i wish i was exciting...
i have nothing of excitement to write about, as usual, but this is my blog…so i’ll write anyways.
i had quite a productive day today, starting out at 7:30am with the ever so lovely phone call from my dad saying the heifers were out. so…the day began with a mile or so hike through knee to waist high marsh grass still wet with dew chasing after the 6 delinquent animals that ventured beyond their fence. great fun indeed. i almost planted myself face first in the mud on the river bank after tripping over something concealed in the grass, which would have been rather amusing, but i’m glad i caught myself. that’s the problem with chasing heifers in tall grass…there is no way of knowing what the ground you’re traversing actually looks like, you basically just hope that it’s semi level and you’re not going to hit a rut or find a hole and break your ankle. escaping animals is one of the aspects of farm life that i don’t enjoy all that much. hmm, what else. well, i did a lot of chores around the house all morning. my mom was at the hospital with my gramma who had a pace maker put in today, so i took on cleaning the house-vacuuming, dusting, sweeping, laundry, making lunch, folding clothes, putting stuff away, cleaning out the birds’ cage, doing dishes-that stuff and more. then after lunch, dad and i headed out to bale some hay. that marks my first tractor driving of the season. i don’t particularly think i’m all that wonderful at driving tractor for baling, but i don’t mind it. it’s slow and long and often quite warm, but it gives me lots of time to think since there’s nothing to hear but the roar of the tractor and it gives me a chance to soak up some sunshine.
in other, also boring, news, the ring that i ordered while up at school finally came in the mail today. It’s quite pretty…though a bit big, which is a tad annoying since i ordered it and ordered the correct size and i don’t believe my fingers have gotten smaller since May 1st. i ordered this one to replace the one i was wearing that got smashed onto my finger, after getting my hand pinched between the head of a cow and a water pipe (yep…i’m a farm girl). it ended up quite flat and i had to use the wall to attempt to get it to open a little to get it off, which didn’t work this time (this isn’t a first for me), so i had to run my hand under cold water and very painfully twist it off, which left bruises on my finger. needless to say, that ring got a little mangled; the center stone was loose, and i lost one of the ones on the side. so i had a moment of weakness and we’ll call this new ring a rare gift to myself, for a job well done in college this year perhaps. in my defense, it was on sale, 70% off. i wouldn’t dream of paying the original price. it is quite beautiful though.
Oh, tonite i went to my little brothers baseball game. it was a beautiful evening for baseball, but 2 hours sitting on those hard wooden bleachers was about all i could take, especially since the coach was being a jerk and hardly even let Ethan play. oh well…i still enjoyed watching the game.
well…now that this has taken boring to an entirely new level…i’ll quit. Congrats if you made it this far. bubye for now…
~melanie
i had quite a productive day today, starting out at 7:30am with the ever so lovely phone call from my dad saying the heifers were out. so…the day began with a mile or so hike through knee to waist high marsh grass still wet with dew chasing after the 6 delinquent animals that ventured beyond their fence. great fun indeed. i almost planted myself face first in the mud on the river bank after tripping over something concealed in the grass, which would have been rather amusing, but i’m glad i caught myself. that’s the problem with chasing heifers in tall grass…there is no way of knowing what the ground you’re traversing actually looks like, you basically just hope that it’s semi level and you’re not going to hit a rut or find a hole and break your ankle. escaping animals is one of the aspects of farm life that i don’t enjoy all that much. hmm, what else. well, i did a lot of chores around the house all morning. my mom was at the hospital with my gramma who had a pace maker put in today, so i took on cleaning the house-vacuuming, dusting, sweeping, laundry, making lunch, folding clothes, putting stuff away, cleaning out the birds’ cage, doing dishes-that stuff and more. then after lunch, dad and i headed out to bale some hay. that marks my first tractor driving of the season. i don’t particularly think i’m all that wonderful at driving tractor for baling, but i don’t mind it. it’s slow and long and often quite warm, but it gives me lots of time to think since there’s nothing to hear but the roar of the tractor and it gives me a chance to soak up some sunshine.
in other, also boring, news, the ring that i ordered while up at school finally came in the mail today. It’s quite pretty…though a bit big, which is a tad annoying since i ordered it and ordered the correct size and i don’t believe my fingers have gotten smaller since May 1st. i ordered this one to replace the one i was wearing that got smashed onto my finger, after getting my hand pinched between the head of a cow and a water pipe (yep…i’m a farm girl). it ended up quite flat and i had to use the wall to attempt to get it to open a little to get it off, which didn’t work this time (this isn’t a first for me), so i had to run my hand under cold water and very painfully twist it off, which left bruises on my finger. needless to say, that ring got a little mangled; the center stone was loose, and i lost one of the ones on the side. so i had a moment of weakness and we’ll call this new ring a rare gift to myself, for a job well done in college this year perhaps. in my defense, it was on sale, 70% off. i wouldn’t dream of paying the original price. it is quite beautiful though.
Oh, tonite i went to my little brothers baseball game. it was a beautiful evening for baseball, but 2 hours sitting on those hard wooden bleachers was about all i could take, especially since the coach was being a jerk and hardly even let Ethan play. oh well…i still enjoyed watching the game.
well…now that this has taken boring to an entirely new level…i’ll quit. Congrats if you made it this far. bubye for now…
~melanie
posted by Melanie at 11:48 PM
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Did you swear when chasing the cows?
Q
You say you are a "christian." can you explain the process by which you arrived at this particular religion? Why did you not choose to be Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Sikh, Buddist, Atheist, etc?
I grew up in a christian home, though that was not the deciding factor in my decision to ask Christ to come into my life and save me from an eternity in hell. After taking a serious look at the facts (the bible if full of facts that can and have been proven), it is hard to deny that there is a loving God who created the world and each of us and sent his son to die for us so that we can have God's free gift of salvation. Christianity is not a religion, it's a personal relationship with Jesus that starts when you ask God to come into your life and forgive you of your sins. This was a decision I made at a young age, but I have since reaffirmed that and hold tightly to it. I believe that Jesus Christ is the one true God, and there can be no other god, as many other religions claim. In the bible, John 17:3 states "Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent." 1 John 5:11-13 says, "And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life." Verses like that and many many other verses clearly show that without asking Jesus to come into your life and save you, eternal life in heaven is not an option and I know that I do not want to spend my eternity in hell. God sent his son Jesus to die for my sins and offered me a perfect eternity in heaven...how could I refuse such unfathomable love and such a wonderful gift?
amen to that sister ;-) mega dittos!
Hi Jordan's mom...thanks for leaving a comment! I have considered posting about my testimony, I just haven't gotten there and it will have to wait as I am headed off to work at a camp for a week and then headed to Europe for 2 weeks a few days after I get home from camp. But I will try to get that in here sometime, it's a great idea.
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