daybook 8/30/2011

 

FOR TODAY  

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

 

 

 

Outside my window...

clouds and drizzle ~ We need a real drenching shower, but maybe we can accumulate enough with this slow and steady.  Thank you, Lord!

 
I am thinking…

Daybook posts require entirely too much of my time to be called Simple  :-{  [I think it’s just me… Count the pictures, and you’ll have an idea why.]

 

I am thankful to God …

for a beautiful crop of hay ~ and extra helpers to get it under cover during Sunday’s attempted rain showers.  And for a neighborly neighbor, Mr. Jensen (whose barn they stowed three loads into)

  

   

Lora & Janell didn’t know what they were getting into when we invited them home for Sunday dinner!

 

I am praying for...
 
… Amber & her family ~ her dad passed away recently after his battle with cancer. 

… Amber’s friend Kari

… a friend of Conny’s ~ Lilah is a newborn baby with spina bifida

… Hiromi in Japan (near the Fukushima nuclear plant) 

… Ethan and his twin sister.  See Sara’s blog.  Such a sweet testimony of God’s goodness, and such a need for His provision of health.  Recently huge blessings of answers to prayer!  Still looking at a bone marrow transplant.
 
... the Rettigs & the church in Prague

… the sale of my mother-in-law’s home ~ woot woot, someone looked at it recently!  Please let them have it, Lord!

… Grant S.

… Cinnamon ~ her Army hubby is HOME from Afghanistan, her Marine son is IN Afghanistan!

… Amy W., a young wife/mom with cancer

… Sarita & Jeff need visas for their return to Israel

… folks in Joplin, MO, and along the Missouri River ~ so hard hit with tornadoes and flooding this year

… the A Family, on furlough from their field of ministry

… Gina’s family ~ in their loss of Jason as he rescued his own children from drowning

… Lea’s dad ~ in the midst of a serious health crisis

… Kari’s dad ~ had triple by-pass surgery in June 

… Rachel ~ Please pray for her, and follow her blog ~ Finding Joy.  The name says it well.  But she's in major pain right now with an aggravated shoulder injury or something ~ The docs prescribed therapy for now.

… for direction for our church, for our family

 
… Laura
 

… and especially marriages ~ meant to last a lifetime

 

 
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

John 15:7

 

 

From the learning rooms...      

 

The Cattleman’s subjects/books:

 

             

 

                 

 

                                   

                              

  …and many more!
 

From the kitchen...

some beef is stewing in the crock pot ~ not sure if I’ll add BBQ sauce or taco seasoning & salsa ~ What other flavor options are there??  [this is meat from Judge, so it requires more than salt and pepper]

other options from the menu idea list ~ taco soup or salad, chicken packets, calzones, Laura’s taco corn fritters, bbq ribs

Last week’s batch of HOT salsa yielded 27 pints!

  

  

   

If you notice the strange first picture ~ those chunks of tomato/pepper sticking up came from the freezer  : )  I run everything (almost) through my beloved food processor without peeling the tomatoes!

The next batch will hopefully be a bit milder : )

 

I am creating...

not much outside the kitchen or laundry room, unless you count lesson plans  ;-)

 

I am going...

to need a grocery list (which means a menu PLAN) …asap!

 

I am {supposed to be} reading...
 
for a summer Sunday school class ~ Choosing Forgiveness by Nancy Leigh DeMoss ~ Yeah, it’s time to be done with this one!  ;-)
                                         

 
 

 
I am hoping...

our tomato plants keep producing so we can have a third batch of salsa!

 

I am hearing...

“How Great Thou Art” ~ the Cowgirl is plunking away on the piano and the Popper is humming/singing along as she works her math problems ~ Thinking my mom would love it!

  
Around the house...

it’s hay season = a constant need for the vacuum  :p

 

One of my favorite things...

a neat house ~ See next item…

 

Pondering these words...

Keeping a neat house is like threading beads on a string with no knot on it.

an Amish proverb from Amish Values for Your Family by Suzanne Woods Fisher

Carrie is giving away a copy!

 

 

A few plans for the rest of the week: 

 

Kate is working each day at the carousel ~ the Cattleman is her ‘bodyguard’ this week  : )

Today ~ groceries and another appointment for the Popper with the chiropractor

Wednesday eve ~ church

   
Turn the calendar to September?!

 

 

 

Here is are a few pictures for thought... 

Especially for Felicity ~ our restored 1913 Herschell-Spillman Carousel in Story City, Iowa

 

 

© Pete Tekippe Photography
Date of picture: 1982

 

Photos of Dogs and Jumping Pigs © John Egenes
Date of picture: 2001

 

See more at http://nationalcarousel.org/psp/StoryCity/

 

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Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord,

that thou fulfil it.

Colossians 4:17

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