Leavin' the saddle in the air

Tornado #2

Thank the Lord for keeping us safe once again through another tornado!  Our first tornado was in 2004 which caused a lot more damage than this one did.  Thank the Lord for friends and families that came to help.  God bless you all!

Fathers Day at the Farm

The family got together for a picnic on Sunday at the farm to honor our Fathers and husbands.  We had B-B-Q chicken, rolls, baked beans, macaroni & cheese, veggies and dip and if that wasn't enough, we had a big selection of yummy desserts.  There were strawberry pies, chocolate pie, chocolate chiffon cake, rice krispy treats, white cake, and ice cream.  The girls rode horses afterwards while the guys were shooting bow.  Some of the boys played basketball.  A couple of the farmer men had to go milk and feed.  Others were just enjoying each others company.  We are all so thankful for our dads.  We also appreciate our Heavenly Father.  Some of the dads are already waiting on the other side for us and some day we will all be together for one big Father's Day celebration.   

"He wants each of us to be blessed. He presents us before certain things, just hands it out to us, as to say, "Here, I want you to be blessed, My child." Isn't He wonderful? So we can appreciate a kind heavenly Father like that."55-0724 Bro. Branham

Take your pills!

Sometimes dairy cows get a disorder called Ketosis, which is low blood sugar. Kind of like a human with diabetes. So when they notice an animal with the symptoms the vet does a test to see if it is Ketosis. Then they fill the cow pill gun with about 6 pills and put it down her throat. These are energy pills, yeast, and lactobacillus which will help her feel better. This is not an easy job. The cow does not want to hold her head up and she will do all she can to get away from you.

" How about God? And you're scared to swallow some of the "gos- pills " that He gives you: "By His stripes you were healed. Faith is the victory that overcomes the world." Swallow it and see what happens. It's a confidence; you show what confidence you have in your doctor by taking His medicine, that you don't know what it is. You show your confidence in the doctor by submitting yourself to an operation. That proves your confidence in the doctor. But when it comes to Christ, you're scared to take Him at His Word. How is it? Faith is the victory.

You could submit your case to Jesus Christ, tonight, just as you submit your case to the doctor. Give me anything you want to, Lord; You're the doctor on the case. Then you've got the victory. Then you've got faith that overcomes. You'll never hunt another prayer line; you'll never hunt nothing else; you'll have it right there; it'll be all settled. You'll never jump from church to church to see if this ones got it, or that ones got it, they haven't got it. You've got it then. When you've got the faith, you have the victory.
58-1004 Bro. Branham

Showers of Blessing

Remember the spouting that Karl cleaned out in faith for rain?  We want to thank the Lord for answering our prayers and sending us showers of blessings. 

I was out enjoying a nice leisurely four-wheeler ride around the farm, when I felt a few sprinkles.  I was all the the way at the back of the farm and I got about 5 feet down the trail when I got caught in the rain!  No longer was this a leisurely four-wheeler ride....this turned into a "mud-puddle splittin'...see how fast you can go with rain pelting my face" four-wheeler ride.  I was soaked by the time I pulled into the mixer shed at the barns.  Nevertheless, I was thanking the Lord for the "showers of blessings."

 "And it's a rainy day outside, and I just drove up just now, and the way you were singing and clapping your hands, they must be having showers of blessings on the inside. So that's very good. So we're very thankful for this day. It's a... We got to have the rain. If we don't have the rain, then the Master cannot gather His fruits. So we have a--a rain inside, spiritual, or there won't be any fruits for the harvest. We have to have a rain on the outside or we won't have any natural harvest. That's right. " 62-0218 Bro. Branham

Supper interrupted.......

We had just sat down,  prayed for our supper, and dished out some of our food, when the butcher drove in our driveway.  We had a heifer with a broken back and she couldn't get up anymore.  She also was carrying a heifer calf which we wanted to save.  So,  Karl ran out and put his boots on and I grabbed the camera and away we went.  I was told to get a bucket of water, (why? I had no idea....later I found out it was just to wash their hands).  Hannah had to run and get towels, and then run and get the calf cart.  I had to go back to the house and get the floss.(What was this for?  To tie off the umbilical cord...which we did not have to do.  Why was I even trying to help?)    Needless to say, the butcher had "laid to rest" the heifer and did a C-Section on her to remove the calf by the time I got back there.  Karl had to work with the calf a little while before it started breathing.  Since it's mother was not available to lick it, Hannah had the honor.  Not that Hannah actually licked the calf (how gross) and she doesn't look like a cow, mind you, but she did a really good job of rubbing the calf down with towels.

Karl tried to give it a bottle, but it wouldn't suck on it.  So, in situations like this, he had to chug it.  A chugger is a bottle with a long tube that goes down to their stomach.  We are thankful that the calf survived.  By the way, Hannah named the calf Grace.

 

Meanwhile, the butcher was doing his thing.  We soon will have more meat in the freezer.  It seems cruel, but hey, that's how "life is on the farm."

P.S.  Being the true farmer that Karl is, he went back in the house and ate his beef for supper.  I, on the other hand, could only stomach some salad.

*Eggspressing* Love

My little farm girl has chickens and sells the eggs.  She puts the money in her "Jesus Jar" which goes for missionary work.  She likes to draw little messages on the eggs for a surprise when they get the eggs out to use.  It's one way of eggspressing her love. 

65-1031M Bro. Branham

 "I think there is nothing greater than love. And love, if we can't express it... Now, we can say that we have love, we're just saying that. But when we can really express what we've said that we have, then we show it in ourselves."

Inspection time!

We got news that the Federal Inspectors might be visiting our farm this week.  They may come and then again they may not, depending which farms they pick to visit.  So we've been cleaning and checking everything to be sure that we pass inspection.  The dairy requires you to pass inspection in order to ship milk to them.  To pass inspection, everything must be clean so they can be sure that our milk is top quality for you.  My farmer has really been working extra hard to make sure everything is in tip-top shape for the inspectors.

The milk pipe-line has to be cleaned.

Doors have to be scrubbed.

Windows have to be shiny.

Floors have to be scraped and cleaned.  Medicine cabinets have to be checked for proper labels.  The milk tank has to be shiny clean and many other things have to be clean in order to pass inspection.

"When the Inspector goes through to inspect your life to see if you're not just a little loose about things, little loose about your prayer life, little loose about that temper, little loose about that tongue to talk about others; He'll never seal the car. Some dirty habits, some vile things, some vulgarity mind, He can't seal the car. But when He's found everything in its place (the Inspector), then He seals it." 59-1216 Bro. Branham

Cooking in the Farmhouse Kitchen

We've been blessed with lots of strawberries this year, so me and Hannah decided to make some strawberry jam.  We had fun in the kitchen doing it together and she took pictures of each step.  I agree with Bro. Branham when he said,
"You know I just love jelly." 58-1005m

The fruits of our labor!

Living by Faith

Farmers have to trust in the Lord to supply the right kind of weather conditions for their crops every year. When it rains too much, we pray to the Lord to hold back on the rain. When it gets too dry, we start praying for the Lord to send us some rain. Then we can only sit back and wait for the rain... Or can we do something? How about cleaning out the spouting? That's what I caught my farmer doing tonight. We haven't had much rain in the last month or so and we've been praying daily for rain. All around us seems to get rain, but not here. So we live by faith, clean out the spouting, and be ready for the showers of blessing.