Truth Project dvds and a trip out west!

I finally got The Truth Project dvds that I had picked up rocks out of the field for. It was worth the work!
And I have moved my plans to go out and visit in Minnesota to before My Aunt and Uncle and family come to visit the end of this month. I will be flying out early Saturday Morning and will come back with Aunt Kara and the girls on the 27th. Uncle Phil had some training for his job before they were coming so he is flying into Cleveland.
We are doing Green Beans, so I should go and get busy helping with them.

Here are a few Hymns that I have found thought provoking and encouraging.

I thought I'd share them with you all.

What Think Ye Of Christ?

Contrast-L.M.D.

John Newton 1725-1807 Early American Melody

Verse1 "What think ye of Christ?" "is the test To try both your state and your scheme;
You cannot be right in the rest Unless you think rightly of Him.
As Jesus appears in your view- As He is our beloved or not-
So God is disposed to you, And mercy or wrath is your lot."

Verse 2 "Some take Him a creature to be- A man, or angel at most;
But they have not feelings like me, Nor know themselves wretched and lost;
So guilty, so helpless am I, I durst not confide in His blood
Nor on His protection rely, Unless I were sure He is God."

Verse 3 " Some call Him a Savior in word, but mix their own works with His plan;
And hope He will His help afford When they have done all that they can;
If doings prove rather too light ( Admitting their efforts may fail),
They purpose to make up full weight By casting His name on the scale."

Verse 4 " Some call Him "the pearl of great price" And say He's the fountain of joys;
Yet feed upon folly and vice, And cleave to the world and its toys;
Like Judas the Savior they kiss, And while they salute Him, betray;
O what will profession like this Avail in His terrible day?"

Verse 5 " If asked what of Jesus I think, Tho' still my best thoughts are but poor,
I'll say He's my meat and my drink, My life, my strength, and my store!
My husband, my trust, and my friend, My Savior from sin and death's gall,
My hope from beginning to end, My portion, My Lord, and my all."



If I Gained The World
OM JAG AGDE ALLT - 10.9.10.0.D
Anna Olander, 1861-1939 Swedish Melody

Verse 1 " If I gained the world, but lost the Savior, Were my life worth living for a day?
Could my yearning heart find rest and comfort, In the things that soon must pass away?
If I gained the whole world, but had no Savior, Would my gain be worth the life-long strife?
Are all earthly pleasures worth comparing For a moment with a Christ filled life? "

Verse 2 " Had I wealth and love in fullest measure, And a name revered both far and near,
Yet no hope beyond no harbor waiting, Where my storm tossed vessel I could steer;
If I gained the whole world, but had no Savior, Who endured the cross for me,
Could then all the world afford a refuge, Whither, in my anguish, I might flee?"

Verse 3 " O what emptiness!- with-out the Savior 'Mid the sins and sorrows here below!
And eternity, how dark with-out Him! - Only night and tears and endless woe!
What, tho' I might live with-out the Savior, When I come to die, How would it be?
O to face the valley's gloom with-out Him! And with-out Him all eternity!"

Verse 4 " O the joy of having all in Jesus! What a balm the broken heart to heal!
Ne'er a sin so great, but He'll forgive it, Nor a sorrow that He does not feel!
If I have but Jesus, only Jesus, Nothing else in all the world beside
O then everything is mine in Jesus; For my needs and more He will provide."

My "little" Brother is Getting Married!

Tomorrow is my "little" brother's wedding day. (I say "little", because I am smaller than he is and it is our joke between us.)
This is such a bittersweet time. My first baby brother is going and getting married and leaving home to start his own family. ( Okay, he has been out on his own for a few years now, as he has been going to college.) It is hard to say goodbye to Josiah, even if he does drive me crazy at times with all his teasing and just being a brother. :) He's still my brother, but it is going to be a lot different now.
It has been a busy last month, but God has given us the strength to get through it.
I hope to get some pictures up of the wedding. But it might take a while. :)

Please pray for Josiah and Erin as they start their lives together as husband and wife, that they will put their everything in the LORD, and that they will build a firm foundation on the LORD.

Want a "Monsterious" Cookie Recipe?

