The Chickens lived through the night...

I got up bright and early, and the chickens all survived the night! The ones in the coop seemed happy and still glad to stay inside the coop. I hope the other three get used to going in there too. Terry suggested I pen the two little ones in their little coop tonight if they do not go into the big coop,give them plenty of feed and water, and try to gentle them down over the next week or so. Hopefully the big hens will go back into the coop tonight on their own, and if they do, maybe Mr RIR and the little ones will go in too.

More Chicken stuff.

Well, I had hoped I could herd all the chickens into the coop for the night. They used to roost in there every night, but after the dog terrorized them, they have been afraid to go in there. Finally yesterday two of the big hens went in, and so I thought we might be getting closer to getting them all in, if one goes maybe the rest will follow... SO I went out with two folded cardboard boxes, hoping I could herd them all in. Well all the big hens, and the littlest rooster went in after about three tries, but the little banty hen flew over the fence off into the forest, and I could not get the big and middle roosters in no matter what I tried. The big one is the one that has no tail feathers left. He has been a rather changed personality bird since the dog got hold of his feathers and left him naked. He used to be a very friendly bird. I finally decided to drop the door on the ones that are inside, and let them get nice and warm and toasty, and hopefully maybe when Mr Big guy gets back up on his perch for the night I can actually grab him and toss him in the coop where he will not freeze to death. The smaller ones roost together; the hen and middle rooster; so hopefully they will not freeze. I think I might just lock them in their little coop tonight and pray for them to keep each other warm since both are so wild. I guess that is the biggest problem with letting your chickens run loose, they never learn to love humans. That poor little hen was terrified when I tried to herd her into the bigger coop. I partiularly want them to stay alive until Nicole can get them and take them home with her. But if they refuse to roost in the big coop, I do not see how they will survive this cold weather. I just wish they had brians... LOL

Pray for a President Who Takes God’s Perspective on Justice and Righteousness

Presidential Prayer Team
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them.
--Isaiah 61:8
Pray for a President Who Takes God’s Perspective on Justice and Righteousness

Holy Lord God, Your judgments are perfect and all Your ways are true. You love justice and You exercise mercy, even when we do not deserve them. You made provision to cleanse our world from sin, and You desire that we are holy and pure in You.

As I pray for this year’s elections, I pray that You will give us a president who will take Your view of justice and will act justly, implementing justice in ways that please and honor You. Lord, I pray that the injustices inherent in our government will be righted in Your time and in Your will. In Jesus' righteous name, Amen.

Chicken Stuff...

Terry spent a good portion of the time he had off working on trying to keep our chickens (the ones that are left) safer. He put a door on the coop Micah made, and a little entry way for the chickens. He put up a good gate so I can easily get into the yard. He put a heat lamp in the coop, and made the yard a bit bigger. Meanwhile he also, with Joshua's help, welded the A frame for the big coop. It is 12 by 8 at the bottom. Hopefully there will be enough in the bank next pay to get the siding for it, and a window. We will then finish the back yard fence for the dogs, and turn the now dog yard into the chicken yard where they will be very very safe.

A dog came into our place in the middle of the night. We heard the dogs barking but alas did not bother to get up and find out why. WE sure should have! The dog killed all but two of our small breed chickens, and ran all the rest off. They finally came back in the afternoon of the next day. The dog's paw prints are all over in the back yard. It looks like he jumped up on our front screen door, and also the basement door has a paw print on it. So he is a problem. I will go lock the chickens up for the night in a few minutes...

Once the hens and roosters are safe and secure, we will start on the sheep shed. I have the blue print drawn, and look forward to getting it done before spring, so Isaac can get his lambs when they come available in the spring. Hopefully I can get some of my Babydoll Southdowns at that time too. I think I will get Asher and Levi each a little Dorsett ewe too. I am not sure yet. The baby dolls would be for Noah, Isaiah, Caedmon and Micaiah.

If only I had a camera to take pictures for you all to see how things are progressing!

I am almost done moving into the house. I still need to get my dining room table out of storage, and still need to redo a few things, but it is getting closer.

Plans for inside the house... and out..

OK I cheated (for those who follow all my blogs, and did the same post here as I did on Home on the Farm... Just in case some of you read one and not the other) and I am adding on this one a little about my buffet.
Some of my dining room furniture is antique stuff. It is almost all oak. And I am asking my son Mark to make a topper for my buffet and do it as close to original, yet functional for me as we can go. The original topper had a beveled mirror in the center, and was pretty tall if I remember. But other than that, I just don't know. Probably the parts are still up in the old barn...

We have some major change plans as well as some not so major change plans for inside the house.
We are going to start in the master bedroom.When we are finished, it is our desire to have the entire house look like a turn of the century (1899-1900) style house. So we are going to replace the windows in the master bed and bath with that style of windows, remove the seam caps and fill in the seams in the walls, then we will be doing trim around doors, windows and ceiling and floors. This week I am going to go get estimates on the supplies. We have to turn two doors around so they swing out of the room instead of into it. I want to do hard wood, but that is not in the plans for about two years. So we will just keep the carpet in the bedroom, and do something else in the bathroom.

Out doors, we are going to use the trailer parts from the trailers that the double wide arrived here on to build the chicken coop.It will be an A frame, using three trailer tongues for the frame work. We have to get it built really soon, and that is going to take some welding, cement pouring, and then walls, (or are they roofs?) and hopefully we can get it finished before the snow starts to fly around here. . We got the cement mixer from John when we picked up Boomer's dog house., So other than getting the PVC pipe for the drain in the floor, and the cement and gravel, we are ready to go with this project. Hopefully I can get my diggi cam before we get started, so we can do pictures of it as we go.

