Struggling To Find Ourselves

Well, here I am, but not for long.  I have some running to do again today….but at least I’m getting paid for most of it!!

Gotta see about stopping long enough to talk to some people this week in town too!!!

Have a Blessed Day, all!!!

Well, maybe only for some.  It’s icy and cold and wet outside at the moment.  I am sitting here wondering if the big tree outside the window is going to finally have some of it’s branches break off tonight with the ice and the wind.  It would be kind of good if it did!!!  It is one of MANY things on this list to take care of this Spring.

I haven’t really done much so far today.  Run a load of laundry earlier, as well as dishes first thing this morning….downloaded some job information for this week….checked my on-line sources to see if I could make any extra money today…..cleaned the bathroom, to include mopping….swept the backdoor entryway and the kitchen….Not much really, so far.  Have to go to town here in about 4 hours, and then come home and get my boy and myself ready for tomorrow.

What have YOU done today?
God Bless!!!

Ahhhh, yes, this “peculiar” Winter here in Kansas lingers on, MUCH to some people’s dismay!!  Today has been dismal, cool, and wet, and tomorrow is probably not going to be much better.  We actually have a Winter Storm Warning out from 6P.M. tonight until 6 A.M. on Monday morning.

This weather has made it kind of difficult to do some of the things that we’ve been wanting to do the last few weeks.  You know….all of those Springtime activities like cleaning barns and stalls and chicken houses, and planting trees and flowers and such, and rerouting our “water flow” for when we have run-off after a rain and such, redoing our driveway.  I have animals that need worked with, and more on the way, if I want them.

But, looking on the bright side of this dismal, Wintry weather, we have been able to make plans and such for the basement and what we would like to do with it, and some plans for the chicken house and a couple of the runs out front here, so that has been good.  We have had time to do some price checking and such, with the help of the internet, so that has been a good thing.

Oh well, off to find something else to do, so have a BLESSED weekend, and we’ll try to drop  by again real soon!!!

….VERY slowly for furniture for the house that we moved into a few months ago.  We want it to be decent furniture that adds to the place.  Alot of the furniture that’s out there is what we call “modern furniture“, but we are looking for something a bit more….old fashioned…rustic-looking. We’ve got hardwood floors in most of our rooms, and we would like something, furniture-wise, that will compliment the floors, as well as the curtains I am making that have a nature scene on them.

Have a BLESSED weekend!!!

….When we bought our newest refrigerator here about 4 or 5 months ago, I was a little upset that the ones that we liked all had ice makers in them.  I had never had an ice maker in my fridge before, but I had gotten GOOD at making ice the old fashioned way….in ice cube trays.  I saw no need for an ice maker.  They just take up space in the freezer that I could and would RATHER use for food or homemade ice cream or something like that.  But, as it turns out, when we got our new fridge a few months ago, we ended up getting one with an ice maker in it.  And, wouldn’t you know it?  It was one of those models that’s not designed to be taken out.  Soooooooo, I decided that it was there…taking up VALUABLE freezer space, so why not put it to use?  So we did.  Now, I still don’t know much about ice makers, other than they make ice, and some take a MWF filter and some don’t, but I DO like the option of having ice ALL the time!!! We’ll see if the ice maker can keep up with our ice useage this Summer, though!!!

God Bless!!!

…my Mother’s birthday, and they are supposed to be taking a friend of mine off of life support about this afternoon.  It has been a long Summer for her, and her husband, as she has been in the hospital for a MOST of the last half of 2009.  Now she has an infection in her blood system that they haven’t been able to get under control yet, her blood pressure is low, her heart rate this morning is dangerously high and she needs the ventilator to help her get enough oxygen to survive…and here I sit at home.  We AREN’T stopping our prayers for a miracle just yet, but in the natural, it doesn’t look all that promising.  There seems to be a small possibility that her body will continue to function after they take her off life support, but the chances, in the natural realm, are EXTREMELY small.

More later….maybe….Blessings in 2010!!

I HAVE to say that the internet has made it a WHOLE lot easier for SOME of us home schoolers to find and sell textbooks.  Most of the time, we can find tremendous discounts on gentle used books that we would have had to pay full retail price from the publisher for, if we didn’t have so many useful resource sites on the internet.  I can’t say how much this has helped US in our home schooling venture, even if it IS only on a “part-time” basis!!!

God Bless and Merry Christmas!!!

Yep, it looks like it’s Christmas already.  After Christmas is New Year’s, and then we start looking towards the end of January and for tax forms in the mail and responding to some wedding invitations that we have received in the mail in the last week or so.  It seems that a friend of mine has a nephew getting married, and this friend has been asked to be a part of the wedding party.  How COOL is that?

Merry Christmas and God Bless!!!

Well, it’s raining….AGAIN!!!  I’m not complaining though, because at least we DID have SEVERAL days of NICE weather, so it pretty well was all but completely dried out from the last rain a couple of weeks ago.  The temperature isn’t bad tonight, either….just right for a walk in the rain, if it wasn’t dark and so late.

We’ve had ALOT going on here the last couple of months!!!  LOTS of changes, and different things happening!!!  We moved into a new house, for one.  It’s on a quiet, country road, with only 4 other houses in the mile stretch that we live on, and none of those are super close, so I am happy!!!  LOTS to be done, even though we’ve been working on it for a couple of months now.  Frankly, I figure we will have ALOT to do for another 11 or 12 months or so…then it will hopefully taper off to just maintenance on what we’ve already accomplished!!  It has been SOOOOO nice to actually have things to do, both inside AND outside!!!  So, whether I am inside the house, or outside enjoying the weather, I can ALWAYS find something to fill my time with (as if my schedule wasn’t full enough!!).  What can I say?  I LOVE the property!!!  And I’d like to say “thank you” to the person/people that made this place possible!!!  Words cannot express my gratitude at this point.

Okay, I think I’ve run out of rambling, so we will close for now….maybe see about going to bed for awhile?  Blessings to you and yours!!!

Well, well….it seems that I remember what I was going to write about on my other site just after I logged out.  Oh well, such is life, I guess.  Gives me a topic to write about over the weekend or early next week, I guess!!!

Fall has come to our part of Kansas a bit earlier than normal.  I am having a difficult time believing that we’ve had the heat on for almost a week now!!!  It seems like we have been needing heat closer to November the last few years.  Oh well, we need a wet, cool, damp Fall and Winter, and a wet, warm Spring!!!  It is rough on farmers, though, because of all of the rain, as they haven’t all gotten their corn, soybeans, and milo harvested yet.  Maybe they can get some of it in this next week?

Got some bread in the oven.  Yeah, I know it’s a bit late to be doing things like baking, but it seemed like the thing to do at the time, and we needed bread.

You will NEVER guess what I saw coming home from picking my son up from school yesterday.  Take a guess and leave a note with your guess in it, and I’ll try to remember to answer this “quiz” in my next personal entry.  It was DEFINITELY something that I didn’t think I would ever see in Kansas!!!

Read up to Ezekiel 30 so far today, as well as reading Psalm 15 and Psalm 91.  Just a FEW more chapters and I will only have fairly short books of the Bible left to read before the New Testament!!!

Well, enough babbling in here for now, so take care and God Bless!!!