Snow January 29,2010

Hope everyone is enjoying this snow. Looks like we are having a good one.
Had to get out and make preparations for a big pregnant nanny. We put her in the barn stall with feed and water. It has to be soon.
The snow scared all the chickens. It was so deep on them they couldn't walk in it so they stayed around the barn and chicken house. I looked out and some of the roosters and guineas were on top of the smokehouse and my cabin. I fed everything including the birds they all gathered around the feeders. The beautiful cardinals were very striking against the white snow.
I always get out and make pictures the scenes are so beautiful---some more of Gods beauty for us to enjoy --if we stay home.

Uncle Omar watched for the snow to start and he told me when he saw it coming across the hills toward our hill. He is the same just confused. He lost his wallet again for the 50th time and we haven't found it this time. He usually hides it and eventually we find it. I don't know about this time.
I guess we will be in for the weekend too dangerous to get out.

Love,
Marie{aunt maria}

Psalm:100:3

Know ye that the Lord he is God:it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves: we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

The sheep of his pasture---I like that. Sheep will follow their shepherd to the jumping off place. I am glad to be in his pasture--Think about that you can run and play and have fun with the other sheep and know you are being watched over.
The Good Shepherd will never leave us alone. We can be in unknown places but he is there,he knows all about us our hurts our troubles and our sorrows.

I have raised a few sheep and they totally look to you to take good care of them.
I bottle fed two one year when their mother died. They are lots of fun and will grow fast I soon had a small herd of three ewes and a ram. The ram liked me but Farmer Man could not go in the feed lot with him ---He waited for him and would charge him and almost knock him down, they have a very hard head. We had to sell him before he hurt Farmer Man and he could have charged someone else.

Farmer Man is still getting confused about a lot of things--no better. I have to be with him at all times now and when he goes to feed the goats i watch him out the back window to see that he is OK. He forgets to put on his coat and it has been very cold lately.

I am glad we are God's people and the sheep in His pasture, that gives me hope in all uncertainties in this life. Thanks be to God.

Love,
Marie {aunt maria}

Little Red Hen or Miss Henny and The Squirrel?

I can't believe it has been six years since I wrote my," Miss Henny", book---I need to be writing again I can feel it in my bones. I did write this little short story for 3or4 yr old I guess you would say. I only got one made at Christmas time so I need to work on putting more together. I love writing about chickens so this one is," Just Chickens Talking". I like chicken talk---they have their own way of communicating with one another and with me.
I like the,"Little Red Hen", maybe some day I could write one that famous.lol

For two weeks I had been out of church but today Omar and I went to church---I enjoy going to church and feel so empty when I can't get there. I think it sort of gets him a little more confused though. Today at church he didn't recognise some of the great grand babies. Most or the rest of the day he was confused.

Love,
Marie{aunt maria}

Sing For Joy!!!

I do believe that is exactly what I need to do ---Go out and walk or run even in the rain and sing to God. I know that would raise my spirits because this week I have had a week of feeling low. When you are dealing with an Alzheimer husband and he is getting worse and worse right in front of your eyes --it is so sad. He sometimes says such funny things and then the next word is some strange thing I never heard of before. I have learned to answer in the simplest and easiest answer I can come up with. I know when the weather is better where he can go outside and sit on the porch or in the yard it will help both of us.

I am longing to be creative again it is in my spirit to do some beautiful picture of an angel or whatever comes out when I start. Maybe God might have me draw something different from anything I have ever yet done and someday soon I will do this.

Love,
Marie{aunt maria}

Cooking and Eating!!

This winter has been so cold and dark days ---what do I want to do --EAT.
Well if you are going to eat you have to cook a lot. What do you want to eat in cold weather? I like soup---all kinds of soup but our main soups are my homemade vegetable soup made with my summer canned tomatoes and frozen vegetables and homemade potato soup. When i make soup i have to have cornbread to eat with it.
I also like to make tea cakes. Make a cup of coffee and have a tea cake with me. They are delicious.

I am praising God for some warm days and the sun was so warm today. I even got outside and cut some dead flowers and ran a couple of roosters that know spring is coming cause they are fighting.I don't like seeing my beautiful white rooster with a bloody head. They fight for territory over the hens. I will get rid of several of the roosters i have kept too long---but I think they are so beautiful and colorful and i like to hear them crow.

