weekly update

Battling Rain

Tom took a week of vacation during muzzle loading season to get some deer hunting done and ended up getting some work done around the property too. It was very nice to have some help around here, though I believe he was ready to get back to his job so he didn’t have to work […]

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An Emotional Wreck

This definitely been a period of emotional ups and downs and I am not a good candidate to handle them well. Every morning, after reading my devotional for the day, I record several things. I go through my calendars for the next week, making changes as schedules change. I record my weight and the physical

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Staying Tough

The summer heat is on. We have had a few days of milder weather, but generally, the temperatures have been in the the mid to upper nineties with a heat index as high as 124 degrees. I try to get the chores done in the morning before the heat sets in for the day. Evening

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Kind of a Sad Week

The past couple of days have actually been nice, weather wise and I am grateful. The sweltering heat and humidity gave way to a nice rain storm and several days of high temperatures in the eighties with a little more rain forecasted later this weekend. On Monday, Tom and I loaded up Yoda onto a

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Summer Celebrations

Between days of extreme temperatures of 100 degrees with a heat index of 125, we have also had some intense bouts of rain. Welcome to Oklahoma. A few days after my Cornish cross chicks arrived, a huge storm blew through, blowing four inches of rain sideways into the chicken tractor in the early morning hours.

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And Then It Stopped

We knew it would happen. It happens almost every year. Day after day of spring rain, thunderstorms, tornadoes, and occasionally, flooding. Then the rain stops, and it gets hot, very quickly. It had been too dry previously for much flooding, but everything else went as it always does. Now, it’s hot and dry. The mud

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