Tuesday, May 23, 2017

May Flowers

I can't believe May is practically over already!!!
Is it just me or as you get older does time goes by faster?

I took the opportunity of the beautiful weather to get some pictures today.
Megs & Kai are both sick, so once I was done with work I decided to take my camera outside with me.





I do love taking pictures of Flora and Fauna.😊

Oh dear, I just found the emoticons, we're  in trouble now! 😉    (see..)

This past weekend dad and I worked on the garden, he got the new manure rototilled in and we got all of our plants we bought in the ground, now to get my seedlings I planted "hardened" so they can go in and to get the sprouting corn in.
Still have the bush bean plants and seeds we just got planted as well as some potatoes. 😌


Anyways, I love my new car, I'm so glad God blessed me with the ability to get one!
It drives wonderfully and I get a little over the expected mpg!
I added some sport visors over the windows and a bumper protector to keep the bumper edge from chipping.  (sport visors are so handy and nice looking too!)

Well, time for chores, it takes a little longer with just mom and me to do it.

Have a great week everyone!
Blessings!

Monday, May 8, 2017

Flowers/Life: A Reminder

Spring is here!
A week or so ago my Irises were out and in full bloom!!

Now they are gone, a sweet memory and a few pictures are all that's left of those beautiful flowers.

It makes you think about how flowers resemble our lives....
 Like it says in Psalms 103:15


And as it says in Isiah 40:8:


Besides His Son and the gift of Salvation, time is one of the most precious gifts we are given in this life.
But, like most things in this life, we must spend it wisely.
For one day, in the blink of an eye, when we least expect it, it could be over. *Poof*
What kind of account do you want to give for your time when you stand before the One who made you?
Did you live your life for Him, or did you foolishly spend it on trivial selfish things?
God gave you grace when you received Him into your life, live it out, grow in it and share that grace with others in the time you are given!

My Irises: 





Thursday, April 27, 2017

A Joke & Baby Goat Pictures



 Since I missed last week, and had trouble thinkning of something to post this week, I thought I'd make ya'll have a good laugh and then share a few pix. :)


A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd on a remote mountainous pasture in Montana, when suddenly a brand-new 2015 BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses, and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"





Bud looks at the man, who is obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"





The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Apple iPhone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location, which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.





The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Apple iPad® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC-connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Galaxy S5® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.





Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on a Hishi-Tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy, and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.





He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.





Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"





The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"





"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government," says Bud.

"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"





"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living — or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. Now, give me back my dog!"


 We had 2 new baby goats born! They are SO cute and spotted!!
 Thought I'd share a few pix of them. :)



Are they not just too cute?!


Stand Firm for Him,
Blessings!

Thursday, April 13, 2017

This Month So Far...

I can't believe it's April already!!!
This month so far has been a very busy but great month so far.

Last Friday/Saturday I house/pet sat for our Pastor and his family while they were away.
Went over several times a day to let the doggies out, and spent the night on Friday so I wouldn't have to get up really early and drive over  to let the dogs out then make it back home intime for 8:00am chores. (Yes, I'm not a morning person) ;)
That was fun and went well.



This week, us girls went to the Zoo with our friends the Hazens for the $4 Tuesday.
No parents! None of us kids have gone to the zoo without an "adult/parent" with us before
Here are some pictures I was able to get:


I remember seeing this fella the year he was born, he is now 9 yrs old!!! :O
The beautifully huge elephant exhibit! (this is only like 1/4 of it!!)
Lilly on the log! Who knew elephants could do this?!



We spent 10-15 minutes watching the elephant play with the toy, he was so funny!!




The beginning of this month I got my first car!!!! :D
So excited!! It's an Kia Sorento, it's an SUV and sits 7!!
Isn't it pretty?? :)


We've had 4 more baby goats this month as well:



Aren't they all cute? :)

Hope you're all having a great month so far!
Blessings!

Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Prize



Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use. However, this prize has rules:

The set of rules:

1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.

2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.

3. You may only spend it.

4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.

5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say: Game Over!".  It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted - right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?



ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ...



Shocked ??? YES!
Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it.

The PRIZE is *TIME*

1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds as a gift of life.

2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is NOT credited to us.

3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.

4. Yesterday is forever gone.

5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING...

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars. Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.