Carla Kim

My friend Carla came into town with her five kids to pick up their TWO puppies. Carls and I were good friends in the Azores as we lived around the corner from each other. This is only the second time I have seen her since we parted ways in 2014! 

Here is a pic of her two pups: 

Processing chickens 2026

Another year. Another day of chicken processing. We did about 90 birds — a small batch. Ended up with an 8 pounder which has never happened before. We also had an average weight of 6.15 pounds. This was a very small amount of birds so we didn’t need that many people. 

The Kodets joined us with their two youngest kids as they wanted to learn how to process and maybe do their own birds in the fall.  Anni’s dad, George came (Anni hurt her back) and Julia came too. Gramps and Grama were there too. Everything went great! Oh and Jacob was there too of course!

Here are two videos of the day: 

Abigail 

Hannah 

Truth

Fairhaven

This past weekend, Aunt Jan and I took Hannah and cousin Genevieve to an amazing spot nestled in the woods: FAIRHAVEN MINISTRIES. What a peaceful place!!!

 

This was Hannah's Christmas present. I was so glad we were able to make it happen! 

 

 

Continuing to learn

I continue to heal my nervous system. I wish I could explain what this process entails, however, this picture (above) from one of my group calls today does a pretty good job showing some of what I am learning. Shiv is one of our mentors. All of our mentors have gone through the program. I want to have flexible thinking. I want to be able to bend and move with the storms instead of breaking from rigidness. 

Retraining the, quite frankly, horrible thinking patterns I spent decades of my life existing in, is no small task. It is exhausting. It feels like it can't ever happen. I have to trust the process. I am learning to do that.