A summary of the last few weeks.

Our CO vacation started on a Monday afternoon. We drove to southern Iowa, picked up the stuff we were hauling west for a friend. Stayed at my folks place Monday night. Left bright and early 6:08 AM headed west. Stopped several times going across that wasteland which is Nebraska so that the driver could stretch his legs and the rest of the crew didn't kill each other.

When we got into CO we took 71 south to Limon, drove through a thunderstorm with some light hail, and then took 24 on the angle into CO Springs. Arrived at the friends home around 7:00 had a bite of supper and were done unloading about 24 hours after we loaded the stuff in Iowa.

Stayed at a very nice hotel courtesy of my brother who works for one of the major hotel chains. He got us a very nice room for about 40 dollars, regularly $120? Did lots of touristy stuff on Wednesday, and Thursday, drove up Pike's Peak on Thursday. Did not enjoy that experience. I'm a flat lander folks. When I look out of the truck and can't see anything but blue sky beside, below and above me, I get just a little shaky in my boots. My kids were laughing at me. They've seen me drive in a blizzard with one hand on the steering wheel and a MT. Dew in the other. I was steering with both hands and white knuckles on Pike's Peak.

After we survived that experience, WB a friend I've met through some of the blogs I frequent, invited us to his home for buffalo burgers. We had some home raised hamburgers so we gave them to him to try. We throughly enjoyed the evening.He and his lovely wife were very gracious hosts. The view of the mountains from their deck is gorgeous.

On Friday morning, we started back east. We meandered north and east somewhat cross country, winding up in Ogallala and camped at a county park below the damn at Lake McConaughy. Forgot to calculate the loss of one hour of time, and arriving at a cousins home right at noon. She was gracious enough to serve us lunch. We then drove across central Nebraska on a state hiway, instead of the interstate, since my brother lives north of the interstate, and going south to go north makes no sense to me, beside I hate traveling that stretch of interstate anyway. Arrived at my brothers house about 6:00 pm, in fact we stopped in a nearby town and brought the pizza with us, out to the farm.

Went to church with them on Sunday, got home about 7:00pm Sunday night.

Now, since arriving home the level of activity has actually increased.

On Monday morning at 5:00am we loaded two semi-loads of hogs, then hauled corn to the ethanol plant all week. On Friday I went in at 6:00 so that I could leave by 3:00. Our church was hosting the men's retreat at the camp we support. I got to the camp at 4:00 and helped cook 450 pork chops till 6:30, ate quickly, then got to the 7:00 service. The music was great, nothing like 450 guys singing "It is Well With MY Soul", sounded awesome. The speaker was an old friend who "quotes" Scripture. Although he calls it saying Scripture. It's is amazing. He says entire passages. I've heard him do the entire book of Revelation, straight up, 1:10 minutes worth.

I got home about 11:00pm, We loaded two more loads of hogs at 5:00am. Did the rest of my chores by 8:30. Hurried back to camp by 9:30 practiced with the pianist at 10:00, sang "His Eye is On the Sparrow" at 10:30 in front of about 300 guys, then went out to the grill and helped do 300 hamburgers and about 250 brats. As soon as lunch was over I hurried home, hooked the pickup up to a friends trailer, and went out hunting picnic tables. Got 9 of them back to my place, ran out to the main farm for chores, got back home at 5:15 to a yard full of homeschool families. Helped get the grill going for a cook your own meat evening meal. Went and took a very necessary shower because I smelled like hogs. And then fellowshipped with the fellow homeschoolers till they left.

Chores on Sunday morning, church with our speaker saying Scripture (Galatians), then a noon fellowship dinner followed by another session with him saying the book of Philippians.

Didn't sell hogs on Monday, but had a meeting about trying to stop the sodomy lobbys push of sodomy permission certificates in Iowa, got home late.

Skip to the end of the week, went in at 6:00 again, left about 3:30 drove about an hour and ten minutes away for a family reunion on my fathers side of the tree. The lovely Mrs. farmer had taken the truck, trailer, kids and a ton of stuff right after noon. She and I were in charge of not only the whole reunion, but six meals for about 50.

We served Mrs. farmer's killer chili and sandwiches for supper Friday night. Got up early and made Swedish pancakes, bacon (cooked ahead of time in the oven) and an egg bake casserole and plenty of fruit.

