White Caps in the Toilet!

 White Caps in the Toilet!

 

The caption is from Sterling. He says that is how hard the wind is blowing—hard enough to cause white caps in the toilet bowl! Not sure what it has been blowing here, but it has rearranged the backyard again. The hens are staying close to the house, too. Just aware inside that every surface has grit on it! The water bowls are deep enough in dirt to make mudpies! Have not seen the hens making any mudpies yet, but any time now!

 

Texted the kids to be sure that no one is planning on coming up because the cackleberries are going to my doctor this week. Last time when that was the plan, one of the kids let me know he was coming. The old woman has eaten a few lately, but the girls are still producing quite a few eggs so far. When it gets colder, that may change again. But so far, the hens are doing pretty good. Have four or five hens that are older that should stop producing eggs soon. Those are the deep, dark brown eggs that look like chocolate! Such pretty eggs.

 

Strange that tomorrow is the last day of this month. October has just whizzed by, or so it seems. Dreading all the hoopla this next month. We have already seen some voting boxes burned and at least one dropped out of a truck—though found and taken to the police and returned to the polling place. Sitting here wishing that honesty and common sense were more common. Patty told me this morning that not only are we “deplorable,” now we are “garbage”! So much for politics---many blood suckers! Isn’t that the meaning of “poly” and “tics”?

Must tell you about our mayor, Tim Short, and the office of property tax and the county appraisal district office. First, Mayor Short sent a message to the county tax office to have someone call me because when the old woman called the office using the number on the tax card, the online voice told me that there was a charge to speak to a real person. She said she would check that out and be sure to make it right. Then when a call was made to the appraisal district office, the sweet lady told me that an email could be sent with the request to combine the three pieces of property so that only one tax notice would be sent out. That made me happy. They were confused by the L. and P. in my names on the roll sheets. But that should be clarified now. Middle names. Anyway, it just makes me happy that our mayor cared enough to take his time to see about this with the tax office.

 

Sterling said that George is still in the hospital but wants out. Well, duh. They won’t feed him!! Applesauce and some apple juice don’t really make a person feel full! But they are trying to be sure he is not going to continue to bleed. It is so worrisome when we have no idea what is causing us to get weak.

 

Jennifer has a migraine but has begun to feel better, but you can almost bet that the wind down there is just about as full of ragweed pollen as it is up here. Oh! If only God would give us about six to eight inches of rain! Fill up the stock tanks and settle the dust! Well, we don’t want a flood like they have had in Spain, but surely a few inches of rain could do most of North Texas and the Central Plains some good! Father, bless us and our fields.

 

We all know that God is in control of everything, but it never hurts to request peace and the blessings that this nation sometimes takes for granted. Read that some cities were planning to put illegal immigrants on buses and planes and send them back to Texas. We are NOT a sanctuary state by any means whatsoever. No hard feelings for those who are trying to make better lives for themselves, but as Theodore Roosevelt said, they need to plan on REALLY being Americans if they want to come here to live. We have ONE language, ONE flag, and ONE nationality. No one can come here and be a Venezuelan-American or a Crips-American. Yes, some of us hang tightly to our Bible, our religion, and our guns, but anyone would know that if they wanted to come here in the first place. We believe very whole-heartedly in God and His laws. Our Constitution was built on those beliefs. Our freedom depends on God and His blessings. May common sense be promoted throughout this nation.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.