Working on clearing the land..

John told Terry he plans to go out to the property on Monday ( I think) and Tuesday and work on weed whacking and brush hogging. Micah and Nicole will be loading their moving truck on Monday and heading out. Tuesday is my day to work on my bible study lesson, and I just devote that day to devotions and prayer etc. Sometimes I have to (well I don't mean have to in a negative, but a positive way) watch some of the grand babies. But I have told everyone that bible study lessons are my priority on Tuesdays. I am all done with my Beth Moore Study for this week, except for loading it up on my blog spot: A Woman's Heart ~ God;s Dwelling Place but I have no idea if anyone even uses it, so not so sure it matters if I load it up onto the blog. All that to say I will hopefully be able to help Micah and Nicole and John and Molly this week. We will be having the telephone line installed at the property on Wednesday, and so Terry needs to do the inside the house telephone wiring on Monday or Tuesday. He is taking a couple days vacation ( I think) this week to work on the property too. I guess things are falling into place. I looked at digi cams today at Walmart. I want to get one so I can record our progress on clearing the land. Praying for extra funds for a digi cam here.

Moving onto the land...

We will be moving onto the property in about two weeks. Micah and Nicole are moving to Nebraska to work for a ranch near Broken Bow. We are going to miss them terribly! But God is good and He will take care of them, and fill our empty hearts with something new I am sure. With the economy like it is, the financial wizards of the world have pretty much announced to the world that no banks are going to be lending any money to anyone with anything less than a perfect credit rating, so we are assuming no one will be purchasing Micah and Nicole's home. Because of this situation, we have decided to take over Micah and Nicole's house loan for them, and so we will be living there as soon as they get moved to Nebraska. We were not planning to do this this way, I really wanted my house further back on the land (this house is right on the highway) but God will provide the privacy I desire, I think if you are going to live in the country, you might as well live back into your land a ways, but this is not what is going to happen... Anyway, I wanted to live on the property, and now I will. Terry will be taking an early retirement starting in February, and he will get a non truck driving Job here in this area, so he will be home every night.

Our Heavenly Father has to be so very patient!

I am working on being patient while we work out how we will finally get onto our property. I know God has been shaking His head over some mistakes Terry and I have been making, and He has to be so patient with us. Now Micah and Nicole are selling their three acres attached to our land, anbd planning on moving to Nebraska for a ranch job there. Since the well is on our property, Terry is re-surveying our land and putting the well on their property. So we will not have a well any more, and probably never will. I am thinking of getting rid of my dog. I guess Micah is selling Micaiah's pony, and giving Peanuts away. I really have no longer a desire to finish my plans since I will be all alone there for the next 7 years. I really don't want to live there alone. Prayer for a solution to our plans would be appreciated. God is good and in His perfect timing all things will work together for good to those of us who love and serve Him. Soon, I hope!

Waiting on the Lord

Housing:

We have pretty much decided on a berm home. I think it is going to resemble a castle in the front. Right now we are staying a a trailer park, and think we might finish Micah and Nicole's basement and move in there until our house is done. Nicole said we have 5 years until they move their kids to the basement. We have a really cool idea in the oven for our house, and it will be practially free to build the outside structure. It will be very economical on heating and cooling, and a very spacious house for all our kids and their kids on holidays. It will even be big enough for all the dil's (Daughter-In-Laws) parents and siblings to join us too!

Livestock
We have pretty much decided we will first start with sheep, and I have a very diversified mini sheep operation planed.
the following breeds are interesting me at this time:


1. Babydoll Southdown and regular Southdowns

2. St Croix

3. Jacob Sheep

4. Scottish Blackface

5. Mini Cheviot

6. Icelandic

7. Finnsheep


In my next posting I will let you know why these 7 breeds are the ones I am interested in raising.

Right now we have: (Micah has) several breeds of chickens, I picked out the houdens. He has a barred rock, some Road Island Reds, and a few other breeds. I need to get more familiar with them They are laying, and he has built a little mini chicken coupe for them. I will need to get my hens and their rooster separated very soon as they are almost mature enough to need to be separated.
We have the two Shetlands left. (CocoNight died last winter) and we have two Aussies. My little Lillie, and Micah and Micaiah's Little Rella. I hope we can take them to a herding camp this fall and let them get trained. We will need them to protect and herd our little sheep flock.

