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Chickens - 7/29/2008 8:10:02 AM
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Last night a horrible screaming sound woke me up at about 4:30 A.M. It sounded like something was in pain. Erick and I grabbed our glasses and went to look out the back, and there was a big black dog in our chicken coop. He grabbed his pellet rifle, since he doesn't have a real gun, and shot it a couple of times. It yelped and tried to get out of the coop but couldn't get out, so Erick went down to open the door. It started to growl at Erick and I yelled at Erick to get back up to the deck. Finally the dog found the door and took off. Erick threw a stick after it and I yelled at the dog to "git outta here!" He took off. I couldn't believe how fast he ran, trying to get away. We thought at the time he'd killed one of the three remaining chickens, but this morning she was moving. She's in pretty bad shape, though, and can't fly up to the pole where she likes to roost. The ducks had all flown out of the coop when the dog came in, so they are all okay.
Erick had started a new chicken coop just yesterday. This one is too flimsy and just can't keep the dogs out. The new one is going to be bigger and stronger. We've got more baby chicks ordered, and they should be shipped in September. I'm going to have to buy eggs today when I go shopping today for the first time in months. It's been nice having all the eggs I can handle, but they aren't even laying any right now. Yesterday we ran completely out of eggs, and I had to substitute flax in the cornbread for the eggs.
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I'm an aunt! - 7/30/2008 4:02:33 PM
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I just found out that I'm an aunt again. My brother's wife just had a baby today, a little girl. I now have two nephews and four nieces. For so long Erick and I had the only grandchildren in the family, but now his mom has ten grandchildren with one on the way, and my parents now have eight grandchildren. Which is kind of funny, because my parents and his parents both have the exact same number of kids as they do grandkids now. 
My brother and his wife also just moved to the house we used to live in. I'm glad that someone's able to get some use out of it after all the work we put into it, but I do hope for their sake that they don't experience any problems with the plumbing. Since their family is considerably smaller, maybe they will be able to wash their laundry, etc., without overloading the septic tank. And maybe they'll have dryer weather than we had. I think floods just follow us around or something!
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RE: I'm an aunt! - 7/31/2008 9:46:32 AM
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Which is kind of funny, because my parents and his parents both have the exact same number of kids as they do grandkids now.
I just realized something. Not only that, but my parents have eight kids--6 girls and 2 boys, and they have eight grandkids--6 girls and 2 boys. My in-laws have eleven kids--6 girls and 5 boys. At present time they have ten born grandchildren--6 girls and 4 boys. My sister-in-law is pregnant again, and if she has another boy that will bring it up to 6 girls and 5 boys.
I have six kids--4 girls and 2 boys. I have six nieces and nephews--4 girls, and 2 boys. 
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The Creation Museum in Kentucky - 8/2/2008 9:11:47 AM
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Yesterday was Sarah's 9th birthday, and we went to the Creation Museum in Kentucky. We found out that senior pastors and their spouses get in free, and their children get in half price, so we were all able to go for just over thirty dollars.
It is a really nice museum! They didn't spare any expense. It's in a beautiful facility, has the most amazing landscaping, and the displays are state of the art. Here is a picture of the building from the nature trails across the pond:
There is a walk-through museum that tells the story of creation, and the affects on the world through the fall, demonstrates how the church has been negatively affected through the acceptance of evolution and the rejection of the Bible, and then ends with a video presenting the gospel called, "The Last Adam." There are some amazingly beautiful displays in this section. They have one room that shows the Garden of Eden and is filled with trees and flowers and animals, with Adam naming the animals.
As you walk through you can see the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and Adam and Eve as they are deceived and rebel against God. This is Adam and his son working his garden after the ground has been cursed.
The Noah's Ark room and the flood room were my favorite parts. There is a wall that is a portion of the ark, and Noah and his sons are building it, and the wives are making baskets.
In the next room there are dioramas showing the ark being loaded, the insides of the rooms, the ark floating and little tiny people on the tops of the mountains in despair, and more.
There is a video showing the perspective of various people as a giant tsunami rises up and the flood begins to swallow the land. It just gives me the chills to watch it.
