Coming Soon?

I really don't know what is coming next and it is a good thing. I did not like what happened to my favorite prize rooster Turk but the predator is gone and none too soon. He was getting braver and braver as the days passed and was watching me and the chickens each day as I fed them. He came into the barnyard and watched us and was near to the yard and I was expecting him to come under the yard fence at any time. He was not afraid of me I seemed familiar to him. I am sure he had been watching me for some time. It was sad to have to get rid of him but you cannot trust a wild coyote they have been known to attach a child and I have children around here all the time. I also had my registered Rat Terrier killed by a pack right in front of my house on a Sunday morning. I cried about the way he was brutally killed and I still miss him. My other Rat Terrier was also attacked by two large ones and we were watching. WE started running toward and screaming at them so they dropped him. We took him to the vet his back skin was all pulled loose and his wind pipe was punctured and didn't bark for six months. The vet wrapped his back and I kept him in the house and nursed him back to life.

The dog attacks happened a few years ago and I hope the coyotes are out of sight for a while.

Farmer Man has been in a lot of back pain lately so physical therapy has started back here at home for him. I knew he was getting weaker in his legs and back and needed to be strengthened by the therapist. I can't get him to do all the things for me. Dave is the one that came before and he really liked him so he is the one coming again. Dave calls him " Boss" and he likes that.

My shoulder is getting better--I am going into town for therapy three times a week.
It is taking some juggling to get everyone taken care of.

Two pretty great granddaughters playing in the yard.

James 1:2-3 Says--Whenever you face trials of any kind; consider it nothing but joy,
because you know that testing of your faith produces endurance.

Blessings,
Love Aunt Maria[Marie]

Turk!!

He got him---Turk I mean. The coyote got him. Turk was my very special Brahma Feather legged rooster. I had raised from an hatched baby to this beautiful sweet gentle rooster. The coyote also got one of my large black layers she was always with Turk. I named him Turk because when he was young he ran like a turkey ---so Turk he became. He was only 3yrs old. I really miss him because he was always greeting me when I was in the yard.

This morning about 6:30am I went out to feed the chickens and my 10 guineas--I feed them in the yard at the house. I thought I would walk out to the barn and see if the coyote was out there. There he lay under the tree looking at me right there at the barn. He didn't run he just got up and started walking off. He is very scary because he is too brave. He will have to be taken care of or he will eat all of my chickens and could jump me if I went in the barn and surprised him.

I love all of God's creation but there is a time when something like this is unsafe for my animals and children and myself. We may try a live trap but I might catch my dogs but it will not injure them just scare them. I will let you know more of this story as time goes on.

God Bless
Love Aunt Maria{Marie}

Old Friends

Wish this machine of mine would stop giving me problems. I couldn't' get on to post for some reason --well tonight I got through --Thank you.

Last weekend Farmer Man and I had a enjoyable time. I decided to take him with me to my grade school reunion and he did remember some and talked to some and seemed to enjoy while we were there. Now that evening he didn't remember where we had been.
One of our great grandchildren had a 4Th birthday so we went to that also after we left the school gathering.
That was on Sat. then on Sunday afternoon our oldest great granddaughter had her 16Th birthday party and we went and he seemed to enjoy that and I was glad we got to go to everything. Now this week he has had lots of back pain and has not felt very well---That is why I don't go much with him it seems to make him have more pain. I just have to take him when I think he is doing pretty good.

I have a picture of me when I was 13[One on left] My aunt and one of my best friends.

We have a predator on the farm that is after my chickens and it is a coyote.
Farmer Man saw him come out of the barn and go under the barn yard gate. All the guineas and chickens were having a squawking fit and Farmer Man told me to come there --I was feeding the chickens. I went and looked out toward the gate and there the thing stood looking at me like he knew me. He walked off turned around and stood there looking at us again. I yelled at him and he trotted of and stopped again and looked some more. I yelled louder and he trotted up the hill toward the woods and the cows and horse chased him and he ran then. I go into the barn everyday now I am going to have to watch for that thing. I knew some of my chickens had started missing
so now I know where they are going.

Well just had to share some good and some not so good things but mostly good. Thank God for the good days.

Pray without ceasing.
1 Thessalonians's 5:17

Love Aunt Maria{Marie}

Happy Days!!!

I have been trying to get to my blog for days but my computer would not let me get here --until tonight.

