Hmph! Banned from the Garden!

So, it's 5:41 and DH has banned me from the garden. I tried to be verrrry careful & pace myself- 20-30 minutes out, 20-30 minutes in- with liquids (mostly coffee. well..). But, the last go 'round apparently the sun was too intense and when DH came home 10 minutes into my break, he got all worried about heatstroke and hospital bills. Now I have to wait until he thinks it's cool enough (which won't happen 'till after dark, I'm sure.) Well, I'll maybe plant that stupid row I hoed by flashlight!
So, today went in: lettuce, greens, parsnips, turnips, onions (white and yellow), lentils, radishes, and carrots. Not too bad! Thanks, God for helping me!!
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A lovely breeze is coming in... maybe if I finish chugging the Gatorade he got me, my face will go back to its normal milky white instead of redder than my hair. Just call me The Zombie Gardener! ....eerrg...must garden....must garden...unngh...
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ok trying to insert a pic... will it show up here or at the top??? NOPE. I dunno how Lori does it! Put the pics in 1st, then put the words? hmph. Well, I reckon I can kick DS off of the PS3 and play Morrowind for awhile (Elder Scrolls IV). I still want to make a T-Shirt that says, "I'd Rather be in Cyrodiil". ;-)
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And the comment about my weight was simply NOT HELPFUL! What does my weight have to do with tsunamis on the sun? Super nasty, melty solar flares? Hmmm? Piffle! Nada, that's what. DS is skinny as a rail and it was messin' with him, too!
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I guess I'd better get to closing up those durned Oblivion Gates now... heheheh...
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ttfn- Rose

Sabatoge by an Anti-Broccoli Crusader!

How could they do it to me?? I was only going to plant the stuff for health reasons! I get almost an entire row planted of what I thought was broccoli and lo and behold, it turns out to be GREENS! Both bags of broccoli seeds had been sabotaged- no broccoli seeds to be found anywhere! DS insists that if he'd done it, he'd have replaced it with something less nasty than greens- which are in his book nearly as bad as the B-word. Who could have done such a thing? Has my cousin hired a Leprechaun to sabotage my fall crop?
we may never know, but as last year, this year it looks like there's going to be NO BROCCOLI!

ADS!!!

:-( "I do not like it Sam-I-Am!"
Somehow I have ended up with giant ads in between my posts and I can't figure out how to get them off of here! It's not the adsense thing, either. So, if there's an icky ad with some bozo's face on it, it was not my idea! Hopefully, I'll be able to remove them. Well, it's back to work. :-)
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Mornings, Ick.

Have I ever mentioned that I despise mornings? I really think I am allergic to them. Thanks to my brilliance on having house dogs, I now get to enjoy each morning on about three hours sleep. If I'm lucky, which isn't most mornings, I can go back to the recliner in the air conditioning and grab a little more rest before my day begins. However, on some mornings- like today- there's no going back. BUT, before I get started on the mountain of tasks that is before me today, I decided I'm going to actually sit down and enjoy my cup of coffee.
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Kitchen window sills... they are like an ever changing collage of interesting stuff. This was my sill in March. Amazingly, that scraggly basil is still holding on. That's all that is the same except for that odd jar of spent matches. I reckon I ought to get rid of those since we won't be having a fire in the fireplace as the birds have totally wrecked the chimney. Now I have a cool old glass bottle I found in the garden, a couple of pretty/interesting rocks, a struggling aloe plant in a cracked teacup, a viney plant that I couldn't name for the life of me, and another pretty, yet broken, teacup.
I notice that when I go to folks' houses the window above the kitchen sink is usually filled with happy stuff. Maybe we do that to make the dishes more enjoyable, although I've noticed that most people with dishwashers do the same thing. Here, it's one of two windows that the cats avoid. I wonder if I'd have all the sills occupied if the cats could be trusted...
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And yea, I'm letting the kids sleep in. We've got a list of chores as long as my arm and I figure they'll need their rest. And no, I didn't plant that broccoli yesterday.
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You know, if we had at least one hospitable river bank around here, I'd be so happy. All of them are steep rocks or cut-off banks or tangled brush. It'd be nice to have a decent wading spot or at least someplace one could dip his or her feet in without worrying about snakes, poison oak, or spiders climbing up one's trousers' leg. As it is, the rivers are so pretty to look at and to put amazing amounts of humidity in the air, but not so much on the getting in. :-)
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And woo-hoo! we got all the dogs really long walks in last night while DH was out on a 'preacher call'- he gets quite a few of those. People don't care if he's currently got a preaching position or not. When trouble hits, they call him- and I think it's wonderful. He's good in a crisis and has a strong, steady presence- comforting- and a very down-to-earth way about him that has endeared him to a lot of folks. I love it that God will use whom God will use, regardless who people think He ought to be using. It is one of the things He has done with our family since moving us to this side of the county.
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And my FIL is doing some better, thanks all who have been praying for him and my MIL.
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Ok, well, this cup of coffee is about gone and I need to get the rest of the dogs fed and watered. And get up the apples, and the corn, and finish the laundry, and put the dishes up, and ... well, you get the picture. I just wish it wasn't so all-fired hot! Have a great day, everyone!!
Rose

Dog Days in More ways than One!