Omar got out and went to the barn today and he didn't wear his coat. He stayed longer than I thought he should have so I went after him and told him it was time to come in and he was cold. He can't hardly walk outside he comes back all bent over and tired out. I do feel like it is good for him to get out some and walk a little.
I watch out the window and keep up with him.

Love,
Marie{aunt maria}

Winter Blahs!!

This cold spell left me weary and dreary. I enjoyed yesterday very much though my sweet niece and children came we got the wheel barrow and i helped some, pick up sticks off the yard. I still have big chunks of ice in the back yard where I had to throw it out of chicken water pans and refill two times a day and sometimes more.

Nibbles the goat is still getting larger and larger with her babies. I thought she would have them in the coldest weather but she didn't --so we will let you know when they get here.

This week I kept one of the great grand babies two days --she is not hardly two but she loves going outside to see the chickens and goats. My two little silkies are bantams but have big bird syndrome they think they can take on other larger things such as a little girl. They had never jumped on anyone but me before so I told her to stand there with the silkies and i would take her picture and she did---just as i clicked the picture he flogged her little legs and she turned screaming and he was flogging her little back as i got to him and rescued her he jumped me too. She was fine just a little scared. She was telling me,"chichn chichn", and was all excited trying to tell me about the what he did.
Now i will have to watch the cute little silkies. In the picture you can see he has his neck feathers spread out and head down and her hear was looking down too but just in curiosity.

Omar keeps me so busy now because he is getting worse in areas that he had been alright but not now. He talks to me so much about all of his dead family members it just goes on and on. I tell him not to think about them that they are OK. He wants to know why didn't some one tell him about them he would have gone to the funeral.
There is no fixing it i just try to talk about other things and get him to talking about some imaginary tale he tells me now. He asked me were we going tonight? I asked him where are we going---HE said to the races. When we were young we used to go to the races on Saturday night sometime. I told him I thought it was too rainy and cold to go tonight and he agreed with me--so we didn't go to the races tonight. I just get up and hug him and reassure him it's alright. It makes me sad but we will make it with God's help and I know He is there for us.

Love,
Marie{aunt maria}

March 1950

OK ---I keep getting out of sink but this picture goes with the other March 1950.

Children

Well to see the children go to my face book and it is there to play.
I do not know why i am having trouble with things. Just an agrivation.

Children!!!

It seems I have been having a time posting anything. For two days i have written something to post and i couldn't get everything to work my way so i will try again.

We had a little Christmas program at our church and I made a Smile Box with some cute kids and our pastor. Our pastor is in need of our prayers --Pastor Doug.
We know God is hearing our prayers so we are looking forward to his quick recovery.

Love Marie

March 1950

I have been looking at some of my Mother's old pictures today and found one of two young kids. This was made the year before we married. I was still 15 here and Farmer man was 18. I don't know why i seemed to always have a silly smile.
He was such a cute boyfriend no wonder I still have him.
Today I showed him the picture and he liked it too.

It has been so cold i have been breaking ice for all the animals and chickens.
Chickens drink a lot of water-- hot weather or cold weather. I guess it is because they eat dry corn and it has to have moisture to help it get into the gizzard with all the rocks and other things for digestion. I am sure everyone wanted to know about chicken gizzards.

I hope this weather soon warms up one of my nanny goats is ready to have her babies--I say babies cause she usually has two. I will get pictures when they are born. The other three nannies are getting close too but maybe it will be in February.

Love,
Marie[aunt maria]

Happy New Year!!

It is Happy Birthday to Omar{Farmer Man} today too. We had a get together for him and had traditional New Year's Day food. Black eyed peas,turnip greens and hog jaw.
I made corn bread muffins to go with it, sweet tea and we had cherry cobbler Dianna made. We also had another cherry cream cheese pie which he likes but he asked ,where was the pecan pie? We had way too many desserts. Carol made a wonderful pumpkin pie and Dianna made another pie---chocolate pecan, like a fudge pie with chocolate chips and pecans. I guess someday I need to make a family recipe book--Well maybe this year of 2010.

Can't believe ten years have gone so fast. Remember all the talk about everything collapsing when it was turning the year 2000. People even stored food and did some strange things---well we are still here. But this year might be when Christ returns.
We just have to be ready for whatever happens.

Omar has been pretty confused through all the Holidays but i just assure him I am here to help him find his way around. He goes most everywhere I go now even to church. I hope for a good year in the year 2010 and asking God to just lead me in the way he would have me to go.

I made a Smile Box but couldn't post it for some reason.

Love and have a wonderful New Year,
Marie{aunt maria}