Monday, November 18, 2019

Flame

Peter and Joshua prepping for a huge bonfire with Joseph.
  It was a blast as usual! My brothers are the best :)


 Photo time lapse of Peter splitting.....
 
 Nice sunset that evening.

 Bonfires are beautiful to me! πŸ”₯🧑



" Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, 
because LOVE covers a multitude of sins."
1 Peter 4:8

Our snowfall was small and selective around the bonfire grounds...
I can't wait for the snow to snowmobile but the frozen water thing not so much.
its COld as ICe

Seriously, seeing the sun every morning just makes my day brighter!
farmin'
 ol' 1486 out for a spin.
 Joshua took me on a joyride to town.

  Taking the snowblower in for some work.

 Speaking of Joshua, he can make some real mean steaks! 
(Gotta have the caramelized onions to go on top thoughπŸ˜‰)
He wanted to use our grassfed beef steaks to practice a few different marinating methods to possibly help with the toughness of the steaks. So far a few worked in making the steak more tender and moist but we've come to think that grassfed beef steaks are just too hard to tenderize. Anyone else encounter this issue with grassfed beef?!

 Homemade mac and cheese. Mmm, mmm good!

 With all this sunshine and warmer temps I've been walking a lot. Its refreshing to get out and stretch the legs and watch the busy farmers combining.
Dusk is my favorite time to walk due to quieter roads and epic views like this!
 Fresh off the griddle, come and get it!

I am still making Norwegian Lefse and will be until Thanksgiving! 
Apple Pie

Mom made her amazing warm molasses buns.πŸ’œ
 How is your week going?! 


 "Look at your trials and see grace. 
Behind those difficulties is an ever present 
Redeemer who is completing His work."

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Lefse Shenanagians


Lefse making

Bread baking
Its that time of year again! 
Grandma would be working right alongside me I just know it! 
Taking orders for Thanksgiving!
Joshua took Angela along to the junkyard. We went on a big adventure and he scouted around for parts for the little Ford Ranger. We helped him haul parts back.
Pretty decent sunset the other night.

 I had some great helpers with donuts for market last week!

I will not be doing the winter market but finished well. 

This has been me lately, I am going in circles lately and just have lost alot of incentive for things. Plus the demanding projects still at home. 
Welcome back year of frozen waterers........ -_- 
 Friday night Peter and I hosted a bonfire for some great friends!
 We had hot apple cider, mountain dew, monster cookies and other snacks.

The evening ended with big beautiful snowflakes and windy conditions making it look like a great blizzard but the bonfire was mesmerizing. 
 Celebrated my best friends 21st birthday with a fun brunch at my place Sunday. 
Two of my favorite gals attended and made it a fun afternoon.
 Happy birthday Angela! :) 
 Frustrations continue with the coop I am working on. 
Daylight hours wayning are getting on my nerves. 

Finished off the evening with a Snicker Bar chocolate cake. 

The never ending buckets and coolers of apples to process await me tomorrow.

To all a good night.πŸ’€πŸ˜΄

In a culture that scrambles to and fro, constantly seeking the next thrill and glorifying the "busyness" of life, it takes practice to rest. To still the mind, silence the outside world, and recharge sometimes feels nearly impossible. It takes practice and intention to create value in rest. "Don't live for the next vacation; create a life you don't have to take a vacation from."
Pockets of rest, found by fireplace, in front of the art easel, or in the kitchen, quiet the noise of life. Cultivate silence, restoration and rest. 
I'm of the mindset that people don't need an excuse to wrap up in a wool blanket, grab a cup of espresso, and do nothing other than WATCH THE FIRE BURN. 
Try it.
Put a fire on.
Its absolutely captivating.
Your soul needs time by the fire.
~Shaye Elliott
πŸ”₯






Saturday, November 2, 2019

11-2-18 Raw



 Can't fight this feeling anymore
sometimes emotions just come out of nowhere and take you by surprise.
one minute your crying like an idiot and the next madder then a hornet.
shitty situations press some crazy emotions onto ones heart and soul
a person, one person can just take your heart and rip it completely in two.
hurting more then you've ever experienced before and the pain and heartache
is simply too much to bear some nights.
can't believe he told me he loved me and yet not act like it. was I that much of
a liar too? Did I truly not love him? no, I  believe this hurts to much for my
love to be fake. he doesn't want me, doesn't love me. it stings, it will be the death
of me. I can't keep loving and losing people. my heart is just not strong enough
for this continual cycle of pain. I will just grow numb and never let anyone in
sometimes you just can't fight feelings anymore. but what happens when they're
one sided? he doesn't feel good enough for me. how can that be? he is more then
enough and I can't live without him. but i guess I  have too. why? why, this cycle
of love and hurt all the damn time? I just can't hold out much longer before I
fall apart forever and for good. the tears feel good to run but i can't hide them
forever. I acted on a feeling, but a real feeling of love and right now I feel like
such a one sided fool! I thought for once I had found someone who would fight
equally as hard for me and would fight for me always and forever.
how do I not hate him for breaking my heart. even though he's younger does
not mean he is incapable of feeling. I just wish he felt the same. This has been
years of on and off imagining he would love me but won't.
I just can't believe I let my heart go and be free and try to be happy again when
happiness is also just a feeling and a very rare, special one at that. I am just not
worth all this. I have managed to destroy a friendship! I am just so worthless and
am not worthy of happiness it seems. I have lost it all. I've forgotten what I've
started fighting for. Nothing left but family. family will never break your heart.
just live to please and help family and their will be no hurt.
i'm such an idiot, just a stupid idiot. never good enough for anyone. just enough
to make my girlfriends smile and find joy. 

"He rejected me, how could he reject me?" 
"Is there something wrong with me?"
Those were my thoughts as the realization that I would 
never be enough came crashing down around me.
I was in partly shock, partly bitter because this had happened. 
I was just as guilty as the rest (as it goes sin brings great pain)

I am sad to say I acted like a defeated puppy after being pushed away. 
I dwelt on the pain and hurt this rejection brought to my heart and 
I accepted the pit of self pity. Resenting the fact that I put my heart 
on the line again and was again, disappointed and unfulfilled. 

Eventually the heart gets tired of the pain, hopelessness and weariness 
of carrying those unnecessary burdens God NEVER intended me to carry.  

The lies the devil dealt me I accepted and never fought with the truth found in the Word. 
I accepted the lies;
  that I wasn't good enough. 
 that I was so guilty of so much I could never have a future & a hope
 that God would not give me something or someone better
that prayer was NOT important and God was gonna do what He wanted regardless of me
that holding onto the anger would someday bring revenge
that He would take away everyone I loved so I withdrew from people

so much can change in a year.....

"But that is not the way you learned Christ!---assuming that you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness."  
Ephesians 4:20-24


Rewarding weekend

Loaded up my ice fishing gear and essentials for the cold weather  and headed to Bay Lake, MN for the weekend.  Arrival at 6:06 pm ...