C'mon Erin

8/15/07 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. The prognosticators are calling for a high probability of rain starting tomorrow evening and going through Saturday. Rain would be a very welcome sight here. At last check, our catchwater was down to about 1,000 gallons (down from full at 2,500) and a good part of the garden is dead from no water. We learned alot about rain this year, but when the heat finally comes in July and August - and you don't get any rain, you are going to dry up pretty fast. Our animals use between 40-70 gallons a day, sometimes more - which means we are sitting right now on about a 10 day supply of water. So y'all pray that we get the rain they are calling for. Some of it could come from what MAY become Tropical Storm Erin (currently TD5) in the middle of the Carribean:


This critter is predicted to turn more northward, and if it does, it could T-Bone us sometime on Friday evening or Saturday morning. Sweet. By then it will be a Tropical Depression which would mean a lot of water. For those of you who do not know where I live. If you put your pen right smack dab in the geographical center of Texas.... you will be really close. We're within 50 miles or so of that point.

Another Tropical Storm is heading towards the Carribean - Tropical Storm Dean, which is predicted to be a hurricane sometime early Saturday morning. If this thing turns north, it will likely stay fairly weak and rake Florida and maybe the east coast. If it stays straight, it will likely strengthen into a category 3-5 in which case it could landfall anywhere from New Orleans to Galveston. My very, very, very early prediction is that it could follow the path of Andrew in '92 and rake Florida before landing somewhere between Pensacola and the Texas/Louisiana line. But, then again, I have no idea what I am talking about, and God is in charge of Hurricanes. Anyway, it will be early next week before we know anything and before this thing gets close to landing in the US.

So we here are praying for rain, and are hopeful that God will bless us with some soon. The temps are supposed to drop quite a bit after today, which will be nice too.

Oh, the stock market continues to slide - even after all of the billions of band-aids were applied by the world banks. And here I am with no portfolio! It seems my green beans, tomatoes, longhorns, pigs, goats, chickens, and rabbits have no clue that the stock market is tanking... they really don't care. I tried to talk to them about it, and they showed no interest at all. I don't think they care anything at all about the monetary system. So unenlightened.

I mentioned that I had two sermons (a mini-commentary) on the first 5 Proverbs and I would really like you all to listen to them. They address whether or not Agrarianism and Separatism is just a lifestyle choice preferable to industrialism, or whether Agrarian Separatism is a command of God concerning His people. Anyway, I would like for you to listen to both sermons and comment - either here or on BiblicalAgrarianism.com. Honestly, if we cannot stoke a conversation on something as important and basic as what God commands of us - then things are much worse than I supposed. I know that if I comment on some school shooting, or government intrusion, or conspiracy, or something like that - I get all types of folks coming out of the woodwork to comment, debate, etc. But if I write or deliver a sermon on something critical and vital to the people who call themselves "Christians" today, it passes by like a lead baloon, with little or no comment. An interesting commentary on YOU - the professing Christian today. Anyway, here are the links to the two sermons:

Wisdom in the Proverbs, Part I
Wisdom in the Proverbs, Part II

I do hope all is well with you all and may God continue to bless you.

Your servant in Christ Jesus,

Michael Bunker