Jebidiah, Beulah's Pet

We would like to proudly introduce everyone to the newest member of our "farm", Jebidiah. Jebi is a Nigerian Dwarf goat from Whiddon Family Farms up in Leesburg, Georgia. You can check out all the animals and other items they have for sale at www.whiddonfamilyfarms.com . We would really like to thank them for Little Jebi. He's fit right in and is doing very well. My Mom and Beulah are having a hard time sharing, but such is life...

Better pictures will be coming! When you a let a 10 year old do things, you never know what you're going to get.

After a few days, Beulah started stepping on the fencing, which allowed Jebi to jump over. At one point, he got his ear caught on the edge of the fencing and ripped it open.

As you can see, it was pretty bad. I sprayed it down with Hiney Helper, and placed a bandage smeared with Samaritan's Salve on his ear.

40 hours later...

The ear is almost completely healed! Praise the Lord for all the wonderful herbs, oils and wisdom He has given to us, His creation!

Chicken Hospital

Thank God for all the rain that He has blessed us with in the last few days! It's been so wonderful to hear it fall on the roof, to see it "green up" the plants and to catch it for our rain water shampoo and conditioner we're working on. Alas, it has caused some problems for us also.

Our snap straps on the little chicken run broke and we had to move the biddies.

I made an unwise decision and put the biddies in the chicken yard with big chickens.

The next morning, I had 4 dead biddies!!! Or so I thought...

We rescued the 2 blue bantams, Harry and Georgia, first.

Then we saved the 2 others. It was such a sad sight.

I really thought we were going to lose the one on the right.

We stuck them in front of a little space heater to get them dried off. After we got their temps up, I fed them warm, wet mash. I mixed in cayenne pepper, frankincense and rosemary oil. It seemed to work very well.

As of right now, all 7 biddies are back outside, in the repaired chicken area. They all are eating and seem to be doing very well. Praise the Lord!

Staying Awake at the Wheel

The other week as I was driving back from the Ray Roberts' home in Axson, I was having an especially hard time staying awake. Having just heard the testimony of another family in the church about sleeping and driving, I was praying and asking God to keep me awake. The Lord gave me the urge to take pictures of the beautiful storm clouds that were over us the entire way home! They were so pretty and as I looked for pictures to take of the impending storm, it was hard to fall asleep.

This trick didn't work for Elijah.

Simon Plows the Field

Last week we went to our Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Drexell's home. Uncle Jimmy let us have the leftover ears of corn for our goat and chickens. After we got through picking them and loading them into the car, Uncle Jimmy let Simon ride on the tractor while he turned the stalks over to replant.

Elijah ate dirty corn while he watched his brother.