The Cole Homestead

Just little tidbits

Just a few little things to report around home today. 

I think that I am coming down with a cold.  I have a bit of an earache and a sore thorat but only on one side.  I guess it is to be expected with all of the weather changes that we have been having the past few days.  Add the rain on top of that and it makes for perfect sick weather. 

I know that everyone is talking about the earthquake but really we didn't feel much.  We heard the main one but that was really about it.  I guess that is a real benifit of living in a concrete slab house.  Nothing seems to move.  It woke everyone else up around us but no serious damage.  I was very little when the last one hit around here.  I only remember there was a mason jar on the kitchen table that my mother had just filled with water and put the lilacs in it that I had just picked.  I remember the water started to move from side to side.  Living here in Illinois you always here about how we can have earthquakes and how we are due for the "big one".   I remeber folks talking how when the last truly big one hit the was really no one in this area but there were still many account of the damage done.  I remember stories of the ground opening up and the Mississippi River running backwards.  I am glad that we have lttile ones to releive the pressure and hope that eleveates the need for a larger, more destructive earthquake.

On a lighter note, We went to my Gram's today as we do every Sunday for a nice visit with my Uncles and Gram's great desserts.  My uncle had a few new goats so we rode over to see them.  They are so cute.  Everytime we go over my daughter falls a bit more in love with them.  Can't blame her really.  They are so cute and fuzzy.  The barn they live in was built be my 4X great grandfather.  It is such a massive barn with the bottom built into a slope and the rest just towers above all else.  All of the stones from the foundation were from the near by crik and the main beams were of course hand hewn.  Such a pretty sight.

We also got all of our seed starts moved out doors now and the same with the chicks.  I was time to move the from the swimming pool to the chicken house.  They seem to be doing great and are rapidly losing thier chicky fluff and gaining new feathers all of the time.