Dog Fences!

  Dog Fences!

 

Jennifer sent pictures of two of their dogs this morning. Seems they found a place to dig out from under a high dollar fence. Gary really did not want to have to put chicken wire down around the bottom to keep in the dogs, but they will end up having to do something. It took Jennifer three hours to find them yesterday—and that was with the air tags the dogs wear! Well, Thompson is not nearly as ornery as her dogs. He is pretty consistent. He keeps getting out even after the old woman has walked the fence line and put down stakes. This morning, however, he had found a good spot and went right through it like a champion! It now has chicken wire on the spot that needs further work with wire cutters, wire, and patience. Certainly hope this is the last hole in that particular spot. Shaking my head here!

 

Walked out to check for eggs early on and got to listen to the ski things out on the lake. If it had enough water and depth in it, the boats would be all over the place. This heat would be cooking boats, inner tubes, skis, and folks this afternoon. Any time the heat is this bad, people want to get in the water, but it just cooks them instead of making things better. Lake Wichita really has no trees to speak of, so there is just not any shade around it.

 

Had to roll around in bed last night trying to find a way to get my knee to be comfortable. Pretty ridiculous to have one or two joints that just sing the song of their people! Arthritis is SO much fun. Guess the old woman should not gripe. Still kicking and at least this is not RA. Think Michelle has three doctors’ appointments on Tuesday, so she plans to stop by here as well. Hope she can handle going to all three appointments! Whenever we think we have it pretty rough, we can always look around and see what other people are having to handle on a daily basis. Think about the little ones who are having such problems: Raye with cancer in her eyes, Zeke with damage from seizures caused by medications, and then the other children with covid which their parents also have! Please bless them, Father in heaven!

 

Saw a van pulled up across the street that promises to be someone who does AC work. Certainly hope everything is still under warranty! But even under warranty, it is not easy having the AC go down in this weather!

 

Looking forward to autumn. Rain, cooler days, dirt that can be dug easily, and happy hens. Think my hens are about to start molting, and that may mean fewer eggs, of course. One hen hopped up on my knee and dropped half a chicken’s worth of feathers on the deck! At least it does not hurt when they drop feathers! It just looks as if an explosion took place in the coops when they have to be raked out.

 

Cleaned out the dog trough this morning since the water had turned green as a gourd. The ground sucked the excess water up as if it were a sponge. Not sure the dogs have seen the fresh water yet, but you can bet they will sit down in it to enjoy before they start tracking it inside the house. Oh well. Just wait until it starts raining this fall. That should be even more fun!

 

Really not very interested in what is going on in the world right now. It is sad to see the fires, floods, and disasters in the oceans and among nations. These things have probably been going on for ages—at least long before my time. But all we can do is ask the Creator for relief for those affected and restoration for the earth and all its parts. Whether or not the problems we see are manmade or “natural” disasters, the end product is misery for so many. Droughts and floods, ice age or age of total fire disasters, only God can make changes that last. But the first change has to be in the hearts of mankind. And, again, only God can make those changes. Let it be so, Father!

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.