Then and Now

It was 10 degrees with a wind chill making it -8. Tomorrow will be a high of -2 low of -20. I would like to think about starting seeds but I think that is all I can do is think about it for now. Summer come again soon.

The Price for warm weather

The forecast for today is a high of 50! Wonderful,  it has been melting all weekend. This is what it takes for it to warm up around here, on Saturday for example we had a concisest wind of 44 miles an hour with gust to 75. This was mild compared to 34 miles to the west where the gusts were 95 miles an hour. The wind derailed a train and tore the side off a house to mention a couple things. Just wanted you to know when I am complaining about the wind the wind is truly blowing. On a happy note this morning when I walked NO wind! Happy Day. It is starting to blow now but in a normal way.
Happy Valentines Day!

Winter

Winter has felt so long. We had our first below 0 weather in November and it keeps coming.... It is normal to have weather when it it below 0 but January and February is when we usually have real cold days. I wish I would have kept track of it. I am sure it is some kind of record. I need to remind myself that winter has been bad everywhere and at least cold and snow are our normal. It has warmed up the last few days but with high wind warnings, it is wonderful for the 30 degree temperatures but the drifting and wind is so bad you still can't be outdoors. Do I sound crabby?
A bright spot in the week is the bible study that I host at my house each week. We just finished Live a Praying Life by Rebecca Kennedy Dean. Now we are doing Anointed, Transformed, Redeemed. We have gotten our book club going and choose a Montana autor Stanley Gordon West.  I had readied To Bind your Ponies and really enjoyed it. The Characters were good and the way he captured basketball in Montana was perfect. We are reading Growing an Inch. This weekend our church is hosting a Marriage Seminar hosted by Jim and Karen Evans.
February is passing. 

                                                                   Some Winter photos
These Eagles where feeding on a Deer that had been killed along the road, the field was full of Golden Eagles, Bald Eagles and crows. I hadn't seen a Golden Eagle that close before they are much bigger then the Bald Eagles. Those darn crows are a big bird also. I always feel so blessed to live here when I see nature so up close.

Hunting

These are from November when I went with my husband and his hunting buddy on horses looking for Elk. We didn't see any but enjoyed a wonderful day. It was the first time I had been on a horse in a very long time. I was so glad I went. My camera was giving me some trouble and I regret not getting a couple shots of my cute hunting companions.

From the Parisenne Farm Girl

You know how passionate I am about organic, healthy food.... You know how much the President and his policies get on my nerves....

Here we go again...

While Michelle is out campaigning for us all to have a healthy, organic lifestyle... (not out of our own choice but thru more government programs) Barack is siding with Monsanto  by approving GMO alfalfa... this could be devastating to our organic dairy farmers and many more....

Here is an excerpt from Food Democracy Now that explains this further...

...According to university scientists, the deregulation of GMO Roundup Ready alfalfa could lead to the genetic contamination of all conventional and organic alfalfa within five years. As a result of this decision, organic and non-GMO farmers have lost another vital tool in their toolbox to expand into highly profitable domestic and foreign markets, eliminating important market opportunities for beginning farmers and ranchers at a time when they can least afford it.

The approval of Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa is yet another example of the agricultural biotechnology industry forcing an entirely unnecessary product onto the market not for farmer benefit, but simply to improve their bottom-line, as currently, more than ninety-three percent of alfalfa planted in the U.S. does not use any herbicides in growing alfalfa.

As any farmer worth their salt will tell you, alfalfa - as a perennial legume - does not suffer from the same weed pressures as other crops, such as specifically corn, soybeans, cotton and canola and that is why 93% of the alfalfa hay does not use any herbicides. In addition, by approving GMO alfalfa, the Obama administration has further weakened production agriculture since the increased use of herbicides will only lead to an increase of glyphosate-resistant superweeds, which have been called “the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have ever seen,” by Andrew Wargo III, the president of the Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts as reported in The New York Times on May 3, 2010."

Clearly you can see this is just about control.

 I wish I was a calm, non-passionate person sometimes cause frankly, this has me so ticked off I could blow a gasket.  Left or Right, love him or hate him can we not all agree that it's SICK for the Obamas to go on and on about eating healthy and then to team up with Monsanto as if we are all too stupid to put two and two together??

Please take a moment and visit Food Democracy Now, on behalf of the small farmer and those of us across the country who want to have the RIGHT to healthy and GMO free!

 

Right on sister!

Potager

A Potager (poe-tah-jay) is where form meets function

where nutrition meets the aesthetic.

My new word that I think describes my gardening style. I wish I had some better photos to demonstrate it.