We are praying that God will use this bad news day to His glory. Our oldest son, J has been undergoing chemo for some time now and the doctor believed they could remove the tumors by surgery. When they opened him today, they found tumors they were unaware of and since the cancer was more invasive then they thought, they closed him back up and will be doing more chemo.
We had 3 young men here today putting up more fences and doing several hours of weed whacking. We are starting to get caught up on that, especially since we’ve not had rain to encourage the growth. We are trying to get animal ready for winter this year BEFORE winter comes, We are trying to get dry pens ready for rotation yet this summer and breeding in the fall. This last spring we had a huge mud issue and it hurt our fleeces. We are aiming to avoid that this year.
I have planted green beans twice this year and now have 6 little plants started. 6 plants out of total of 4 packages is not very good. I may be visiting the farmers market for my canning needs this year.
There isn’t much more to report since I spent most of my day off my foot and working on a new website. But I have made terrific friends here and I miss you if I don’t blog. Therefore, I continue to share my life with you.
Happy Sabbath!
Today was the vet made his visit. The sheep have been given their sleepy injection and the vet (white shirt) is waiting for it to take effect. My neighbors came over to help separate the sheep. These sheep are not supposed to have horns, however, they are descendants of Merino sheep who have very large horns. Therefore, it is not unusual to have small horns called scurs. The problem here was they were fighting and had broken one. The other sheep had them growing in such a way that they would eventually have grown into his face. Not a good thing. 
Since I sprained my foot, I am trying to stay off of it as much as possible ( getting even less done now). So I spent the rest of the day working on my Website class. One of these days you will see the end results featuring these sheep
Machine repair #1
This is the fly wheel of my sewing machine which thread wrapped around because I was not paying attention to that part of the machine = machine troubles. I spent a considerable amount of time looking for the proper screw driver to take the machine apart and then couldn’t get to the thread that way. I have one piece not back on, because I need help with that. Then I took out as much thread as I could with a tiny seam ripper and a targeted flashlight. Unfortunately with these computer machines, one can’t just back off the fly wheel like we could in the manual types. I’m not sure how far in the thread can travel and how much trouble it can cause. So maybe I’ll just have to live without it for a couple weeks and have it serviced. First I’ll see tomorrow if a neighbor can help with it.
Using the above two blocks, I am making one block.
pressing the seam between blocks open, so the middle of the flowers won’t be bulky.
Hunter star update #3:
Since earthly immortality is out, it was time for a garage clean-out. You know all those things we save because we might need them someday, etc. Or the things that we don’t want to deal with. Today, those things were dealt with. There will be two 3/4 ton pick-up loads going to the dump in the morning. One from the garage and one from around the farm. And that does not include the items which will be recycled. It was a long, hard day – hard because some things still might have some use. We will probably go back through this pile in the morning to see if more can be recycled. But it is out of the garage, which is now amazingly tidy, and not returning. There are still shelves to clean, but one can only deal with so much in one day. There were so many decisions to be made.