Gardening

Was looking through one of my garden magazines a few minutes ago and have decided tomorrow I will get some of those little seed starters for myself. I was thinking how nice it would be to have a few potted plants in the front yard this spring, but have looked at the price of them at the garden center and found them to be cost prohibitive. So I think I will grow my own, starting this next week, I have a class now on every Tuesday. I will be teaching an agriculture class to a group of Homeschoolers in our church. This first couple weeks we are going to learn about plants and growing a garden. Molly has decided to ask if the kids could grow a garden behind the church. Tuesday we will begin by growing a seed of their choice from my packets. I am looking forward more to the animal classes as that is what I love the most, but I am looking forward to teaching them how to grow their own food. It will come in handy in the next few years!

My Three youngest were out for dinner today

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I made them a roast beef dinner. I served for William, glazed carrots, for Kristi, peas, and Joshua, Potatos ala Terry. They all wanted the roast beef... Anyway I forgot to give them their strawberries before they left....my bad... It was a nice day for all of us.




Kristi had a nice nap, and got rid of her headache, and William sat on one of my new leather chairs and played on line. He then fed and watered my (I mean Micaiah's) cats. They all left soon afterwards as both Kristi and Joshua had meetings at church.
Joshua and I looked for the fabric for his good kilt. I think he is going to have it made in a really cool Fabric called Anderson Weathered. We will know tomorrow if we can get it.here is the swatch:

Anderson Clan

On April 26, 2009,
Terry Anderson,
Head of the Terry Anderson Clan will be turning 60! We will be having a BIG Christian Celtic celebration to honor him on April 25th all day at the Washington State park. Our sons and grandchildren will be donning their kilts and entering into some fun Scottish games. We are hoping to get a nice family portrait done that day, as just having a great time of fun and fellowship and food with our family and friends. I am starting today to get things organized and planned for the day.
Our son Mark will be getting ordained on March 22 at the Hillsboro Christian church, at 4 in the afternoon. This is going to be yet another of the wonderful celebrations we are having this year. God is blessing us a lot in these times of struggle in our nation. We just need to look around and find our many blessings.

God is good, all the time.
All the time, God is good

Looks like a storm is coming!

Terry called and was watching the weather channel and noted it was going to get bad here tonight. It is already cloudy and windy. The dogs are fine, and the cats are doing OK in the basement. I had to shut them in today, so the weather does not disrupt things down there with blowing wind and possible snow or rain. It seems too warm for snow, but that can change really fast!
I went for groceries today; wanting to have some food on hand if anyone comes out. I think John is coming tomorrow. Now I have to finish cleaning out the fridge in order to get the new groceries in. I already did the freezer and got all the frozen stuff put away. I am looking forward to Nicole and her babies coming soon for a nice visit! That will be a fun time for us! Caiah was asking her parents about her kittens that I have here for her. She has a good memory! I am glad they have not run away since we have been letting them go outside on nice days.

I will be taking Lily and Boomer in for shots this next week after I get them both washed and groomed. That will be a major project for me! I will be so glad when I finally get a grooming station set up down in the basement for them.

We will be doing a sheep shed soon, as soon as Terry gets some time off. He is checking on his vacation time this week, and when he finds out, we will rent a bobcat or some such thing and clear some land and get the logs for barn, as well as start our fence around the property. We have also got a plan for a veggie garden, and looking forward to getting the area prepared for that. He started up the tiller yesterday, but it is still to wet to till right now. He will be returning home via the lakes to see if our styrofoam is still there. Then we will get some of the kids to help us haul it home (IF it is still there)IF we can get the barn up in the next couple weeks, we can invest in a couple ewe lambs and a ram lamb to start our little flock. Also hoping to finish the chicken coop and yard so it will be ready for chicks when they come in. We hope to be on the road to self sufficiency within two years time.

This economy has put a hold on Terry's retiring this April. He was going to retire from Yellow and get a local job, but there are no local jobs now. And it looks like there will not be any in the near future. I am very disappointed, but happy at least we do have income. It just is not what we had planned. We will have to make due with his vacation time and get as much done as we can when he can take vacation.

Off to clean the fridge now and praising God we have money for food still!

National Animal Identification System, (NAIS)

National Animal
Identification System, (NAIS)
National Animal
Identification System that thousands of livestock
producers have opposed for close to a half dozen years, is still
being demanded by USDA, and USDA branches. Like a creeping fungal
spore in moves on with unrestrained funding. Why does this numbering
plot have a life without death? No economic facts, no logic, no legal
barrier stops this horrid scheme as it moves with perverted "cooperative
agreements" to number all farm livestock and farm properties.

Nearly 2000 years ago it was written in the Holy Bible that in
the last years of history a numbering system would be used so that
no person could buy or sell without an enforced number. Real ID
and NAIS perfectly fit the prophecy of Revelation 13. It is a battle of
the unjust against the just. Some would say it is only a coincidence, yet
others are certain a massive plan is in play to number all livestock and then
number all people. A federal plan to control
people like herds of cattle moving through the check out counter of life.

It is easy to oppose NAIS on purely non-Biblical reasons,
but equally easy to see the hand writing on the wall. Every livestock owner
should oppose NAIS. Every Christian should oppose NAIS. Every human
who consumes food should oppose NAIS. Every USDA employee should oppose NAIS.
Every veterinarian, every President, every Congressman and every Senator should
oppose NAIS.

Posters of the graphic below can be printed from www.naisStinks.com. The link for
other posters is http://www.naissucks.com/index.php?con=flyers.

Thank you for opposing NAIS and the distribution of this information.
Darol Dickinson, www.naisSTINKS.com.



In Jesus Care,
Marylou





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Suburban is fixed... (I think)

Terry came home and has accomplished several things for me including doing our taxes, which cost us a ton this year! It was amazing how much it cost! But it is done for the year and not a worry on my mind anymore.

The dogs are doing great in this cold weather. They seem to actually enjoy being out in the cold.

John, Molly, Isaac and Jude were out for lunch. (well Jude really did not eat with us...) John helped Terry fix the Suburban. Isaac and the guys went hunting for rabbits with Isaac's pellet riffle. They came up empty. Then they left so Kristi and Molly could do their daily run.

Now we will need to finish our laundry and get some cat litter for Micah and Micaiah's cats Sterling and Yuck Yuck.

It is a very cold day... so much for Al Gore's global warming..

My Car died on the way home today.

I went to town to get groceries and some more manicotti for dinner at Kristi and Joshua's tomorrow, and on the way up the hill on Pat Daly Road, my Suburban died on me. The man in the truck behind me pulled me on up the hill and into my yard. But until Terry gets home, I am now "home bound" I will enjoy watching some TV and also work on my other stuff in line. I have a back seat full of groceries I need to unload from the Burb when it gets light tomorrow morning. My snowman (surprise from John's kids) was slowly melting away today. He has lost his head so far. The weather got very warm today. I have been rather sick with a cold, and head ache today. The dogs have been upset with something across the road most of the day. Not sure what they are seeing or hearing, but I could not see or hear it. Well I am off to watch some TV or maybe ply Marbles or Spider on here. TTYL