Well I am sure you all have noticed that I have not written anything here for a while.  We have been pretty busy.  Yesterday I spend from 8am to 5pm splitting wood at sprint speed all the way.  I have been saving my firewood for a day when I could rent a hydraulic splitter and do it all at once.  Well I did, a whole 5 cords worth.  That wood shed should be completely full when I get it stacked in there (I already had 1 cord stacked in there).

So right now, since we had to take the splitter back to Springfield, we are relaxing in Panera Bread Company using their internet and doing my interneting.

Abby and Brandy in Panera Bread

If you all have seen me on Facebook you know I got several deer this deer season.  Two were my own and two were given to me.  I have finished processing them and the frezer is full.  I got an 8 pointer and a yearling buck.  I was given a buck (points unknown…they kept the head) and a yearling doe.

Taken with a camera positioned in a tree fork just before dark.

I am officially ready for Winter.  This is the first time in my life I have Firewood all split (enough to make it through all winter) and Food stored (Deer, Turkey, Rabbit, Fish, and Squirrel).  We have Onions and spinach growing in a winter garden and potatoes waiting just under the surface of the ground for us to pull them out.  Tomatoes and peppers have eluded the frosts so we are still getting a few here and there.

Hope you all have a great Thanksgiving.  I think there is no other Holiday (Holy Day) that is more important that to show our Creator our gratitude for His provision and steadfast love in spite our failures.  Other days are a celebration of an event, Thanksgiving is the event, we show our gratitude for Gods provisions.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;…

Ecclesiastes 12:1