As I brush the fur from my keyboard, I am reminded that I was the one who brought all these fun, fun mutts home! So, now we have 6 dogs, 2 cats, and a few low-maintenance fish. :-) And I wanted to add chickens to the lot! What was i thinking??!! I reckon it wouldn't be so bad if there weren't two of them being potty trained at once (the smallest two have been decided to be housedogs). And what with the garden being in full swing, and a dh who likes a clean, clean house- life's just gotten really time consuming since June.

So, after it cools a bit, it's time to get out the rest of the dissapointing corn crop and plant some BROCCOLI in its place. Muwahahahaa!!! DS will cringe, but DD needs it for her wee arthritic hands. And it's actually pretty cool to be able to get two sets of crops in one season. My gardening buddy is stuck in the VA Hospital for the next couple of months, so it's all on me- NEED prayers!!! The kids got their first try at gleaning (where gardening bud harvested his taters and left a bunch over for us), and they had a blast. It was nice not being 'one man alone' up there in the garden for a change. DH was watching the puppies for us, so we had a break to work. (insert flat-look here)

Yep, I am SO looking forward to winter. I may actually have time to read before 5 in the AM- and might just get a page or two in before passing out in exhaustion!

Wee lad, Josiah, has aggressive cancer that is inoperable. The injections they want to give him have a 50% chance of killing him, the cancer has a higher chance than that if left alone. He's only 8. PLEASE, PLEASE pray for him and his family.

OK. Time to read Bible with mis ninos. (We do it in English and Spanish for the 1st reading, and evenings it's English and German- call it summer school.)

Hop Hop Hop

Oh, and for family veiwing, non-insulting and super-cool- MERLIN (the TV show done by folks in G Britain and France) it's available for watching instantly thru Netflix. I really think Lori's kids would like it. (even if I am a broccoli traitor).

love, hugs, and kisses!!

God bless y'all!!

Rose

quick sharing post

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZprVPKi-W6s

It's a video called "I am Israel" sent to me by my uncle and definitely worth a watch.
God bless Israel.

summertime ramblings

The Hope is a beautiful song (Ha'Tikva)- probably the most stirring national anthem I've ever heard. Don't get me wrong, I love La Marsailles (probably misspelled) and The Star Spangled Banner, too- but there's something hauntingly desperate in this music- a longing that had to be fulfilled and held on to once achieved. YouTube has some good renditions of it if you'd like to hear it. Some with the English and Hebrew words side-by-side.
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So, our 4 new puppies are growing, in various stages of house training and leash training, and take up a large part of every day. Our neighbors probably think we're crazy walking the dogs at all hours of the night, but it works for us. We've been SO thankful for the cooler weather- June had gotten unbearably hot and humid. Maybe we'll be able to hit the New River Trail again this week.
I think I'm going to have to move the dogs' bath day to Thursdays, though- I don't know what I was thinking doing it on Fridays with so much to do for Sabbath prep. And we're not 7th day adventists, we just try to observe Sabbath because we can't find a single place in the Bible where God changed that. We observe Lord's Day, too; so you can see that Friday's chores are especially busy. Mad? Maybe. But, life's a barrel of laughs as it is without doing even more to annoy God.
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My DH has had an icksome run of luck these last weeks. Ministrokes, people he's close to dying all over the place, loved ones in the hospital, and unemployment. Please pray for him as he's still in really bad pain all the time to top it all off. And pray for us, too- shoot, I reckon all of us need prayer. I'll pray for you, dear readers, too.
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Friends of Israel- GREAT JOB! Y'all are spot-on with your books about Jewish culture, biographies, and the work you do to support a free Israel. Also, Trinitarian Bible Society- THANK YOU for making the Bible affordable for so many different languages. God bless your endeavors.
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We had a lovely visit with my cousin P. I love it the way that God works with His children. It can be years and years between visits, but there's such a real love and kinship that goes beyond earthly ties that is like cool water to a thirsty soul. I don't do facebook currently, so I hope I can start keeping up with my kith and kin through email. If any of you read this, leave me a comment (I moderate) with your email and I'll get back to you. Personal notes in an email box are rare these days, almost as rare as snail mail. I dunno what's wrong with us. Well, with me, I keep losing the addresses. :-( BUT I have a place for them now thanks to my Aunt J and her lovely card box & the ones that have gone in (3 so far) haven't gotten misplaced. I'm too scatterbrained for my own good.
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We've been watching the old BBC show Survivors. It's a remarkably good show for the '70s. I got to thinking that I'm not really good at anything useful in a survival-type situation. The kids told me that love was important. That compassion and kindness and care for kids and people would be something that would be just as important as the other stuff. I thought that was sweet of them. I reckon the Marys and the Marthas both have their places in a scenario like that. Oh, and I know how to make paper on a small scale.
We don't really think about it much, how very tech dependent we are. How would we make bread- from scratch- yeast? flour? etc. how would we make the yeast? Do many people have the slightest idea how to make flour out of wheat? Good grief.
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Well, DH is home from visiting his dad in the hospital. I'd better run now. Have a BLESSED day!!
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Rose

Oh, update: Bro-in-law is on his way home from hospital.