Here we are & a troubling dream...

 HELLO YALL! 

We are in the middle of February already! How is life going for everyone? Mine...working and cooking. Cooking and working! This weekend my hubby and I cleaned the Farmhouse and mopped everything. Of course we muttered to each other how dirty things really are and we could not believe our eyes, even though we clean during the week....more like spot cleaning. We both work full-time jobs, so no one is a stay at home anything! So! No one is to blame but we help each other as best we can. Everyone pulls their weight to help with the house chores. Of course house chores are never ending. Cleaning is just a part of life. There is no way around it. 

On Saturday our reset starts for the new weekday begins with cooking dinner with plenty of left overs and making my hubbys sweet bread for his coffee to take in the mornings. Trying to always think ahead, so when I get off work, I do not have to waste so much time preparing dinner during the weekday. I try to spend as much time enjoying my home and family when I get off work. It seems like a lot of families are going back to the basics....making more foods at home. I love seeing this for families. We all know how to survive if push comes to shove. Currently, we go out to eat one time a week....that's it! It's just too expensive to keep eating out! Plus a lot of the food quality has gone out the door. 

My chickens are still molting and I am having  to bump up their protein intake and needless to say they are still laying eggs. I know! I am a blessed girl...when chickens molt they stop laying eggs. My husband and I are in a chicken group on Facebook and some chicken owners are complaining their birds are not laying! I feel so bad for them! I fear people will start to try and steal chickens..if the egg prices keep increasing and chickens keep getting put down from bird flu. I have had this conversation with my hubby and his answer is to put up a camera to watch over our flock. After a while people will get desperate and will leave all their morals behind and start stealing. I previously had all my eggs in my baking kitchen for storing the girl's eggs but, I decided to move the eggs to be stored some where else. I had to walk around my home and figure out where to have my girls eggs for storage. The pantry has plenty of space and I moved some stuff around and made room for storing eggs. I had to have enough room for eggs and egg cartons. I do help family members out with selling eggs to them....but sometimes I get requests for like 54 eggs and I am just thinking...I only have 18 hens and not all of them lay everyday!? You get what you get! (Not trying to be mean) You know thinking ahead....I am wondering if chicken feed prices will be next to increase? Everyone is buying chickens and that in itself will drive the chicken feed into high demand hence raising the feed prices! Thinking on this....I had to make some future plans for just in case! If there is a shortage of chicken feed or the prices become too unbearable my plan is to stop selling eggs to family and give the extra eggs that the girls lay back to my hens,  cook their eggs and crush the egg shells and also mix a little feed with it so they will continue to lay eggs, so my small family will continue to have eggs. I honestly do not know what other people will do but I know it will get pretty bad! If there is word out on the streets that people are stealing chickens then my girls will get moved to my garage and they can live there and lay eggs there! Geez, that just sounds crazy! This is what the world is coming too I fear!  Where we live we have a Facebook community page and all our neighbors network together to keep each other notified of anything and especially since this is the country out here,  if there are any fires during the summer we make sure to raise the alarm...that's what I mean aka word on the street. 

I used to be a person that would think about other family members and their kids...like for example if we go thru some hard times ever in this world how are they going to eat? I would sometimes loose sleep over it....thinking about those babies! The way my husband and I have been treated in the near past....I have changed my whole outlook about everything! I no longer loose sleep anymore. I rest when I feel tired. Those babies have their parents to see if there is hard times coming and it is their job to think of their kids future. Those parents need to tap into God to see if they need to prepare for anything. Not being mean but everyone is capable of touching God for direction for their future. Move when God tells you to move and do not purposefully stand in someone's way if God is calling that person because maybe God is using that person to save your family! 

For Valentines Day my husband got me a sewing machine. I have been aching all over for a sewing machine. I have not sewn anything in three years! There are some reasons why I asked for a sewing machine instead of chocolates or flowers. I have some ideas that I wanted to bring into fruition and I needed a sewing machine to do that. Of course I can not say what plans I have....do not want to have the evil jealous eye on me! As I produce what is on my mind I will eventually show it....eventually. I have to say if you have evil eye towards some one do me a favor and poke it! It looks like I have left some talents on the shelf to gather dust and I am just dusting them off and picking them back up again. 

About Valentines day my daughter told me she needed a boyfriend so she could get her Valentine chocolate and flowers! I was so shocked because she is small still and I told her for now her daddy is her Valentine! My husband did get her some purple flowers and a chocolate heart! She loved it! Since my mom is divorced I also got her some of those good chocolates and she was so happy. Mom also got my daughter and I chocolate hearts. We all exchanged Valentines gifts. 

