Carrot Stew.

 Carrot Stew.

 

Just put some carrots, celery, onion, chicken, and bouillon on to cook. The chicken was some cooked this morning, and the carrots came from Maggie. Looking forward to a nice bowl of stew later.

 

The weather forecast for a couple of days doesn’t look bad at all. Earlier it seemed as if Sunday night was going to be a stinkin’ mess with high winds, hail, and oodles of rain to swamp the countryside. Maybe it won’t happen Sunday night, but the chances for rain in the next few days are from 40 to 70%. Lots of thunder bumpers. Know the dogs will not appreciate the situation, but at least we are up here on a hill. Before they put the spillway smack dab in the middle of the dam, we have had water backed up into Archer County with Highway 1954 edged by floating bullfrogs!

 

Speaking of frogs: when we were out at the flowerbed earlier, a little toad hopped his way into the flowerbed out of the tall grass. We saw two spiney striped Texas lizards zipping around out there, and it made me wonder if they eat little toads. Would not surprise me if they did. Got tickled at the lizards since Thelma, the turken, was out hiding in the iris bed to lay her egg. Wondered if the lizards knew she was out there. Chickens love small lizards and such.

 

Gregg and Vickie did such a great job of cleaning out the flower bed, cleaning the walkway, and replanting the things that needed to be put in the ground. Gregg put the mullein plant that Mr. Dowlern gave me in the ground next to the brick sidewalk. If we get some more rain, it should do very well. If rain doesn’t happen, it will still get watered. It is such a pretty plant.

 

Patty got Gregg and Vickie to walk the fence line and put in a new fence post where one had come down. He also wired up the gate that some yayhoot tore down. It seems that something has been making a regular path through that fence up into Patty’s place. Maybe this will stop that foolishness. She still has some work for them sometime soon. Her lights need to be worked over where the wind has blown the tops off the outdoor lights. Anyway, they will have weekend work for a while.

 

Sterling told me that some of the men he knows are going to get together for a Bible study with a man who knows Hebrew and Greek. He thought it would be great to be able to say words in the original language and understand what they meant. Wish he could read the Torah lessons that are on my computer. Tom Bradford also has them on videos so maybe they could be found on YouTube as well. Some of the things are pretty fascinating. One of the strangest things he talked about was the fact that people of different areas had their own gods—gods with boundaries. It makes sense to me that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob let the Israelites know that he was not bound by heavens, mountains, oceans, or any measure that mankind has. How many times have we decided that God can’t see or touch us because he is “up there” and not where we are? Well, look at the verses that tell us differently! Ps.139.

 

Rest well, my friends. You are loved.