Spring Projects

I've got several projects I've been working on this spring.  Lately Taylor and I have been working on our first garden.  We're both pretty excited about it.  I've always helped Mom do her garden, but it's fun to have my own.  Not long after we got our plot worked up, the belt on the tiller broke.  I waited a little while, hoping it would be fixed so I could use it to get the ground ready to plant.  By Monday I grabbed the good, old fashioned hoe and worked the plot myself.  I was afraid to wait too long to get things in the ground.  So far I've got potatoes, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, onions, and peas planted.  I also started some tomatoes, peppers and herbs inside, and they are doing well.  Now Taylor and I are working to put a fence around the garden.  Taylor's parents told us the rabbits would destroy it if we didn't. 

I also have three bucket calves I'm raising.  Their names are Ivy, Isabelle and Ivan.  So far (knock on wood), they've all been doing really well.  They're all around a month old now, and they're so cute!  We built their pens next to our dog's kennel, which may have been a mistake.  He's a born cattle dog out of working parents, and we're pretty sure it's torture for him to be so near the calves, but not be able to work them and chase them. :)  Poor Bently.

A lot of my spare time has been filled with running.  In late February a friend asked me if I'd want to run a half marathon with her.  Call me crazy, but I thought it sounded kind of fun.  We are registered to run the half marathon in Nashville, Ten. on April 28.  I've gotten through the toughest part of the training, and I'm really looking forward to the race!  It's going to be a lot of fun, especially since my sister Katie, and my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are coming.  We're making it a girls' weekend.  I think that through my running app on my phone, I'll be able to post my race on facebook, so people can kind of see where I'm at and cheer me on.

I thought it might be fun to occasionally write down some things I've learned since being out here in western Kansas.  Here's my first one:

• Fact 1:  I've learned that on really windy days, tumbleweeds will travel in herds (big ones!)

Every day I do a "Scripture of the Day," and my favorite one this week was:
 "Whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son."  John 14:13

I liked this scripture because the lesson that went with it talked about how God hears our prayers, and He will answer them, too.  However we should not insist that God ONLY give us exactly what we ask for.  We are only human.  We can't see the future, and we are fallible.  But God is perfect.  He knows what plans He has for us, and what is best for us.  More so than just asking Him to grant our wishes and thereby limiting His ability to work within our lives, we should ask that His will be done.  It may be greater than anything we could imagine.

Have a fantastic, blessed week!