Time and Time Again...

I was puzzled by Helen’s time post.  I googled world time for some help for her.  I found this site

Times in North America

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/?continent=namerica

Time and date map

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/

Day or Night map

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html

There is also world weather, if she wants to know what the weather is elsewhere.  Of course, she did not even know the time where she was, so I guess elsewhere is a lost cause.

We want to wish Cuz Winnie Godspeed with her medical tests.  We will be praying for you, and Helen has asked me to put in a special prayer request with our Little Coin Church tonight. 

"The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-26

Praise the Lord, my soul, and never forget all the good he has done: He is the one who forgives all your sins, the one who heals all your diseases."  Psalms 103:2-3

"...by His wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Yesterday, I walked 6 miles to the Coin bridge.  Dry Creek is rolling.  I am glad weather is improving, but spring rains are coming.

Rain

No walk.

I did make 5 miles yesterday, 224 for the year.

I downloaded some books and I am reading the Jerry Lee Lewis book by Bragg.  I am really enjoying it, but really only because I love Rick Bragg's writing.  His books are like poetry.  I do not need to like a person to like a book about them.  I knew that he was a cousin to Jimmy Swagart, but did not know Mickey Gilley was also his cousin.  And I did not know they grew up so close in a very close knit family.  I have others to read when I get this one read.

Robert is also reading books  He has advanced a lot in his reading just since the first of the year.  We are reading books every night now, and they are sending little copies home for him to read almost every day.  It is just wonderful to hear him start to sound out words.

When we are reading at night, sometimes Hannah has to help me pronounce the words.  I took them to the library Saturday and they each have their own library card now.

I have found a new children's book help at our library called tumblebooks.  You have to have a library login, but then it has read along books, where the computer or tablet reads the words.  I am going to try it with the kids tonight.  If you have K-3 children and your library has it, you should try it.  Helen, you could try it with your Green Forest library card.  You do have to go to the Green Forest page, not just the main library page.  I know Hannah is going to really like this, and maybe Robert too.

Photos by Hannah

We went to Turpentine Creek Rescue yesterday, just me and the kids.  They  had a great time.  I let Hannah carry the camera.  She had a great time taking pictures.  She was a little disappointed  when she looked at them on the computer saying some of these are not very good pictures.  The bars really get in the way of the camera.  I cropped most of these to show her how truly great they actually look.

Snow Day, for me and all the kids...

We are blessed...

With abundant snow and cold, but we have heat, we have food, we do not have to go to work if we do not want to go.  Yesterday, I left work at noon and today I am not going in, just because I do not want to go out in this.  With our nice new truck, that I have now named The Goat, I could easily make it to work today, but I do not want to.  I am staying home and cooking,  Maybe even walking this afternoon.

I walked yesterday at 4 and bundled up, it was very nice.  I do enjoy walking in the snow, if the wind is not blowing in  my face, as the little square from the top of my nose to my eyebrows is the only exposed area.  It was really falling when I was walking, but it was so quite and peaceful, I enjoyed going to Newberry's and back, 2 miles round trip.  That makes 8 miles this week, since I walked 6 miles after work on Tuesday.  I logged 89 miles in February, so when the weather warms up, I have 11 miles to add to my 100 for March.  May not make that.  We will see.  Time changes Sunday, and after that, I can make dinner for the kids before my walk in the evening if I want.

Here are some pics.  The non snowy ones are from Tuesday and the others are from yesterday
evening.

David's horses on Jack Robertson's place.

Rex and Elveta Robertson's old house as seen from the road just past Peden's place, Tuesday.

Deer over by Hampton's barn.

Feeding time, in the calm before the storm, Tuesday.

In the mists of the storm.

Horse got corn as the cubes sere still in the back of the truck.

Helen's road.

Dan's cattle turning their backs on the storm.

Just past Dan's on the road to Newberrys.

No one feeds these animals and they are all fat and sassy.

Cecil's barn in the snow.

 

Beautiful Ozarks.

March be gone!

Yesterday it was a little warmer to start the day, above freezing at least, so I thought I would try a walk.  George said be careful because the dogs were sliding all over.  I had only gone a few feet before deciding a walk was out.

You had to stomp to break through the crust to keep your footing.

The tire ruts in the road were pure ice, so you had to be careful to walk in the snow crust instead of the tracks.

Ice on the trees.

The Husky stayed on the dark side when I went for my walk Saturday, but he was back and very hungry Sunday morning.  I don't think the dark side people feed all those dogs.

I did feed the goats and the horse.  I decided to water them in buckets.  I cleaned the old white truck and took two buckets of water to the barn.  By the time I got back up there, they were down here by the gate and only the horse was at the barn so he is the only one that got watered right then.  I am sure they found the water later, and it warmed up to upper thirties by afternoon.   It is supposed to be above  40 today, so the ice on the pond should open up.  Tuesday night and Wednesday we are supposed to get more.  I just can't wait.

I am not working today, as I am supposed to go for a checkup.  I will have to call because the last little snow we had, the  doctor took a snow day.