Saturday, February 12, 2011

365 Pictures 5 - 12 Feb 2011

Okay,
I know I'm still off a day, but couldn't wait to post this weeks pictures.  Hope to get on track next week.  Good week took at least one picture a day. 
5 Feb
This is my husband on the right & my father-in-law (81 yrs old) on the left unloading a truck of wood from our farm.  YEAH!!!  We were almost out & it was in the negative numbers at night for this week.

6 Feb
This is a cross stitch I started a while back, then put it up because I didn't have time to work on it.  Now it is back out.  When I put it up, piglet and half the clouds were not done.  Hope to work on this every night when I watch TV.

7 Feb
Women Mission Union (WMU).  Every 1st Monday morning of the month our churches WMU group meets for a devotional & planning meeting.  The other Mondays we meet for Bible study.  We were missing some mom because of sick kids and very cold weather, but still had a great turn out.

8 Feb
Sunrise - another day God have given me to use for Him.  Nothing really plan for the day, just will see what God has in store.

9 Feb
Awana club at church.  This was my first night back as Spark director since my surgery.  It was fun to be back with the kids.  This is game time.  We had 36 Sparks that night.  Usually we have around 45 but there was an event at the high school that kept some kids away

10 Feb
Drove up to Des Moines, Iowa (2 hours north) to spend the day with my friend Brenda Nelson & her niece Adrianna who was visiting from Massachusetts.  We had a great day shopping.

11 Feb
Fuzzy - Really??? do we really need to be doing this right now?  I was sleeping you know...

12 Feb 
Today was the best day and will be posting several pictures.  Temp was 50 & I went out to the farm with my husband.  Something I probably shouldn't have done since I'm still recuperating from my surgery, but it felt good to get out & walk on the farm.  I know I'm going to pay for this tomorrow. Our farm is about 2 miles south west of our home, 120 acres of timber & hay ground.  The snow was anywhere from 4 inches to a foot & a half.  I had a blast finding the animal tracks.

Squirrel Tracks
Where the squirrel had dug out a hedge ball, then ate it

Opossum tracks

Buck Brush where the opossum ate.  Striped all the seed off.

Deer tracks - the trail

Mostly deer tracks, but their are other animals tracks on our creek

The deer had to dig through the snow & ice to get to water.  There where three of these within 15 feet of each other on the creek.

Deer bed - either last night or sometime today a deer was sleeping here.  The tracks & other signs around it where fresh.

The goal - getting back to our jeep.  By the time we had walked to the deer feeder & salt block, we had walked over a 1/4 of a mile, but it felt more like a mile with all the snow we tramped down.

My husband got the camera.  Me walking in the trail he broke, almost there.

Look people track!!!  Made it to the jeep, looking back over one of our trails we walked that day.
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14 comments:

  1. saraFebruary 13, 2011 at 8:14 AM

    I have to say that when I saw the picture of the Sparkies, I broke into the awana cubbie song in my head....after all these years! sheesh, I will probably be singing it all day now!! :)

    love the animal tracks, very cool!

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  2. LoriFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    those animal track pictures are very cool. what a fun way to spend a winter day

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  3. STILLMAGNOLIAFebruary 13, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    Loved the snow pictures. They are awesome. Thank you so much for sharing them.

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  4. Wylie @ Shout A Joyful Noise!February 13, 2011 at 2:03 PM

    Awesome!!! What a precious week serving the LORD!!! Blessings to you & yours...
    Wylie

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  5. LisaFebruary 13, 2011 at 3:43 PM

    So nice to see your pictures, hope your recovery continues to go well, I love your cat, Fuzzy, that was what he/she was totally thinking...lol
    In my post I meant Annapolis Hospital in Michigan, that is where we are from.
    I see you also have plenty of snow...are you looking forward Spring?

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  6. semperfiFebruary 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    Lisa, yes can't wait for Spring. I didn't know there was an Annapolis, Mich. I have only heard of Annap. in MD. Learn something new every day. We made it to 50 yesterday & 53 today, so the snow is starting to melt. Have a blessed week. Kimmie

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  7. riTa KochFebruary 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    Beautiful photos!
    Loved the snow pics and your knowledge of animal tracks.
    You'll be surprised how much progress you make on the cross-titch a little every day.

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  8. MimiFebruary 13, 2011 at 6:15 PM

    How fun to go on that hike! Looks like you had some great fellowship this week.

    Hugs & love,
    Mimi

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  9. semperfiFebruary 13, 2011 at 8:06 PM

    Rita - I know it will get done, it was just having time. I use to do two or three cross stitch projects a month when I was a stay home mom. Then I had to work for awhile, but now I'm back to being a stay home wife & look forward to having more time for my crafts. The knowledge of the animal tracks came from my husband. I was the student that day.

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  10. AmyFebruary 13, 2011 at 8:09 PM

    thanks for the animal track pictures! too cool!!

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  11. Robin LambrightFebruary 14, 2011 at 7:24 AM

    Great snow pictures!

    I hope you did not pay for it to badly!

    Blessings
    r

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  12. semperfiFebruary 14, 2011 at 9:45 PM

    Robin, no just a little head pain, but it was worth it especially getting out of the house.

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  13. RaDFebruary 14, 2011 at 9:58 PM

    Love all the animal tracks! It must have been fun to follow them.

    My dad always had a stock-pile of wood, or at least he tried to. He said you never know when a bad winter will hit or when someone (including us) would be down on their luck and need the extra wood.

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  14. semperfiFebruary 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    RaD - we try to keep a stock pile, but the weather had been crazy & either too much snow or too muddy to get to the wood. I think we need to invest in a sled or something for times like this

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