Things that I love

I am focusing on the positives in my life and want to list the things that I love. The more I give love and gratitude, the more love and gratitude will come to me!
This is where I will start, but I find myself loving so many things as I go about my day! I find gratitude in new places now such as a red light, as this often gives me time to check a text message or grab a water bottle from the back of my car.
I Start like this:
I love my husband! He is the perfect mate for me! He has such patience and is always there for me!
I love my children! They have grown up to be such wonderful adults and have given me so much joy as I reflect on their growing up. I love that they are all near by and all get along well with each other!
I love my grandbabies! Bailey is adorable and I love to hear her talk! She jabbers on and on and she brings me so much love! I love the baby that Jessica is carrying. This baby brings more hope and joy to us!
I love my farm! I love being able to go out and sit with my dogs and goats and just get loved on by them! I love that Bob is such a great mate for Pearl! I love that my goats are bred or being bred to have babies this year! I love my chickens! Big and small, I love listening to them when they are excited about laying an egg or cuddling up for the night on a cedar branch in the coop. I love my geese for the wonderful and delicious eggs that they provide and that they are such perfect alarms for the driveway! I love that they are grass eaters! I love my pigs! I love that they are prolific and gave us 4 piglets! I love that they are grass eaters too! I love that the female pig is easily contained behind a single strand of electric wire. I love our cats. I love that Lefty caught a mouse in the front yard today! I love that Tulip has calmed down when she is in the house! I love my jobs! I love being a nurse and being able to make a difference in many lives! I love my home health jobs and being able to connect with so many new people. I love that I often can see Divine Intervention at work in my daily life! I love my Mona Vie company! I love the people that I have become close friends with through MonaVie! I love eating right! I love having the option of having any foods that I want simply by going to a grocery store or restraunt. I love that I can get hot outside, then step into my air conditioned home! I love that I can take a shower when I want! I love that I have the convience of indoor plumbing and electricity. I love that if I get the urge to talk with my family and friends, I can simply call them on my cell phone! I love that when I get tired, that I have a nice big clean bed with lots of pillows that I can snuggle down into. I love that my husband can do the same beside me! I can(and will) go on like this for hours! I will do the rest of my listing of the things that I love later after I log off of the net. But, one more.... I love that I have internet and this sweet little net book!!!

A day in the life of a deranged farmer

Is a "Deranged Farmer" a farmer without a range?? Hmmm.
I worked hard all day at my job, which by the way I LOVE, got home after 7 pm and stopped inside for a brief moment to put away the ice. Apparently this has to be done in a timely manner. Otherwize, I would be putting a leaky bag of water into the chest freezer. This would do me no good. Okay, then I hurridly made my RVL shake for dinner... also LOVE this! Poured into a to go cup and took off to the neighbors house to bring them a bucket with a lid. Seems that they, along with 99% of the world have leftover vegetables that they would normally throw away. I rarely throw mine away now, because we actually eat them here! We don't guilt-buy them only to pretty up the fridge.
So back to the neighbor. She wants to contribute to the healthy appetites of my pigs! Cool!! She already had a sack of vegetables for me at the door. I thanked her and traded the empty bucket for the bag full of scraps. Back in the van/truck to the back door neighbors to feed their ducks and cats while they are at the coast this week. (Lucky bums) ~I accidently typed "Lucky Buns" I laughed for a minute, then fixed it. Then I thought that you may like to laugh too... Leave the engine running, cause I don't take long! Off to Chicken Larry's to pick up my newly hatched chicks! Larry rocks! He gave me 42 chicks for the price of 28! He likes to refer to himself as "Mr Haney"" from Green Acres. Only in the fact that if there is something that one may be needing, he will have it somewhere on his farm, and of course it's for sale! We all need a Mr Haney. Okay, I load up my 42 chicks and after discussing very important things like the sale barn in Durrant and what to do with chickens and peacocks when they die, I head back home to put the chicks in the brooder that I got from, you guessed it, Chicken Larry! Realized when I got back to the house that the animals had not been fed yet, so I dawn my evening wear (headlamp) and head out to the goat pen. Billy helps feed the goats and the dogs, we put up the geese, check on the chickens in the pen and gather eggs. I have 2 game hens (from Larry)sitting on some eggs together in a nest box (made by Larry) with a chick or 2 hatched under them. I like to make it worth their while for all of their sittin' so I popped a few of the chicks from Larry under them. They thank me by not pecking the holy begeebers out of my hand. Now I can feed the pigs the bag of scraps from the neighbors. The babies are all tucked in the pig shack. I am done. And it's only 10:15 pm! Now, I can relax for oh, 30 minutes before going to bed. Now for the count: 4 goats plus a billy goat on loan for breeding, 2 great pyrenees dogs to watch over the goats and everyone else, 27 chickens, 8 roosters (rescued 7 roosters Saturday night), 44 baby chicks, 3 geese, 5 rabbits and 6 pigs. Yeah, we've only got 3 acres here, so it's starting to feel a little cramped! I guess we need to sell some stuff. Feed is getting out of hand. Anyone need a rabbit? A few chickens???