For the noon meal I cooked yard fowl (chicken breast) on the grill with garlic bread, with fresh garden vegetables and salad.

For Saturday night supper we had pork chops on the grill with my mother's famous potato salad, fresh corn on the cob, angel food cake, and home made ice cream with one of the cousins providing a special treat of Guarana (Antarctica) a Brazilian pop, for all the Brazilian transplants and missionaries.

Sunday morning my mother made some of her world renowned coffee cake.

And the piece de resistance for Sunday noon, two 16 lb chuck roasts, with baked potatoes.

In between the eating we had a great reunion, with someone from each branch of the family tree opening the Scripture for us, sweet fellowship and some very good special music by family members. I'm already being questioned about the next one.

We loaded hogs again at 5:00 on Wednesday. And I've been mowing every evening in my off hours getting ready for this weekend. Our annual church cook out, trap shoot and fellowship is tomorrow night.

Other than that, nothing new around here.

Long time no post.

As anyone who has been here lately knows, I've not posted since the first of July.

I could use the same old excuses, but, fact is I've just not taken the time to do something about it.

I have been doing lots of different things in the intervening time.

I finished reading "Meltdown by Thomas Woods, "A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse". A cogent and concise explanation of why we are in the financial mess we are in.

I've been participating in an on-line study of Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg editor at National Review. Each week we read a chapter of the book, then Vox Day at Vox Popoli has a ten question quiz over that weeks reading. I've done well, 10/10 and not so well 5/10 (read the wrong chapter) and average about 8/10 over the first 8 weeks. Goldberg traces the roots of communism, socialism, fascism and American progressive liberals back to the same basic tree of evil. I've developed an even greater dislike for Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt than I already had. And although Goldberg hasn't touched the subject so far, my disdain for Jorge the Younger Shrub has also grown. Near as I can tell he is basically a progressive liberal who dislikes abortion like Margaret Sanger did. Of course Sanger was also in favor of eliminating "human weeds" like black people as well, so I wouldn't say he's in real good company.

Today we spent most of the morning processing fresh sweet corn to put in the freezer. Shuck it, boil it, then cut the corn off using a "Lee's Corn Cutter and Creamer".






I we froze 35 bags of corn, each with 3 cups of corn in them. Ought to last for a while don't ya think. Might go good with chicken!




I spent the afternoon, prepping for our family vacation. We will be leaving on Monday, stopping to load up a friends possessions which did not fit in the moving van. Staying Monday night at my folks, then leaving bright and early Tuesday morning for Colorado Springs. We'll deliver the things for the friend, then do the tourist thing for a couple of days in and around Colorado Springs before coming home.

I've put off posting pictures of our new purchase. In late March we bought a 1995 Dodge Ram 2500 4x4 with a Cummins diesel engine. It was almost exactly what I was looking for, except for the fact that, (and I'm ashamed to admit) it has an automatic transmission. All those nasty things I said about wimps who drive automatics are going to haunt me forever. We felt like we got an excellent deal on the truck, it was a repo out of Arkansas, never been on salted roads. It has more miles than I wanted, but the price was acceptable.



We will be driving the truck, pulling a small trailer to CO.

Enough about our life for now. Thanks for hanging around my blog.

Yard Fowl

I think I told this earlier, I did not go back and read the previous posts, so if not, now you know.
Anyway, we decided to raise some chickens this spring. The main and most important reason being that my children needed some chores. As a side benefit, home raised chicken always tastes better than something from a store. But, mainly, it was so that the kids had some chores. Ever child/young adult needs chores. Makes 'em responsible, if they don't do their job, something dies. Makes it a serious thing.

So on April 28th we got sixty baby chicks in the mail. United States Postal Service. Chicks were hatched on Monday, arrived at our local post office Tuesday morning before 9 am.

And last Saturday, 8 weeks and 4 days later, we butchered them. And when we weighed a couple of them on the scale. Ten pounds, that's right, ten pound chickens !!! Last turkey we bought weighed 11 pounds.

Now those pounds were not cheap. After all the costs were figured, they came to about .93 cents a pound.

That cost included having a family do the butchering for us. They killed, scalded, plucked and butchered 44 chickens in 30 minutes, It was amazing.

