Sunday, September 9, 2007

Enchanting moments






Here is one of our Enchanting Sunsets. These were take moments apart and lasted less than about 2 minutes.
Seth

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Look what is on the agenda with my "Free Time" for this coming week!


What a blessing!! Especially since they were free for the picking!

It took us a little over an hour to clean the tree. Need to go get started!
Mel

UMMM! This apple butter is GOOD!


A Rewarding Scene For A Teacher



Amanda jumped on Marlin's stomach to see if he'd react!


On Friday's, we have school for a half of a day. After school, while my gang was waiting for their mac. and cheese and hotdogs for lunch, this is what they were doing. Maybe they were not too tired of school yet..........for this week anyway.
Mel

Thought To Ponder!

What was Jesus doing in His darkest hour?
Praying for YOU!
Taken from Sr. Dorcas' SS Hour Lesson

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Thank-you Sweetheart!


Thanks, Sweetheart, for fighting with this monster and keeping it from finding lodging under our house trailer! The boys saw the bull snake and it tried to find refuge under the trailer but Seth pulled on its back half and after a struggle, he won the match! Thank the Lord!!!
Carrie, if you would have been home, we might have sent it to you. Did you say you were looking for another pet?
Sorry! I don't share your tastes on pets.
Mel

Saturday, September 1, 2007

What's wrong with that horse

Thursday evening after picking up my load of people for church, I was driving on one of our Enchanted roads when I noticed a horse lying out in the field. Out here, it is mostly open range, that means visitors of all kinds, sheep, goats, cows, and horses, yes and snakes. Seeing it out there, I commented and Loretta, a student's mother, said, "Yes, I saw it out there about 3:30. I wonder whats wrong with it." As we were passing by I noticed every once in a while that it would try to get up. It was a young stud I had seen around all summer and I thought it might have been too close to a herd of mares and had gotten the worst end of the deal, or had it entangled itself in some loose barbed wire, or stepped into a hole. After service and taking everyone home I drove over to it and looked it over. I could see no obvious reasons for its predicament. Asking the neighbors for a phone # for the Tribal Rangers (Livestock inspectors) I told them about the horse. They had called Poncho, a man who they thought the horse belonged to and started looking for it. We went out to it and Poncho said he has colic and thought we were too late to help it any. After trying to locate the owner, he decided to try and save it. Our neighbor said give it some coke. Poncho went to his truck and pulled out some beer. He took a stick and forced the horse's mouth open and poured it down its mouth so it would have to drink it. Then we put a rope around it and helped it up on its feet. The three of us chased that horse in circles for quite a while. Keep it moving, keep it moving! Don't let him cramp up! After a while it relieved itself. It then stood there shaking and quivering all over. Later we tried to get it in a corral and it took off running. It must have been feeling pretty good. By this time it was close to Midnight. Another one of those unexpected duties of a Missionary. It wasn't the first call of the week, to go out "after hours" for duty.
Seth