The weather is still wet this morning. Listening to Jesse Cook play his amazing Flamenco guitar music while watching this little kitty play with everything in sight. I have various cleaning jobs to do inside and some crocheting projects on the go. There are no cows in sight at this moment so there is hope they are gone back where they belong. My keyboard is doing weird things this morning I have no question mark the parenthesis are coming out as the equal sign and so on. So far the letters are working. I am wondering if it is the keyboard that is on the fritz or the computer is messed up for some strange reason. Maybe there is some kind of beastie inside my keyboard playing tricks on me.Whatever the reason it does not work! but the exclamation mark does. Hooray for that.
We really did need rain but not sure torrential rain was what any of us were thinking of. No need to be worried about forest fires for a couple of days at least.
We need the rainy weather to stop so we can get on with the painting or staining of the log house we were hired to do. We have it mostly scraped just a little left to do on that and some power washing which we can do even in this weather.But we will have to wait for dry weather to do the rest.
One of our grandsons took a liking to ponchos. He has one that I made but it got me looking up patterns for Mexican type ponchos or serrapis not sure if that is spelled right. There are some pretty cool ones out there. So far though I have not found any free patterns for them so the search goes on when I have free time to just do things like look up stuff.
These very ugly chickens we have been given have started getting their feathers back and are starting to resemble chickens. Out of the ten of them I am now gathering eight eggs per day! Hallelujah!
When the weather dries I can get back to picking wild herbs and drying them. I have lots of raspberry leaves dried and we have lots of wild spearmint grow
ing along the river banks. It is way too early for rosehips. Many other plants and tree barks etc can be picked and dried and some used for everyday use and some for medicinal uses. I never ever use a micro wave to dry my herbs,roots or bark. Just air dry. Some roots can be dried in a very low oven or hung over the wood cookstove or wood heater and they will dry nicely that way.
It would be nice very nice in fact to have time to get to my sewing. I have way way more ideas and plans than I can ever manage to find time for. What´s a gal to do...
I think I will go make french toast for breakfast. I want so bad to make bread pudding but do not have enough milk for such an undertaking. Maybe in a couple weeks.
There are many plans in a man´s heart,
Nevertheless the LORD´s counsel that will stand.
Proverbs 19 verse 21
Lots of plans in this girl´s heart this morning
Have a great day and may some of your plans
come to fruition.
Roxanne
I woke up to the hum of mosquitoes clinging thickly to our bedroom window screen. And I was very thankful for our bedroom window screen!
I thought I heard cows bellowing but maybe it was just a nightmare! I hope so ~~not being able to see any cows anywhere is good. I really do NOT feel like moving cows today.I have these plans and they do not include cows.
Saturday found us helping Larry. A fly fisherman that helps the fishing guide out here. Larry is a local man and some day I will tell you more about Larry but right now we will go back to the story of helping Larry move the fishing camp. ~~Above the ranch here the Baezaeko River (and yes that IS how it is spelled) runs into the Blackwater River. The fishermen on this fishing trip had their camp across the river from where the two rivers meet. A lovely wilderness spot in a small clearing right on the river bank. Now to get to this lovely spot MOST people take a quad or a horse in. There is a trail that is a kind of quad road. You have to drive up the steep hill that is beside us about 1 mile and then turn into the bush. So that is what we do. Larry wanted us to bring the dogs but we just brought Nellie dog. She trustfully jumps in the back of the truck and off we go on our Safari trip. No guns just a fly fishing rod, a shovel, and an ax. Up the steep hill into the bush and onto the "road". Thankfully someone had gone through and using a power saw had cut their way through the blowdown. And there is a lot of blowdown. We are in Larry's 4x4 pickup. Not reccommended for the faint of heart. Over the stumps, boulders, leaning sideways in the truck as we go sideways down a "hill" more like a ravine.Squeeze through trees that are close together. If paint jobs mean anything to you I would suggest you wouldn't want to do this. Over bumps and through holes up the other side. Can you see the road Larry asks Dennis as we top