My chickens are molting. I went out into the chicken house this morning and thought there had been a massacre. Feathers everywhere. My poor chooks look like someone has plucked them for dinner. I think they are a little embarrassed. They also are not laying very well right now as we are only getting one egg a day. I tell them they need to get busy and start laying again because we are coming into the baking season!
David got a pointy egg the other day. It barely fit in the egg carton. I wonder who is the one laying the one lone egg every day. All the other chickens do all day is eat and poop which is nice work if you can get it, I guess.
We had another tree cut down the other day. A big elm that had to have been sixty or seventy years old. It was beginning to drop branches in the driveway every time there was a storm or wind. We were thinking it might be dangerous as it was so near to the house. So several men came and cut it down.
It has stood over our house for many years, but now it was becoming dangerous, dropping branches and we feared a good stiff wind might blow it onto the house so we called the tree men.
We have had the same people cut down a few of our trees. Up the bucket went into the tree and the cutting began.
The men worked with precision, dropping the big limbs carefully down where they cut some up for us and mulched the rest.
David did not want to split the big logs, so they loaded them onto their truck. They rolled them onto that lift and it lifted them up into the truck bed.
It took three men to roll them onto the lift.
The man in the sun glasses did all the cutting off of the limbs. He sure knew what he was doing.
They still left a lot of wood to be cut and split. David has been working on this pile for a few days. We have wood stacked everywhere. Wood we will burn in our fire pit. We love to burn fires and sit out in the fresh air and talk. Wish you could smell the wood. There is something about the scent of fresh cut wood that reminds me of days in the woods. Years ago, we had an old red truck and three children at home and we would load them up and go to Camp Atterbury where we had permission to cut up downed timber. We would spend the day in the woods, David cutting it and me helping him load it into the truck while the children played. Then we would all sit in the cab of the truck, five of us(there were no seat belt laws then) and took our load of wood home where we would once again have to unload it and stack it. They say cutting wood warms you three times, when you cut it, when you stack it and when you burn it. It’s true.
Fall is the only time when I feel like making donuts. I decided to make a bunch of donut holes the other day. David fried them while I rolled them out and cut them. Then I shook some of them in a bag with sugar and cinnamon and glazed the rest with icing. Yum, were they good. We took some to Sunday school to share with our classes.
We had the most glorious sunset the other night. I was sitting in our living room and noticed the sky looked yellow. So I took my camera out back and snapped some pictures.
Loved the way the trees were silhouetted against the sky.
How majestic is a God who can create such beauty. I could not stop looking at the sky. I always feel so close to God when I see something so spectacular in nature. The sky looked like it was on fire. These pictures still make me feel awed.
Had a fire in the fireplace tonight. Doesn’t it look pretty? Would you believe this is an electric fire? No wood involved? We got this at Lowes tonight and I am thrilled how realistic this looks and it has a heater too. We don’t burn wood in our fireplace any longer. We use to have a wood burning stove in it and burnt wood all the time. One year, when I was baby sitting several children, I felt our chimney(it runs straight up the middle of the house) and it felt really hot. So I gathered all the children together and called the fire department. I told him I thought we were having a chimney fire, but it wasn’t an emergency and please don’t use the sirens when coming to our house. Well, several fire trucks showed up at our house, sirens blaring. Big firemen in big boots with axes in their hands came into our house. The next thing I knew they were chopping a hole in a wall and climbing through the ceiling to our attic and going on the roof. I was so afraid they were going to chop a hole in the roof, but they didn’t. All the while, the little children were watching the firemen bug eyed and I couldn’t help but laugh. They said there had been a fire, but it was out and we had nothing to worry about. Except for that big hole in our wall! Thankfully, insurance took care of that. Therefore, we don’t burn wood anymore in the house.
Now I will leave you with a picture of our cowgirl dog.
Belle does not look at all happy to be wearing this hat. We got it in Texas. I think she looks cute.
“Me, too, Mom, me too!” “Yes, Molly, you, too” Bye.