He got his duck!

 

Finally, after many cold mornings of tromping around the irrigation ponds and ditches, he shot his first duck!

A Mallard hen who made us some incredible duck jerky…mmmmm….more duck please.

 

That was one happy young man.

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Emma reading a story to her little siste…chicken. Yes, folks, she was honestly reading a book to her chicken, The Speckledy Hen, no less. It even came packed in a crate with us to Thanksgiving dinner. <sigh>

 

 

Since I finally found my camera cord, we had fun with pictures today. I love the circle of heads and have had this *pose* with all my children for years on my cell phone. LOVE it.

Lyddybug is even getting in on the fun! She is such a ham. 

 

As I was taking the picture, I was thinking hokey pete that’s a lot of children! 

“Many hands make light work”

Patience is a Virtue

Jacob and Daddy are pulling in the driveway as I type.  Jacob’s face is happy, but not thrilled, so I know there is yet again, no duck in hand.  He took the hunter safety course and passed with flying colors. He bought his ammo, practiced, dressed in everything camo he could find only to spend many walks(with Daddy) around the irrigation ponds to either flush ducks, shoot and miss or find no ducks. Today he flushed up 5 at once, shot and missed….again. It was hard. He prays to the Lord of Creation and knows in His time he will provided the ducks and the kill. It’s still hard(for mamma) watching him come home every night or morning empty handed. It will be a sweet, sweet day when the Lord decides it is time to make the shot and the duck connect. Praise the Lord for teaching my children patience and contentment through His gentle lessons.

“…more than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.” Romans 5:3-5

Spring is coming!

O.k., so it is, yet again, a little too early to speak these words out loud…but we dreamed about it yesterday.

Jacob went out to milk yesterday morning and when he got in I asked him if he had watched the goat for 2m. This is something the children have had to do after milking the last few days to catch Junie in heat. For 12 hours, once every three weeks, she wags her tail like a puppy. We watch her like a hawk. Anyhow, he had not remembered and so he put his coat back on and out he ran. Within seconds he came a’running in the house with two thumbs up. I, then, had to emerge from my toasty warm house to double check. The boys loaded her up in the back of my van and off we raced to visit the G’s buck.

We now have a due date of April 2 and the anticipating is building already!

Guinea Pig

Oreo needs to move on down the road. Anyone interested in a guinea pig? He comes with cage, bedding, food…everything. He’s friendly, will eat all your veggie scraps and is quiet. We are asking $20 for the whole works.