Geese and Ducks

Spring is here!  As I sped over the last hill on the gravel road to town, a flock of geese and ducks sat off to the side of the road, on the cold waters of snow run-off from the hills.  Little green headed mallards and their mates were bobbing around with them. 

I didn't get a picture of them, but tried to catch another flock at another run-off pond a little later.  As soon as I stopped the pickup and rolled down the window most of them took to the air.  Part of the flock, on the other side of the pond, stayed long enough for me to get one quick shot!  They didn't mind me driving by, but they sure knew when I stopped!  I wonder just how smart those geese and ducks are!!!

The song  "Come Awake" was added to my blogger you-tube songs.   Doesn't that just describe most of us?   Walking around spritually dead!   The enormity of the awesome grace we have, to be able to talk to GOD -- this entity that created all of the world, the universe and all in it--is beyond understanding!  Why does He bother with such as us?  Yet, He loves us.   Let us be AWAKE and know Him!  He LOVES us!!!

Ephesians 5:8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. 13 But all things that are exposed are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. 14 Therefore He says:

“ Awake, you who sleep,

Arise from the dead,

And Christ will give you light.”

A Surprising Turn With Potato Soup

Sometimes the most unexpected ingredients turn out so delicious!  The fridge is pretty bare for the fixings for potato soup.   Being hungry, I skipped the baked potato soup and put a pot of potatos on and boiled them until they were mush.  Scrounged through the fridge and tossed in all vegetables....cut up celery, carrots, broccoli, onions and boiled.  Then added a little milk and lots of Montery Jack cheese--maybe 1 1/2 cup.  Cooked everything smooth and then added about 3/4 cup cream.   From start to finish, the time couldn't have been more than 45 mins!

Grabbed a diet decaf pepsi and sat down with my soup.  What a blessing to enjoy

PS.  Next time I am going to cut back on the cream and throw in some sour cream.
pss.  Also, shake a cup of milk up with about 1/2 c flour before adding. 

(This was the post from the other day.  The internet went down and I forgot about the post!  The website apparently did an autosave.  :)  That was really good soup.  I see it didn't save the latest entry with my changes...ps's added)

Ground Blizzard

The wind woke me up.   It is blowing too hard for the  animals to go out  today!   I was trying to decide if I even wanted to get out of bed.  Then came a weird sound of something pulling up and getting blown over the roof.  Hopefully, it was the blanket of snow and ice up there and not the shingles.   The temperatures are in the single digits ABOVE ZERO.  Thank God it warmed up.  However, these extreme fluctuations always seem to bring extremely high winds, too.

I don't think I will make that planned trip to town.  The winds are suppose to increase this afternoon and it will be hard to see where the road is through the blowing snow as it is!  The road, the ditches and fields are going to be looking like one big white land.    A drift is already forming in the drive, looks like we are going to be drifted in again!!