What a huge change this year! We never had a normal Georgia summer this year
here. We never had days that were so hot
that when you walked outside you melted and humidity was so thick you almost could
not breath. The weather has been for the
most part spring like with an over load of regular weekly rain. I think I had to water my garden a whole two times this year. The picture above I just took this week. Everything is still so green from all the regular rain we have gotten. The temperatures have been much, much cooler than normal.
I went outside to milk my goats this morning
and realized I should have put on a light jacket???? It was downright chilly! Of course we had to bottle feed a few little ones that were crying for their breakfast.
The kids and I spent the whole morning outside doing yard
work today. It was so nice I just could
not keep them cooped up in the house doing home schooling. We picked tomatoes, peppers and green beans. Here is just a fraction of what we picked today. I often run out of places to put it all. :) We are so blessed!
We cleaned out garden beds of the plants that
were done producing for the year. Like
the squash plants. I started preparing
those raised beds for fall plantings. The
weather was so mild that when the kids were done helping me they went up
on the hill and cleaned out the chicken coop.
Usually it is to hot to do something like that. But William, Carolyn and Zeke had it done in
hardly any time at all. We had all that
done by lunch!
I then made a small batch of chili sauce with some of the tomatoes
and peppers we had picked. Yum! The whole house smelled just amazing from it.
The one thing that worries me a bit about the weather this
year is we have also had such mild winters the last many years. So if the weather patterns have changed so
much this year for summer……they might be totally changed for winter as well. We might be in for a doozey of a winter this year. We haven’t had a good snow or ice storm in
years. The weak branches in trees have
not been cleared out by one in a long time.
If we were to have one I believe we would have some serious power
outages from downed power lines.
This is about as deep and thick as it gets once or twice a winter every few years or so. We usually get a dusting every few years too. But that's about it for where we are located and usually it is gone by the next day. So when it happens the kids get very excited. These pictures were taken I think around 2009.
Just to be on the safe side I am going to stock up on things
we might need this fall for some winter power outage scenarios. We do have a wood stove we heat with in
winter. We can also cook on it. So if that did happen it would not be so very
bad. But never the less something to
think about and plan for just in case. I know God will be with us and protect us thru anything that comes our way. God is so good!
I told the kids this morning with such chilly nights, as we
have been having, the pool water temperature is going to drop quickly. So to get out there and enjoy swimming as
much as possible. They jumped right on
it with no fuss! We had a long fun day and Elizabeth was asleep way before 8:00 pm!
We have an oportunity to move to georgia in about a year for my husbands work.. wouldn't it be so cool to meet one day. I wanted to tell you that my daughter had her swallow test this morning and after 6 months of tube feedings only, she is now strong enough to swallow baby cereal and thickened milk by bottle!!!!!!!! what a joy, thank you so much for your prayers. I appreciate you like you dont know!!
ReplyDeletePraise God! Praise God! Praise God! She can eat now! Glory to God! I was thinking and praying about her test all day today. Thank you for letting me know how she made out. This is huge. God is so good to us always. Just always. I am so happy for you all. Feel free to email me anytime and let me know how she is doing or any prayer requests. I will keep you all in my prayers from now on. It would be such a joy and honor to meet up someday! I am from Up State New York originally. Moved here on a job transfer of my dads when I was 14. I really like Georgia alot. I have lived in Marietta, Woodstock and Calhoun. I love Calhoun best because of the country living out here. Not so much traffic. Thank you so much for sharing today. Blessings!
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