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Cats again

Thought it was time for another cat post.





























































One sometimes wonders why the sayng isn't 'multiply like cats'. :)

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Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.

I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before his judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.

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O Worship the King

O worship the King
All glorious above;
O gratefully sing
His power and his love:
Our Shield and Defender,
The Ancient of days,
Pavilioned in splendour,
And girded with praise.

O tell of his might,
O sing of his grace,
Whose robe is the light,
Whose canopy space.
His chariots of wrath
The deep thunder-clouds form,
And dark is his path
On the wings of the storm.

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There is beatifull scenery in and around Moravia.
We saw this on the way to an event on Monday.












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Lookout point

A veiw of the country surounding us from the tiptop of a cedar tree. 2 of my brothers got a hold of the camera and decided that the top of a cedar tree would be a good place to take pictures. I had my doubts.... having lived with them for most of my life, but it actually turned out pretty well. They took dozens more so mabye Iwill post some more of them oone of these days.





















This one was taken from where by brothers are building thier tree fort.

We went on a walk this morning and took quite a few pictures. The countryside here in Moravia is beatifull!

In the middle of summer both sides of this path are covered with yellow flowers.














On a quite dirt road that nonbody knows exist, that leads into a forrest in the middle of nowhere... somebody thought it sensible to put up a 'no tresspassing' sign.


























The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.

























A rotten cedar tree fell over when a wind came by. (Photo Curtesy: my youngest brother)






























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Hail

Alright, I told you I would tell you about our hailstorm.

It was a bright and clear day. We were all getting ready to go to 'Charachter Club'. Then somebody looked out the window. The sky was black and scary looking. We had been discusing whether or not to bring the clothes in off the line. That settled the question. within 5 minuets it had begun to rain... and (you guessed it) the rain turned to hail . Our chickens who don't generaly go in in a rain, decided that perhaps they had better after all. It was hillarious to watch them run helterskelter for cover ( and the cats were funny too. The dogs were in the porch, which is their usual shelter, so they had to find antoher one or share with the dogs:) ). It hailed for about 5 minuets, hard hail... and then it stopped and the beutiful day with the lovely sky returned. Only now we had hail all over our yard.

They were mostly the size of rather large grapes, but some of them were gain on lemons size.
Got to go now... we are improving the kitchen today... mabye I can post some pictures about that later.
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On Christmas Eve.. at midnight.

Here in Moravia it doesn't snow very much. So when snow does come, we all get pretty exited. Last Christmas eve, we were sitting in our living room, when somebody looked out the window, and saw that the wheelbarrow was a funny white color. We all went outside to investigate, and when it was confirmed that that white stuff really was snow, we kids ran around like lively little..... kids, and scraped snow of the ground to make snowballs and threw them at each other at the best moment (we had to wait till the best moment, because here in Moravia, even when it does snow, it doesn't snow much. There was about a 1/2 inch of snow on the ground... in the deepest places.) While everyone else ran around throwing snowballs, I decided to play with my new toy. I ran inside, grabbed the camera and hurried back out. But alas, I discovered that a camera does not work very well at night (it was midnight)... and I was in to much of a flurry to even think about different techniques I could use to take better pictures than I took :)
Here are some of them. They don't really portray the quiet, evening snowfall that one always imagines do they?

The hood of Grandpa + Grandma's RV. They spent Christmas with us that year














The best place to gather snow was were there was a hard surface. Roofs and a cement slab we had in our front yard worked well for this. This is our dog/well house roof. It has recentlly been 'scraped'.














Timothy has a snowball. (I think it was the biggest we got, but I am not sure.)














Heres a couple of other ones.
















Have you ever seen such a perfect snowball as this one?
Real hard packed too....














Just kidding. Thats a piece of hail from our 5 minuet hailstorm later in the year. :) Maybe I can tell you about that tommorow.

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In the country

In the Country

Wee peepin' green things
Under ilka hedge:
Gowden glints by water springs
On the saxifrage.

Here a "Kirk-clock" moschatel,
Sma' but unco sweet:
Here a scale, o'buds to tell,
Shreddit at our feet.

Sair, wi' care they main be shod,
A' that wadna say,
Ilka road's a bonnie road
When April warms to May

By Robert Burns


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The Jabberwoky

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought-
- So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arm, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!"
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe
(Lewis Carroll The Annotated Alice 191-97).

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Luke 12:27-28

Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

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Job 9:4-13

He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.
Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.
Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.

Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.

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Clover

Clover flowers are pretty. I couldn't find any four leaf clover though. Look close and see if you can find any. Good luck! :)

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A Feast in Moravia

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. GK Chesterton

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Deep in Moravia

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Cats

One day as I was exploring our yard (this was soon after we had moved in) I heard a loud meowing coming from some bushes. I walked over to investigate, and, lo and behold, there stood1 cat. It was a brown cat, like the one in the picture. Mom said it was probably a stray, so I made friends with her and named her Isabella.
A few weeks later, we discovered that Isabella had 6 kittens. We children were delighted, but for some reason Mom didn't seem to be quite so thrilled.
The kittens grew, we tamed them, one of them dissapeared, he was a male so we assumed that he had been driven of by the other males (we had 2 others).
Then, one day, we saw our cat 'Butch' carrying a mouse, a rather large, funny shaped mouse across the yard. Following, to congratulate her on her catch, we discovered that the 'mouse' was, a kitten! We had a hasty confrence, and renamed 'Butch' 'Annabella' After her mother who she looked exactly like. Annie for short. She had 3 more kittens
Soon, two other cats had kittens, 4 each. Ha, ha, that ads up to a grand sum of 19 cats.... two missing (Issabella dissapeard soon after she brought us her kittens) makes 17. That, is a lot of cats. (you should have seen our yard when the nieghbor's dogs decided to come over. The air (trees) was filled with hissing spitting cats! ).
Well, over the years, we have gained a few, lost a few.... and now we have seven.

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James 1:11

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
James 1:11-12

Guess the green grass is 'enduring temptation' :).


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Meow?

This cat was very upset when Mom made the rule 'no cats in the house'. She used to clime up the wall to the attic, and creep along in the ceiling boards until she found a hole to get out. Then she would come to our beds to be petted. Silly cat. We *always* threw her out, and she kept coming back in!

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Good Morning!

A lovely bird singing cheerfully one morning after a storm.

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Bluebonnets

We had bluebonnets growing all along our road last summer. It was beautiful. I got many photos off them and this was among my favorites.

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