another steep hill and have to wind through some trees but the trees are tight together and fitting the truck through them will be a challenge. The road in the meantime has disappeared from view and from under us as it is steep up and turn the corner(?) and down again just in a quick turn. Dennis is looking out his window, Nellie is in the back sniffing the air. I am cramped into the back seat with a spare tire behind Dennis whose seat will not stay forward so it is squashing my legs. Its okay Larry if you go a couple feet to the left the truck will be back on the ground so taking the "upper" trail through those trees we go and so on. Meanwhile I am thinking this is what Dennis and I did or rather Dennis did and I was with him and whatever other buddies were along with him back when we were teenagers. I am also thinking of our sons who would love this "challenge". I say to Dennis and Larry that maybe all new drivers ought to learn to drive on this road first. They nod YUP! We make it in all of us greatful that it had not been raining lately as I doubt we would have gotten in actually we wouldn't have gotten in. Larry backs up to the camp gear. I am watching and spy some wires hanging down under the truck and wondering if they will be okay going back down. So I ask Larry if those wires by the back wheels are going to be okay?? Wires what wires he asks me. Just those ones by the back tires Larry. He looks at me and crawls down to look. OOPS those wires are the brake lines and they are now broken. Dennis tells Larry to check the emergency brake Yup have some of that and one brake at least that is grabbing. We load up the gear. Larry had thrown in his line and caught a pretty little rainbow trout. It comes along with us. The gear fills the back of the truck and Nellie can fit in behind it. The pretty little camping spot that is set up for whoever wants to use it either for fishing camp or hunting camp is soon left behind as we head back down to the ranch. The trip down is done in 4low and with the use of the emergency brake and fancy driving techniques we find ourselves back at the ranch where Dennis plugs off the brake line with a nail. (one of his favourite tricks) Then down through the hay-meadow to the cow trail that leads to the beach where the Nazko runs into the Blackwater. The fishermen will float and fish all the way down the Blackwater and find their camping gear there on the sweetest little sandy beach. A wonderful swimming hole. I can hardly wait for some hot weather and free time to go swimming oh and fishing too. There is a huge eagles nest in one of the ancient cottonwood trees with eagle droppings all over the bushes we have to walk through carrying the gear. It is like a jungle going through there. But I did find quite a few wild gooseberry bushes and they are starting to ripen so here's hoping there will be enough to do something with. The camp gear did all get down to the beach and Larry tried fishing some more while we gathered up a five gallon bucket full of fresh water mussel shells to 
crush up for the chickens. I waded for awhile and Dennis sat on the beach in the sun and sand. Larry fished out three suckers and the eagle circled over head that is low overhead wanting those three suckers but not sure what to make of the three humans. We came back up to the house for coffee and Larry drove himself home. Another one of those laid back Saturday mornings over with and time to get back to work.
The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD,
Searching all the inner depths of his heart.
Proverbs 20:27
Off to feed chickens
God Bless you with a great day!
Roxanne
Cats are chasing each other around and the sun is shining and the dust from the logging trucks is drifting across our fields. Kind of throws a monkey wrench into the pristine picture. But no cows hanging around the fence or on the road making the logging trucks gear down and bump their way down the road trying not to hit a herd of the silly things.
Dennis and I and two of the dogs took that herd of 18 cows and calves for a walk back out to the range area where they are suppose to be. Here is hoping they stay there for awhile. It is not the safest thing in the world trying to herd them up a steep hill that has narrow corners on it and logging trucks coming and going. We made it off the road and onto the trail just as a truck came. PTL we were not on the road still. The dogs did such a good job too. That is always exciting and encouraging. Blueberry is two and Sassy is not even a year old yet. They listen good and will come back. Now to get them to come back when chasing squirrels!
We are off today to work on our pastors house. Have a lunch to pack and supper to put together so we can come home to it. Love slow cookers!
