The Front Porch Swing

[Beekissed]

So proud of you! It's a great feeling!

I used to be able to get that amount done before breakfast.... but lately I'm having some issues. It's kind of sad to lose yourself over the years but then, His strength is made manifest in our weakness, so I'm thankful that I need the Lord more than ever. It brings us closer to one another.

And it IS a great feeling! Unlike a lot of folks out there I actually LOVE to do outside chores of this kind. It makes me feel so close to God and also with the animals as they follow me around. I like going to bed at night physically sore and tired from having worked at something...makes for such good sleep! I miss this so much!

 

[lovingmyhens]

That is a stunning pic!  Just beautiful!  And you get to look at that every evening?  Simply lovely. 

Yes!  God is a master artist...I was just telling Him so this morning when it rained in the night and I awakened to the bluest sky possible...almost hurt to look at it.  The big full white moon is rising right now in a slate blue evening sky and it's beyond words beautiful...there aren't really any words that can describe the beauty and the wonderful time I had today just doing chores on and around the coop, basking in the 70+ weather, and also basking in the love of my Father, who answered my morning prayer today for strength and stamina to get something significant done today after feeling so bad yesterday....and I DID, with the Lord's help. 

Girls, I didn't even start until after lunch and still got so much accomplished today!  I took away the winter wind blocks from the coop(tarp, hay bales, dog house), built my chick brooder on the coop floor, set up my heating pad brooder heater, built a nifty little chick trough from wood, emptied and stored all the heated buckets and bowls from winter and switched back to the regular communal waterer for all animals(placed it inside of an old tire to provide a step up for chickens and cat), removed winter padding from the roosts, straightened up the coop a good bit, leveled the dog house and placed bales on either side for keeping it cool in the summer, videoed the brooder build, took pics of the same, refreshed feed, stored feed, entertained family that came to visit and was here all day, got in wood, etc. 

That was all the Lord because I could barely put one foot in front of the other yesterday for the pain and low energy.  Isn't He so wonderful????  I feel so great for having gotten all that done today!  e

What's causing the pain and low energy?

 

[lindz8504]

She is beautiful! But someone please explain the bales of hay on the porch are for sitting on not treats.......

I don't want to balance on the porch rail. .......

I'll balance on the porch rail!!!!! I'm rather good at it....even if I did get a whippin' for it!

 

[Beekissed]

What's causing the pain and low energy?

Multiple things....none that I can fix right now. Some that don't have a fix...other than prayer.

 

[Blooie]

Oh blooie! What a tragic story. I need a hankie. My heart goes out to you and yours. When I hear stories like this it really makes my problems seem very insignificant.

We all have our stories....it makes us who we are and helps us get others over big humps that seem insurmountable. My daughter just happens to be one of those people who gives and gives, and never takes anything for herself. The hardest part of the whole thing was Evan. The Christmas after Austin died, he was here spending the day with us and he asked if he could use my iPad to write a letter to Santa. I saved it.

The way I look at it my burdens aren't any heavier than anyone else's. They're just different. I can't explain it very well, but it always reminds me of that song, "The Dance." "I'm glad, glad I didn't know - the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance - I could have missed the pain but I'd have had to miss the dance." See?

 

[Blooie]

Multiple things....none that I can fix right now. Some that don't have a fix...other than prayer.

Bee, DUCK!!! There's a big prayer headed right for you!

 

[Blooie]

Bee, DUCK!!! There's a big prayer headed right for you!

<SPLAT> Oh, Bee.....I tried to warn you!

 

[lindz8504]

Oh yes she Wuvvs Red apples.... Not the green ones.... carrots of course. AND Watermellon.... OMG. Not the rind though Eeew she says but the red stuff. And she will mug you for a Slurpy Cherry of course.... benefits of having a thirteen year old in her previous family. Oh and she loves to "share" Big foamy Appley carroty watermellony slobbers painted across your shirt or on top of your head if you happen to be sitting down. She wont share her slurpy though. She sticks her tongue down in the cup and smacks her lips....

deb

I had a horse as a teenager (my dad still has her).... but she would drink sweet tea and eat the big Kosher dill pickles...

 

[Beekissed]

We all have our stories....it makes us who we are and helps us get others over big humps that seem insurmountable. My daughter just happens to be one of those people who gives and gives, and never takes anything for herself. The hardest part of the whole thing was Evan. The Christmas after Austin died, he was here spending the day with us and he asked if he could use my iPad to write a letter to Santa. I saved it.

The way I look at it my burdens aren't any heavier than anyone else's. They're just different. I can't explain it very well, but it always reminds me of that song, "The Dance." "I'm glad, glad I didn't know - the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance - I could have missed the pain but I'd have had to miss the dance." See?

I have just stubbed and broken my little toe..just seconds ago..and am crying...and yes, it takes a LOT to make me cry in pain. Then I read this and cried even more...sobbed...

Bee, DUCK!!! There's a big prayer headed right for you!

..... and then I read this and had to laugh through my tears! You are such a blessing to us, you know that??

 

[lovingmyhens]

Multiple things....none that I can fix right now.  Some that don't have a fix...other than prayer. 

Then prayers it shall be!!