But Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stopping and looking in, he saw the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home wondering at what had happened.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Winter Driving Conditions
She works at a nursing home. Even if it's Christmas, and even if there's a blizzard raging, some folks still can't hold their own forks, or pull themselves out of their wheelchairs and into bed, or cope with other necessary daily matters that you and I don't think twice about.
The blizzard meant that lots of other employees-----people who don't own tractors and four-wheel drive trucks----couldn't get to work without spending time in a ditch first. That made Erica's presence and skill set even more valuable.
We wouldn't have made it without John blading a path in front of us. Sometimes it's really nice to be married to a farmer.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Old Time Farming
What else would we do when we're snowed in and it's 10 degrees out, but go for a little horsey ride? After all, the cows needed hay. John could have used a tractor to deliver it, but this was more fun.
Cows and calves are thrifty. They wander through our cornfields all winter after we have removed the grain. They forage, thriving on spilled corn and ears that the combine missed, along with the husks and leaves that we leave in the field.
But when everything's covered with snow, they appreciate a little supplemental feed. So we haul hay.
Kandy, on John's right, is starting to tire of posing for the photographer. She starts doing a little chicken dance to say it's time to go home. Jess is telling her to just settle down.
Eskimo Joe might be ready to go home, too.
We decided to pull into the shed for unharnessing. Outside, you could hardly see for the blowing snow.
Inside, you could hardly see for the rising steam.
Kind of puts the romance back into old time farming, wouldn't you say?
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Winter Colors
Color outside.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tourist Attractions
Kinda sad, isn't it? But what did you expect? I mean, after all, this is Nebraska.
Some tourist attractions are not more powerful the more you think about them.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Today's Fourteen
1. Jubilee
2. Katie
6. Rachel
8. Susie
9. Sarah 10. Hannah 11. Sarah Beth
12. Elizabeth
I'm also thankful for two great boys who stayed at my house. Two great boys surrounded by fourteen girls; two great boys wanting to press forward in the Kingdom of God.
15. Caleb 16. Joshua
Monday, November 30, 2009
thanks giving
Thankful for a reason to mash three huge bowls full of potatoes.
Thankful for enough self-discipline to refrain from sampling every one of the eleven pies.
Little Pilgrim and his wife didn't have enough self discipline, and look what happened to their waistlines!
Thankful for the blessing of daughters who surprise me with a spotless kitchen when I've left it a pretty big mess.
Thankful for twenty-six Thanksgivings with the same man. Well, actually twenty-eight, if you count the two in Texas before we were married, where he cheerfully met and made conversation with my mother's entire family tree, and then penciled in all the generations and marriages and names of descendants on the back of a grocery sack, just to keep them all straight. Thankful for a grocery sack full of relations and for a man who thought it was fun to map them out.
Lord God, I am so thankful.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Who Needs Caffeine?
I've been keeping a jug of water with some citrus slices in the fridge. Sometimes I set it out on the counter for a while, and then pour a glass for a little pick-me-up. Sometimes God has his own ways of making sure I'm alert.
I'm awake! I'm awake!