Sixty-Eight years ago.....

Sixty-eight years ago on a beautiful Sunday morning in Hawaii the sky erupted with the sound of aircraft flying overhead.  The Attack on Pearl Harbor had begun.  The attack sank four U.S. Navy battleships (two of which were raised and returned to service later in the war) and damaged four more. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, and one minelayer, destroyed 188 aircraft, and caused personnel losses of 2,402 killed, and 1,282 wounded.

Our freedom is not free, and all those killed were a bit of that price paid to remain this way.  Let us show our gratitude to all of our service men and women, thanking them for their price that they pay to keep our country free.

In Christ,
~Bethany~

Joy to the World!

Every Sunday through this month I am going to post a Christmas song here on my blog.  Yesterday all of us girls went and caroled in our Civil War era dresses at a Civil War Christmas house tour.  It was pretty cool, and started getting us all in the Christmas "mood" as I call it. 

The carol I am posting today is Joy to the World.  Probably one of the most well known Christmas carols and written by Isaac Watts in 1719, Joy to the World is a beautiful song announcing the birth of our Lord.  It calls all men to come and rejoice that our Savior has come and humbled himself as a child to save all mankind.  Isn't His love awesome?

 Joy to the World

Joy to the World , the Lord is come!
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare Him room,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven and nature sing,
And Heaven, and Heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the World, the Savior reigns!
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

My God show you the Joy of the season this Christmas!

~Bethany~

Sarah Palin!!!!

Sarah Palin's Book Tour!  I was unable to go :( :( as I had school, but Abigail and Dad headed down into IN to go see her!  When they got there and realized that there were a couple thousand people ahead of them....they turned back.  They did get some pretty neat pictures though, so that's kinda cool.  Probably a good thing I wasn't there or I would have wanted to stay and still get to see her.  :D   

 

 The Sarah Palin bus from the Highway.

 

 People in line. 

And just a few of the broadcasters there....

 

 NEWS 13!!!

 

 National Broadcasting!

NBC!!!

So that was just a little excitement.  I thought it was pretty cool that they were even so close to her.  :D  I know, I'm kinda a fanatic, I know.  I think she is one awesome lady.  Conservative, strong, outdoorsy, I mean what can get better?  Anyway...

Hope my stories aren't driving anyone crazy.  This was one of my last.  Still have the dog kennels to show you all.  They are pretty cool, but I still need some more pictures of the finished product.

One really quick last note....we finished up I Kissed Dating Goodbye at our blog Beyond the Cover.    On Monday, the 14th we will be starting the book Do Hard Things by Alex and Brett Harris.  Come and check it out!  Do Hard Things is a great book!

In Christ,

~Bethany~

Birthday Girls!

Happy Birthday to Elizabeth and Rachel!  

Yesterday was Elizabeth's 8th birthday.  I can't believe it's been so long since she was born!  It's gone so fast.  Elizabeth is growing up into a beautiful, hard working young lady.  I love you girl! 

Rachel's birthday is today.  She is now 14 years old and has lived in our home for 9+ years.  We are so glad to have her in our home.  Just as a bit of news....she was named Student of the Month at her school in November.  We were all so proud of her!  Love you Rachel!

 

~Bethany~

Millie's Trip to the Vet

Today's earthshattering story..... Millie's trip to the vet. :D  Ok, so this was like 4 weeks ago.....but when I went out to the barn on a beautiful, crisp, sunny, Sunday morning I found poor little Millie in pitiful shape.  She was very hypothermic (like 97* and they should be at least 102*) so you know what we do....load 'em up and stick them in the bathtub.  Thankfully she was just a little one and nice and clean.  :D  We got her temp up a some (to around 99*), called the vet, and thankfully he was in so we were able to take her right to the vet office.  We wrapped her up in towels and stuck her in a garbage bag to keep all the heat in. 

Abigail held her on the way to the vet.  Thank goodness it was just a little Jersey heifer calf!

 Soon as we got there he shaved her neck so he could get an IV in.

  I don't remember exactly what he said he put in there, but it was probably sugars and a little medicine.  They gave her 3 in one morning. 

