This and That, Before and Afters and an Urgent Prayer Request

A shot of Mo grazing in front of the cow barns.

You can barely see the asparagus, I guess I should have wet the soil.

I planted these last Fall, they're a shared gift from a friend. It will be a

few years before we get a harvest, but it's a start.

Look at the picture below, to see how bad the weeds had invaded

I'm paying for not being able to keep up, due to my back last season

I was surprised to see that so many strawberries pressed on in

competition with all the weeds. The strawberries in the raised bed

are ever bearing and the ones around the perimeter are June bearers.

still have two sides to weed out, but have to take it in small bites so my

back doesn't flare up. I watered them good yesterday, so pulling weeds

should be easier over the next few days.

I'm embarrassed to even show this to all of you. On a positive

note, you can see with your own eyes we do garden naturally *grin, wink*

Yes we have dandelions, so what if we have yellow dotted throughout

our property. The cows, horse and birds live them and you should

see the honey bees!

Without many details, I'd like to ask those of you who pray to send up

special prayers for two young boys in our area.

A little background; As many of you have read, Mike is a EMT.

Last night about 10 pm the ambulance tones came across the radio.

Mike is on call this week, but actually covered for a fellow EMT two weeks

ago, so this EMT was covering for Mike.

The call came in as a gun involved and to stage away from the scene,

no other details. Mike responded to scene, not sure of what had happened

or how much help would be needed.

To make this short, a man was fatally shot and two boys witnessed this.

One boy lost his father to the shooting and the other boys father was

arrested. It's terrible for all involved, but it's been heavy on my heart for

these boys. Please hold them up in prayer and I probably won't have

any updates, because this is a very hush, hush situation.

It has been on the news( radio and TV) because Jon heard it

They reported the location wrong and said it was a place on the river by

the bridge. We're second to last from the bridge, so he was concerned

about who this was( knowing it wasn't us or he'd have heard).