Sick day

This morning I got up with a sore throat. I made me a nice little gargle with Jim beam, honey and salt. That helped a heap. I still have at bit of swelling but it is better.
Nyle went with Warnicks last night to tour the Toyota family factory in Jasper. I guess he enjoyed it. He hasn't said too much about it. Owen was too young so we took him to the  Chinese restaurant and got him some chicken on a stick, his favorite.
The weather is still cold and windy.

Snow

Today, or more correct, last night, it showed.

Deer hunting and digging

Service digging hunting

Clean fridge

Our fridge has not been getting below 45 so we pulled it out today and cleaned the cooling fins. They were dirty enough to cause the problem. Now we have it plugged in and cooling down and then we will take another temperature check to see if we have made any progress.

 So this is a carry over to a new day 8/27/12 In the last 24 hours we have changed our diet. We are trying a plant based diet with now dairy,oil, or meat. So far everything I have tried has been good eating. I don't know if I should continue eating this way if I shall become bored with the tastes of vegetables. I can't say that I feel any better, but I don't feel any worse. I believe it is a better diet than we have been eating. I suppose we will end up with a 70-80 percent reduction in our intake of oil and meats when we are done experimenting with this new diet. So maybe we will be 70-80 percent healthier for it.
 Today it's raining off and on.

New Farm in Bloomfield

It has been a long time since I have put anything in this blog. It is past time for an update.
We bought a little old farm place West of Bloomfield. It has a barn,  an old farm house, and old concrete building that was once a chicken coop, and a detached garage.
 I've been fixing things on it every since we bought it. Of course this is normal for just about any place you buy. There will always be things to maintain. Everything needs maintained, it's just the way things go. We now have 5 acres of pretty good good, relatively flat ground. We have planted a garden and harvested the vegetables and put them up in jars or froze the produce. We have about 6 chickens,2 dogs and 4 cats, and 2 rabbits.  We don't have a goat, cow , or pig..as of yet.
I would like to get a few of each for the  farm in the coming year. I need to repair, or build a few fences before I can have them, and I just haven't had the time, or energy to get it all done. Recently I was able to get electricity into the garage, and now I have it ran down to the barn. I put it all underground buried in PVC pipe. I am now  working on getting it over to the concrete building. I hope to eventually make that my ham shack. Now it is getting cold, and the ground is freezing solid, so it may be sometime before I get that done.
 We have also planted fruit trees and berry bushes. We have apple,peach,plum,cherry, and pair trees planted. The place already had a few mulberry trees growing on it. I might try growing a persimmon  tree this coming year.
 We have blackberry, black raspberry,and blueberry bushes planted.
In other news, about 4 weeks ago I was made an Elder.
Also Anna Mae George passed away this past week and today REichard Davis gave a funeral talk at Bloomfield. There were about 81 in attendance.
Well that should do for now for an update. This post was not my best writing, but it was mostly to inform and bring things up to date.
DING!