Day 24

Yeah! I am done early with my 10 things. Tomorrow will be 25 days I will be a quarter of the way there. I am still amazed at how much a little bit every day can make a difference. I feel like I have more control over my life to an extent. I know God is in total control of everything, but I do have control over the choices I make and I would like them to be good ones.

I memorized five more Spanish words today. It feels like it will take forever to learn the entire language, but to me it is worth it. I am still practicing the piano and I am having a lot of fun with that. I enjoy playing with the sounds as much as practicing the lessons. I decided to go through the pictures on my fridge. I thought I should probably take the ones off that I had of people with old boyfriends when they are married to a different person.

I organized my other bookshelf. I worked on straightening out the laundry room. I am still enjoying my book. I taught myself how to use a graphic calculator today. I have wondered how those work for years. Yesterday when I was under the stairs I spotted a pre algebra book on a shelf. I was very excited. I was working on it today. I am getting the hang of it and I really like it. I thought it would be too hard to figure out but it's not.

I finished my soaps today. They came out nice, even Mathew liked them, but I  think I will always be a huge fan of  plain white dial soap. I think I am hooked on the smell of it. I organized lots of food today. We will see how long it stays like that. I ran across a box of bird gravel. I think that is what it is called. Mathew's birds are gone so I spread it outside for the wild birds. It reminded me of something dad use to give our chickens but only smaller. Feeding the chickens was always interesting. We tried to wait until the bull was not looking or the Roosters were out of sight. If we hadn't, the chances of being chased by something was pretty high. There were a few times I had to climb up into the loft and just wait.

I remember when we had a calf and we had to bottle feed it I was really excited. I was still in grade school and I thought this will be fun. Wrong! I mixed up a bottle and took our dog Candy with me to go feed the calf  It was dark outside and I had never liked walking out in the field alone in the dark. I ran across the field to go feed the calf , I thought I will make this quick. I tried feeding the calf. It was so messy and it sucked on the nipple so hard it pulled it right out of the bottle and milk spilled on my shoes and every where. I looked for our dog and realized she abandoned me and I had to run back across the field by myself to make another bottle and go back out and feed the calf again.The excitement over feeding the calf ended right there.It was a lot of work sometimes but I would love to live on a farm again someday.

I look forward to my next 10 things tomorrow :)

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart.  Colossians 3:23