Lucy The Goosey MOVES!!! Grudgingly...

Howdy Doo, from the Funny Farm!!! How Doo to all those that have enjoyed my past stories about my little "farm" and to those that have sent me notes asking when I would be writing more.

I'm back and do you know since Rowdy, Oreo, Lexington & Precious moved it had gotten pretty boring. Sarah and Sassy escape from time to time but they don't work up any funny stories. Just boring old life. Lucy talks to us but still...

Now don't ask me how but a rooster and 3 hens have revitalized the Funny Farm and they aren't the funny ones. Goliath is the biggest rooster I've ever seen and his goal is to eat me. No joke. One hen was getting picked on and so we had to move her out and in with the Silkies. The Silkies aren't regular laying hen fans so, yeah, you guessed it... BUT, they tolerate her most of the time. She keeps to herself and out of their way and they are good. However in a pen with NO way out the hen gets in and out of the Silkie cage. Weird I know. I go out and she is in at night and out in the morning. Guess she is a ghost. HAHA. More on her later.

We couldn't keep Sara Jayne and Sassy Maye in the barnyard area so we moved them into the backyard and moved our dog, Spoochie Grace, into the barnyard. Spooch is the size of a small horse and so she loves the extra space but she also enjoys chasing Lucille "Lucy" the Goose. Lucy is very bossy and vocal and we have never clipped her wings and she has never flown away. I think that is odd but obviously she is happy here. She would love to be a Mother Goose so if anyone knows where I can get fertile geese eggs or a couple goslings let me know. I'm thinking about letting her be a Momma. This post is all about Lucy!!!

Spooch enjoys and good game of chase with Lucy from time to time and though she has never hurt her or "caught" her my Mom freaks out EVERY time. So I believe it was me that came up with the idea... throw Lucy in the backyard with the goats until we can build her a pen all her own. Well, After a couple days, Mom out of town, Dad mentioned to me at midnight one night that the goats water bucket is on the back deck and Lucy doesn't go up there. So we talked and decided we would put a storage crate that is extra back there and I would go around get the water hose over the fence to Dad and turn the water on and then that would serve her until we could figure out what else to do. On my way around I thought, what a retard I am. If I'm going through all this trouble why not dump her little swimming pool and throw it over. HAHAHA, she liked that idea but oh boy did I ever get a goose cussing in Goose-ese. You would have to understand the language as I do. She was mad as only Lucy can be because that pool hit the ground with NO water. As soon as the water started running into the pool she was in the pool just a honking and bathing. She makes me laugh so hard. So that was that... But was it???

This morning Dad looked out the back door and said, the goats needed water and he would get it. He filled up the water jug and took it out back and came back in and said Lucy wasn't out there, he honked at her and she didn't answer (she always answers you). So I grabbed shoes ran outside and sure enough, no Lucy. I looked everywhere, in the goathouse, under the deck, still no Lucy. So I ran out the front and around to the barnyard and yeah, it rained today and it's a muddy mess out there. Ran over to the barn and there in a corner under dog area was Lucy in a corner on her nest. She escaped the backyard through a little hole Spooch dug out to see into the backyard. So I grabbed her up and 2 eggs and carried her through the house and put 2 eggs near her pool. Nope that did not work. She ran the fence honking and then headed towards Spoochs peephole. I blocked it up yelled at Dad to come help and then I went out walked the mud back across to her nest and gathered the 6 eggs that were left, Spooch had taken off with 1. I also grabbed hay, etc from her nest and we carried it back around. That dumb, well actually rather smart goose, went over counted her eggs and arranged them, came back out and started griping through the fence, she knows there is an egg missing I think. So for now she has her nest rearranged and has bathed and seems to be settling into backyard living but WOW, this battle will be renewed once the chicks start hatching and she heads back over to chicknap or try at least. 

Hope my Funny Farm friends enjoy our latest... I'm thinking about getting ducks this year, I want Mallards, I'm picky. LOL. check out my previous post to see pics of our newest birds!!! 

Welcome Goliath and His Girls

Welcome to Goliath and his 3 girls. Here are some pics, enjoy and I'll write about them in more detail later...

 Meet Goliath above and his girls below!!!

House Blog

OK, so my house and the process of everything to do with it is now set up. Go on over and enjoy!!! http://girlandherhouse.blogspot.com/

Update

Well, my word. Just scanned my own blog and I've not put up any recent pictures of my house. LOL.

Alot of people over in Facebook land like to read my ramblings and I don't always have time to stop over here and chat. So here I am, gotta few minutes to sit and chat. I'm going to start a new blog I think, I'll keep this one but start one I don't mind sharing with the world. I mean if you want to read this one, read on, but I post it all here when I'm in my moods. Helps me get it out and then I feel better and the only one the wiser are the few of you that show up here. LOL. So watch for my new blog and I hope you enjoy it.

My Thoughts of Recent Days!!

Alot has changed in life in the last few months of life. Ups and Downs. Ins and Outs. I'm coming into a mood of wanting to blog and write and put my thoughts and feeling down somewhere and so I always tend to find my way back here to the blogospere where I put my thoughts down in a area that I have found that I can put my tears, fears and some happy times too. I've written in my darkest days and in my happiest days and in those days like recently where I feel God has me at a point of decision... How far do I really want to go OR let me phrase it this way, how close to HIM do I want to be?

What a week or so ago Bro. David Smith was at our church and on a Tuesday night he had us prophesy out loud. Just whatever we could think of put it out there and begin to claim it. He even said, "Some of you will see your miracles/healings coming to pass by this coming Sunday". I thought well, I've NEVER done ANYTHING like that in my ENTIRE life, LOL, so why not. I'll do/try/say anything 1 time. So I begin to just lay it all out there for God, I spoke of everything from my family and home life, to my brothers family and life to my aunts family and life, my job, my job, my JOB, haha, my health, my weight, my singleness, my desires and dreams, my desire/dreams/thoughts, etc on what I thought was where I belonged in ministry in my church, I just laid it all out there. Sunday night or Monday night Teresa and I were sitting talking in the living room and I was sharing a testimony from church and I said, I guess I didn't pray or talk right or something because none of mine happened. She said yeah, and then she asked "Did you pray about your weight?".

LOL, I thought it over and said yes, I prayed that God would give me whatever I need to help me lose weight, she gave a little laugh and said "Ummm, your personal trainer is moving out here". I stopped and thought about it and laughed, I guess God did answer it just wasn't really what I was expecting.

Lezli has come to stay with us and I believe help me with my weight loss. She has already begun to help me, we've walked and worked out and honestly, I am feeling better already. I'm excited to see what will come along for me. I was thinking tonight not only will she help me with my weight loss but in helping me there I will begin to feel better about myself and then my confidence will come back and maybe someday, "Taniss" will totally emerge again. LOL. Amazing how life and work and people can drag you down until you don't even recognize yourself and you have nothing left and they don't even realize the damage they are pouring onto you. It's sad.

I was talking with Lezli Sunday afternoon and we were talking about God and church and such and we begin to talk about sacrifice, I don't think I realized it until recently exactly what was happening but inside there has been a stirring, for the deep things of God, it's been there to an extent for years but it's like lately I'm not just longing for it, something is calling me, reaching for me. I've been to that place before and it's a closer walk with God. I loved it, being close to Jesus is more important to me than anything, I've said it a million times. The past few weeks I've been praying asking God to draw me deeper and the things and people I have to leave behind, give me the strength to give them up. See, recently several of my long time friends and I have just drifted away from each other. I tried to keep contact and they were always so busy, family and work, social activities, etc. At first it hurt and then I remembered back then... When lonliness was common, people didn't understand me and only Jesus mattered. Sacrifice!!! I told Lezli the more we sacrifice or the greater the sacrifice it seems the closer to God we get. I know the sacrifice, I've been there before, to my flesh it hurts, I don't want too... But to be close to God, for that amazing anointing to fall over me once again, to find that place where HE finds me. Am I willing to sacrifice it all again? It hurts, it's lonely, people think you strange...

Time to choose.

Getting Life Back On Track

So I kinda got derailed in life and went through a bumpy patch but with God's help it's all going to get back on track again. Sometimes things in life overwhelm you or people hurt you and if you can't find a way to work through it, it will overtake you. The hurt will consume you and make you withdraw into your self where no one else can reach you and in your mind you won't be hurt anymore but it's funny how you can build walls so big and thick and tall and people that want to help you can't find a way in yet the hurt keeps coming. It's when you pull down the walls and let people in and make yourself vulnerable that you can begin to heal those wounds. You have to also begin a process of learning to not let those same situations or people continue to hurt you, you have to find a way to seperate yourself even at times cutting ties with those people.

Get Connected Singles Conference

Enjoying a nice holiday Monday!!!! Always nice to have a day off and no where to go, nothing to do but catch up on house work. LOL.

Had a good weekend at Get Connected Conference in Harker Heights. I went kinda grudgingly, LOL, Been just kinda blah in that area. LOL. I'm content in my singleness for now.

I was so blessed by Bro. Jason Sciscoe's messages. The Wrong Side of Fear and I can't remember his title on Saturday but the messages are those that stick with you for a lifetime.

Never be ashamed of your singleness, it's hard because you have to endure so many comments and questions and it's hard to believe that there isn't something wrong with you but God's Word never lies so it's settled, all the hurt, rejection, failures are blessings because they are directing me and leading me into what God has for me. My single years are the years I can put my focus on God.

Can't wait for my USB of the services arrive... I see those 2 messages on repeat on my iPad as I walk and jog. I think it's starting to dawn on me that if I'll start the process God will finish it. He cares about me and He sees all my tears and hurts and like Bro. Sciscoe prayed over me, God is healing my brokenness and when He is done healing me I will look back and see the blessings in my brokenness.

So I'll begin to go up the mountain because you can't stay on the plains, you have to go UP to meet with God. Funny how all that you want and it seems it should be so simple and yet it's always in the future. I'm about to change things in my life, I've got to get myself back to the basics of what I was raised on, Loving God, everything has got to be about Him. I know what I've got to do but it's easier to "know it" than it is to "do it".

So God and I are about to start a journey together. I've learned that I'm OK as a single, I can survive it. LOL. I've got to have His Power, His Glory, His Anointing and it always comes with a price, am I willing to pay it???