Today and the next week are busy, busy, busy. Preparations for fair and actual fair time.

• Wash livestock
• Trim hooves
• Shave
• Card
• Brush
• Trim hair, wool, fur
• File horns
• Pack tack
• Pack clothes
• Pack food for animals
• Pack food for people
• Load 5th wheel
• Load everything else
• Prepare house
• Paint
• Decorate
• Laminate
• etc.
• etc.
• etc.

Maybe I should get to work!

I am a Christian. I had been asked by friends for some verses from the Bible that would cater to a theme they were interested in. My problem, God’s word is clear on the subject in question, and I can’t find any verses to bless this person with because everything I read has some form of correction for the choices they have made. I can’t hand them that without feeling like I would be seen as placing a judgement on them. I choose not to judge. So, I have not provided anything to them. Am I wrong? Perhaps. I keep asking the Lord to help me see what I need to see and hear what I need to hear. Time is running out…

Example from my own life as a Christian. Before My husband and I married, we were living in sin, namely s—-l.  God caught hold of my heart. I was 18. I did not grow up with a Christian worldview. I grew up in a house that said you’ll choose your own when you figure it out.  At 15 1/2, I prayed for real for the first time to the One Living God. I worked weekends and rarely had time to attend Christian functions. My walk with the Lord was slow in the beginning. Ray and I got together just after I turned 17. We both were in search of what life was really about. I was going to a non-denominational, pentecostal, charismatic type of church. He was going to the Catholic church. We had agreed to try each other out as the relationship progressed. Eventually, we attended Jubilee Christian Center as a couple. It took a year for true conviction to come to my heart. We were engaged to be married, what was the big deal of being intimate? The big deal was God’s word is true and no matter how you try to twist it, it remains true.Jesus spoke very clear to me in a dream. So our relationship changed. Truer to God’s word, in our behaviors, enabled God to grow each of us individually into a closer relationship with Him, so that we were a little more healed and whole as individuals, in order for us to contribute to a healthier new one; Mr and Mrs Raymond Huber. In that trial of abstinence, God taught us how to be best friends. I am eternally grateful to Him for that gift. Even in the worst of times in this life we have walked thus far, we still remain friends because of the love, sacrifice, and forgiveness Jesus Christ has poured over us and has taught us to walk in, also.

 Why is it the human race only wants answers that will make them feel better and not be better? Remember, I have three fingers pointed at myself!

Tess learned a lot camping. I think she got tired of laying in dirt, pine needles, and sand.

The only problem, she didn’t fit on the box!

Kayla helped me tremendously with camping preparations. She was so bold about getting things done that she made homemade marshmallows with no help or guidance from me. (I’ve been making ours for 6 years now.) The kicker; I wasn’t even home. She had never used a candy thermometer either. All was well. Three batches of marshmallows two batches of banana nut chip muffins were all completed before we got home. She fed the steers, the dog and took a shower. We were only gone 2 1/2 hours! The next morning, I asked her to put the powdered sugar in a ziplock while I washed dishes…

There are a few people whom actually browse this thing from time to time. Some with prompting. Some without. I want to improve the interaction in the comment area. I know when we first started things were not right with the sign on process. I’d also like a new theme. I have not liked any of the free ones. I tried on a few and they were, well, just not us. Not that all the free themes rolling out are bad or ugly, they just don’t fit. I am thinking I might hire some one person to write it for me.

Wants:

• primarily green, not lime or hunter
• accents in blue
• accents in pink, purple, or yellow
• maybe a little red

These are the colors that make my family.

More Wants:

• pictures
• flickr that actually works
• no black or dark text areas

My brain cannot download the other things I was thinking. Too much on my mind.

Here’s a shout out to you!

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday dear Rebekah and Alaynah

Happy Birthday to you

cha-cha-cha!

We love ya! See you soon.

We have recently discovered we have a mulberry bush. Ray noticed this bush in the spring and told me he thought it was a mulberry. I had no clue. I had never been around one. Ray had a neighbor that did. It had deep red berries. He kept waiting for these ones to turn colors. He noticed them on the ground still white. We have a mulberry with white berries! They are really really good if you eat them frozen. They are easy to gather, too. If it is ripe, it will fall off when you touch it. One method is to spread a sheet under the branch, shake it and pick up the cloth covered in ripe juicy berries. The chickens love them and so does the dog!

Mulberry fruit health benefits are numerous:

• eye site strengthening
• body fluids regulated
• kidney and liver functions
• incontinence
• immune support
• premature gray hair
• enable the body to handle stress

There’s more but I don’t have time to verify those right now.

What to make with mulberry fruit:

• fresh picked
• straight from the freezer
• jam or jelly
• syrup
• pie
• smoothies
• cobbler
• dried
• tea
• juice
• sorbet

Basically, mulberry fruit can be used just like, or in place of any other berry! And they are just as YUMMY!

Why can I not sleep in? It is so irritating. We have been up late every night. Do you have any idea what time my body rises in the morning with no external influences? It is not even an internal influence, such as the need to urinate. I rise no later than 5:30-6:00am. Last night, We were up until 1:30 or 2:00 in the morning. Sure enough, like clockwork 5:30 rolls around and I pop up thinking I slept forever. So I go back to bed in hopes of sleeping until seven. I was snoozing away, even dreaming, and that alarm clock in head rang again. What time was it? A whole 5:50. Let’s try again. I fall back to sleep quickly. There’s that alarm that rings telling me I am wasting my day away lying here in bed. The clock reads 6:02. I tell myself “One hour and I’ll set an alarm that way you don’t have to rise until sounds.” So, I set the alarm, but laid there for 13 minutes wide eyed and bushy tailed. It’s no use. By the time the rest of my family rose I had feed and watered the sheep, goats, show steers, feeder steers, chickens, and the dog. I had watered and weeded the garden. I ground wheat berries and put on a loaf of bread in the bread maker. I started a pot of coffee and Luke meandered up the stairs. We sat on the porch while I drank a cup and chit-chatted. It was 8:58. The rest of my family rose, one by one, until 10:45. I do have one reprieve, I not only can take power naps, I do power nap.

Happy Birthday to the USA!

I pray you take a moment to reflect on the past 232 years.

Ask yourself these questions:

• Why did the American Colonies revolt against England?
• What was the leaderships motive?
• Whom was a part of the revolution?
• What sort of character did these men and women have?
• What sort of sacrifice did they make?
• Why were great presidents such as Lincoln so great?
• What are you, and I, willing to sacrifice to make our country great for the future generations?

When you watch the blazing glory that pyro-techno experts have conjured up remember to reflect on the past glories, the present, and future glories that take individuals such as you and I to make happen because they won’t just accidentally occur.

Cheers and praise God we have made it another year!