Update on Shelly 12/03/09

Hello to all,

Shelly had been seizure free since 12/12/08 until this past week. She had a bad event that took her to the hospital. She is still recovering from the effects of the seizure and I am not sure the extent of damage cognitively as of yet.

Shelly’s attitude about the surgery is getting better and she is learning to trust in the Father for all things. She still has some fear but she is overcoming it with her sweet spirit.

Her tests have been completed and the doctors have decided that she is a candidate for brain surgery. We will be seeing the neuro-surgeon Dec 17th. They will do another MRI that day as well.

They have decided to do 2 surgeries. Jan 21st we will go to B-ham to see the doc and do pre-admittance blood work, etc. Jan 22nd they will remove a portion of her skull and insert a mesh eeg monitor directly to her brain. They will induce seizures until she has 3. Once the data is collect from the seizures they will map the area of the left frontal lobe that they will remove. They will do the second surgery to remove the mesh and the area of the brain that is causing the seizures. She will come home the day after the second surgery as long as everything goes well. This process will probably take 1 1/2 to 2 weeks.

We continue to covet your prayers.

Pray for the seizures to come quickly and that the doctors will be led by the Holy Spirit.

Pray for Shelly to have peace and that the pain she will experience will be minimal.

Pray for us to continue in our faith walk with G-d and that accommodations will be available for us to stay in B-ham during the time she is in the hospital.

Pray for our finances as we prepare for the stay in B-ham.

Thank you again!
Christie

Veggie Preservation Class

I will be doing a class on drying and canning on Sunday, Dec 13th from 1-4 pm. If you would like to participate in this class, please contact me at clberryr@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Co-op Order, Buckets, eggs and milk

We will have a co-op order to send in Nov 2nd. Please get your order to me before then.

Also, if you ordered buckets, please come get them (they are bulky and I don’t have much room.)

Eggs are low, so we cannot sell eggs right now.
Milk production is up please take advantage of our increase milk supply to make cheese and butter for your pets for leaner times.

Talk to everyone soon!

New Animals

Well, it’s been a bit since I last posted… so here goes all the stuff that’s going on!

We have 3 angora goat does and 4 new sheep…  2 cotswold, a romney ram and another, not sure the breed. I’ll try to get pics up here as soon as I can. I also got a spinning wheel… so ya’ll know what I’ll be doing this winter! I’m so excited!

The bees are wintering through well so far.

We need to get hay, but everyone is doing pretty good.

Eggs are still in low supply… in fact we are getting about 2 eggs a day, barely enough for us!

Milk is coming in at about 2 1/2 - 3 gals daily, still sharing with the baby.

I’ll be making cheese soon, need a few more supplies, then I’ll be in the cheese! I want to try a few different cheeses I haven’t done before.

Well, I guess that’s about it. Hope you enjoyed the short update!

Bountiful Harvest

Today was a busy day… even tho our harvest was week, we did get a gallon of huckleberries. Someone gave us a bag of green tomatoes and a sunflower that has been drying for a while. I bought 2 nice pumpkins from the apple farm. So I needed to get some stuff done!

Shelly and I cleaned and froze the berries for another day (they don’t have much flavor, but they have nutrients).

We cut the pumpkins in half and cleaned them, saving the seeds for roasting and planting next year. In the oven to cook for such goodies as pumpkin bread and pie! I cleaned the seeds and have them soaking in salt water til tomorrow when we will roast them. Shelly took the sunflower seeds off the head and put them in a zip lock bag. We need to salt them and roast them as well but we will save that for another day.

Plan for tomorrow is to make butter and cheese, bread and spaghetti for Sabbath. Yum!

Bucket order is in

just got buckets in. If you ordered buckets or need some, give me a call or come by to pick them up. I also have some mylar bags, O2 absorbers and water filters left.

Water and Milk Kefir

I have water and milk kefir grains available if any of you have an interest. Please contact me and I can get some to you. I will have to charge to send through the mail, but it is minimal.

If you are not aware of kefir please check out the healthy living area of the website. www.health.onefaithmin.com