Little Creatures :)

To beast and bird His goodness
Their daily food supplies;
He cares for all His creatures,
Attentive to their cries...

...Then praise thy God, O Zion,
His gracious aid confess;
He gives thee peace and plenty,
His gifts thy children bless...

...For matchless grace and mercy
Your grateful praises bring;
To Him give thanks forever,
And Hallelujah sing!

(Psalm 147)

Puppies!!!

Yup - Lady gave birth to seven puppies on Friday! (Well eight, but one died.)
Lady is a golden retriever and the father (who lives down the road) is a huskey-german shepherd. As you can see, they all look much more like their father than their mother.
They are very tiny but pudgy :) I'll post more pictures when they open their eyes (in a week or so.)

Christ is risen, burst His prison

Let us hymns of trimph sing

For our sadness turn to gladdness

Death today has lost it's sting.

Praises sing we, thanks we bring Thee,

Christ who took our sins away.

We inherit on Thy merit,

Righteousness and life today.

Let our living be thanksgiving

For what God in Christ has done.

Bow before Him and adore Him

Jesus Christ God's only Son.

Christ all glorious and victorious,

Is in heaven there to reign

He's been given earth and heaven,

All creation's His domain.

At the dawning of the morning

He'll return from heaven on high

Christ desending, we ascending,

Meet eachother in the sky.

Alleluia, Alleuia! Soli Deo Gloria!

Alleluia, Alleuia! Soli Deo Gloria!

Who am I that God should love me
And be punished in my stead?
How could the Great Creator
By the created be led
Up a rugged hill so lonely
To that cross of calvary
And accept that brutal hatred
Just to set a sinner free?

Oh the love that flowed so freely
Was a bright and crimson red;
And it held the life of Jesus
And of those who gibly said,
"Come on down and we'll believe you!"
After nails had peirced His hands;
And it also held provision for
His peoples in every land!

Like a speck of minute dust upon
The microsope of space is my life
A mere reflection
Is my influence and place;
Yet I wonder, oh I wonder!
At the gift he gave so high;
And I pledge my deep devotion
As I question," Who am I?"
Joan Clifton Costner

Welcoming Johnny to the blog world :)

http://www.mygloryallthecross.blogspot.com/




By the way, happy leap year day to everyone! Enjoy it, cause it won't come again for another 4 years!

Goat pictures and stuff :)

We now have more than 40 little kiddies! Some times, if it's tooo cold for the new borns in the shop barn, we take them in the house for the first night. They sleep in baskets on the floor.The nubers on the tag represent the number of bottle feedings it's had.My cousin Aaron thought they were pretty cute :) Below is Andrew, playing swatt (the animal game) with the Young People when they were over last week.

The back pond has frozen again, much to our delight!





Benji is licking off the mixer beater for me :)
That's all for now...Enjoy the pictures everybody!

A new Arrival!!!

The first little kid was born this morning! It's a boy! Isn't he cute?

Long legs for such a little creature :)Sort of wobbly.

Benjamin is thrilled :)

Drinking form his mother...

Barn Pictures

I haven't posted on here in ages...time for an update! We are making lots of progress with the barn work. Today we were able to move most of the goats into the main barn. The move was very successful and the goats love their new home! I took some pictures today and I also added a few from the last couple of weeks.
I should include here that we got the last group of doelings preg-checked last week, and we found out that all but four (125) of them are pregnant! That is a lot more than we expected. There are quite a few sets of twins coming, and one set of triplets! (Multiples are common with goats). The kidding begins around the middle of next month, and will continue for the rest of the winter and spring, if all goes well.
Here is the hard working crew having their lunch break. (L-R) Darryl, Richard, Rebecca, Paddy, Dad, Terry, Ken & Jeremy.

Our new milk tank (below) The goats in their new pen, happily eating.

The back of our barn.
The pen where the goats are, before they moved in.

Mom, Dad, Becca, and John are bedding it down with straw for the goats.
These pictures are a bit older. This one was taken on Dec. 29 when we were busy installing the parlor.Our 4-wheeler gets a lot of use when there is snow. The kidds built some wooden sleds which pull very nicely behind the 4-wheeler. They got the pattern from some Amish children who used theirs behind a pony. Couldn't resist posting this pic of the neighbors new puppy... :)