December Blessings

It has been a great beginning so far, the LORD helped me read the whole book of Revelation a couple of times and He helped me get 5 people saved so far but I am hoping for at least 5 more before the end of the year.
A few days ago David called from work to let me know that he was getting laid off on the fifteenth, my answer was "well praise the LORD", I have such peace about him loosing the job now unlike the times in the past, it is a real blessing!!! then a couple of days ago his manager told him that he can stay until the end of Jan/2012 and my thought was again"well praise the LORD". Another big blessing we had is going to the shooting range for a whole day and we got to shoot all kinds of different guns and learn about them. It was alot of fun! and Lord willing we will be doing that more often. Another big blessing was to see our horse DeeKay after months of medical care, hoof care, exercise and training that he started performing so good especially the past couple of days with the rain, he was getting frisky and running all over the backyard showing off his strength, speed and beauty. I can't wait to see Iris sitting on his back and taking off down the dirt road at a dead run. And the latest blessing in the past couple of days is the amount of rain and the beautiful winter weather we are having we even had snow on top of the Superstition Mountain behind our house! It is an amazing and breath-taking view from my kitchen window, when finally the clouds pass by uncovering the white covered peaks of the mountain which makes my dish-washing event a joyful one.

Well I must stop now and enjoy the rest of the blessings God is going to give me for the rest (2011).

My 1st Horse Back Ride In The Desert

Finally I did it.......my first horse back ride outside of our property and into the desert, Iris rode Pumpkin and I rode Virgil Kane the weather was beautiful, and the horses were excited, Virgil even trotted with me on his back, I managed SOMEHOW to stay on him.
We even stopped at a garage sale and shopped. Iris taught me a lot about horses and gave horse back riding lessons, she saddled the horse for me and got him ready for the ride, it is so nice have someone that is always ready to go for a ride anytime I feel like getting on my horse. This is another one of my dreams coming true.

Summer Is Finally Here....

It has been a while sine I posted here I did write a bunch of posts they are in the draft some with titles and some without, I just had so much gardening and fun farm work to do while we had the perfect weather here in our area.
Our garden is doing really good, we have so much growing out there I can not keep up, the herbs are so abundant I have to give away all kinds like mint, basil, dill, cilantro, Oregano, garlic, parsley and the kale, beet green,chard, celery, 3 different kinds of lettuce, peppers, tomatoes least 4 different kinds, then I have so many different kinds of sunflowers and they are so big and towering over the rest of the vegetables to provide shade from our hot sun, It is always amazing to me after a few days of putting the seed in the ground and water it how God brings forth life and makes it grow and bring forth beauty, nourishment, and many many more seeds. On the other hand we now have 9 goats, 3 mama milking goats so we have an abundance of goats milk from 3 different breeds of goats, Lamancha, Nubian, Nigerian dwarf and Alpine, Our chickens are doing great and 3 of them are sitting on many many eggs so we are going to have many baby chicks running around soon.
Our above ground pool is been up and running, thanks to my wonderful husband he does all the work on it. I did get my own horse a few weeks ago his name is virgil kane so now we have 3 horses Iris have a new horse his name is deekay, Pumpkin is Nellie's horse now oh and we do have a new addition to our little farm, his name is Wally the goose.

New Aditions To Our Little Farm

Rabbits

Some friends had a couple of them but after a few months they multiplied and they had to give some away so we were on there list to give to since we have the space and time to take them in, what my friend did know was that we have no objection to eating rabbit meat but even though I told her that she still did not mind and brought them to our farm so now we have dogs, puppies, cats, goats, soon to kid, horse, pot belly pig, chickens and rabbits.

We have been learning how to butcher and dress a rabbit, it looks really easy and from what I have heard the meat is really good too, in fact I might had some at my aunts house way back when I was little girl because they had lots of them and they used to butcher and eat them all the time.