Showing posts with label St Lucy Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Lucy Day. Show all posts

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Thursday update

 Animals are the central part of our life. If you don't like animals you shouldn't have a homestead, in my opinion. For us, kindness is a must.  We makes sure they all have what they need daily... water, food, fresh hay and clean place to live.  They get medicine and vitamins when they need it.  And if necessary, when they move on to a new home, we make sure they go to people who believe as we do , to be kind and humane as possible. 

Meet Lucy, one of our new baby chicks.  She is named after Saint Lucy. Saint Lucy had consecrated her virginity to God.  After refusing into an arrange marriage the govern planned to force her into prostitution. When the guards came to get her they were unable to remove her from her cell.  The governor then decided to put her to death but not before she was tortured , had her eyes torn out , they attempted to burn her but the fire kept going out and finally she was stabbed with a dagger. (brutal, I know) Legend says her eyesight was restored before her death.   She is the Patron Saint of the Blind. 

Our chick Lucy was born with something wrong with her eyes. We can't tell if other chicks did this or if it is a deformity.  As far we can tell she is blind in at least one eye.  We took all the chicks in from their moms.  We had to separate Lucy from the other chicks. Despite her size, being larger than the others, she is tortured by the other chicks. They peck at her constantly. She has her own little apartment near the other chicks.  The plan is she will be the family pet... yes, kind of like Angelo, the meat goat. (He hates it when I call him the meat goat. He says I might as well have named him Dinner...wink)



The back porch is torn off. The inspector is arriving this morning to inspect the caissons. Then let the building begin!




Seed I am working with this weekend. 


I need to get out before heading to work and transplant some of my herbs. Dude says they are coming out for some type of a walk between the back doors. 

Parsley



Mint


I love it when I find something like this later on. 


peace

Sunday, December 13, 2015

Snow day


Faith -  Winter bring reflection and time to slow down and focus on God.  Today is the Feast of St Lucy.  A day to bring light to these very short and cold days.
It was a bit chilly heading to church this morning. I had trouble getting out off the land so Dude trucked me in to mass.  
It was Gaudete Sunday, the Sunday of Joy and the vestments of rose.
 


Reading 2  Phil 4:4-7

Brothers and sisters:
Rejoice in the Lord always.
I shall say it again: rejoice!
Your kindness should be known to all.
The Lord is near.
Have no anxiety at all, but in everything,
by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,
make your requests known to God.
Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding
will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
As you can see, even though it was snowy it was beautiful !




 
On the short days of winter we look forward to celebrations and gatherings to warm and light up our days! So glad to see family and friends tonight.
 
A little crocheting(I am making these) was done and a ham was baked this morning to be broken down for four to five meals.
 
Time to find those warm footy pajamas that were put away last spring and curl up with a good book. 
Night