Good things come in small packages!

Last week while some of us were away in Florida cleaning out our Grandparents house, a lot of little packages arrived at our farm. First came of a package of animated moving darling cotton balls.

Our dear "Little Girl" hatched out seven little puff ball chicks!

Josiah took this picture and I just love it; with all the little chicks facing away the camera.
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The next little package came as quite a surprise. You see our white goat Fiona was due to have her Baby the week before, and we were waiting with bated breath for her to finally deliver. Now please remember that we were absolutely positive that she would have white baby's, not because we are partial to that color, but because we had heard that white was the dominant color strain so unless you had a very dark buck you would probably end up with a white kid. So imagine our surprise when Grace found ....

...this little black kid in the pen with Fiona!!?!

Since he has a distinct resemblance to a donkey, some have used that as his name, while others prefer "burro", or even "Eeyore"! He does have problem nursing, and also has a funny wobbly leg, but so far has made it, though very small and weak.

~Chs

Fellowship of the Unashamed

I have been enjoying this young ladies blog recently, and this post especially.
Please take time to read. You will be blessed and inspired.



"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes . . ." Romans 1:16a

~ Faith

duckling saga.

A week and a half ago I was blessed to hatch out four ducklings. They were very late at hatching, because of some fluctuation in my incubator temperature. Therefore two ended up dying after hatch. But I have two ducklings left, one girl and one boy!

Come out Duckies come out!

Oh, hatching is such hard work.

Cuddling with Pooh bear, is such a comfort.

Beatrix, and Mr. Dick! Such sweet little ducklings.

~Chs

Swallowtails and Lily-of-the-Valley

The four Swallowtail Butterfly chrysalises that we kept over winter all hatched recently.
They enjoyed the fragrant Lily-of-the-valley.

To Missouri and back.

The date was April 22nd, the location Fort Leonard Wood Missouri, the occasion... Joshua's Graduation from training for the national guard. Therefore the morning of Tuesday April 20th found all of us (Grandpa included) piled in our dear van Ginger and heading down the freeway in the direction of Missouri. I will stop here and inform you that this post will be over flowing with pictures and for the most part wordless. Enjoy!

Counting trucks, a mind numbing activity to help wile away the hours (Faith got to 1,000 and quit, before we had left Michigan;)

We passed many interesting and beautiful sights along the way.

Including the St. Louis sky line.

Coming to the Mississippi river bridge.

After arriving at our motel Tuesday evening, and having a semi-restful night, we headed out to Fort Leonard Wood, Wednesday morning , for Family day with Josh.

It was hard to find Josh among all the shaved heads:).

We went to a park for lunch and Josh entertained us with all his stories.

Then off to the Military Police Museum.

Fort Leonard Wood covers 71,000 acres of land, some of which is beautiful wild land.

That evening we met John who had driven up from Texas, and had a nice dinner, before taking Josh back to the Barracks for the night.

Thursday we headed out bright and early for the Fort, but still found the Abrams theater packed when we arrived for the graduation. After speeches by their Captain and others, each platoon marched onto stage in time to a cadence sung out by their drill sergeant.

Then each private stepped forward shouted out his name and place where he came from before marching off stage.

We are very grateful to God for keeping our soldier safe during his training, and are so thankful and joyful that we have him home once more.

~Chs