OK SO MAYBE I WENT A LITTLE OVER BOARD...

BUT I DON'T FEEL GOOD. MY THROAT HURTS AND MY WHOLE BODY HURTS! OVER NIGHT HALF OF THE PEOPLE IN MY DEPARTMENT...ALL OF WHOM HAVE BEEN WORKING 70-80 HOUR WORK WEEKS TRYING DESPERATLY TO GET THE PEOPLE IN HOUSTON AND BATON ROUGE BACK TO NORMAL...CAME DOWN WITH A BAD SORE THROAT AND THE BEGINNINGS OF A WHOPPER COLD. LAST NIGHT WAS A VERY LONG NIGHT AND I WAS AT WORK AT 6:45AM. SO I DECIDED TO BE PREPARED FOR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING THAT COULD HIT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT.

Fall is Here!

Houston is going through unbelievable devastation. So are thousands of others in the path of Hurricane Ike. I am so very grateful for my grand children. with just a little effort I can look at their loving faces and forget the world of hurts and fears and just focus on their sweetness!!

THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT

After a 14.5 hour day and a 1 hour commute each way, I was thinking as I walked up on my porch "what the heck are you doing all the way out here??" I looked up at the front of my half pink house and here is what I saw. Not just lizards, but little workers. Here they are working all night long trying and curb the ever growing population of insects which are in constant reproductive mode on the farm. They never complain, at least not audibly. The intrude into my home only in pursuit of stray bugs which I don't want in there anyway, and they are quiet. They don't bark, meow, or ask me to feed them. They are fully self reliant. The look lazy but looks can be deceiving. These really are amazing creatures. I am glad they work at night because I would hate for one of the chickens to make them into dinner!

Looks like all the prayers are being answered with Hurricane Ike. Keep it up.

INSPIRING INSOMNIA

I woke at 5:45 wide awake this morning with a need to clean. Before I even left my bedroom I made the bed, put away clean laundry, set out the millions of unpaired socks ready to sort tonight, cleaned the bathroom...scrubbing bubbles and all! Then because it was still dark, I made myself a cup of cafe vienna, and played on the computer. It is very quiet this early on Sunday morning. I could feel rather than see the fog laying very soft on the tops of the fields around me. Birds began to wake up and I could hear Bull chewing something up outside. I walked out ready to yell at him and instead the morning sky took my breath away. I don't know what the temperature is outside but it is cool enough to feel cold. Down in the creek I could hear two owls talking each other to sleep, a dove shot past in an attempt to avoid hunters. And this sky greeted me. I could smell wood smoke and dry leaves, the smells of fall. Summer is gone.

DELAY IN POSTS

I AM SORRY ABOUT THE DELAY IN POSTS. I WILL BE WORKING HURRICANE DUTY WHICH IS 12 HOUR DAYS 7 DAYS A WEEK. LOOKS LIKE ABOUT THE TIME GUSTAV CLAIMS SLOW DOWN IKE IS GOING TO HIT. PLEASE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE IN LA, MS, AL! IT'S NOT GOING TO BE PRETTY.

Northeast Texas NWTF Chapter's Women in the Outdoors Event

WOMEN IN THE OUTDOORS EVENT

OCTOBER 18, 2008

SPONSORED BY THE NORTHEAST TEXAS CHAPTER OF THE NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION

FOR MORE INFORMATION: CONTACT DOROTHY MCCARVER dorothy.mccarver@sbcglobal.net

PLEASE EMAIL DORTHY FOR MORE INFORMATION. SOME OF THE CLASSES OFFERED ARE:

OUTDOOR HABITAT
CANOEING/KAYAKING
FLYFISHING
OUTDOOR PHOTOGRAPHY
PINE NEEDLE BASKETS
BLACKSMITHING!
DUTCH OVEN COOKING!
ARCHERY
SHOTGUNNING; INTRO AND ADVANCED
INTRO TO HANDGUN
.22 RIFLE PLINKET
TURKEY HUNTING 101

AND MORE!

THIS IS AT MY DAUGHTER'S FAVORITE CAMP IN THE WHOLE WORLD! SHE AND I WILL BE GOING TOGETHER....EVEN THOUGH SHE IS KIND OF A CITY GIRL!

http://www.womenintheoutdoors.org/wito/?SUBSITE=wito

September 1-summer is over; dove season begins

What a wonderful 3 day weekend this has been. I am writing this on the morning of the 3rd day. Daughter and 2 grand boys are still asleep....the only sounds I hear are the far off sounds of shotguns as today is opening dove season. I plan to continue to paint sealer on the pink house. One day it will not be hot pink any more. It is still horribly hot though. Painting stops at noon.


At sunset last night I knocked down a bunch of large pine cones. I am going to give these to my sister. She wants to make cinnamon scented fire starters to give away at christmas.


The boys continue to renovate the club house. The sign out front by the way says "Santas Drop Off for Jayden and Dakota".....they are drawing "lights" up the slide with a water proof marker as a runway for reindeer. I will take more pics when they are gone. Their minds simply amaze me....and because to them it is very real makes it all the more special.


Here is a picture I took just at dusk last night. Jayden was saving a doll from Bull.....but when we came in and stuck the photo chip into my computer, that scene transformed into Jayden saving a princess from a fire eyed demon dog. Funny how he suddenly became very proud that he had saved that doll!!







Prayers for all who are in the path of Hurricane Gustav!