Let's see if the system works....

My mother is taking me to court.

She had left her landlord/roomate's house. They were lovers at one point but for many years they have had seperate bedrooms and were basically just roomates. He was around through my childhood and was like my dad.

She left and then stole his things- multiple times. And why she would stop by and take things that she then tried to give away, I don't know. Why everything was suddenly hers, I don't know that either.

I DO know that somehow I got stuck as mediator. Probably because she tried to get me to lie and say the neighbor stole part of his belongings. Or when she tried to get me to spy on him... and I wouldn't do it. That kind of got me involved to.

Long story short- I took his stuff back more than once. I never did get it all back. One of the things I took back she is really mad about. It is an old civil war letter. It was only appraised at $125 or $150 but they think it might be worth more than that.

So she is taking me to court for theft. Even though she KNEW she needed to give his stuff back. And even though she had given me permission to be in her home to get his things back. The day I took his letter back (it would of been considered his) I was using her computer. The letter was beside the computer so I took it back. How simple is that???

Now I go to court on the 3rd at 2:30. I am not being charged for everything. Just the letter. This is so pathetic. It is slowing down our trip down south. Oh wells. Let's just hope the magistrate is level headed. :)  

And to make it worse, she and my brother can break into my home while I am gone on vacation and the police can't do anything because they don't have forensics. And they can break into our other house, that used to be her lover/landlord/roomates because the house deed wasn't in our name yet. It doesn't matter if WE were the ones that paid all the years of back taxes on it. Whatever.

Rick has learned to build windmills for green energy!

Now he is considering having his cousin build him a website to make that his business. I think that is very neat! His cousin and his wife are inspiring because they are both self employeed and doing well in Pittsburgh, Pa. If they can do it then we can too, right? She is the photographer who took really nice photos of our girls and Gabe when he was born.

Since he is getting laid off on the 25th of November he figured that starting a business would be a good idea. The question is what to do. He can build just about anything and is especially good with a welder. Do should he build things for jeeps??? Green power seems to be a good business to get into too.... we will see. God will show us what to do.

Things that have changed since I was on here blogging...

1. We got milking goats and they had kids.
2. We got chickens, guineas, ducks and hatched and sold them. Rick made a giant incubator that holds about 500 eggs.
3. We are selling our house and moving into a place that is dumpy and needs everything really replaced. From the floor to the wiring to the walls to the plumbing....
4. Rick is getting laid off from his job at GE with about 200 other people. (well, about 150 layoffs and 50 early retirements)
5. Since Rick is getting laid off we are planning on going back south for the winter. Maybe we will go a little further south this time for a few weeks. There are clear waters and pyramids in the southern part of Mexico along the eastern coast. The Caribbean coast.
6. We are selling a bunch of our animals so we can go south and housing out the rest of them with friends.
7. Savannah, the oldest child, just became our first teenager.
8. Rick is building a windmill. It is almost done. I will blog it when it is complete. The outside is fully done but he still needs the guts and batteries. It is SO cool.
9. We should be able to take the windmill with us in our VW camper van to Mexico. Then we can camp with electricity! Oh, and the point of changing to #9 is that we are getting the VW camper van finally done and painted. (we better get it done while we still have $!)
10. Uuuummmmmm..... I know there is more but I can't think of them right now.

We are back blogging I think....

To see the individual photos up close just scroll your mouse over the screen.

I am shutting this blog down. Maybe someday I will be back on.

I am online through my husbands phone... that means if he is not here than I am not online. The little bit of time he is here I am busy. So, I realize I can't do it all.

It has been nice being friends with some of you ladies. (((and I do consider many of you ladies FRIENDS))) Maybe I will talk to you again in heaven someday if I never get back to blogging.

Bye.

Yesterday Jacob had his eleventh birthday.

We got him a REAL 22 rifle. He is moving up from the BB gun. Rick had him close his eyes and hold out his hands and then gave him a gun. When he open his eys Jacob said "WOW! For real?" He was really happy.

Rick had a chiropractor appointment that day in the city and suprised us all by going to Tractor Supplies and buying us a gift. Rick walked in the door and pulled a Bantam peep out of his pocket for Jacob. (Jacob really has an obsession with those kind of chickens) and then he pulled out a Comet ROOSTER for me! Why do I consider that romantic?!?!? LOL I needed a purebred comet rooster for my chickens and now I have one. ((THANKS DADDY))

Notice his poison ivy is drying up....

Isn't he cute????

This is him in a patch of unusual flowers that grow in a circle at the bottom of the yard. Does anyone know what they are? From a distance it looks like a silvery white circle....

Gabe is **sort of** crawling. Jacob and Ben were both crawling by now but Gabe prefers the 'I'm being held' way of transportation. He IS the youngest of six! He has learned to pull himself up on things now. He says "mama" but he said "dad" first. He can wave his hand and say "hi" and poops and pees on the pot **IF** I take him on a half way regular schedule. He'll hold it for an hour or two or even three but after that he just goes.

I have not been on here much this month.

With Spring has come a busy, busy, busy life.... plus we were offline for a week because were going to go over on our usage!!

Well, here is what is new (I hope to post photos soon)

1. Jacob looks like he buried his face in poisen ivy. I think he got it while helping with firewood. He looks awful...
2. We hatched chickens.
3. We are hatching turkeys, a peacock egg and more chickens soon.
4. I am thinking about getting a milking goat.
5. I bought two pairs of breeding turkeys. One pair is Black Spanish and the other is Blue Slate.
6. We built 8 raised garden beds, a huge garden bed containing lots of corn and potatoes and a few other things.
7. Rick rehurt his back but is back to work. Tonight is his first night back... AGAIN!
8. We have had three yardsales this month on three different Saturdays.
9. I am pregnant- I am JUST KIDDING!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA LOL ROFLOL
10. We have been learning to harvest more weeds herbs and plants to eat. Dandelion Fritters are really good and so are Dandelions that are deep fried in batter!
11. We have two baby bunnies that were found in the woods. Dad almost cut one with a chainsaw when he was cutting firewood. They live with the baby chicks we hatched. Here is a photo- 

Everything went really well with the CYS guy today. Much better than I could of imagined!

He did NOT walk through our house. He did NOT make us sign papers. He did NOT seperate us from our children to talk to them.

He DID treat us like we were human beings. He WAS friendly and pleasant. If all caseworkers were like this man children and youth service would have a good name.

I just want to say THANK YOU to my prayer warrier people who have made this all possible and an even bigger THANK YOU to God for doing the answering. God is really good and has protected us from evil again.