They travel with a homemade water boiler, chicken plucker, and several plastic barrels, which they fill with fresh water. All of this is set up with in a disassembly line, where the various stages of chicken processing take place. Fast, efficient and worth every cent.

Yes, I could do it my self. But, it would take me hours, I hate plucking chickens, and my family was less than keen on the whole butchering thing anyway.

If I can get the camera to cooperate, maybe I can post a few pictures.

Very Funny Video

Just watched this at Lew Rockwell.com??

It is very funny. After 2:05 is an advertisement, and I'm not endorsing them or their products.

I especially enjoyed those rather large listening devices attached to our "hero" gorgeous mug.

My Thoughts on Tiller the Killer's Untimely Demise

I asked what y'all thought about Tiller's passing from this life to the next. Now I'll give you a summary of what I said other places. Some of it will be straight cut and paste from comments I made earlier in the week, so they may be a bit disjointed.

Before I do that, I want to thank each and every one of you who posted in the last few days. You have produced a lively discussion. Funny how one side of the argument seems to produce quotes, documentation and evidence, while the other side resorts to an endless potpourri of vituperation.

My thoughts,

Sunday afternoon,

I wonder what the reaction from our new Sec of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebalius? will be?? She was this piece of sh*ts lap dog. Kept him out of jail several times, and gave mucho bucks to her campaign.

Will BHO come out and condemn the culture of death that caused a radical right wing nutball to commit such a heinous act?

Will they outlaw powder blue Ford Taurus's, since only abortion provider euthanizers drive powder blue Ford Taurus's?

The list of questions boggle the mind.

Sunday evening,

What do you mean that "the law doesn't work"?

"For by the law is the knowledge of sin"

"the wages of sin is death"

Seems from a cursory reading about the law that Tiller the Killer deserves death, right?

Furthermore, what law are you referring to? The law that allows a woman to kill her unborn child?

When the law is no longer just, then lawlessness prevails. Someone decided to obey the "natural law" (whoso sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed") and do justice.

Response from another person,

"Sure, we all do."

So you admit that you know Tiller the Killer was worthy of death, but you refuse to admit that his death is justice?

What is justice then?

You're hiding behind the community, while at the same time allowing injustice to prevail.

The facts are, as someone previously stated, that Tiller the serial Killer " operated publicly and famously for decades." The current legal system had failed to uphold justice,

and Tiller the Killer continued to murder unborn children every day,

therefore the very first Biblical admonition to do justice, the first mandate for mankind to rule over mankind, the first duty of and most important role of mankind's self government,

was necessary,

Genesis 9 is the very foundation of the natural law principle. Mankind is to hold himself and all other men accountable for human life. Tiller the Killer violated the first principle of natural law, he shed innocent human blood. By the decree of God himself, Tiller was worthy of death.

From Monday,

Frankly, I am very underwhelmed by the response to Tiller the Killer's death. The man was a serial killer. He was a paid baby killer. By his own admission, he claimed to have done more than 60,000 abortions. That's the entire population of places like Carson City, Nevada or Bismark, North Dakota.

Genesis 9:6:

"Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man."

Seems to me that God looks with great disfavor on someone who sheds the blood of innocent children!!

Look what Jesus said in Luke 17:2:

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Tiller the Killer was worthy of death. Why should we feel anything but relief that justice has been done.

Justice:

is rendering to every one that which is his due. (Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary )

By God's standard, justice was done to Tiller the Killer, period, end of discussion. The epithet on Tiller the Killer's tombstone should be,

Galatians 6:

7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

8 For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption;

Today and tomorrow, less babies will have their lives snuffed out because this piece of human debris has now gone to his eternal reward.

BTW, you think I'm harsh, I simply stated the Biblical case. God is the ultimate judge. If Tiller the Killer is not worthy of eternal damnation in the lake of fire, God is fully capable of determining his just reward.

Maybe Tiller really was a christian, then you can see him in heaven some day and he can brag that he got there sooner than you did. We're all gonna die folks. That's a guarantee, this discussion is over whether Tiller the Killer got his ticket punched early? And since I believe God is sovereign, I figure he knew that Tiller the Killer was cashing his chips on Sunday morning.

God is a righteous judge, he will judge based on the facts. No empathy, just the truth. Justice will prevail.

There is a summary of my comments on the death of Tiller the Killer.

What do you say now?