The 3rd death on our property in about 2 weeks happened today. Plus…
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Death #1 – our last guinea pig. The boys said she committed suicide. She kept going under her water bottle and pushing up on it, getting wet. They’d move her out. She’d go back and do it again. She died a couple hours later. Interrupted one of our first days back at lessons with an unexpected funeral and burial.
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Death #2 – even more traumatic. A few days later, I turned on the car and started to back out. Heard a horrible clunking in the engine, and turned the car off. Thought dh or the boys had left a tool under the hood or something. Got the boys to come look. Opened the hood. Fur went flying. A stray kitten had tried to find a warm place. It was taking its last breaths when we found it. Couldn’t throw it in the trash, the garbage men had just come that day. Didn’t want to dig a deep enough hole. Called the pound to come get it.
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Death #3 – today. Young squirrel coming down the tree. Black lab jumping up the tree. Dh running for them and calling dog. Dh not quick enough. Squirrel in dog’s mouth. Dh intercepts – too late. Dog chained. Squirrel suffering. Boys and pellet gun mercifully end its misery.
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Just as I was ready to type up our latest death sagas, dh calls. He, 2 sons, and son-in-law coming home from hunting. “Bring the little boys to daughter’s house, so they can watch.” 30 doves to clean. (Guess they didn’t want to bring them here around the dog.) Just what I did NOT want to watch. Boys tearing wings off dead birds and …
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I’ve seen about all the dead things I care to in a while.
Thanks be to God that though I’m surrounded by death in this fallen, decaying world, He has come to give us LIFE and that abundantly and eternally! “Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?”
a dead skunk in the middle of the road?
A dead squirrel in your ceiling!
Want to know how I know?
For the last couple of months we’ve had an awful stench, that comes and goes, in our master bedroom closet. At first I just thought it was dh. 
Then we removed all our shoes, and things from the shelves, and cleaned everything well, thinking there was a dead mouse in there somewhere. Nothing. When the smell returned last week, worse instead of better, we removed all of our clothes, as well as everything else, and put them in another room. The smell seemed to grow worse.
By this time the idea of a dead mouse in the walls was becoming a dead body under the house – well, at least a possum or a cat or something. Surely a mouse would have disintegrated by now.
While I was gone last week, after I’d removed everything from the closet, dh set out to investigate. First crawling under the house. Of course, our closet is in the far corner from the opening to get in the crawlspace. Nothing.
He told me he was checking the ceiling next. He didn’t. He decided to tear out a wall first. Nothing. Finally, he pulled down the ceiling. As he shifted around the insulation —- down it came! some insulation paper with a dead squirrel in it. UGHHHH!
I’m glad I was gone.
Now – dh is re-drywalling the ceiling. Re-drywalling and mudding the wall.
My clothes are still in piles, covering the bed and desk in the guest room. My shoes are still in trashbags covering the floor of the guest room. Awaiting the repainting and applying of the trim in the closet.
But at least the smell is gone.
The pattering of little feet across the roof of the house isn’t near as cheerful a sound as it was a few months ago.
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2 weeks ago 3 of our grandchildren had birthdays. (Yes, all within 4 days.) There are many more “famous” birthdays this month. 1 of our grandchildren shares their day with Ronald Reagan. I’m not sure how we missed that one. Another with Norman Rockwell.
Feb. 12th was Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday. Our newspaper included an article written about our family’s namesake town, Hodgenville, KY, (even though there are no Hodgens there anymore.) Our relatives reminded us of the stories of Abe going to our ancestor’s house to eat cookies and play with the children. We read the article, but didn’t do any special studies of Lincoln, since we just did a whole semester on the War Between the States less than a year ago. Sorry Abe.
Lincoln gets to share his birthday with Darwin. We aren’t into celebrating that one. But we did watch Expelled the night before last. Good thing to do to recognize his life – and the effects it has had on our society. Or read 7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave.
Next week, 22nd, is George Washington’s birthday. You can read some ideas I posted for “celebrating” this one, that’s highly worthy of noting. OK, it’s not like a birthday party or anything. But it is good resources for learning more about him, (as the above 2 are for Darwin and his ideas.) But we do get to celebrate the day with cake, candles, presents and all, as George shares his day with my father-in-law.
