Early Morning Thoughts
9/05/06 - 3rd Day - Early Morning. Almost 6 a.m. The rains over the last two days have added up to about 1/2 inch; it doesn't seem like much to y'all, but it came slow and over two days and it really gave the ground a good soak. We have received about 2 1/2" over about 10 days, which is great. Maybe the drought is broke?
Milking two cows every morning now. Still not getting much milk, but enough for what we use. Holga is doing great. She has taken to being milked really well. She doesn't like the sweet grains as much though and gets distracted unless we give her some range cubes to eat. It was muddy and a mess in the corral this morning. The bugs are out in force with the rains of late, and it is easy to see how people might just get frustrated and say, "Hey, why not just get milk from the store or from the "milk lady"?" But we need to be milking our own cows. We are trying to get to where we support ourselves, and this is a major part of that concept. So we get up every morning and milk these cows.
The wet and mud has prevented us from doing much work the last couple of days. On the Sabbath we rested and read, and then that night we had live Q&A. It was really good, and we had some good questions. Folks stayed until well after dark and it was a great time of fellowship. On the Lord's Day we had singing at 10, then fellowship meal at around noon. Fresh smoked brisket, some great noodles, fried potatoes... hmmmm... I can say that you will never have a better meal than here on the Lord's Day. We were going to watch a movie that night, but several of us stayed up late on the porch talking, so we put off the movie until yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday, Danielle and I had to run to Brownwood to get chicken feed, since we were out and all the local stores were closed for "labor day". I guess I don't get the concept of taking a day off for "labor", when people do so little real work in the first place. I really hate the world's "holydays". Anyway, we needed feed, so we took the trek to Brownwood. I had $31 in my account, and it cost about $20 for two bags of feed and a bag of catfood for the cats.
As predicted I have been seeing more snakes about. The children found two on the Lord's Day (a garter snake and a yellow-bellied water snake). Then Danielle and I saw a huge dead rattler on the road coming back from getting feed.
September 1st is the beginning of hunting season, and this is really the hunting capitol of the world. The hunters are in town in force, and Santa Anna was full to the brim over the weekend. I can't help at laugh at people who will spend tens of thousands in lease fees, camo clothing, vehicles, four-wheelers, campers, gear, food, etc. to shoot enough dove for a few dinners. The shots were ringing out pretty regularly over the weekend, but pretty much stopped when the rains came. Thank God for rain. I suppose I should be glad that folks spend so much money in the area during hunting season. They're only around for about 5 months (actually only 3-4 altogether), and then they are gone for the rest of the year and things go back to normal. Hunting is good for the economy, and it keeps the wildlife in check, so I suppose the stupidity of the modern hunting mentality should be overlooked. The other day, we passed some hunters in a $60,000 Mercedes SUV and I couldn't help but laugh though. They were lined up in Santa Anna with their $45,000 pickup trucks towing trailers with $8,000 off-road camo golf carts. Funny. I asked the guys... "I wonder if there are any dove today who are dead because of camo? I bet I could get next to a good water tank with a flashing Santa suit and shoot 15 dove in an hour".
Ok, so the work is on hold because of money and mud. But, I should get some reading done, and will try to finish Galatians over the next couple of days.
God Bless,
Michael
Milking two cows every morning now. Still not getting much milk, but enough for what we use. Holga is doing great. She has taken to being milked really well. She doesn't like the sweet grains as much though and gets distracted unless we give her some range cubes to eat. It was muddy and a mess in the corral this morning. The bugs are out in force with the rains of late, and it is easy to see how people might just get frustrated and say, "Hey, why not just get milk from the store or from the "milk lady"?" But we need to be milking our own cows. We are trying to get to where we support ourselves, and this is a major part of that concept. So we get up every morning and milk these cows.
The wet and mud has prevented us from doing much work the last couple of days. On the Sabbath we rested and read, and then that night we had live Q&A. It was really good, and we had some good questions. Folks stayed until well after dark and it was a great time of fellowship. On the Lord's Day we had singing at 10, then fellowship meal at around noon. Fresh smoked brisket, some great noodles, fried potatoes... hmmmm... I can say that you will never have a better meal than here on the Lord's Day. We were going to watch a movie that night, but several of us stayed up late on the porch talking, so we put off the movie until yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday, Danielle and I had to run to Brownwood to get chicken feed, since we were out and all the local stores were closed for "labor day". I guess I don't get the concept of taking a day off for "labor", when people do so little real work in the first place. I really hate the world's "holydays". Anyway, we needed feed, so we took the trek to Brownwood. I had $31 in my account, and it cost about $20 for two bags of feed and a bag of catfood for the cats.
As predicted I have been seeing more snakes about. The children found two on the Lord's Day (a garter snake and a yellow-bellied water snake). Then Danielle and I saw a huge dead rattler on the road coming back from getting feed.
September 1st is the beginning of hunting season, and this is really the hunting capitol of the world. The hunters are in town in force, and Santa Anna was full to the brim over the weekend. I can't help at laugh at people who will spend tens of thousands in lease fees, camo clothing, vehicles, four-wheelers, campers, gear, food, etc. to shoot enough dove for a few dinners. The shots were ringing out pretty regularly over the weekend, but pretty much stopped when the rains came. Thank God for rain. I suppose I should be glad that folks spend so much money in the area during hunting season. They're only around for about 5 months (actually only 3-4 altogether), and then they are gone for the rest of the year and things go back to normal. Hunting is good for the economy, and it keeps the wildlife in check, so I suppose the stupidity of the modern hunting mentality should be overlooked. The other day, we passed some hunters in a $60,000 Mercedes SUV and I couldn't help but laugh though. They were lined up in Santa Anna with their $45,000 pickup trucks towing trailers with $8,000 off-road camo golf carts. Funny. I asked the guys... "I wonder if there are any dove today who are dead because of camo? I bet I could get next to a good water tank with a flashing Santa suit and shoot 15 dove in an hour".
Ok, so the work is on hold because of money and mud. But, I should get some reading done, and will try to finish Galatians over the next couple of days.
God Bless,
Michael
posted by Michael Bunker at 9/05/2006 03:55:00 AM
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