 She stayed at the vet office for 3 days/2 nights.  When we left her, she was in this condition. 

 

And I don't have any of her since she came home.  She did come home though in excellent shape.  She's doing great now and growing so fast.  They sure don't stay little for long. 

Since we're on the topic of cattle here...I'm going to give you an update on all of our cows for those that are interested.

We have Vi who's bred plus 2 bred heifers all due right around late April/ early May.  There are 5 heifers that were born between early March and now all not bred.  We'll start breeding them around May.  Dad bought a beef heifer to raise for beef and Abigail got her fair steer.  Charlie is pretty wild yet.  :D  Oh, and can't forget Blink.  He's the only living steer from those 3 we bought this spring and he's getting huge.  Both him and Ellie (both born in March) are just as big as our bred heifers.  Sure they are bigger breeds, but they are still huge.  Ellie is such a sweetheart.  I just had to go say hi to her yesterday since we had moved her to a pasture at our place.  I called her and she came running and just wanted a whole bunch of lovin', which I gladly gave her.  She's more like a dog.  The thing was so spoiled rotten this spring.  :P  And last but not least, my fair steer Aiden is coming along beautifully.  He wasn't feeling so good the other day, but seems to getting better now.

 Well, I think that wraps it up.  Have a wonderful day my friends!

~Bethany~

Movie on the Loose!

Okay, our first story of the week will be about Miss Movin' On Up.  Movie is the surviving doe kid from Mandie from this spring (check that story out HERE) so she's had a crazy life story so far.  We kinda added to that by letting her into the house one day.  She was the escape artist for a while and loved getting out of her pasture, so needless to say we'd find her occasionally up on our porch.  No problem, she loved laying in the sun with the dogs.  Except for when people get bored.  Then they let the goat in the house.  Now you kinda gotta know Movie to understand the whole story.  She's sweet, hyper and loves to jump on everything, including people (which is a real pain, both literally and figuratively, I mean she is probably getting close to 85/90 pounds now).  Anyway, so some of the (human) kids let her into the house to explore. 

First, Ben was given the chore of walking behind her with a bucket, broom and dustpan. 

She thought that the Kitchen Counters were pretty cool too.  She wasn't too impressed with the mess though (please excuse it!).

I can't tell here is she's laughing at all of her friends out in the barn or if she's begging to get back outside.

She decided to get into some candle making stuff too.  She got into the box of empty jars and before anyone could catch her....she had broken one.

After that, they finally stuck her outside again.  Now, she remains locked up in her pen and hasn't escaped yet.  Hopefully it will remain that way.  :)  She's a sweetheart though!

Needless to say, she wasn't the first half/full grown goat in the house.  There was the one like 2 days after Elizabeth was born (and she was born at home).  Then there was the one I had sleep with me in bed after an injury to her neck.  Oh, and I'm sure Miss Movie won't be the last.  :D

Blessings!
~Bethany~

AA Update

So, it's been awhile since I last update you on what was going on around here at Asher Acres.  Pretty much, it's been busy. :D  We've been working on a dog kennel which I'll be showing pictures of once it's completed (I have pictures of start to finish) and that's been keeping Dad and Abigail quite busy.  We've had awesome weather around here with our first snow on Friday the 27th.  It was warm and sunny yesterday again though and everyone just loves being outside at the end of November.  Last winter was LONG and no one was really looking forward to being stuck up in the house again.  I think we are all finally settling down now though and are now entertaining positive thoughts about that white fluffy stuff. 

Abigail lost her camera for a while and no one really took any pictures but I just downloaded like 300+ so I'm just going to put some pictures up here from the last while.  Then over this week I'll kinda go through a few stories that have pictures attached that happened a little while ago.  For example....playing in the leaves, Millie's trip to the vet, Black Friday, etc.  :)

Here are just a few random photos!  Don't you just love those?  :D

 Abigail on Daisy and Rachel on Hoss out for a ride.

 

 Our Livestock Judging team in the newspaper.

God's blessings!

~Bethany~