My what a beautiful day the lord has blessed us with. skys so blue, the morning so cool. the mocking bird is out there having a grand time of it, trying out all his new songs.
 I would like to help along and sing, "This is the day the Lord has made,Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
but you see my little girlies are all sleeping yet, so I need to be quite,so I can finish this first.
I have a load of dresses, in the wash machine washing,
It made me think back to when I was growing up as a girl from ages 2-10 First thing in the morning Mom would fill a big iron kettle with water, build a fire underneath it, to bring it to a boil.then she went out to help milk our 15 cows by hand, and put the milk ,in milk cans, to cool off in a big water though, which was built into the milk house floor, just for this purpose.
by time chores was done the water was boiling.(if the fire did'nt die out on us.)then Mom dipped it out and filled the wringer washer( which was run by a gas moter that sometime refused to strart for her so she always liked to have a early start, while Dad was around, incase she needed his help to get it running.) now she was finally ready to get started, it normaly took about 3hr. to do all the laundry and get it all hung out on the lines. Monday was always wash day. and she was very happy if she got the laundry all washed folded and ironed in one day, but with a family of 8 children. she sure had to keep at it.But if all 3 of us girl did our part it sure made it go fast. May God bless my dear Mom for all she has done for us. 

Family campfire

Good Morning

thought I'll share some family fun.here are all the children sitting on the picnic table enjoying the sight of a camp fire.was a evening of singing , and for supper it was lemonade,popcorn, grilled chicken & potatoe wedges.

according to the date on this picture it was exacly a year before we moved over here.

Which makes me wonder what we'll be doing a year from now.

The sun is shining so brightly this morming and every thing looks fresh and clear

My three men have all gone out logging early this morning,

Last week I got the oppertunity to go down in the woods where they are working,and saw how hard my Dear husband has to work and had me thinking hard , how I can make it easier for him.did talk to him about it, and he say oh never mind it, the best thing for a man is a happy wife and an a clean and cool house to rest up in,I said what about a great big supper?

He says nope keep it simple please,because I'm to hot and tired for a lot.

So how about that,very simple to be a helpmeet.

And yes things seem to be going better in the logging business,He got his truck fixed up last week.Thanks for your prayers everyone but don't quit.

More happenings

May 17, it was still to muddy to do any logging so the men took Dewayne Yoders flat bed trailer home that he so kindly had let us use to move down here to Seymour Mo. and refused to take any pay for the usa of it.Bless his heart.
Honey buns passed a dealers place on the way home and stoped in to see what he has to say about this truck part being on backorder for so long. and he said thers no reason for it and he could do it tomorow in one hours time, if he can bring it in then, so he did,and they took it right in and checked it all out took thing apart and there they had to stop and wait on the insurance company to give them the go ahead, but thankfully they gave Honey buns a rental truck to come home with, took two days for them to fix it.
So finaly May 20,the truck came back home ready to go. OR so we thought, but the auto body shop guy called and said as he went over the paper work and what not he sees that also need to put in a new drive shaft as it looks bad , bring it in on Monday, so away we go again but this time they were able to get right with it. by now we are wondering will we ever get back on our feet .But by the 27th he had four load taken in to the mill,
 And then it Happened , his chain saw got wedged in so tight he could'nt get it out and the tree twisted,and he saw he'd better get himself out of the way or it'll crash down on him so he left the chain saw and got himself out of the way.and the tree came crashing down right on top of the chain saw.but who cares about a broken chain saw as long as Daddy is ok. now he had to go buy another one and there goes most of his long awaited pay check. groan!
But thankfully the next day, which was Friday, they had a load of stave logs to take to a diff. mill where they pay very well on exported lumber.he was very pleased with his big pay check and called home to tell me about it.SMILES things look good again.Thank you Lord things were taken care of just in time. why do we worry so?
And then it happened again, but more nerve wrecking then ever Sonny boy was skidding logs and all of a sudden the tractor started rolling backwards down the hill, and he could'nt think fast enough,and smashed in only one brake instead of both. which caused the tractor to do some strange things, Honey buns was just sure the thing is going to roll over and then Ker-Bang whammed right into the truck ,scotted the truck about a whole foot, and our oldest son was on the other side of the truck looking in the windows to see why the dome light are still on. all of a sudden he heard a scream and a bang and he went flying backwards a foot in the air and sat down hard.the impact was so great.
They were all in a shaking condition by now. with huge eyes, and dropped jaws. can you imagin seeing such a fright
Honey buns calls home, and say well we just had another accident. after I hear all about it I'm wondering is everybody ok? yes, nobodys hurt we are fine I just have to see if I can drive the truck yet.
I said, oh! please won't you just all come home?
Yes, we are planning to, so they all came home, once again we took the truck to the body shop.
OH, THANK YOU LORD FOR PROTECTING MY BOYS.

Bits and pieces

I'll try my hand on my first blog . Is mostly for my own fun, so for those of you who will read this, its going to be sorta like a diary for me,on every day happenings around here . Also there may be days of reminising on here. we have three lively boys and five sweet girls. so theres plenty for everyone to do around here . Honey buns took over his youngest Bro. logging buisness and had so many small mishappening I think I need to record it. someday it may look funny even if not right now.He got it on May,1,2010 first time ever to be his own boss.at age 36 and being married sixteen years.
Always before he worked for someone else,if they had break downs so what.
Now it looks different. even rainy season can become rather long if you really need the income.
May 6, was his first day at work because his truck ended up in the shop. as it didn't shift right, hauling a big load of logs. Thay had to put in a new censer and thought they also need a new govener. which reminds me of a funny thing 8 year old Pearl said, what is wrong with Obama,that they will need a new govener? we said nothings wrong with him. where do you get that idea? he says,well you said, they are trying to get a new govener and can't get him till next week. Here we are talking about truck goveners and he thinks about Presidents and goveners. Pearl says, well! why would you call a truck part a govener? May 7 -11 it rained May12, we moved was the only day of that week it did not rain what a blessing that was .then it rained again May13-15