This cookie recipe makes a LOT of cookies! I got the recipe from a Amish or Mennonite cookbook. I know I tried it for the first time for a VBS closing program Several year ago. - I would have been in my early teens when I first tried it. Even my brother Josiah has tried his hand at making them when he was going to be going on a baseball tournament about 2 years ago. :) I just made a batch again this last week for Josiah's wedding the 4th of July.
Here it is:

Monster Cookies
12 eggs
2 cups nuts, optional
4 cups white sugar
1 lb butter, no substitutes,softened
4 Cups Brown Sugar
3 lbs peanut butter
1/3 cup vanilla extract
1 Tablespoon corn syrup
8 teaspoons baking soda
18 cups rolled oats- I use Regular oats
1 lb M&M's
1 lb Chocolate chips

Beat the eggs, add the butter, sugars and vanilla and mix together. Add the corn syrup and peanut butter, mix well. Add the oats, nuts- if desired, baking soda,
M&M's and chocolate chips. Mix well. ( You are going to have to use a very large bowl to mix it all in!) Spoon onto lightly greased cookie sheets. - You can decide on how big you want them to be. :) Bake at 350* for about 11 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.

If you want to know the original directions for this recipe it is:
Mix in order given. Bake at 350*

I think you could cut this recipe down if you want to make them but not a lot of them! :) I haven't tried to yet but may some day. :)

The picture above is Grace playing with my goat baby bottles next to the 50lb bag of white flour that we have. ( It WAS 50 lbs at one point in time that is!)

Some Goat Milking Pictures

Esther and I milking Susanna.
We have found it easier and faster to both milk at the same time.
We have the stand under a little roof as it had been raining a few days before and we hadn't moved it back out to the small cement pad in front of the barn door.

" I think we are about done here."

Esther is peeking around the goat.

Taking Susanna back to the pen.

Bringing Viola Hope out to the milking stand.
Micah is holding Blackie back as Viola is scared of her.

Stripping Viola out before we milk her into the milk bucket and after we had wiped her off.

Esther and I milking.
Her hand is on the right and mine is on the left.

Bulls Eye!
We hit the hole!

The containers in the milk pail are ice blocks to start cooling the milk off.
This helps a lot with the taste of the goat milk! If it is not handled right it will have the "goat taste" also.

Viola eating.

Micah sitting on the bottom half of the barn door.

I think this is Caleb on the New Holland going to get the rake or mower or something like that.

We did not get any pictures of Rose being milked. The batteries ran out on the camera! :(

Garden Club Pictures- The Conneaut Home and Garden club

Talking and visiting!
We sure do have a lot of fun. The age range differs from 92 to 19 years old.
We met at the Conneaut Township Park by Lake Erie on this occasion.

Amanda A., Mrs Barker and I had refreshments for the evening.
Anna helped with the water.
Let's see, we had Watermelon, a Strawberry pretzel dessert
and gluten free Chocolate cake. Oh, Yes! Chocolate goat milk fudge too.
( You couldn't tell the cake was gluten free! It is Bob's Red Mill if anyone was wanting to know.)

Talking, visiting and looking at gardening books
while Amanda A., Anna and I got things ready for the refreshments after the meeting.

Seems like the fudge was a "sneaking" hit. :)

This Picture is just for Bethany A., and anyone else who likes planes. :)

A Little of Everything- (Almost!)

Hello Everyone!
It has been a while since I have written on here. Let's see what all has been happening...
Mercy and Grace had a good birthday. It was fun to watch them with everything. There are pictures on the family blog of the "party".
We have been busy with the field work that goes with having a farm. :) Dad and the Boys got the first cutting hay cut and chopped last week.
I think we are about done getting the gardens in. Mom, Hannah, Anna, Simeon and I were working on getting some herbs and flowers planted. We still have a few more things to put out there. I think we have a few melons to put out in one of the far gardens. It would be nice to get some more rain here soon. We have been a little dry but it hasn't been to bad yet. God has always provided for us even if it hasn't been a good year or not.
Dad is almost through the organic transition with the cows. July 8th or 9th is when the year transition is over with. If all the paperwork goes through we should be certified around then. There is a lot of paperwork with being organic! The only bad thing about going organic is that we are going to loose our milkman! :-( Mr. Mike M. has been our milkman for as long as I can remember! All of us are sad about loosing him.
Josiah and Erin decided to get married on July 4th! I know that I will be making the cake for the guests. It will be fun as I like to do cakes and stuff like that. I am sure there will be a lot of other things I will be helping with. :)
Esther and I have been separating the kids form the mama goats at night. That means milking in the mornings. :) I feel like making fudge! Maybe I will tomorrow to take to the Garden club meeting. I have this idea for a new fudge flavor in my head. I got to try it sometime soon! I have the flavoring for it... I am going to keep what it is under wraps until I know that it would turn out good. :)
Um, what else... I think that about sums it all up for the most part. At least I can't think of anything else right now. I better go and get the kids separated and feed my "kids" for the night. We are down to 2 feedings a day and soon we will be cutting out one of them as they are weaning also. :)