PRAYER TIME:I pray for all of you, and am praying right now for Kristi and Ken and Carolyn and Joe in Liberia, Africa. Praying God does a mighty work through them, and that they return home safely on Saturday.

Our old dog dies this week

Frank came to us in an interesting way. His owner bought him to use for breeding purposes. He then had to go away for a time, and asked his parents to take care of his pup whiles he was away ~I think he was in Desert Storm~ When he returned home, his parents had done the nice thing and gotten his dog neutered for him! He had been with them for over a year, and they spoiled him rotten. They let him sleep on their living room couch, and fed him T - bone steaks. He was super fat, and neutered, and very spoiled. His owner decided to give him away, so our son Micah wanted him and got him. He was a registered Australian Shepherd, our kind of dog! We had raised them since I was a child. His name was Frank. He was a red almost solid, but he did have some gold markings. He was very beautiful.and very big and very sweet. He was an excellent cow dog. He just loved little things of all sorts.Once he saved a little orphan kitten he found in a haystack down in the meadow. He brought her to the house and kept her between his paws all night until My dh got up to go to work. He then offered the kitten to him, basically asking him to take care of the kitten. He used to feed all the little pups we raised. He would drag his own bowl of food over to their pen and try to get it in their pen so they could eat it. He protected all things little and all things he thought were vulnerable. Like my mother. He used to try to protect her, and help her up the stairs etc. Frank came to us in 1992 when he was 2 years old, and he died last week at the ripe old age of 17. We will miss Frank! He was a good dog.

Home on the Farm again

We will be moving onto our new lanbd in Washington County. Our son and Daughter inlaw are building on our new property.

Home on the Farm: Sunday after church

Home on the Farm: Sunday after church
Monday mornig it is a nice 60 degrees. I am going out to take care of my animals. The aussies need to run for a few hours. I am going to survey the property and decide where to build my hen house. none of the work can start until June, but it is fun planning.
However my dh put a little wrench in the planning this morning when he called, he suggested we sell out and move up to the Saint Louis area.... I really think it would be a good idea, but I am waiting on the Lord! I said but I want a farm. He said we could buy 40 acres up there if we sold this. Waiting again upon the Lord, but going to occupy meanwhile! Sometimes I weary of the not knowing going on in my life, but have assured rest in knowin God is ultimately in control and do not worry conscerning the important spiritual aspects of life for I believe the Author and Finisher. So if he can do so great a work Spiritually He can also handle my material whats and wheres as well. Lord, keep me faithful! Show me Your way.
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin." (Heb 12:1-4)

Sunday after Chruch

Home on the Farm
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Sunday after church
As I told you in my introduction, I live on a 40 acre farm in Missouri. I attend when I am here a little Christian Church. I am a member of this church, but do not do anything to contribute anymore. I need prayer this can change, that this church will get on fire for Christ, and become evangelistic in nature. As with most rural areas of Missouri, there are hoards of unchurched folks out there in the community. These folks need to be reached for Christ, and we as a church body need to have the desire to bring them into our churches, to offer them something that will move them to a desire to first, know Christ, accept Christ as their Lord and Savior, and then to serve Him in the fellowship so that others in turn might get to Know Christ, accept Christ as their Lord and Savior, and then serve Him in the Fellowship so that others in turn might get to Know Christ..... You get what I mean. I need folks to pray for this little Church body, and that I might have a real active part in bringing others to knowing what the Church is sitting there for in the first place. I am most often visiting my adult children living in other communities, so unless God really shows me and confirms to me through this little church that I need to be active here in this fellowship, I fell I need to go elsewhere to determine what to do to serve Christ. I am concerned about this I am not a "People person" and so not the evangelist in practice, but in faith know there are those who can bring in those in the community, and I know my gifts are in administering programs like plays, Sunday schools, VBS's and concerts, women's meetings and other activities of this sort.
Any ideas and or comments would be appreciated! Thanks