The other highly noted birthday we will be “celebrating” (focusing on) this year is John Calvin’s 500th. It’s worthy enough to get a whole year’s celebration. (Or rather, will take a whole year to read his greatest work.) (The “day” isn’t until July 10th.) You can read more about what I’m already doing for it.
A couple other noteworthy birthdays you have missed already this month are Thomas Edison, on the 11th, William Henry Harrison, on the 9th (Does anyone know who he is?) and Charles Dickens and Laura Ingalls Wilder on the 7th. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is yet to come, on the 27th. But none of them have any of our family to share with, so we won’t be celebrating them.
We have a pretty good record for shared birthdays in February, with 3 of our 4 family birthdays sharing with someone we would note. March brings 2 family birthdays which have no one noteworthy to “share” with. I don’t think our children will mind having the day all to themselves.
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Cal Thomas took a bold, but right, stand in declaring the Emporer (wanna-be) has no clothes.
Obama can call himself anything he likes, but there is a clear requirement for one to qualify as a Christian and Obama doesn’t meet that requirement.
Read the entire article here.
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I haven’t had time to sit and write about my thoughts on McCain’s choice of running partner, Sarah Palin – pro-life, mother of young children, feminist. Doug Phillips has expressed my thoughts quite well though, as has Voddie Baucham.
Add a little beauty to your day. My friend Joan from JoyPal Designs shares her Promise Gardens in this video on youtube.
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“Reports that Ron Paul has quit the Presidential Race remind me of Mark Twain’s famous “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” The Ron Paul Presidential campaign continues, albeit at a different pace.
“What does that mean?
“Ron Paul will continue to contest the remaining primaries. Ron Paul’s name will be on all the remaining state ballots.”
Ron Paul 2008 ~ March 8, 2008
We’ve been sold a bill of goods, that there is only one republican candidate left, and we must vote for him as the lesser of evils. We’ve been led to believe that he represents conservatism in America today, and we must all “give” a bit, and not be so “stuck” in our “uncooperative” ways. It’s a lie.
We have remaining a steadfast candidate, whom the mainstream media ignores, who stands for our Constitution, who alone is standing for the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness (private property earned by personal industry) for the individual, who stands for our representative government in the fashion our founders envisioned, against the tyranny of Big Brother or the “nanny state”.
There is no other current candidate worthy of our vote than Ron Paul. I will not “throw my vote away” by violating my conscience in voting for the “lesser of evils”. My God is still on the throne, and I will stand for what is right, no matter the outcome and leave the results to Him.
Daniel 3:17-18 “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.”
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Tracy tagged me for this. (Beautiful pics on your blog Tracy!)
7 Random or Weird Things About Me and 7 People are Tagged (at the end)
OK, everything about me is probably weird, but as to whether it’s stuff most people don’t know – that might be hard.
1. I love carbs. I’d come home after school in high school and eat a half loaf of bread in cinnamon toast. (That’s for all of you who know I am a whole foods – no refined grains or sugars person.)
2. I love nursing my babies. None of our 10 ever had a bottle.
3. I LOVE cloth diapers. I keep sewing more, different styles, even when all the old ones aren’t all worn out. I still have some of the first ones I made over 20 years ago.
4. I love my sheep skin “things”. I have “woolies” (lamb skins) for our babies and grandbabies (3 woolies at our house), woolie toys for the babies, a woolie under our sheets on our bed, and now slippers that I wear around the house all the time, and to run someone in the car if I don’t have to go in. I want sheep wool flip flops now.
5. I hate dirt and sweat. Even as a child, I’d change clothes if a bit got on them.
6. I hate sports. Can’t play any and don’t want to, and see no sense in wasting time watching them.
7. I hate one level houses, especially “ranch” style, newer houses.
Here are the rules:
* 1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
* 2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
* 3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
* 4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Tagged are:
Hmm, “every” blogger I “know” I either tagged on the last thing, or I’ve seen their names tagged for this already. So would 7 of you readers please just tag yourself and leave a comment below and a link to your post so others can read and meet you. (Or 14 of you – I just got a second tag by Jennifer on my home ed blog)
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