Break

We just got off Spring Break so I'm back to school on Monday.  Yay for 5:45 am wake up call!  (I realize this isn't early for everyone, but for me it is.  It would probably be easier if it were every day instead of just twice a week...) 

I didn't do much this Spring Break.  I embroidered quite a bit (1 & 1/2 tea towels) and helped Tommy's Grandma cut out filler material for the quilt she is working on right now.  Oh, and my FIL has a bottle calf so I got to help with it.  He was just figuring out how to suck on the bottle when we left, but they said that he's doing much better today.

I walked out to check on a cow before heading to town Thursday, and I didn't figure that she would be calving until much later that day.  As I was walking, I glanced over and the calf slid out.  Hah!  So much for later that day. :-) I went back to the house for my camera.

He's about 20 minutes old in the above picture and super wobbly when he started to stand up about 5 minutes later. 

 Fell down again. :-)

 The brown calf was pretty curious...but the mama wouldn't let him very close.

I made Orecchiette with Mushrooms for supper tonight.  It was good.  I couldn't find the Boursin cheese that the recipe calls for so I added garlic and herbs separately and used plain chevre for the cheese. 

Horses...A picture post

Over Easter break I was able to see the colt again.  He has grown a lot!  I am excited for this summer when I will hopefully get to see him more often.  Of course I took pictures.

He is a lot more skittish now that he's older so he spooks more easily.

His mama.  Isn't she gorgeous?!

 And a one more of him...so beautiful!

The other mares came to visit while I was taking pictures so I took some of them too. 

 This one was really friendly.

Do you give the horse his might?
         Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you make him leap like the locust?
         His majestic snorting is terrible.

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength;
         He goes out to meet the weapons.

He laughs at fear and is not dismayed;
         And he does not turn back from the sword.

The quiver rattles against him,
         The flashing spear and javelin.

With shaking and rage he races over the ground,
         And he does not stand still at the voice of the trumpet.

As often as the trumpet sounds he says, ‘Aha!’
         And he scents the battle from afar,
         And the thunder of the captains and the war cry. 

~Job 39:19-25~

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Blessings...

Weekends are for:

God-time

Church

Smiles

Laughter

Playing with the neighbor's kids

Turning circles until dizzy

Playing catch

Roses blooming

Sweet rose scent

Potlucks

Freshly baked bread

In-house movie dates

Blue skies

Bean plants pushing through the dirt

Strawberries turning red

You can see the pictures larger if you click on them, then just click on the back button to come back to the blog. :-) 

Spring Break Adventures

Spring break was good and very, very needed. I was sick the week before break along with taking most of my mid-terms so I was super-tired at the beginning of break. I think I slept 1/2 way to where we went! Ok, not quite...Tommy has been tired of driving my car because it doesn't have cruise control so I drove most of the way there and then he drove for the last hour or so.  It was good that he drove then because it was after midnight and I am not a night owl.  I don't usually study after about 10:30 at night because my brain tends to turn off about that time.  I saw a coyote while I was driving and Tommy saw lots of deer and a cougar after he took over.  I don't remember the deer or cougar because I was asleep then.  Bummer!

I drove tractor for Tommy's dad and harrowed his pastures to get them smoothed out.  I have the radio memorized again now. :-)  One evening I even listened to Adventures in Odyssey...it had been a long time since I listened to that show on the radio.  I really enjoyed it.  I also helped out at the airport and cleaned spray nozzles for the planes and helped take the airplanes apart for the annual inspections.

Since Tommy's dad has cows, I got to ride along for morning chores and help.  Tommy was nice enough to do most of the work with feeding bales so I could take pictures.  That was a lot of fun!  The cows did not really know what to do think of me because I was getting pretty close to take some of these pictures.  While we were feeding one morning, a cow calved...I didn't have my camera that day unfortunately.  The calf was so funny trying to walk around because he didn't know how to walk yet. 

The day we left Tommy and I stopped at a neighbor's place because they had a foal born several days earlier.  He was really cute and so curious!  Since the mare was really gentle, we could get into the pen with them.  We were feeding cubes to the mare so we could get close to him and he thought that he wanted some cubes too, but he didn't know what they were.  The colt wasn't sure if he liked us touching him either.  It was pretty funny!  He'd get close and then he'd spook and move away, but he would be back soon for more.  I want to go back during our next school break and see how much he has grown.

While we were seeing the colt some of the calves in the next pen over became curious to see what was happening so they came over.  One of them was a little bolder than the others (not much), but bold enough that we could hand-feed him. (Most cows/calves aren't)  It has been a long time since I hand-fed a calf!  He wasn't sure that he wanted to be that close to us, but he sure wanted those cubes!

And today I am thankful for:

Curious calves

 Long tongues and courage to take the cubes.

Foal: just 3 days old

Long whiskers and curiosity.

God's painting

Soft muzzles nuzzling hands

Funny newborn calves

Easily fixed hydraulic hoses (yes, there is a story, but not today.  I will suffice to say that it wasn't my fault)

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Rainy days and Beautiful Sunsets

It rained tonight after I got back from school today.  Torrential rain.  We were under a tornado watch too, but the clouds weren't dark enough for a tornado.  Anyways...I got out after the rains and swept all of the leaves off our porch so they wouldn't get tracked into the house. I also took a few pictures.

I don't know why I like this picture so much.  Maybe it's the rain drops continuing to cling to the fragile petals or how the colors turned out.

Here's the top part of the sunset.  I can't see the bottom half from our place, but oh well.

And tonight I am thankful for:
80) God's glory streaming through the clouds this morning on the way to school and keeping me awake!  Amazing!
81) Around 10 deer in the road ditch this morning
82) The deer stayed in the ditch and didn't meet my car. Yay! (I was trying to figure out how I could stop, pick it up, and butcher it if they did decide to meet my car though.  *grin*)
83) Not having to drive through the rain storm
84) Nice weather so I can open the windows
85) No deadlines tomorrow!

*You can see the pictures big if you click on them...or you should be able to.

Hope

 

Colors about to burst from their shell.

The promise of the harvest.

Beauty.

Rain to nurture the crops and promises yet to come.

Thankful for:

40)  Shoots of green breaking through the brown earth to receive the sun's kisses.

41) Dirt underneath fingernails

42) Praising the Father

43) Popcorn :)

44) Words

45) Learning new lessons

Sunsets

Had the chance to see some rather glorious sunsets over Christmas break and thought that I would share them. :-)  I didn't think that the pics turned out too bad considering we were driving.

The Race

I've been playing with my photo editing software and thought that this one came out pretty cool!

Sunsets

A picture my Aunt took of a sunset at our church picnic last summer. I don't think I have ever been any place where the sunsets can even hope to compare to the ones at home.
Sunsets truly do echo God's glory in the skies.