This is a little off topic but I wanted to show yall this lovely tree.....where I work I walk a dog three times a day as part of my job and I pass this beautiful yellow tree. This tree is bright yellow and everytime I walk by it it just takes my breath away! The people who live here, I wave at them everytime I see them. I just love their tree and I hope they realize how beautiful their tree is. I really hope they take the time to enjoy the beauty of it as much as I do. I did take some pics of their tree. When I took a couple of pictures I looked around like a creeper to make sure no one was watching....I felt so.....dumb taking a picture of a darn tree, but look at her...she's beautiful! I'll

You know I wanted to talk about some political stuff here...well particularly Donald J. Trump. The first time he ran for president I have to say he was a different man. I am a bit of a conservative but I  am not a Trump person, like I am not a person where whatever Trump says is just simply right and anything he does should not be questioned..but I do believe that because he is a human being he is capable of being evil. We are all capable of being evil even if we go to church or live at the church never leaving...we can be manipulative even if we read the Bible or attend Sunday school, or give the biggest offering...it does not matter. The Bible says to always search our hearts and gaurd our hearts because we have a tendency to be deceiving....so watch those hearts. 

I had a dream when Trump was running for president the 2nd time, this was around the time when he lost and everyone thought he would win, but Biden won...shoot even I thought he was going to win. I had a dream of Trump winning the presidency and the dream was taking place in New York City. I was on the side walk outside the Trump building and I saw people walking outside in the streets and the people had smiles like the grinch (the movie where the grinch smiles with a huge smile across his face) and the people were relieved and happy Trump won! They walked around so happy and they were ready to start to get back to living a good life. The people were walking with determination toward their destinations. They were living life! I then saw Trump turn into a huge t Rex with sharp teeth and he began to eat only certain people in the crowds that were walking in the streets.  He literally ate them whole! I watched in horror! The funny thing was the people were still walking with their determination that their life was all better because Trump had won again! They were not afraid of Trump because he was only going after certain people. Since Trump was not attacking them why should they worry about the people that were being attacked?! At the time of this dream it made no sense of Trump attacking and eating people...I was shocked TILL I saw on the news when Trump decided to run for president again after his loss and the DOJ and everyone started to come after him then it clicked....those people coming after him are the ones I saw him eating whole and made sense why the rest of the people did not run away in fear.  Also, with the deportations and now we see there is no due process how many people will be attacked now?! Now we see countless people loosing their government jobs and we see how people have no empathy toward these people loosing their jobs....(like in the dream people kept living their good life because Trump is not affecting their life) so who cares right? 

Now back to the rest of the dream.....then all of a sudden I was in another building in New York City and mind you, I have never been to New York City, I was inside this tall sky scraper and inside it was marbled...like the stairs and walls were marbled and had a large stair case. Turns out when I looked up this building it is The Empire State Building! People were walking around with the same huge grinch like smile and the same confidence because Trump won. I was standing in the middle of this building at the bottom floor and I saw a huge red curtain....like a big curtain that covers a theater at a live play. I saw coming out from behind the curtain pushing the curtain outward slowly...was another awful T Rex, which was black!  This T Rex I had fear and I began to yell for every American to get down to their knees because something was coming and it was awful. I was yelling while still standing and no one would listen to me ( because everyone believed since trump won,  we as Americans are getting back to normal lives). I looked at the curtain and the TRex was almost out and I could no longer keep standing to warn everyone to please get down. I had to force myself down and I wrapped my arms around my knees and closed my eyes and braced myself for what was coming. The TRex came out and began to attack Americans. I herd people screaming in terror and their bones were being cracked by the t rex. People tried to run for their lives and there was no escape! The people who got down in time were saved. You know the worst part of it was when the second black TRex began to attack Americans the other TRex....who was Trump began to attack everyone also. Then I woke up. 

This dream like I said earlier made no sense to me but with everything that is happening as of right now...I just wanted to throw this out there. It's just crazy how things are coming into play. I have to say as an American I did not exercise my vote this go round...because I just could not vote for Trump or Kamala. I did not vote for Trump because of this dream. There are people who have Trump on a pedal stool. You can not say or question his tactics to certain people because they will get defensive for him. How can God speak to us about anything if we close ourselves or make up our minds and make it final....to the point God can not show us anything because our minds are made up. Keep an open mind about everything just in case God needs to show someone something. 

This dream will only be shared here on my blog. I wanted to put this out there for every one because I feel it is time to share this dream. This morning on February 20th 2025 on Thrusday, I woke up to having another dream at 4:00am this morning and I woke up trembling and scared...to the point I could not go back to sleep. The dream scarred me because it was an alarm going off and I am not ready to share it yet. I promise to share this dream in my next blog post. I am no one and I am nothing. I have flaws and I need God to really help me. We all need God to help us. 

With the eggs getting more scarce I am so thankful for God helping me to help me pay for my chickens and to allow my hubby and I to help people with some eggs. I pray for all of you and I pray for all the people carrying family by their small backyard farms. I pray God protects all of our chickens. Prayers and blessings to all of my 600 readers! God recieve all the glory and honor and my he help us all. 

With all my Love,

Sonya Marie

Risen Acres