I was really impressed with the museum. They were not at all shy about proclaiming Jesus throughout everything they did. It's more than just a Creation Museum, it's a Christian Museum. There were so many people there, too! I had read critism in the past that Ken Ham had overbuilt this, that he'd never get his money back because no one was going to want to spend money to go see such an overtly Christian display, but it was packed. There were people waiting at the doors before it opened, and it only got more crowded as the day went by. They had to open an overflow theater to get everyone in to see "The Last Adam", which was one of the best presentations of the gospel I'd ever seen. Ken Ham and the people at AnswersinGenesis are doing a work of God there at the Creation Museum, and if you get the opportunity to go, you should go and take your unsaved friends with you.
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Canning - 8/4/2008 8:47:57 PM
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I've been canning and freezing food all day. We put up green beans, corn, zuccinni, and pickles today. I'm so tired! We aren't finished yet, either. We have some neighbors that put out a huge garden, and they have given us about half of everything in their garden. Ours is big too, but it was stunted because of the flooding. Theirs is beautiful and a couple of weeks ahead of ours, and they planted stuff we didn't, too. They've been sharing a lot of their produce with us, which I'm grateful for, although I am quite tired right now. We've done more freezing this year instead of canning, since I don't have access to a pressure canner. We have a big freezer that someone gave to us before we moved, and we're filling it up with food.
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Wireless internet! - 8/5/2008 4:56:54 PM
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We have wireless internet now! We actually had signed up for wireless through the company we already had for dial-up, but the guy came to install it today and said it wasn't going to work for us. Too many trees--we wouldn't be able to get a signal from their tower. He then told us that Verizon has a wireless deal where you plug a little thing into your USB port on your computer, and if you can get cell phone reception, you can get wireless internet. Too bad he doesn't work for Verizon.  So we, on the advice of the Joink installation guy, switched from Joink to Verizon. I'm sure his boss would be pleased. 
Erick went to Terre Haute and signed us up, and it works great. It took me 75 minutes on the phone with a tech guy to get our e-mail configured, but that's all finished now. I invited him to come have lasanga with us as a thank you, but I think he's too far away. I don't know what state he was in, actually. It would be funny if he actually showed up. There would be extra, anyway, since Joy's away at camp this week. Actually, I think I'll just have seconds. I really like lasagna.
I wish I had more time to explore all the things I can do with fast internet, but I need to go fix that lasagna. Toodles!
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Back to moderating - 8/8/2008 10:47:08 AM
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The day after I we got our wireless internet, I returned to moderating. I've missed it. I'm covering the Science & Origin folder this time around, although I'm also helping in Finances and Ministry Leaders.
Joy came back from camp last night, and Jay and Erick left for a Royal Rangers camp today. They'll be back Sunday afternoon. Two of our church members are going to be preaching for the Sunday services.
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State Fair - 8/13/2008 8:58:58 AM
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We went to the State Fair yesterday. Jay had a free ticket, since his Weather project went, and one of my sisters ended with an extra ticket so she let me use it. Some friends from church took the rest of the kids, and Erick and Jay and I went. It was nice not having to keep an eye on all of them in that crowd, although Jay is enough of a challenge by himself sometimes.
His weather project got a blue ribbon, so he did really well. I'm glad I had him re-do his poster before he sent it. I saw my sister's craft project there, too. She re-bound her copies of Ted Dekker'r "Red", "White" and "Black". She does a beautiful job of book-binding.
We played a game of miniature golf, and Jay beat both of us. We fed animals at the petting zoo, watched a horse show (the kind where they are all dressed up and pulling fancy wagons) and ate fair food. It was a rip-off, but at least we had brought our own water and didn't have to pay $2.50 for a drink. I bought a giant tenderloin sandwich for $6.50 and ended up dripping a big blob of mustard on my jeans. Later on we bought doube-dipped ice cream cones.
We did a lot of walking, and I'm a bit on the sore side today, but not too bad. In a little bit we need to go pick up the rest of our family, and there will probably be more canning to do later on today.
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