds. eve. Went to Holmes co. very early yest. to get those errands done, took Ted to Scouts last night...
     today helping Rachel clean the house they're moving into, then will sit all afternoon on the tractor and hopefully get the rest of the leaves done. forever.... looking forward to Thanksgiving Day hosting my family here... I'll get to relax the next wk during regular deer season while I wait on those fat does to trot by...

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

  • I thought I was going to get out of tractor driving today bc of rain.... and now the rain quit...  leaf vacuuming will return to its regularly scheduled programming ... shiver, gonna wear my warm hunting boots, the better to clutch and brake with, my drear

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Sunday, 15 November 2009

  • sundaymusungs

    "Hi PeacefulLady! It's been 1699 (wow, that's a big number) days since you joined Xanga..." yeah, long timer here

    Shot my little muzzleloader today. Sam got it for me. I learned to load it myself... now I have a gun and hunting boots.. that's the most important part-- fire power and warm feet. Anyone have a small camo clothes or warm hunter-orange jacket to give away?

    We had visiting preacher from Kenya as speaker today Peter Kebae (spelling?) I really connected with what he said. He started out with the words picture of Why do trees fall over? it's not the circumstances, it's the inner strength of the tree... and on to how concerned we are with our appearance...

    Might have to add to this later... family is going to watch "Jacob's Harvest".. off to ice cream and popcorn...

    Okay I'm back... 
    We are all concerned about our appearance outwardly and spend time with that... what about out inner appearance.. spending time in fellowship with God makes us beautiful inside... reading the word shows us ourselves and what to do, prayer does way more than we may realize at the time... I think he said too: How much we pray shows how much we believe prayer will make a difference. (? I'm writing this off the top of my head, anyone else remember this?)
    We can choose to do things even when we don't like it right then because the harvest will be rewarding. Persevere.. Farmers do this when they keep doing the hard work months before they will see any results of harvest....

    There was more but I was especially struck by the "doing things we don't like right then" part because this past week I read and reread an article by a Doctor who was talking about how just giving facts to people about their health doesn't usually do much to change behavior. We make way more of our decisions from feelings of like/dislike than we realize. He called it emotions but I believe it goes deeper than superficial feelings to words like heart and desire. But anyway. I was really struck by the like/dislike thought in the article and how that plays out in my life... and then this further connection..

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