Devastation

Everywhere you look.  It's either flooding or dry as a bone and burning up. 

The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame.  You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.  Isaiah 58:11


A righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all.  Psalm 34:19

I pray for these people suffering from drought, wind, fire, flooding, loss of everything.  I pray that they will find peace from God in the midst of their trials, that they will be comforted and that if they do not know God, they will find him...that someone, somewhere will show them the love of Jesus. 

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;  My hope comes from him.  He alone is my rock and my salvation; He is my fortress, I will not be shaken.  Psalm 62:5-6

I am learning, regardless of what I see with my eyes...the physical realm...God is bigger than ANYTHING.  He is always true...with my house selling, it literally looked as if we would not move...we had 3 people look at our house in 8 months...the house we wanted to buy was shown about 4 times weekly and that is not an exaggeration.  But.  The Lord told me over a year ago that we would move and it would be to that home~he even told me the price we would pay!  I felt like every other day was a new roadblock that could not be overcome, but I chose to stand on his promise that he gave me and spoke his word, calling my house sold while no one was even looking, calling the other home mine when others were making offers.  God does prevail, he never leaves and he does not lie!  The last year has been a huge growing period for me...I feel like I have been somewhat "refined" but be assured, there is much more to do!  I share this because I want others to be encouraged...don't be discouraged.  God never disappoints.  I am still believing for my oldest, ZB to be healed of diabetes.  Whenever he is having a bad day, I choose to thank God he's already healed and not go by what I see with my own eyes. (yes, I do still treat him and take care of him...geez. ;)

Well, now that this has turned into a sermon post...I'll end with pics! {smile}
Thanks to those who offered words of wisdom on picture editing in Picnik...it's working great, its slow and I have MANY pics to edit!  I hope to figure out today, how to upload more than 1 at a time...

Well.

Of course they are sideways.

{sarcasm}

And they won't rotate. 

{sarcasm}

They look right in my picture library.

When downloaded, they turn and will NOT.

I repeat. NOT turn back.

Why must I be so challenged in the

techy part of life?????

Anyways...these are my nephews.

Recover

Recover= 1.  to get back; 2.  to bring back to normal position or condition; 3.  to make up for
that is Uncle Webster's version.
Recover= 1.  to lay around; 2.  to lay around and get some rest;  3.  to watch others work while you lay around.
That is my version.

Regardless of whose version you read...it's what I'm doing.  I had surgery on Thursday and now am in the "recovery" stage.  I tell ya, I don't necessarily feel like "doing" my normal, but I'm not sold on the laying around either!  But.  There is not a choice in the matter.  I am literally not able to do much more that that!

I'm doing fine, just slow.  My uterus was no longer my friend and now has a new zip code.  I am left with a bruised belly button and 3 small holes in my "never gonna be a six pack again" abdomen.

Ironically it's Mother's Day this weekend...and if I have never mentioned before...I have the best MOM evah!  She came up Wednesday night...got ZB to school and then to the hospital to sit with JB...has been around here washing clothes, cooking meals and just tidying up my very cluttered house.  She says she hasn't done anything, but all the clean clothes, food in the fridge tell otherwise...Oh yea and when I went to get a skillet out this morning...my drawer in the bottom of my stove was nice and CLEAN!  LOL
She is overdoing it I'm fairly sure...she just had knee surgery about 10 weeks ago...can't tell her anything...hhhmmmmm...wonder where I get it?!?!

There is only so much you can do with my house right now...it's going to be cluttered for awhile...

See this house?

This is my big news

We are moving!

Sometime towards the end of this month.

Nothing like, having surgery and moving in less than a month.

Our house has been for sale for nearly 7 months.  We didn't hardly

have anyone even look at it.  It has totally been in the Lord's hands.  

 So, I schedule my surgery and low and behold

we receive a contract on our house!  Anyway, life has been

in a bit of a whirlwind around here.  I packed alot before I had surgery and

that my friends, is why my house is a disaster!

More pics to come later.  I need to get upstairs

and get myself a shower...the hospital shower

was lacking in HOT water.

Have a wonderful weekend, if your momma's close by, hug her-tell her you love her.

A few Pics

Seems our moisture around here is showing up

in the form of

Golf ball size hail.

ICK

This is from a few weeks ago.  We sat down to eat supper,

heard a racket.  Looked out our patio doors

and this is what we saw in the neighbors yard.

Hail.  Falling like someone was on the roof

dumping out golf balls, but they were bouncing

like ping pong balls!

It was fairly warm out, so they were melting quickly.

There was hail of all sizes as you can see.

My yard was nearly white!

Speaking of moisture...there is none.

For Resurrection Sunday, we went to church

with my folks and spent the day with them.

My dad has been hauling water for several weeks now

to his cows. 

