Hot weekend, new arrivals, how many more?

That was a very hot weekend. The hottest so far this year. Mama took a picture of the thermometer on the Sequoia as we traveled home from Decatur after dropping off our Chinese girls at their Grandma’s house. The reading – as seen – was 108° F. Trace and his family were at Lake Bridgeport that afternoon for a boat parade supporting President Trump. He said the temperature there was 112° F. I am glad Mama and I skipped the event. It was too hot to do too much outside in the afternoon, but Mama and I did manage to clean the coops that morning. The chore took us about an hour – maybe a little more – but it was way past due. Once that was completed, both of us had to change to dry clothing and rest a bit before we did anything else even though the morning temperature was about 82°. I did not tackle much else that day other than to work on a corner of the garage which had become cluttered with a huge number of boxes. I flattened and bound the thirty-five boxes of various sizes from online orders and took that pile and three bags of trash to the dump. 

The dogs were obviously stressed out Saturday. I have always been amused by our expression “a dog’s life” as an expression of degrading someone. Our dogs have a very good life. Mama and Victoria see to that.

When Mama and I were doing the evening feeding I could tell that Aspen was very close to delivering her kids. She did not get up to eat when I brought the feed out. That is highly unusual. She is almost always the first one at the feeder. By the time I checked on her late Saturday night, she had bedded herself down in a corner of the barn and was in obvious labor. Sunday morning, Mama and I got to introduce ourselves to her triplets. One male and two females. The coloring on the three is exceptional. Gray, white and tan. They will be easily sold – unless Mama decides to keep one. We are going to register the three and begin advertising them in the next couple weeks. We have to see how well Aspen does nursing the three before we make too much of an effort to market them, but we are very hopeful. We still have two nanny goats due to kid in the next couple weeks so there will be other babies to choose from as we manage our little herd.

Yesterday was great. Our pastor was back from a self-imposed quarantine. He had helped an elderly relative out and was told the next day that that person had the COVID bug. Like 99.7% of the people exposed to the virus it came to nothing. In fact, there are numerous articles coming out in the Liberal media reporting that the testing for COVID has been handled wrong from the beginning. More than 90% of those reported as positive should not have been counted as positive because of the extremely low concentration of the virus in their system. Additionally, the CDC produced the compiled numbers of those who died in the United States from the virus infection alone – 6,900 of the reported 181,000. The other deaths were related to the two or three underlying conditions the deceased patients had prior to catching the virus. As the truth slowly comes out, it will be interesting to see how those who have weaponized the virus against those of us who have already understood the lie of the lethality of the virus find a way to pretend they were on our side all along – as they ruined our economy and put us in bondage to ineffective Personal Protective Equipment just to test our compliance. This will soon be over, but the die hards will try to carry on in their quest to force our compliance. Power is a hard thing to let go of.

Savanna asked her mommy yesterday how many churches they had to go to before they came to Grammy’s farm? She was ecstatic that it may only be one more – Wednesday night. They will be traveling over Thursday. I am assuming they will make the drive in one day. It is about twelve hours total driving time allowing for stops and meals as needed. They will be with us a little over a week then heading to Victoria for a mission’s conference at Western Hills. Mama may go with them on that run south since they will be coming back to the farm the Thursday of that week. I have three classes to teach that week so there is no way I can get loose to go as well, but I am encouraging Mama to go if they can work it out. Even though Joshua and Alicia have moved to San Antonio, we have lot of church friends she can spend time with in Victoria.

Because of the very familiar people, t will be a fun trip for Nate, Cori and the kids, even if Mama does not go.  

I like this slide Victoria found: