SUNSHINE!! And Soup!!

We had a beautiful day the other day and we enjoyed it greatly. I'm not sure if we hit the expected high of 45F or if we passed it... I was out and about having a great time in the sunshine and didn't even check!! LOL. We took a trip to town to get some last minute butchering supplies then came home and played out of doors until past nap time. We grabbed the sled and hauled a load of shavings, we took pictures of the 'fort'

Going Inside.The Front Room.The Side Room and the Hallway. And the SWORD Holder!! Also can be used to keep a stick across the doorway so that no one can go in.The Back Room., we ran and threw snow. We got absolutely totally soaking wet and loved it. The sun was shining and warm. The water was running here and there. There is a large puddle under the Travelalls rear end that extends out and L loved to play in it!! We put all the kids (all totalling 110 lbs) in to the sled and I pulled them to the mail box and back. Baby R sat in the snow, sun on her face and watched the others run and play. We had a great time. I checked the fence that I just posted pictures of and the snow has melted between 4 and 6 inches!! Then we headed inside, sucked down a can of soup and went down for naps. I love feeding soup to my kids. Well. No I love the quickness of it. I wish it was our own tomato soup then I would really love the whole deal. Soup for 3, or 4, is easy!! I grab a can of soup. J opens it and puts it in a 4 cup measuring cup or a bowl. I add water and microwave it, then I grab a jug of milk and straws and add enough milk to make it 'warm' and they all drink it up through the straws out of the measuring cup. Measuring cups work the best as they are not so tippy as bowls and have smaller tops. If Baby R is awake for lunch she gets soup and milk mixed in a cup with her own straw!!

A Quick Answer to Prayer!!

One night last week I was reading on the couch (it is winter!!) and I heard a beeeep. It sounded like my bread maker?? So I looked over and the power was out on the microwave. Strange... but not too unexpected. Several weeks ago Papa got home late at night from work and went to microwave his supper and about half way through the microwave stopped. He went and checked the breakers and nothing was flipped. OK. Then we noticed that not only was the microwave dead, so was the bread maker, our bedroom lamp and our alarm clock, the kitchen over head range lights, our main kitchen light and fan. PLUS the entrance light and fan!! But the bathroom lights worked, the lights above the microwave worked, our overhead bedroom light worked and the rest of the house was fine. Things from 5 different breakers had quit. Very strange. So he ate his meal and by the time he was done all of the dead things were back on!!! Stranger yet. We agreed it was something to watch out for and look into and went to bed. Then several weeks later it happened again. While I was sitting there reading these lights and things flipped off then back on, then off then on again. The 2nd time I got up and unplugged some stuff thinking that somehow it was just working too hard!! But the breakers were not flipped!! I even went outside to see if there was a problem out there and unplugged some things to test it. Nothing helped. Then it quit and I had no power in those things. Strange. I went to get a drink and realized I had no power on that half of the house and NO WATER!!! Well this is new!! So I called Papa at work and he said we'd be fine til he got home, I was wondering about electrical fire hazards. When he got home he pulled the breaker board off and did some testing then called our local hydro company and told them what was up. We had supper and then Papa headed out to milk the cow!! And before he was done milking the truck was here to fix the power. It turns out the new fuse they put in last fall was not put in correctly and water had entered it and broken it. The kids stood in the window and watched as the bucket truck lifted a man up and he replaced the fuse and then lowered him again. Pretty neat stuff right out our front window. The new pressure gage Papa put in the water system recently turns it's self off when the pressure gets too low. So Papa had to crawl around under the trailer for a minute but within an hour of his call we had power and water!!! As Papa said "It's not everyday you get an answer to prayer THAT fast!!" God is Good!!