Well, my goodness. Has it really been over a week since I last wrote?! Whew. The time just flew past. Of course, the temps have sky rocketed too! It's now generally in the 90s with moderate to high humidity. Yuck. I wouldn't mind the heat so much if the humidity weren't so high. But 40%-70% humidity is a real killer of motivation to do much of anything!!!!! Even my poor little plants are not having fun out in the garden.
We've been busy harvesting and preparing more zucchini than I have figured out what to do with, green beans (8 quarts in the freezer so far....one more we ate tonight for dinner....boy were they good!), and about 1/2 a bushel of onions. We've been picking peppers, tomatoes and cilantro as they ripen. Hoping they'll start ripening together so we can make some salsa for Dodi. I've also got to cut all the bok choy and do something with it......any suggestions?!?! I don't think we can eat all 8 heads at once.
I hope you all had a blessed and wonderful Shavuot (Pentecost). We went to the new synagogue in Temple and joined. (Ahava, don't have a heart attack please. )But Dodi decided he was ready to join, so we're now Messianic Jews. We have been in our hearts for several years, but had no where close enough to make it feasible to join. Now we do. (Gayle, now it's your turn to NOT have a heart attack!!!! I'll explain to you later....) Our Shavuot service was incredible!!! I even got to hold the Torah Scroll as we "danced like David danced" during the service. The Torah scroll I got to carry and dance with is one that was smuggled out of Iraq just before the War started. It's got tiny bells all over the top of the two spools (?) holding the actual Torah. I was blown away when they handed it to me. It's priceless! But I did SO enjoy dancing with Papa while holding His love letter to me!!!! It was such a blessing. We also had taken some freshly gleaned wheat with us... yes Gayle, Little Critter and I went out early and gleaned some of your corner wheat...thank you for allowing us to do that. I'm so blessed to have friends in high places! We still may come do some more gleaning if I can figure out how to grind it.....probably would help if I had a grinder. But I don't. And I don't think I want to stand at the table and use my marble slab to grind wheat......hmmmm. Will have to continue to study this one.
After the service, we had a feast!!! Boy, if you left hungry it was your own fault!!!! The congregation is small (much like All Saints, Gayle) but there was more food than our home town could have eaten!!!!! All 5,000 of them!
Then Monday, we got to go pick up our baby chicks. Six of the little darlings. They are SO cute. I'll try to get a picture of them to post soon. We're now busy building a small pen for them so the big chicks don't hurt them. Eventually, they'll all be in the same pen. But for the next several months, the babies will have their own brand new pen. We're also trying to hatch a couple of the older hens eggs. I'll letcha know how that goes. We've hatched several quail, but they never live past 3 weeks. sigh. Hopefully this will work better.
Well, I reckon I've made up for being silent so long.....will try to post more often and shorter posts. I pray Papa has blessed each of you as we start this hot season of the year. shalom, Spitfire
4 comments:
Yesterday it was 25 degrees here - today its 12 - I am bringing out my winter woollies....
Soooooo ..... you've come out of the closet eh? Bout jolly time too :0D
There is something that is totally awesome about loving Yeshua AND keeping the Feast Days as appointed by our Papa - so I am not surprised that you were doing an Irish jig with Papa's Love Letter... I would too. :0D
But what delights me even more is that you waited patiently for your dodi...
Perhaps I could swap you some of our frosty temps for some of your humidity. It has been far from summer like here. I think I need to nudge Papa, he seems to have dozed off as far as upstate New York goes.
You know I can identify with the garden work, Spitfire.
You're raising chickens? You don't already have enough to do without chickens? Boy, hon, they're a lot of extra work. I've thought about it, but reason always sets in before I do it. LOL!
WOW! I guess I did read this post too fast! Glad I talked to you at church.
I did tell Walt and swore him to silence. I want you to be able to inform the rest of the congregation yourself. As for Walt and me, we both feel that if you are truly dedicated to the Messianic Jewish faith then that's where you belong. I would be selfish to try to hold you to our church when you've found a church that both you and Dodi will feel more comfortable at. But the selfish part of me wants to try, because you don't have the foggiest notion of how much you guys will be missed!
Well, we only live three miles apart, we'll still see you at church once-in-awhile, and we have the phone, e-mails and the blogs. I'll get a grip. After all, it's not like you died!
God bless you, Dodi, and Little Critter too. Always and forever! Wherever you go and whatever you do, we know that you and Dodi will be valuable to others and respected by all because you're both so special. And with you and Dodi in charge of Little Critter, someday he will be too, in spite of your latest post above this one. :)
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