This red limosine sweetie didn't look very appreciative

of the water we were bringing her.  Probably because

Dad brought a whole tribe of us to the pasture.

His cows are a bit skittish when he shows up with

4 grandsons(of which, 2 are dressed like army men), 1 son-in-law, and a daughter!

Dad and JB

ZB

Growing up too fast.

Can't believe he only has

2 weeks of school left.

Then my boy is going to

High School.(sad face)

CB

The army man.

He and my nephew were securing the area/road

that we travel to water the cows.

{smile}

It's about a 1/4 mile from the house.

My boys just LOVE being out in the country.

It makes me happy too.  Reminds me

of my youth and how much fun I had.

Well, I must go. 

Have a wonderful Sunday and a Blessed week friends.

Hello?

Uh. Yea.  My name is Leslie and I own this blog.  Yes, I know you can't tell anyone is even around anymore.  But we are.  There is mucho-stuffo going on in my life right now and I can't wait to share it...but, can't right now.  Have pictures to share, can't do that either.  LOL

Not even sure anyone even cares....but.  Elvis has NOT left the building!

More later...or sooner, who knows!

Have a BLESSED Resurrection Sunday!!

Fish Story

I really do have a story...not very exciting, but...
I contributed to the "keepers" with 1 croppy.  I caught several other fish, but they are not worth mentioning!
I did drag 3 nice size bass to about 2 foot from the bank, every one of them "got away"!  I guess I'm not that great of a fisherman...I couldn't believe it.  Had a wonderful day with my hubby, f-i-l and his friend and oldest son-such a beautiful day and I think we ended up with 13 keepers.  My f-i-l always has a fish fry somewhere in June so we were working towards that!  We were fishing over east on the ranch where our cattle will go in a couple of weeks.  It's so beautiful over there, I snapped a few neat pics.  Grass hasn't really greened up yet, they are still burning and we have had no rain.  Yet. 

JB on his way down to the pond.  Sometimes it was

very treacherous to even get to the pond.

Men on a mission!

ZB...did I mention he has grown 3 inches since November?

Yea.  He is as tall as me now.

The lonely tree on burnt ground.  Forcasting

storms tonite...we need the rain.  That needs some

serious grass growing if cattle are going in 2 weeks!

Have a great Sunday!

p.s.  I am having trouble uploading to blogger my pics that I have

"tweaked".  Can someone help me????

Pwetty Pwease?

Gone Fishin

I hope to have some great pics and a "fish story" when I return!
Have a wonderful day...going to be warm and sunny here....YEA!

Sweet Sunday&Laundry Soap

It's a cold, cloudy, dreary day here in the Sunflower State...at least where I'm at.  Boo. Hiss. I do not want any more cold weather.  What happened to 84 and sunshine last weekend?  No wonder we have sick cattle.  I will be happy when they all get well, get gone and enjoy their lives on the ranch east of us.  20 more days...and yes I'm counting :)  Love it all, but I'm tired of missing church because we can't seem to get chores done in time to make it.  Never fails, seems to be a sick one or two that have to be pulled and doctored.

I'm armed and attacking my home.  It's just filthy.  I'm embarrassed.  I've been gone too much.  I apparently have not taught my boys the NEED to clean.  I expect too much because I assume that all the men in my home see the EXACT same things that I see.  Clothes to be folded.  Trash to be taken out.  Muddy boots inside the house.  Fingerprints on my front glass door.  Toothpaste in the sink.  The giant piles of dirty clothes.  The floors that need swept.  The dust on the coffee table.  The un-made beds.  I should never assume.  I already knew that.  But I choose to forget.  Pretty silly choice.{smile}

The boys and I were in OKC on Thursday and had a great dinner with LeAnna and little Sprig.  We met up at Toby Keith's restaurant.  My boys and I try to eat somewhere different each trip down.  That was their choice for the day.  LeAnna was kind to oblige.  Such a fun time visiting and playing with Miss Sprig...she is just precious, not sure she knew what to think of the boys and I.  There was a point and time while I was holding her, she did not know if she wanted to laugh or cry!  So thankful for my friendship with LeAnna that all started with this darn computer!  I would love to meet more of my blogger buddies!

Last weekend...my scrapbook buddies and I were discussing making our own Laundry Soap.  I have a poll going..but would love to get some feedback on personal experiences with it. #1 I want to try it, but I want to use liquid-I have a front loader and liquid soap just seems to work better in it. #2 I want something that is going to work on the tough stains I fight on a daily basis(ex. cow manure, grass stains).  #3 I am not going to make my own soap to use in the laundry soap.  I really look forward to getting some feedback on this.  I'm really interested and want to know what my best option is.

I must return to cleaning...I will now attack my boys bathroom.  Pray for me-LOL!
Have a wonderful day.  I'm on the road to a clean house!