Hello All! How has everyone been? Today we are taking it a little slower as we've been very busy this week. On Thursday we butchered chickens and started out Joel Salatin style :) At least according to the time of his book "Pastured Poultry Profits". Dad got up at 4am to start the scalder and the rest of us got us at 4:45 had coffee or tea and a boiled egg and then we trooped out at 5am to process about 150 birds. It was lovely be finished by 7:30am! Then we ate breakfast and did the morning chores. We also received a surprise batch of turkeys that day! A whole month early! There was some sort of mix up with the hatchery and so we received (over the process of two days) 200 extra turkeys in addition to the 400 we are to receive in July! Needless to say we will have plenty of thanksgiving turkeys!:) At first we got a little panicked at the prospect of raising double the turkeys we had last year! But as Mom pointed out, the Lord knows what He's doing; we needed them for some reason! After breakfast and chores we cut some of the chicken and then packaged and bagged everything. We were finished by about noon. Then we had the rest of the afternoon off! Needless to say we have adopted a new schedule :) Though not quite so early... We get up at about 5:15 have coffee and meet out in the backyard at 5:30. It lovely to be sitting down to breakfast at 8:30am instead of 10:30am! On Friday we got 11 of our pigs back from the butcher. So we scrambled to find room in every nook and cranny of our freezers:) We were able to fit everything just fine. So today we are taking it a little slower. I find it is so easy in all of the busyness to get off focus, and shift my sights off of the things that are most important like spending time with the Lord and family, not using all of my free to time seek my own pleasure and overlook the needs of my siblings and parents. Making sure I am honoring and obeying my parents from the heart and not just surface cooperation. I need to be sure I am setting a godly example to my younger siblings who look to me as their big sister to see how I react to the many and diverse situations that arise during the day. I need to make sure I'm taking the time to really smile into their little hearts and let them know how much I love and care about them, whether it be stopping to take the time to read a book or include them in whatever I'm doing. Being their friend and confidant and not only their "bossy" big sister :)
Well, I hope everyone has a great weekend!
-Morgan
3 comments:
Wonderful post. I think we might be needing to change our schedule a bit too.
See you soon.
Oliver
Hey Guys!
I'm at my grandma jo's house for my birthday im 15! I'm having a great time!!! see ya soon!
~Maddie
Hello Morgan! Mama said we didn't have ya'll's e~mail address, so she told me to give you the message this way. The Trav.s said recently that they were coming over for the chicken prossesing to learn how it's done. I always thought it was a good thing to learn how to do, and one day if the Lorn blesses me with a husband I hope to have a farm with chickens and the like. So I was wondering (if it isn't to late) if I could come over with the Trav. family and see how it's done and perhaps if I wouldn't slow things down help with it. I'm not easily grossed out ( I'm not very "girly" in that area ) and as I would be coming with the Trav.s I would love to help with other things and would be available to do so. I hope you get this in time, and could you please send a reply to lotsofgrace@cox.net? If it is alright, would you be able to tell us when it will be, untill what time (or of course, your best guess) and the like? I really would appreciate it! This is Mama's e~mail. The Trav.s don't yet know about it, but Mama gave me permission to inquire. Thank you, and I hope it works out! ~Kelsey
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