I am getting 4 eggs a day, two brown and 2 green. SO I think I will make a quiche for Kristi and William today

I am needing a diggi cam..

I need a diggi cam so I can take some pictures to help all you who haven't been to the property to see our progress as it happens. Today is a weird day for me. I have boxes galore in my dining area, and I have boxes in the Suburban. I am just leaving the boxes in the Burb until I figure out what to do with the boxes of things in the dining room. I am needing shelves and stuff built cause I do not want to have to move things after I have placed them the first time. So I am just going to get ready for my granddaughter's birthday party (dress up princess party for just a couple little friends and of course the grandmas.) Anyway maybe tomorrow I will get inspired to unload those boxes from the Burb and put them away here. There is always tomorrow for these unpleasant chores. Nicole has put me to shame cause she has her house all set up and is living like she is supposed to instead of out of boxes. I guess I am just trying to fit 34 years of accumulated junk into a house that is not as big as most I have lived in in the past. So I am perplexed.

Oh the chickens are doing great even though Boomer has gotten loose twice and chased them all to all corners of the earth... I chained him inside their pen, so he would not get back out, but Terry thought he would fix the hole and turn him loose in the pen. While we were gone, he re dug and re chased the chickens away again. So We re chained him in the pen at a different place, and so far he is staying put. The chickens keep coming back to roost, so that is good I am hoping we can train him out of this bad habit.

Lilly seems to be very happy now that I am actually living here. She is doing great too. And other than the chicken chasing, Boomer is doing great!

Getting set up on the "property"

The grand kids all call our place "The Property" I like that! It is nice that they all consider it partly theirs, cause it is. It was so sad to see the moving truck with Micah and Micaiah and Nicole and Cole in their car leave the Property last Monday evening. It was a hard time for all of us! But Nicole is settling in at their new residence, and I have talked to them several times. Seems it is a great move for them.
So a chapter ends and a new one begins.
So far all the other grands (except Caedmon) have spend the night, gathered eggs and ridden around in the "train" (Pappa Terry hooked the little green wagon to the lawn mower, and is using it as a little utility wagon of sorts, but mostly as a "train" The kids have worked hard. (as hard as any little under 10 year old bunch of kids can work) John and Molly and Issac came out last Monday and Tuesday and worked at helping clear out the weeds and stuff around the dog pens and horse pen. Joshua and Kristi also came out to help with that task. The kids love making a fire and cooking their lunch and supper out doors. They did some chuck roast on Tuesday, with Isaac, and we cooked some brats with Asher and Levi on Wednesday (or was that Thursday?) and on Friday we cooked pork chops out there with Noah and Isaiah. We have either 3 or 4 hens laying, and if we gather the eggs around 2 in the afternoon, we get two brown, one small white and one green egg. The little hens are laying way out in the property, and so we are not getting their eggs. Terry plans to soon build them a coop that is bigger, and we will send the big road island red (RIR) rooster and the RIR hens to Nebraska for Micaiah, so the little roosters and their hens will come back up to the front of the property and we can get them used to the new coop and laying their eggs in it.
OUR PROGRESS:
Terry took a couple more days vacation to get thing going for us. Kristi and Joshua came and helped move the big furniture out of the trailer and into the new house. We had one mishap, but we fixed it, and it should be as good as new when the Elmers dries. (Don't even ask what broke!) We now have the piano, Curio cabinet and buffet in the used to be living room converted to dining room for my needs. Once we get the stuff out of the Hillsboro storage I will actually even have my dining room table. (We got the benches out while Terry was here). The phone people set up the phone, and to my delight, I have DSL here! (and wireless so the kids can work on their laptops when they come out) It is so nice to have high speed internet once again! My DISH satilite is set ups so I can watch FOX NEWS, and I think I will actually get some radio stations here! I have to set up the radio still. My cell phone actually works from every room in the house! How cool is that? (for those of you who had trouble getting hold of me at the trailer, I have no excuse for not answering my phone now (Unless I loose it LOL)

Side note:I hear a hen cackling as I type, a new egg is getting delivered!

I will need some help from a couple of sons one day this week to get the old couches out of the trailer, and we can then say I am moved (except for the stuff we need out of our old storage unit in Hillsboro.) that will take about two trips.
CADEMON TURNED TWO OCTOBER 4.
We went down to help him ring in his third year of life! What a cute child he is! I wish I could spend more time with him! I am now going to actually try to devote some of our resources to going down there more often. Now that I am settling in and it looks like I will be able to do just that, I will have more stories about him and his parents. For his birthday, Jordan and Mark did a sky cake with a plane in the air. It was very cute. Jordan does a great job with her cakes! Go to her blog and check some of them out! Anyway most of his cousins got to go to his birthday party. Isaiah told me on the way home that his favorite part of the party was the magic show! (How cool is it to have a real live magician in the extended family? Thanks Pappa Scott!) I will be getting a digi cam soon (I hope) so I can post our progress on improvements to the property. I only have three weeks of my Connections study left, and then I will start my "What happens when Women Pray" study on my BerachahMinistires blog. Get the book off ebay, and join in the discussion!

Here is a little link to some fantastic music for your listening pleasure!
Shout Life Anderson Brothers Music