Thursday, November 13, 2014

Trying out the SmokeHouse


Fall Season is upon us again here at Eagles Nest.  Even though that means Winter is right around the corner, there is beauty all around us with the fall colors.  
With Fall comes the mood of smoking meat.  So Karl cleaned out the old smokehouse and I got to try it out for the first time.  I just did 3 pieces of chicken for the trial run.  It turned out great and I am now ready to smoke a turkey....or maybe some deer meat.









Instead of dreading the oncoming winter,  I've been trying to focus on the beautiful colors all around us here.  It's amazing the colors that God puts into each individual leaf.  


A pathway into the front yard.




Here is my darling dogwood that I brought with me from the farm.  It was a seedling under the other trees.  Even though the rabbits ate it last winter it has made a tremendous comeback!  This winter I plan on covering it and hiding it from the rabbits!




          "Did you ever notice a tree? It will put forth its leaf, and then it serves its time through the summer. Autumn comes. Way before the frost falls, that leaf begins to turn yellow, red, brown. After while it drops off the tree, falls down. Is that the end of it? No. What happens? The life that was in that leaf goes back to the root of the tree where it comes from. What does it do then? Spring of the year it brings forth with it, in a resurrection, a new leaf same life returning back with a new leaf.
And Christians are hanging on the Tree of Life. And when the life leaves this old sinful body, it goes back to the God that gives it, to come forth again with a new one, because it's serving a purpose." 
62-0319 Bro. Branham

Here is an experiment that I started with my rosemary plants.  I twisted a clothes hanger into a heart shape and hopefully I will end up with a rosemary topiary.

We have many things to be thankful for this year
at the
Eagles Nest!


Thursday, September 25, 2014

Ginger

How many remembers our beloved pony Ginger?  We got her October 13, 2005, from my brother Billy.  Hannah and Faith sure had a lot of fun over the years with her.  Now Ginger lives with another farm family not too far from us.  We went to visit Ginger today because..........

Ginger became a mommy!   She had the cutest lil' baby named Cookies and Creme!  Here are some pictures of her and Faith and the baby.  By the way, Ginger is about 15 years old and this is her first baby.












Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Together again


Hannah, Jaylon, and Kyle came for a visit and we were all together again!  We had a wonderful time.  Here is a few things that we did together but mostly we took turns snugglin' Kyle and talking baby talk to him.  He's very sociable.  :o)

I gave Kyle his first piano lesson.




Went to see "Moses" at Sight and Sound.




Kyle getting dedicated.













Isn't the Love of Jesus something wonderful?!




Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Towers and Trucks

We took a hike on Labor Day and discovered an old stone tower.  People aren't quite sure what it was used for but some say it was used to mine coal from the mountain.  This is located in Stony Valley.  There is lots of history here and if you would like to go to the website for more info click HERE. It was 2.5 miles up the mountain.  We had to follow the red blazed trees to know where the trail was.  The creek at the bottom had so much moss!  I've never seen so much thick moss in one place.  The pictures can't really show how much there were but it was pretty amazing.

Faith and I take turns riding along in the feed truck with Daddy on Saturdays.  We both took pictures and thought you might like to ride along with us.










Finally made it to the stone tower!
Oh, by the way, Karl met up with a couple of rattlesnakes...ahem...so we quickly left and headed back down the mountain!

Centipede crossing the path

A trail marker







Faith is ready to take a load out to a farm!

Faith took this picture of daddy, :o)

When I went our first stop was at an Amish farm.

Then we went to a pig and sheep farm.

Making sure it's all out of the truck.

At the next farm, the wife had a business of selling fresh cut flowers.  There were flowers everywhere.  It was beautiful!


Putting top dressing in a wooden bin.

Ever hear the expression "eatin' like a pig?"