Happy Birthday to Faith!

Happy 13th birthday to Faith!!  My baby is a teenager....
Not only did she get icing on her cake, she got an "icy" day as well!
With all this ice on the snow, the trees couldn't hold on to some of their branches and down they came!  It was a little scary hearing them come crashing down, but thank the Lord he kept the roof and windows safe.  Some day when the weather is better, we will certainly be busy cleaning up the branches.

 I thought these pictures of Snooky turned out cool.....can you figure out how I took them?   The giant ice cat knocking off the tree branches.....hmmm

The Countdown

According to Great-Grandma, you can calculate how many snowfalls you will have for the season by looking at the calendar.  When you get your very first snow, check the date and that's how many snowfalls you will have.  
Faith is keeping track for us.  Our first snow was Nov. 26 so we should have 26 snowfalls.  We are currently on our 7th.  That leaves us 19 more!  Oh dear.....
Here are some pictures for my Hannah who  misses the snow. Enjoy Hannah!

Canoes waiting for better weather........

Definitely not picnic weather!

Nobody seems to be home here.....

We've been keeping the stove nice and toasty here in the Eagles Nest!  See the smoke from the chimney?

Can you see Karl snow blowing?  Use your eagles eyes.

 The chubby juncos are gobbling down the bird seed!

Let me tell you, brother, yes, sir, if you're a vulture eat things of the world, but a eagle eats fresh meat. Hallelujah.
Eagle of God eats the Word of God and that alone. He has no... He can't stomach that old thing of the world. That's right. It won't--won't digest. He just couldn't stand it anyhow. He wants fresh meat. He wants the freshness of the Holy Spirit, the meat of God right out of the Bible. He longs for it; he will drive through snow storms and everywhere. When he hears there's a revival going on, he will take off to it just as hard as he can.
Jesus said, "Where the carcass is, the eagle's will be gathered." Amen. 60-0804 Bro. Branham

Eagle Eyes

 We feel so blessed today!  A fellow eagle came to visit us at our Eagles Nest today!   I looked up at the trees and there He goes flying down beside our driveway.  Then He landed in a tree and posed for a few pictures.

59-0815  AS.THE.EAGLE.STIRRETH.UP.HER.NEST_   Bro. Branham
       The old mother eagle flew by, and she looked down, and she saw her child. And she screamed. And when she screamed, he understood that language. She screamed, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever."
That little eagle said, "That sounds right."
She come back across again; she said, "Son, you're not a chicken; you're mine." I'm so glad. Hallelujah! "You're my child. You don't belong among them chickens." She looks again, "Could I be mistaken? I'll test him." God always tests His children by the Word. And she screams back, and she said, "If you are an eagle and you believe..."
"How do I get out of here, mama?"
"Only thing you do is just jump, and start flapping your little wings; they'll pack you." Jump, run towards the altar and flap that little faith you got a little bit. See what it'll do for you. If you're sickly in there dying, just make a run towards Calvary. Use that faith you got. Watch what happens?

Visitors at Eagles Nest

When we came home from church today, there were visitors waiting for us on the back patio.  They were pecking on the glass, stretchin their necks, and lookin all around.  So we fed them some dinner and they decided to stick around.  They are now sleeping on the roof.  Do they think this  house is the Red Roof Inn?  hmmm

Here they are peckin out, I mean checkin out, the premises trying to decide if they want to spend the night.

Aren't they pretty?

They really liked Faith!  Especially when she brought out some popcorn!

Doing some visitin'.....

Yeah, there I am feeding the critters....they didn't know I was thinking about smoked turkey......hehe

Soon as it got dusk, we heard a commotion out there; some thumping, sliding, flapping, and a few frantic gobbles.  The turkeys were just finding a comfortable spot to sleep for the night.  The perfect accommodations at the Eagles Nest.

So I went out the front door to take a picture of my star in the snow, and suddenly a bird flew out of my door wreath and brushed the side of my head as it flew away into the woods!  Needless to say, I was pretty shook up!

        So a few days... How I've watched them so many times. A few days before the nest-stirring time comes, the old mother eagle would get up there on the side of that nest. I've laid a many a day in the warm sunshine watching them and just cry like a baby. See that big mother eagle, they're large. The mother eagle's bigger than the father eagle. Some of their wings spread fourteen feet from tip to tip.

And she'll get up there; she'll strut around over that nest like that, and she'll go up to these little ones; she'll spread her great big wings and scream. And when she does, sometimes the little eagles will fall on their backs. She wants them to. That's what she wants them to do. Then they'll get up. And she'll scream. Why? She's training them to her voice.

"And My sheep know My voice." She wants them to know what it is when "screaming-time" comes. And she's screaming. Oh, my. "I want you to catch every note of my voice," she says. "Because there's a lot of scavengers. I want you to know you're eagles. And I want you to know eagle voice." Amen. Hallelujah. "I want you to know what a eagle sound is. And then she spreads her great wing, said, "Looky here, I'm fixing to give you your first solo flight. But first I want you to look how big I am."

Oh, how sweet it is. Maybe sometimes sickness knocks us on our back, maybe something else, when we can look up and take them two big Wings of Jehovah, the Old and New Testament, and say, "How great Thou art, how great Thou art, Lord."  Bro. Branham 60-0403