Turkeys are gone from the bathroom, yay. A child's question.....

Poppie and I got the turkeys out of the girls bathroom, they are now in their nursery water tank in the second turkey coop.  The tank is a small stock tank that has never held water since we acquired it.  Poppie had thought he could fix it when we got it but no such luck, it has however been the nicest giant incubator for turkeys.  We raised last years crop in it and will finish this years crop in it.  Last year it was in my studio but not this year, it is in the little room adjacent to the turkey coop that housed goats.  We are planning on letting them out of the tank as soon as the turkeys are big enough.  They are already in their future home.  As soon as they get big enough we will set them free in it and then open it up the the turkey yard so the turkeys will be able to go into either coop.  Two more of the piglet has gone home, made several little boys happy to have their new piglets to play with and enjoy as they are raised.  We got two gallons plus of two twenty ounce bottles for Pansy yesterday.  It is a good start since most of the does being milked are first year fresheners.  We will eventually add four more does to that list.  Mokie does alot of the milking but Yogie helped with one of the older does last night. I hope to milk some, but Mokie is like a mother who doesn't have time to teach her child as it is easier to do it herself.   Lilly who is a second year, that refused to be milked last year, is allowing us to milk her.  I think she heard my threats is butcher her as she was so wild when we got her she is not sell able.  She is doing remarkable well, she is mean to other goats when her babies are in the pen but seems to have tamed down as they are no longer with her.  She has gotten a reprieve so we will see if she stays progressing or makes the stew pot.  She does throw wonderful babies so that is on her side as well.

The girls had a nice time with the grands.  They started on their way to the Zoo for the farmers market but Grandpa's truck lost three gears and they were stuck in the barrow pit.  No one stopped to help them and Grandpa doesn't have a cell phone so eventually he got the truck into fourth gear and drove home, all safe and sound.  When he arrived home his land line was not working so he had to call from some other phone to let us know so we could advise Son that he needed help.  I spent the early afternoon cleaning the small bathroom from the turkey leavings and there was a lot of them.  I got all the chips, droppings and mess up.  I do still have to do a sterile cleaning.  I can't take the light out as the incubator with eggs is still in there and I can't change the temperature of the room for fear of ruining the eggs, so the bathroom is cleaner but still and incubator,  baby steps, baby step.

I spent the better part of the last few days thinking about a comment that Butterfly made at church.  She is eighteen but due to circumstances when she was very young she will never be more than a fifth grade level.  She seems so mature sometimes then you realize you are talking to a younger person than she appears.  She asked at church last week "why would Jesus give up his life for people he didn't know, she wouldn't".  The preacher very calmly, in the middle of his lesson, stopped to try and answer her question.  I do so like the Preacher, he is so welcoming to children in a way I have never seen during church services, so refreshing.  It is one of the best parts of this church, the love of children unconditionally.  He took time to answer her question without concern for the lesson he was giving.  He told her that God/Jesus knew us before the earth was created.  He had created the heavens, the earth, the creatures, and all who live on earth.  He was like someone who made a special artistic creation.  If we make something we love it and are so proud of it we want to hold it and protect it.  God was and is no different he created all things and he created us.  He knew in advance of us and that he loved us as his creation and children.  He sent Jesus to earth to die for us, we were not unknown to him he knew us and loved us as part of his creation and as his children from the beginning of time.  God has the ability to see and know all even in future times.  He knows all and he knew and loved us always.  He didn't die for someone he didn't know and love, he died for his loved child.  I had never heard it said quite that way, or maybe I had and not listened or understood.  I too had had the idea that he had died for the unknown to come but he had not, he did for the loved children of his creation.... tomorrow.