Clouded Percreption

I was out in the barn the other day, cleaning out the pens. Usually this is a daily chore that I undertake with out putting much thought into it. Aw, but "TODAY", it would be different. For the first time in a long time, I had my eyes opened, and behold I saw things for the very first time in a new light.

These are moments I believe the Holy Spirit speaks to us and most of us go about our daily lives and think nothing of his gentle whispers. He speaks ever so softly and tenderly, that at times we believe it is only our own vague thoughts. He had me stop, look around the barn and take a visual inventory of all that my husband and I have accomplished and all that he has blessed us with. So many times, I am too busy to stop and see our progress in terms of blessings and actually accomplishing our dreams and goals.

I absolutely LOVE the moments when God speaks to us and we actually see through his eyes and understand our lives on his level. God had given us a farm. God has given us a barn, God has supplied us with a life that he knew would suit our needs and answered  my hearts cry.

I would love to have tons of money and have the most miraculous barn, pens, fencing, self waters, you name  it, that life could offer. Animals are my love and passion. Too many times we think of all the things we do not have instead of all the things we have. If I were filthy rich, all of my money would most likely go into my animals and facilities. I get frustrated most of the time because our farm is put together as an as needed basis. In other words most or our pens are make shift and are for now things, that usually become permanent. I want fancy expensive pens that you don't have to hold together with wire. I want gates that actually function properly and you don't have to climb over just to get in the pen. I want all of our property fenced in so that we have separate pastures with gates big enough that our tractor can go through for mowing.

My point is, that my desire to have things just perfect, clouds my heart from seeing the blessings my father has so graciously given me. I am so blessed beyond measure to be able to have animals that I have always desired, a farm to actually manage and work, property with excellent prospects to expand in the future. I looked out over my daily routine and saw, "through my fathers eyes". Wow! I truly am blessed. God has so richly blessed me. I have a husband I adore, a partner that helps all of my dreams come true, animals to care for and love, and a farm to help take care of. My whole life I wanted to be and marry a farmer and low and behold, I have become one. "

"Thank you Father for my daily routines and all the many things you help me to accomplish on a daily basis. I am forever grateful.", your daughter and child, me.

New Beginnings

Hi Everyone,
I have not posted in a very long time. A lot has changed in my life in the last three years. God has led me down so many wonderful journeys and different paths. I will have to update you on all the new beginnings and wonderful blessings that have happened so far. I must say God sure can amaze you and surprise you.

The picture of the barn is part of our new farm that we just moved to last fall. The barn and land is in need of much T.L.C. My husband and I have begun clearing the land and cleaning out the barn. The barn was used for storage and had years of junk stored everywhere. It took us months just to clear out most of the junk. The land too had been over run with weeds, trees and junk.

We have not had the time to begin restoring the barn to its original beauty. It is in so much need of repair. Before winter came, we placed glass in all the windows, boarded up all the holes and repaired what we could to just get us through the cold months ahead. In the freezing cold months of winter we worked long and hard on the inside to build kidding stalls. We have bred for February babies this year, which I hope to never do again. We also had to build regular pens, hay feeders and mineral troughs.

The restoration of the barn does not take precedence when you have have livestock to attend to everyday. Something always comes up and the work is never done. We had planed to plant a field of hay, but have not been able to get into our field this year at all, due to all the heavy rains.

I will keep you updated on all the progress of our farm and post pictures as new beginnings arise and changes take place. Until my next post, May God Richly Bless You.

Website Finally Completed

Wow, what a learning experience. I am so thankful to see answers to my prayers fulfilled in such simple ways. I pray for success and often times success is measured by the amount of money that you have. Not so in a lot of areas. To me success is learning new skills and implementing those skills to benefit you and others.


In building a website, I learned In some areas I have no patients and in other areas what interests me. I now have a grave respect for those who do this as a living. I am learning SEO (search engine optimization) skills and thoroughly love this. I could do this for a living. To me it is like researching, dissecting and finding out new data. What is Greek to others makes perfect sense to me. It is like a light bulb went off and firecrackers exploded. Yeah this is fun!!!!

I also learned that not everybody claiming to build websites or claiming they do SEO knows what they are doing. Some even have no honesty or integrity. I know someone, I will not mention who, who just had a website built for them. I looked into their site and checked out their SEO. I could not believe what I found out. They had no keywords even relevant to their web page or business, they had no meta tags, title tag, nothing that would help them to rank in anything even on their site,

When I commented to them on this and they got a hold of their webmaster, she lied to them and said that she did SEO and continues to do it on a regular basis. Oh that is one of the things I hate the most is someone who lies. It would have been perfectly fine if she would have admitted that she knows nothing of SEO. She could have stated that she tried her best but it is not a strong point for her. To have her say she does it and does it on a regular basis when it is clear, that she does not know what she is doing, That is totally uncalled for! She also charges a monthly fee to update their site every month and keep up the SEO. Wow are they ever getting ripped off.

It reminds me of the woman who takes their car to a shop and the shop person clearly takes advantage of them and charges them for parts and work that they really do not need. Ok enough ranting and raving. IMO people need to run their business with honesty and integrity. Do to others as you would have them do to you. Until next time, Take care and God bless.

Learning new skills.

I have been learning to build my own website. I am just at the beginning but finding it very interesting and I am learning a lot. I learned that I had a few SEO (search Engine Optimization) skills and did not even know that I had them. It is awesome to me to find out that all along some of my prayers were answered and I never even realized it.

I had prayed for wisdom, knowledge and understanding for so long concerning building a website. I also asked for the same thing to help build my business of nigerian dwarf goats and goat milk soap. All  made from the milk of my goats. I had no idea that all the things that I was doing and learning were called SEO. Who knew?

I took a class and was so shocked to find out that everything the instructor was teaching I was already doing. I never knew what it was called. Now that is truly God's wisdom. He fills us with our hearts desires then all of the sudden pulls the blinders off.  Wow, now we can see that all along he was there leading us and guiding us from the very moment we asked. I am just at the start but cannot wait to increase in the knowledge of everything I am learning. To me learning is so much fun.