Life on Leegacy Farm ~ Picture Review

Welcome to our home!  It's a beautiful February day here on Leegacy Farm.  I awoke to the smell of fresh coffee and caught an early morning glimpse of a fresh dusting of snow on the ground.  What a beautiful gift from our Creator. And though Life on Leegacy Farm has been a blur these past couple weeks and there's much on our to do list today, we had to pause this morning and enjoy the white beauty lightly covering our surroundings and beckoning us outdoors.  And I don't know about you, but we're wondering what happened to January.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So many of you have asked about my Mom who has been recuperating in our home.  We loaded her car, her dog and our van and headed for her home last week.  We very much enjoyed having her here with us but she was understandably ready to get back home and tend to things and have her follow up appointment with the doctor.  She does have staph in an area where one of the incisions was made.  We are praying that she won't have to be hospitalized again.

 We found time to have dinner with sweet sweet friends before driving back home and while my Mom had a visitor..  Isn't the bread they served just beautiful?

And it tasted as good as it looked.:)

Their daughter baked it in a cake pan.  We usually just place our round loaves on a cookie sheet, but I think the bread holds it's shape much better in the cake pan.  Beautiful! 

We've been a bit sleep deprived as we've traveled, cared for an ailing animal and visited.  That means we've frequented the coffee bar a lot and the hot herb tea has also been popular on these cold days.  Our visits have been so productive as we've gleaned from others as to how they  plan, how they farm, and as we've just plain enjoyed the fellowship.

We've had two light snow days. There's Black Beauty, the farm truck, delivering another load of firewood the fellas have cut from our woods.

Little Man has the right idea.  He and Jay Jay have found a nice warm spot.  And speaking of Jay Jay, he is my Mom's dog.  So what's he doing here?  I took him back to Alabama and ended up bringing him back....again.  I just might be getting attached, and I think my Mom is trying to give him to me....in increments of time.  I thought she would miss him terribly but she was concerned that he would jump on her and hurt her where the incisions are.  The boys, who stayed to tend to the farm, were quite surprised when they realized he'd returned with me.  They love to kid me about having a poodle pooch as a farm dog.:)

Joshua and Johnathon are cleaning and preparing the maple syrup buckets and the laundry's drying on the line.  I hope.:)

My children aren't to accustomed to having snow.  Even though we didn't get much, they've been thrilled and they've had a great time sliding down the big hills around here.

We've been using the cabinets we painted with chalkboard paint as a reminder to practice handwriting and Bible memory.

And even though there's snow on the ground, our thoughts are turning to seeds and spring and planting...and...I guess it's because we're receiving frequent deliveries of seed catalogs in the mail.

We also had a tornado touch down this week and not to terribly far from where we now live. My oldest son woke us around 2:00 a.m. to come downstairs.  We listened to the man on the weather radio until the warning expired and then went back to bed.  It wasn't until the next evening that we realized one had actually touched down and caused quite a bit of damage.  Thankfully no one was hurt badly and people in the area have been incredibly helpful to those who were in the path of the storm and there have been many clean up days. We lost five sheep as I suppose they were scared of the high winds.  Fences were repaired and sheep were found by late afternoon.  All I could think about as I gazed at each face in the room and while waiting for the warning to expire was how very thankful we ought to be for every precious moment we have with those we love and of how the things we often stress about aren't really so important. With that in mind, I do hope to remember this coming week to savor every moment and to remember that we're here for a reason. And to thank God for His mercies which are still new every morning.   ~God bless you all ~

Sherry