Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Butter



As many of you already have come to your own conclusion; Brad and I are not like "normal" people! HA HA HA No, we often are "weird" and think outside the box on many things.

Our desire has been to move out into the country for quite some while, and we are still pursuing this desire, however, now not only are we wanting to get out to the country, but are wanting to live as much off the land as possible. (yes, I know, why???) Well, because we want to! :-) We'd like to strive for as much self-sufficiency as we can to a) cut costs in the long run, b) know what we're eating, and c) be able to turn around and sell it to others, in the hopes of making profit. No, not to become wealthy & hit it rich, but enough that we could work our own land full time, and have that be our soul means of living. We're not sure if this is what God's plan is for us or not, but we are trusting that if it is, a place will come available in our area, and in our price range, and slowly but surely, we can incorporate one new thing at a time. Some things we can do now, and are doing, like having a garden and growing our own veggies, making our own breads, and now making our own butter. These things, if we produced enough, we could sell at the local Farmer's Market and start building a following... but we have not gone this far yet, because we are proceeding with caution! (lessons learned, you know) So, if you would come along side of us in prayer, we would sure appreciate it. We are patiently waiting on the Lord, and listening for His direction, while moving forward with what we can move forward with! When you're in the neighborhood, make sure to stop by to try some of our homemade butter! It's delicious!

Blessings



This is our "new to us" pull behind camper. It's an '89 26' Shasta.

Kitchen in the front right as you walk in the door. Nice U shaped kitchen. Most room I've had! Dinette table that folds down into a bed. Pull out couch that sleeps2 also. And another bed in the back that sleeps 2. (6 total)


Just incase anyone has to go! :-) There is also a tub shower in the front of the potty.


As you can see, we have been blessed again from the Lord. To make a long story somewhat short; last summer after camping season, we gutted our motorhome because there had been some leaks in the roof, and it needed new paneling put in. As most of you know, in the fall of last year, Brad got a part time job, and had no time to work on the motorhome. So, it sat all fall, winter, spring, and summer with us not having the time or energy to put the motorhome back together. I had tried to sell it on and off again on craigslist just to get rid of it. Ideally, we'd hoped to sell it and eventually buy a pull behind. Well, last weekend, I thought I had the motorhome sold, but the guy was WAY low on his offer, and I chewed on it, and chewed on it, but decided to decline because I knew that it was really too low, so I held out. I wondered if I should kick myself or not, but I just let it go, knowing that the Lord would bring the right buyer. So, on Friday of this past week, I had an email that said that they wanted to come look at the motorhome. They came and looked, and liked it, and asked if we'd be willing to trade our motorhome for their 26' pull behind! A little scared of what it would look like, knowing they wanted to just do a trade; I asked if they would email pictures. So that night they did, and Brad and I looked them over, and it looked cute enough to see in person, so we went and checked it out. We LOVED it! :-) It has some things that need to be fixed, but seriously, we were the winning party with this trade! To sum this story up, they came on Friday and looked at our motorhome, we went to their house on Saturday to look at their pull behind, and then all parties agreed on the trade, and we did the "trading" on Sunday and made it official! Praise the Lord for His blessings!! It's ready to go..... we could go camping this weekend if we wanted.... YEA!!! So, hoping that the weather won't get too crazy, we'll go on one last camping trip before winter gets here. Anyone want to join us? Anyhow, I just wanted to share this fun and exciting news with you all! Here are some pix of our new treasure!

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