Fox attack!

That stupid fox got four of our chickens! We think it my be revenge for the fox we killed last week. Dirty rascal! We'll get him! We are also spraying ammonia around. We heard that ammonia makes a fox think a predator is around. Hope it works!

We bought six more chickens. More babies we have to wait for to grow up. We have one of our old hens that is looking peekid and we expect her to be dead by morning. She is very old and did her job well.

Illin' and Chillin'

Not feeling too well today. This is the wrong time to get the flu but it sure feels like it. Maybe I'll feel better tomorrow. Went to church anyway.

The tongue from A Wise Woman Builds Her Home

The tongue:

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell. For every species of beasts and birds, of reptiles and creatures of the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by the human race. But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God; from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way. Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh. James 3:6

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. Proverbs 15:1

The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness. Proverbs 16:21

Oh my, I know we all fail at times, and sometimes miserably--there is not a single one of us that is perfect! We would not need Jesus if we were perfect. I think in many cases, we need to humble ourselves and our speech will follow. How often I have looked back in different situations and thought at how humility needed to be a vital part of the equation.

 And we chase after wisdom:

Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding.  -Proverbs 4:7

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. -Proverbs 16:16

It is my prayer that we start this week NEW,

recommitting ourselves to CHRIST,

and striving to become a vessel that God can fully use for His KINGDOM.

Another day, another...turnip?

I've found out that turnips make an acceptable alternative to potatoes (especially mashed with butter salt and garlic powder). The one thing you miss the most while doing the "don't raise my blood sugar" diet is potatoes. I've not tried french frying turnips yet. I'll let you know how they turn out.

My diet is so strange that it makes it difficult to eat with others. No beef (lack of gall bladder), no sugar in anything, no potatoes, no corn, only sugar free bread (diabetes). What a drag. Some folks WILL insist on giving you sugar-sweetened tea.

I've read the "Little House on the Prairie" books and am working on the follow-up books about Rose, Laura and Almonzo's daughter. They are simple, fun and relaxing. I know that folks say they are for children, but whyare they? Because they are clean? Easy to read? No cursing? No sex? That's why I like them. Wish more folks would write books I can read without cringing.

Wierd!

Isn't it wierd when you dream you have a cough and awaken with a cough. Did I give it to the dream or did the dream give it to me? Yeah, I know. I was probably coughing in my sleep and incorporated it in my dreams.

Read any good books lately? I'm reading a couple: The Homecoming by Earl Hamner, Jr. and Little House on Rocky Rodge by MacBride. I've gotten in a few moldy-oldies, too: The New Woman written in 1895 and The Girl Today, The Woman Tomorrow written in 1932. The first one is about "bloomer girls" and the second is an etiquette book.

On the health front, I'm asking my doctor where I can get a thermogram in lieu of a mammogram. It seems that a cancerous tumor will actually grow its own blood vessels in order to feed itself which makes them warmer than the surrounding tissue and thus visible to a thermogram. Thermograms have no radiation. I don't really know if they hurt or not. Hope not.

Snoeflake the goat died last week of unknown cause. Just up and died. The rooster day before yesterday of lead poisoning. Donny got tired of being attacked by the rooster and shot him.

ugh!

Microcalcifications in both breasts. It's been two days and I'm still sore. Mammograms stink! They want me to come back in 5-6 months for more of them. I'm going to ask my doctor about thermography instead. I'm not sure of the wisdom in irradiating myself over and over again just to check. That radiation may CAUSE cancer, for Pete's sake!

I'm looking up all the natural cancer preventative stuff I can and starting on it. It's natural, so it can't hurt. My throat has been sore since I had the stupid mammogram.

The whole thing really has me down. I just feel tired all the time. What is it Scarlett O'Hara said? "Tomorrow is another day." Maybe I'll feel better.

LOST!

Lost~

Between sunrise and sunset:

One golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes!

No reward offered for it is gone forever!

It is a shame to lose precious time is it not?

Don't lose your time! Tell someone you love them. Tell God you need Him. Tell someone Jesus loves them!

 Don't waste time!

Going out today

We are going to feed the homeless down at the Salvation Army today. I am ambivilent about it. On one hand, "I was hungry and you fed me.", on the other hand, some of the people we call homeless are being enabled. By providing meals, we may be helping them to never get on their own two feet.

Still worried about my tests coming up. I am not sue what they expect to find out from doing yet another mammogram. You'd think they would want a different test since they've already done a mammogram.