I have been having some very painful days like over a week of it. Both shoulders have made me sick from the pain. Well I got an MRI last Wed. and it showed my rotated cup was torn into and had been so long it could not be reattached. It has formed a protective fat around one end the end that tore away I suppose. I said," What can I do ?"He told me to take physical therapy again and then do it my self as faithfully as brushing my teeth daily for the rest of my life.

I was thankful I don't have to have surgery but I must be tough as nails if this has been in this kind of shape so long. I did hurt my shoulder years ago shoveling mulch[a truck load] and had to go for therapy then. He said when I fell in Feb. I just hurt it bad and it is very inflamed. My Primary care Dr told me to take Ibuprofen three times a day and take Vitim D a 1000iu --2 a day for a week and then 1 a day from then on. He says everyone he has tested is low in Vitamin D. I will find out more about this --I will do little Internet research and let you know or tell you how much better I feel in a couple of weeks. I do know the physical therapy will help I have had that before.

I have things I want to get bact to and finish up before the end of the year gets here. I feel like now I will be better and get these things done.

Farmer Man is still good old Farmer Man. So confused but I go with him to the barn and he feeds the goats and waters the chickens and goats with my direction.
I am glad he can walk pretty good but does have to use his cane all the time.

God Bless,
Love Aunt Maria[marie]

Cats --Cats-- Cats

Just a few lines tonight ---I need to post more often and come up with some interesting things to tell you. I have been back to Dr today and have been in lots of pain in my shoulder. He said i need to have MRI so tomorrow I will have one. I am praying I do not have to have surgery. I have to take care of myself too or I can't take care of Farmer Man. Today he was pretty good just that when I was helping him to bed he asked where the other girl was. She didn't die did she? I told him no she had left. If I tell him that she is me he says ," No that can't be." Life goes on no matter what. We deal with it. I know God has plans for us all---Just don't know what they are. I do ask !!

Something light here!!! I have 12 cats now and I only asked for one. Ms Pinkie brought the 3 new kittens to my cabin so I could help feed them as they grow.
Her four almost grown ones come in there to be fed too. I want to give the almost grown ones away but most people have cats if they like them and if they are not a cat person just don't mention a cat. I just can't take Pinkie and her babies to the pound cause I know what they do . I will figure this cat thing out too.
OK ---Now I am going to have to have a chicken and cat sale that might work. I have lots of chickens now and they eat lots of corn like the cats they eat lots of cat food. Maybe I could advertise cat and chicken feed for some company. I could tell them how much my pets like their special food.

Love ,
Aunt Maria{marie}

The Old Chicken House

I could not upload my book cover picture so i just did this picture.i will try the book cover later it is 10:00pm and time for me to settle down before I go to bed.

Love,
Aunt Maria

Just Chickens Talking

This is not the front of the book this is a page from inside. I also had to show you a pretty bouquet of flowers from my dried up garden.

This is the title of the small children's book I wrote last November. It is titled this because I listen to chickens every day and they do talk to each other and to me.
I have lots of free range chickens and I mean free. This year I have raised about 30 I think ---I really don't know for sure. I have about 60 in all. They greet me each morning at the back door. Now I know you think my my she must be a little eccentricity---probably so. I have a chicken coop my grandson built for me joined onto the back of my cabin. Oh no you must say. It does work well for me but every thing thinks the cabin belongs to them too. Chickens cats an more cats.

I have a cat hole in the back door for Miss Millie my only black cat--Used to be my only cat. In February a new cat showed up in my cabin with a pink collar so she became Pinkie---well Pinkie stayed because I couldn't find her owner. Now she has four almost grown kittens[She was pregnant when she came] ---before I could do anything about getting her fixed she was showing again and now she has more at the barn and I can't find them. What am I to do? I am going to give them away if I can.
I could go on with chicken and cat stories---well I might some other time.

My little chicken talking book is small for the beginner reader only about four lines to the page. I haven't even had any printed I did two copies on my computer for myself.

I have to say Farmer Man has had some really bad days lately. We think he has had some more mini strokes. For several days he was talking about our car that we haven't had for 30 yrs or more. He was going to get it he knew the man that had it.
So this has gone on and on and has not been easy to take care of him wanting to leave. I called Dianna and she came Fri. and took him out to look for the car and he couldn't find it---he has been some better sense he came back.
He has slept a lot, a lot more than usual. I just hope he stays calm and not agitated like he got Fri.. He did go out with me to feed the goats this afternoon and he likes that.

Hoping for a good week.
God bless us all.
Love,
Aunt Maria[Marie]