Our garden is getting planted and close to done. A few more hours and we should have it licked for sure. Plants are coming up in what is planted and the weeding needs to be done now. I refuse to weed this garden until it is all planted. I am hoping and praying that this evening I can get another row or two in.
Managed to get quite a bit done yesterday even with the hike out with the cows. We need to have some time to do fishing. Maybe in a couple weeks. We have to finish painting this house for the pastor and family and get some more fencing done then just maybe we can take a little time out to fish. Besides that we n
eed to buy fishing licenses.
Better go
And he saith unto them,
Follow me and I will make
you fishers of men.
Matthew 4:19
Have a happy day
Roxanne
There has been frost for quite a few mornings in a row now. Many friends have lost parts of their gardens to it. Mine thankfully isn't coming up enough to worry about and the cabbage family that is up is pretty hardy so not to worry about. Everything in my greenhouse is doing great with out the wood heater burning in it. I did have one pepper plant that was under plastic outside that got the top somewhat frost bit as there was a hole in the plastic at that point.
Clouds are moving in now this morning after a pretty dawn. Seems to be the way lately.
I do not have much time to write on here this morning so want to throw this out to those of you who are out there and read this.
We have had a black fox here and no it is NOT a cross fox. This little fox is black black with a white tip on its tail. I thought at first it was my Nellie dog but seeing as she was sleeping on the porch guess it is not. A friend down the road was here visiting a couple days ago and out of the blue he said yeah ---- saw a black fox the other day. Not a cross fox a black fox. So I told him of the one I saw. Now I am trying to find out about black foxes. Will have to look them up on google or something. Havent had much time for that. But am certainly interested in info just out of curiosity if anyone out there does know more about them. I have never seen one before! Isn't life interesting?
Anyways I must be going as we have to meet our daughter with her belongings at one of our son's homes so she
can get her treasures organized for her transfer to an isolated area in northern BC. Have a great Canada Day!
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do,
do it with they might...
Ecclesiastes 9:10
God's Blessings be upon you
Roxanne
My last post was titled Frosty Friday Morning I do believe ~well this morning's frost has that one all beat~~The frost lies white and sparkling on the grasses, on the glass, on the vehicles, on the fences. By golly it lies everywhere! You do not have to go out and check it out to make sure it is real. Believe me IT IS REAL!!
The sun is gloriously shining and bit by bit it is warming up the landscape. Mist is rising off of the river.The hay-meadow is sparkling. It is a very pretty morning. Kind of an understatement but this morning I am just in awe of the beauty that surrounds us. Words sometimes seem to demean that beauty.
Our grandchildren are gone home now and as I find a pair of socks here and little girls underwear there and a squirrel hide take to the stretching board I can only smile. They were so much fun. Sad that my camera batteries died as we started to do a ranch photo take. Was really hoping there were more batteries and can not find my rechargeable ones. Now to find a way to post these ones we took. The older boys took their b.b. guns and went on a rat patrol for us. No luck finding rats (thank goodness) but they found a very unfortunate squirrel. Granpa helped with the skinning. First off making a stretching board for it. It will be a lovely little fur when it is all done. All in all the baby of the family slept well and no screaming, howling baby or children (well except for a few minutes when one of the boys got his hand caught in the door of the suburban) Poor little guy! It is okay though PTL! Prayerfully next time they come it won't be so rainy!
Today I am planning on doing home things and really praying that it stays clear and can get to some more planting of our garden. Would be nice to get that finished before winter sets in. LOL!
If ye then be risen with Christ,
seek those thing which are above,
where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God.
Colossians 3:1
Looking forward to the day
In Christ
Roxanne
~~anything that isn't mending is FUN! Still plugging away at yet more crocheting projects and wanting to knit. I really need to learn how to work in my sleep or maybe I should just give up SLEEP You could get so much done if you didn't "waste" time in bed sleeping.
