Life from the Parsonage - A Journal of our Journey.

[Scrambled Egg]

How neat!! Love your daily chronicles!!

 

[Parson's Wife]

Got in from church, and egg #8 has pipped!
So excited...nothing yet from the others, but still hoping!

Nope, not me...I'm going to bed...of course, that's why I'm sitting here with a caffeine drink in my hand!!

 

[lacyloo]

does that kids have a mullet ?

 

[Parson's Wife]

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[Fancy Feather Poultry]

Oh me oh my, i just spent 30 minutes catching up
on everything (reading everything, etc...). I really
do enjoy your posts! they are so wonderful to hear

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Why dont you tell us some more stories to pass the time?

 

[countryboy]

just started reading. will finish tomorrow

 

[Parson's Wife]

Story? You want a story....where to start...the list is long...I tell my children a story before they go to bed "When I was a little girl", and of course we laugh over the ones when I say, "When your daddy & I were just married, etc..."

How about my first electrical storm here.
We came summer before last, I had been here to visit this church a few times before, my husband was preaching for them on occasion.
This time we had arrived as pastors...(this is our 3rd church to pastor)
The 2nd night here, things were still in boxes, things still 'new'. We saw a bad cloud rolling up that evening...well, it rained, and rained, about 11:30 that night I awoke to thunder & lightning...so bright I thought that day had come! I mean that. The lightning was constant! It didn't stop after just a few minutes, it kept on and on and on...and it seemed to be getting closer & closer. I sat up in bed trembling, I thought the house would be struck at any moment! You could hear it hitting something with almost every strike! Finally I'd had enough, I gathered the children went and sat in the hall (no windows) the power had long since went off. But I had no problem in seeing...I began to get a creepy crawly sensation, have you ever seen something out of the corner of your eye? Well, I saw out of the corner of my eye my hair (it's below my waist) my hair beginning to rise! (Like someone was rubbing it with a balloon!)

I remember sticking my head around the corner of the bedroom door, my husband had refused to get out of bed with the rest of us, and telling him to come quick...he took one look at me...and brought his pillow! The next morning 2 big trees right in the swamp next to us were hit! We had another storm the next night, of the same intensity...and the same thing happened! I have never, I mean never, been in anything like that in my life!
I often wondered what and why, who knows, I can tell you that a tornado came through and wiped out 1/3 of our town. I've been close to tornados before, but not in the path (our house and church were ok) but just to the side of us....destruction. It was very, very scary.
I didn't mean for a solemn note...it is funny when we retell it to others...I did look rather silly, nightgown, hair sticking out, and Daryl was suddenly convinced to leave the bed!

 

[Parson's Wife]

# 8 has made her (positive thinking) appearance, sometime in the night, toward morning. She is a fiesty little thing!

No sign of pipping on other eggs.

 

[newnanchic]

8 out of 14 shipped eggs that is a pretty good hatch!!!!lol

 

[Parson's Wife]

Here are a few more photo's of the chicks.

5 eggs left, I will hold till tommorrow!