Denim Deb
More Precious than Rubies
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You should enter that first sunset photo in a contest! It's beautiful! And, love all the babies. 
Rebecca's journal-may be time to restart this
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framing fowl
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Sounds like a fun day of fishing! Your kids are going to look back on their childhood with great memories!
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rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
Today is our 3rd straight day of rain after only a day and a half off. I have an old clean big trash can outside the greenhouse that I normally fill with water to dip out of for the rabbits. It was completely empty start of last week and now it has over 20 gallons in it still even with me dipping some out daily. I haven't added any water and there is no runoff coming off anything to drain in it. It is pure straight down rain. My wheel barrow has been dumped and has refilled with water to the point off running off again. And we have more rain coming all day and tonight. My animals are sick of it. I am sick of it. There is no flat point in our yard that is not standing water. There is a new creek washed out through the horse pen and my sheep are refusing to touch the ground, jumping in the rubber feed tubs and using them for stepping stones when they have to get off the hay in their shed. Needless to say, they only get a few feet and then look at me as if to say"you expect me to WALK in this?" Last night we had to hit the shelters again for a tornado warning. Either a tornado or straight line winds damaged some houses in a county over last night. I'll be so glad when this is all over!
dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
Hope we get a break from the crazy weather soon. I'm on high ground but this is still too much.
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rebecca100
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Glad to hear that you didn't have to evacuate. I heard something in the news about heavy flooding your way. So far the lake is rising here, but not as bad as I have seen before.
dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
We are about a 1/2 mile but way uphill from where it usually floods. That hill is a killer for the legs but it keeps us safer.
Are you near Lake Conway? I heard they are releasing water there.
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Are you near Lake Conway? I heard they are releasing water there.
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rebecca100
Almost Self-Reliant
No, we are close to Greers Ferry Lake. But far enough that we are well out of the way when it does get up.
dragonlaurel
Improvising a more SS life
Glad you're safe- and that we got a dry sunny day.
popcorn chicken
Power Conserver
Hey Rebecca, I just read your journal, hope all is well!!
Glad you made it thru this last bunch of storms!! I have family in NE Ark, not sure exactly where they are, but only an hour away from Memphis, and they made it thru OK.
How is the move back to your 10 acre plot going? Did you ever recover your horse trailer? Thieves SUCK!!!
How's the homeschooling going? (sorry so many questions
)We've been considering do the same for our 4. We are VERY disappointed/frustrated/PO'd about the way our 14ds schooling is going!!!! It seems everytime we turn around the school is undermining what we do at home, we are VERY much all about personal responsability and consequences of the choices we make, and they keep allowing/enabling his excuses for not turning in HW that I know he did, or HW he chooses not to do, then tell us he did it, (which is an entirely different subject 
) then turn it in late. UGG!!
Momma is a stay at home mom, so if we do this, that wouldn't be an issue, just the responsibility of having your childs education, and along with that, their future in your hands is very intimidating!! On top of the normal (haha) parenting issues. But I've been reading other people's posts regarding this, so it's definately on the charts. We're going to seminar in Indianapolis the 1st week-end in June so we'll see what we learn there.
Thanks for the journal, keep it up!!
Glad you made it thru this last bunch of storms!! I have family in NE Ark, not sure exactly where they are, but only an hour away from Memphis, and they made it thru OK.
How is the move back to your 10 acre plot going? Did you ever recover your horse trailer? Thieves SUCK!!!
How's the homeschooling going? (sorry so many questions
)We've been considering do the same for our 4. We are VERY disappointed/frustrated/PO'd about the way our 14ds schooling is going!!!! It seems everytime we turn around the school is undermining what we do at home, we are VERY much all about personal responsability and consequences of the choices we make, and they keep allowing/enabling his excuses for not turning in HW that I know he did, or HW he chooses not to do, then tell us he did it, (which is an entirely different subject ) then turn it in late. UGG!! Momma is a stay at home mom, so if we do this, that wouldn't be an issue, just the responsibility of having your childs education, and along with that, their future in your hands is very intimidating!! On top of the normal (haha) parenting issues. But I've been reading other people's posts regarding this, so it's definately on the charts. We're going to seminar in Indianapolis the 1st week-end in June so we'll see what we learn there.
Thanks for the journal, keep it up!!
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rebecca100
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Sorry, I ve been gone for a while! Well for the questions-We hope to be back there sometime this summer! :bun Our horsetrailer is apparently gone for good. 
And homeschooling is going great. I really enjoy the extra time with the kids and now we can take on family projects such as the garden with them right there learning and helping when they would normally be still in school. Ds's reading has improved tremendously and his math skills are phenominal. DD is having a little harder time. She just seems to think this schooling is not real and is only half trying. We are working on that though.
We went fishing again last weekend. We caught our limit on hybrids and a caught a couple of whites and a largemouth(it was 17 inches) to boot! DS almost cried when we had to go home. He had to start throwing them back. Our livewell couldn't fit any more fish and we already had our limit on hybrids. Does anyone have any idea how HARD it is to convince a 10 year old that he has to throw a 3 lb bass back in the lake?!? The fish fought so hard that they were snapping our lines before we could even get close to getting them in. We had to go back and get 30 lb spider wire and redo our rods. The good thing about hybrids is that they don't breed in nature and are stocked in the lake so we didn't have to feel bad about catching them.
DD and the fish she caught all on her own.
DS and DD with some more fish they caught.
What we came home with. They really were bigger than they look in the pic. The brown one is a largemouth and it was 17 inches.
DS's hook after one hit it. It got away. Bet it was a monster though!
Dh at the end of the day trying for one more.
And homeschooling is going great. I really enjoy the extra time with the kids and now we can take on family projects such as the garden with them right there learning and helping when they would normally be still in school. Ds's reading has improved tremendously and his math skills are phenominal. DD is having a little harder time. She just seems to think this schooling is not real and is only half trying. We are working on that though. We went fishing again last weekend. We caught our limit on hybrids and a caught a couple of whites and a largemouth(it was 17 inches) to boot! DS almost cried when we had to go home. He had to start throwing them back. Our livewell couldn't fit any more fish and we already had our limit on hybrids. Does anyone have any idea how HARD it is to convince a 10 year old that he has to throw a 3 lb bass back in the lake?!? The fish fought so hard that they were snapping our lines before we could even get close to getting them in. We had to go back and get 30 lb spider wire and redo our rods. The good thing about hybrids is that they don't breed in nature and are stocked in the lake so we didn't have to feel bad about catching them.
DD and the fish she caught all on her own.
DS and DD with some more fish they caught.
What we came home with. They really were bigger than they look in the pic. The brown one is a largemouth and it was 17 inches.
DS's hook after one hit it. It got away. Bet it was a monster though!
Dh at the end of the day trying for one more.
