Sunday Claire
Here’s our butterball again. She in her “Sunday Best”. This time she practically all smiles. Click here to see the entire set of photos.
This last week an esteemed brother minister was telling me that, in speaking to a man who professed to have been converted, he asked him which sin remained as a load upon his mind. “Well,?” said the man, “I have to see after cows, and I have often beaten the cows very badly.” “What do you do now?” “Oh, I coax them instead of beating them.” Now, I have no doubt, that in his peculiar calling, cruelty to animals would be most strikingly laid upon his conscience, but the pastor had to say to him, “Yes, quite so; but the great sin in your fault is, that the cows are God’s creatures, and that he is angry if we treat his creatures unmercifully.?’
Spurgeon (May 16, 1868)
Family,Sunday, August 26, 2007
Organics,Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Nitrogen Pollution
Everyone knows about the green house gas CO2. But there’s another ecological bad guy called “active nitrogen”. Cars put it into the air and agriculture puts tons of it in the ground, but both cause it to pollute the air, ground and water around us, resulting in changes to native ecosystems. Scientists are finding that plant and animal populations are disappearing in a variety of native habitats. Read the following article to learn more about the practical effects that have been studied on California Bay Area habitats. Click here to read the article titled “Nitrogen Overdose”
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Matthew Talk
Here’s some audio of Matthew saying a variety of words. I find that some of the clips don’t play properly until the entire clip downloads. So click the play button again after it downloads to see if you really heard it all. The page that I’m sending you to is the Wiki section of our website. I’ll keep the clips there like an audio clip gallery. I also added a Sound Clip link on the right navigation sidebar that you can use to access them in the future.Click Here to Go to the Sound Clip Gallery
Family,Sunday, August 19, 2007
Claire Talk
Here’s my first attempt to capture some sounds from Claire and get them up here on the Internet. She’s been cooing and trying to communicate to us in her cute little ways. I’ll try to get some much cuter clips in the future. Let me know if you can’t here anything. Click Here for Claire Talk
Family,Sunday, August 19, 2007
Claire 9 Week Doctor Visit
Claire has nearly doubled her birth weight and added 2 inches to her height. This makes her in the 75th percentile for her height and weight. This means that she is both taller and heavier than 75 percent of the babies out there of her same age. The doctor was very impressed, commenting that Jenn must have some very good milk. Of course, God is first to thank for the healthy blessings we have. Secondly I thought about how we have been eating organic meat and milk. There has been research lately that speaks of how the grass-fed, organic dairy and meat is higher in beneficial fatty acids, which are found more abundantly in mothers milk. So Jenn’s milk may actually be higher in beneficial fat due to the consumption of organic milk and meat. Your standard milk in the supermarkets are from cows that are fed genetically modified corn. The milk from these cows have less of these beneficial fatty acids. More proof that God knew what he was doing when he designed cows to eat grass.
We took this photo of her on a quilt that Moma Lynn made especially for her. Click here to see more of these photos in the gallery.
