First I am going to discuss the concept of being aligned with God.  One of my callings in church is that of Emergency Preparedness Guy for the Ward.  I year ago I put together a lesson plan for a short course of eight lessons on being prepared. When is started this endeavor it became immediately important to me that this course be more that wheat and beans in a closet. It needed to be centered on spiritually being prepared. If one is spiritually on sync with the Lord, then one will be more open to getting the inspirations and prompting on being prepared that will be of significance to one’s own needs verses what someone else would need.  Every family is different and may have some different preparedness needs at the different stages of life.  In Elder Perry’s address he talks about gaining wealth for personal gratification mentality of “he who dies with the most stuff wins,” verses gaining wealth and using it to build up His kingdom.  Elder Perry’s discourse on that retriggered the thought about making sure that we are right with the Lord before embarking on a venture or endeavor.  If we put that first we will have the right and the needed perceptiveness to the promptings of the Spirit that we would need to be successful in out venture.  Basically just be sure to do what we need to do to be entitled to the blessings that we need.

Now to the Egg Ranch.   Who would have thought how much the three surviving birds can poop?  Just sayin.   We had a heat wave of temps well over one hundred degrees for the last week. The birds had to be moved inside for the duration as they are still a bit young. They have really stunk up the house.  At the same time I have spent the last week painting the inside of my daughter’s new house. Spent yesterday in bed recuperating from four days of prepping and painting for fifteen to twenty hours a day. Thursday I personally spent nine hours on a extension ladder, step ladder, and a step stool. That was the twenty hour day. We quit at four in the mourning.  I mention this as an excuse for bringing the chickens into the house verses using an old yard sprayer hooked up to a hose to make a fogger to keep the birds less hot in the coop.  So Monday I will do something permanent, because they will not ever live in the spare bedroom again.  It is the last room that still needs to be painted.