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Walking in the Woods One Day

Feb 6

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Walking in the Woods One Day
February 5, 2011
After being stuck in the house for a few days I was beginning to get “cabin fever”. The sun was shining and the temperature had rose to the 50s mark. I decided we needed to get outside before I went into full blown hibernation mode.
We loaded up in the car and headed to the lake area by the community called Blackforest.
2011-2-5 Blackforest (3) 

 

We are quite happy to be out in nature again. CONTINUE READING…

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February Arctic Cold Front

Feb 4

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February Arctic Cold Front
February 2, 2011
I don’t know what woke me up but I woke up just a little before the alarm clock went off. I looked at the storm tracker on my computer to see where the storm was because it was suppose to get bad. I could see it was getting close. I was not looking forward to driving to Stewart’s doctor appointment in the nasty rainy cold weather. I looked out my window the wind was whipping the trees around. I tell everyone it is time to get up.
All of a sudden I hear a tree fall. I thought, “Yep it must have been the one that suck in the ground the other day.” I looked and it was. I tell Stewart, “There went that tree!” Stewart got dressed and went to look out side. The sound of the wind was very unsettling. I had no idea the winds was going to be bad. I normally do not stay in our mobile home during bad storms with high winds. I remembered that I prayed last night for protection during our drive to town but I did not pray for protection over our house.
I tell the kids to get in the hall and sit down. I was going into my room to look at the weather on the computer again when I heard a loud shuddering sound. I cringed and my heart sank because I knew it was part of our cover roof. Stewart was standing looking out the back door at the same time, all of a sudden the tin from the chicken house came flying toward the house. He slammed the door shut and hollered at me, “There went the chickens roof!” I grab my Bible and set in the floor with the kids and begin to pray. Stewart went and looked out the front door, “Oh my gosh! our roof came off!” He came to where I was sitting with the kids, praying, “Honey, the roof came off!” ….“ I know I heard it when it happened.” I said, then resumed praying.
The rain was pouring by now and the thunder was rolling. I get up from praying and went and looked on the weather radar on the computer again. I see a break forming in the storm line. I knew it would soon be over. With only a steady rain falling and no more huge wind gusts I went to take a picture of our damage, while Stewart called to check on my parents.IMG_1026
A 24 foot section of our cover roof came off from the middle of our trailer and landed against the tree line, miraculously missing the volleyball net. My mom did not even know the winds had been bad and was shocked to hear about our roof. CONTINUE READING…

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Good Dog

Jan 30

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Good Dog

January 29, 2011

Our Australian Shepherd, Kelev (Hebrew for “dog”) has become quite the little man. Today was his first time at barking at strangers. My in-laws came over and Kelev gave a hardy bay at them alerting us that they was in the yard. I am very proud of him.

 

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You will often hear me telling him “Kelev Tov” which means “Good Dog” in Hebrew. ~~~ CONTINUE READING…~~~

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Little Miracles

Jan 30

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Little Miracles
January 29, 2011
A few weeks ago when a little storm came through we had a pine tree break off about twenty feet up and hung in the tree beside it. We worried and wondered how we was going to get the thing out of the other tree without it hitting my shed, fence, or arbor. It seemed stuck in the other tree pretty tight.
Austin come in and said, “Mom, you remember that tree? It fell!” I was worried thinking it probably hit my arbor. I walk out on the porch and looked.
“I don’t see it.” I looked and looked again. Austin walks over to it and says, “Mom, you still don’t see?” I said, “No?” I had to walk out to the tree to actually see what had happened.
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The broken tree top had came lose from the neighboring tree and swung down and stabbed into the ground making it look like it was just another tree growing in the cluster. It wasn’t until I walked right up to it that I could see where the tree was splintered from the break. CONTINUE READING…

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SFA Experimental Forest

Jan 9

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SFA Experimental Forest

January 3, 2011

We headed to Nacogdoches to have a look at the SFA “experimental” forest. The trail is approximately 3 miles, if you do walk both loops, which we did. The trailhead had restrooms that were fairly good, as far as restrooms on trails go, also a picnic area and water fountains. The first loop called the Jack Creek Loop was completely paved for easy access to handicap persons. The second trail called Management Loop has a natural path to walk on.Scrapbook 11_02 

We looked around for something to investigate. Naturally the kids find a fallen tree to walk on. Some nice little bridges were built across the low areas. CONTINUE READING…

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