Twin Baby Goats!!

Last Friday I had accompanied Amber and the children to their homeschool co-op class day.  It begins around 10am and ends around 3pm depending on which classes you are enrolled.  Amber has been watching mama goat Anna for a week or so thinking that a birth was imminent.  Nothing was happening.  The old saying a watch pot never boils seems appropriate :-) When we arrived home on Friday Amber noticed some extra movement in the special birthing pen.  Twins had been born moments before our arrival home.  These little twin bucks are sooooo cute and their coloring just adds to their beauty. Their father was called Black Jack.  What a wondrous thing are babies of all kinds.  Thankful to God for His work of Creation for us to marvel at and enjoy.  Haven't heard of any names as yet.

My granddaughter Rose is holding one of the twins.

A New Purchase since our move

We are now in Virginia and looking to develop some property we have owned for several years now.  Our plan is to use a travel trailer as a headquarters and place to stay until we have other living quarters ready.  We purchased this trailer from an individual.  A 1994 Mallard 24 foot.  It has a nice floor plan.  Now we must get it cleaned up and some things moved in.  Also need to down size some more.  This could take a while.  It is hard to get rid of stuff you have had for years especially if you like it.  Is the stuff really necessary?  Do I use it? How is it important to me? Is there a good reason to keep it?  I came from a family that never threw anything away.  I am not that bad but I do have some things that I need to think about.  One person I read about said it took them 2 years to down size sufficiently to live in a smaller space.  I don't want to take that long.  Anyway here are the pics of the trailer as it is being delivered by the previous owner.  He was gracious to do this since we did not have a proper vehicle to do so ourselves.  We would have probably had to rent something.

Sword Play 2 with Big Bro Gavin

Sword Play

Thad just loves the sword play and we cracked up at his wanting to sheath this very long sword.

Visit from the VA Sullys

Next weekend we look forward to a visit from our son and his family from Virginia.  It is always great to have them in our home and spend time together.  They have a full schedule planned.  The cousins love spending time together.  It sounds like there will be a boy cousin sleepover at one home and a girl cousin sleepover occurring at the same time at another home.  What fun!!  We will have a family reunion on Saturday.  It is wonderful for us all to be together.  We pray for traveling mercies for Tom and Amber and children.

Our new used car

This is the new/used vehicle we purchased a week or two ago.  It is a 2005 Mitzubishi, Lancer ES 4 dr sedan.  We got it for a good price and had all the maintenance issues taken care of i.e. timing belt(included water pump and other belts) , transmission flush, corroded battery connectors, and a tune up.  Oh yes,  add in there a co2 senser, not included in the estimate :-(

All in all we are happy with our purchase.  I think it is funny that when we looked at it my hubby didn't even drive it because he was unsure about purchasing this small of a car.  So he said to me who will be driving this? and I said I will.  He seemed satisfied with the answer until after he drove it a couple of times..... it seems he has logged more miles on it than I have.  Soooo we jokingly fight over who will drive it each day.  It is fun to do drive and it looks pretty nice as well.

A day off

It was wonderful today to have the day off from my employment at the shoe repair shop.  I was able to accomplish all of the laundry, vaccuming, tidying up most areas of the house, made the bed, spot mopped the linoleum/floor covering....only the dishes remain.  I have them under control but need to finish them.  It is late enough tonight that I may finish them in the morning.  I will be off tomorrow until 1pm and then Thursday half a day as well. 

The weather was very cool this morning around 50's and got up to the low 80's and then cooled down again.  It was a beautiful day!!!God is gracious and merciful in allowing me to be experiencing a measure of good health today after an exceedingly difficult weekend of excessive fatigue.  Thank you Lord!!