Just a Country Girl stuck in the City

Hope

Hope is Marty's daughter.  She was born 11-01-1999.  She takes after him in the being able to warn me before I go into anaphylaxis shock.   Hope was trained, but did not become a registered service dog for a few years.  She worked at home but Marty went out every where.  as Marty got older Hope started sharing his out side of the home work.  Marty still went out he loved to go to crowded places, while Hope does not do as well in crowds.  She is over protective.

Hope is the only dog working for me at this time.  Hope has only one litter of puppies before I fixed her.  It was to hard on me to watch her give birth.  Alex will be taking over some of her work when he is done training.  Medical alert dogs never stop working until they are called home to God.

Here are some pictures of hope:

I will share more pictures of her when I load more.

Marty

Marty was born 1-17-1995 he past away on 11-07-2008.

Marty was a service dog for anaphylaxis for my self.  He also warned my daughter before her asthma got to bad.   Marty was 12 weeks old by the time I figured out what he was trying to tell me.  after I did I trained him to be a service dog.  He passed his test at 11 months old.   Marty fathered over 100 puppies in his life time.  Our top breeding dam had very large litters.  Her biggest was 17 puppies.   We also studded Marty out to approved females.  They had to have at least 4 generations of no health problems and have the right type of owner.   We were going to freeze Marty's sperm , but we then decide against it.  We ended Marty's line.  There will be no more dogs from his line unless we decide to breed his granddaughter.

Marty was a well love dog by many.  His favorite place to go was Disneyland.  He love to go on the rides and see his favorite workers. The employees at Disneyland gave him treats , always had to come see him.  When there was a ride he could not go on he went with the employees to be spoiled while we rode at ride.

Marty has been on t.v. and in a few magazines and made the front page of the paper.  He saved my life many times and our daughters also.  He made the front page by fighting a German shepherd who jumped our 5 foot fence and held our youngest daughter by the neck and would not let go. Our daughter was 4 at the time.  Marty was not even 2 years old.

Here is pictures of Marty:

Buying one of our puppies

Thank you for your interest in owning one of our "Golden Blessings".

We offer high quality puppies from high quality parents.

Our dam Gracie is a registered service dog for medical alert.

Our sire Alex is almost done with his training to be a medical alert dog. He comes from a champion line. 

For their first litter we are offering these pups at a lower cost than what the next litters will be.  

We have a litter of 4 females and 3 males.

Females are offered for $550.00 limited registration, $650.00 full registration.

Males are offered for $500.00 limited registration ,  $550.00 full registration.

One pup is already sold, but we do not know what sex yet as the puppy is yet to pick out the special needs child yet.   We are letting the puppy pick him out.  This puppy will be trained by us to be a service dog to this young boy.

All puppies come with:

A health guaranty, Akc papers, Current vaccines, Puppy care package, Vet checks, Health certificates, Micro chipping, Dewclaws removed.

Shipping is an option if it is needed at a cost of $300.00. A crate is included in this cost.

If you are interested in buying one of our puppies please message me.

The puppies are 3 weeks old today

The puppies are 3 weeks old today.   They are so cute.  They are coming out of their shells now and are trying to play and they wag their tails now.  It is so cute! 

They have started eating baby food.  We are watching to see who has a strong early service dog way.  So far we have Josph and Hanna who are showing it the most.   Their mother is a service dog  and their dad has to finish up some of his training to become a regestired service dog. 

One of the future owners is coming over to see the little bugers next week.  We can not wait for this day.  Their son will be receiving the one who show the service dog type and we will be training it for just him. 

God Bless, mj

Hubby date tonight , And my babies I worry still

Hubby has a date tonight and it is NOT with me, LOL.  Tonight is the night be make the long drive to my parents house (they live 13 houses away)  to watch college football with them.   Tight the Sooners(ou) play.  Hubby loves the Sooners(ou) and just to be ornery daddy is rooting for the other team .   Mom get to cook the chili dogs for dinner and enjoy her boys have fun watching football with them.  We girls are going to have a quite dinner at home of ??? we do not know what we are having yet??  If it was 2008 and we were not trying to keep a food budget I would take the girls out to Black Angus for dinner.   But I am trying real hard to be good so we will make dinner at home.

Shayna will be leaving in a few days to go see my best friend Janet's house for a few days.  Shayna is 18 years old and Janet is her one of her other moms, that is what the girls call her.  Janet daughter Mya is not a cousin but their sister.  My other great friend Karen is their other mommy and her children her their siblings.   God gives us friends that become family.

Anyway Shayna is going  to see them in Texas and I am still worried.  Do we ever stop worrying about our babies??  Michelle is different we did worry when she was 1st out on her own.  But now we do not worry as much as we used too. But yes we still worry.    It is funny how we mom's are.  I tell my girls I could be 100 years old sitting in a rocking chair with them sitting in their own rocking chair next to me them being 80 years old and I would still worry and want to protect them.    I know God is in charge and loves them more than I ever could.  But he gave me a job to do and he never told me when I was done or when I got off work!

God Bless, mj

Beware of identity thief

My best friend Janet sent me this e-mail, here is just some of it:

I just had to share a few of the really cute ones!  Where do I sign up??   Hope it made you smile. god Bless, mj

To anonymous, my reply

I wrote a post on how we will not be able to buy used clothes or toys anymore.   I received a reply from "Anonymous"   Here is what "Anonymous has said:

I think its a great idea. I think buying used clothes and toys is nasty and cheap. Do you know everyone single person who get them from. You have no idea what kind people sell this stuff. Do they smoke live on a farm with dirt and animals? Why not just buy stuff at the store that is lead free and made in America? Look for sales and buy it then.  

My Reply:

1. is I am dirty and nasty!  I make my children dirty and nasty because we buy some used clothes! !   Are you dirty and nasty too? Ok , hello wake up anonymous!  Used close is NOT nasty and dirty.  Have you ever used or even heard of soap?  It is a neat thing you can CLEAN with it.  We buy new also, but like to find great deals.  God tells us to be good stewards. Saving money is being a good steward.

2. If the old owner smoked , um here we go again SOAP!

3. Is I am a dirty yup, I will admit it! !  I love to play in my garden, to feel the dirt , dig holes, put plants and seeds in!   I own a FARM I am getting dirtier!!!!!  I raise hogs, poultry, beef, goats,we have have horses and so many animals it will make your head spin!  We run bare foot most of the time on our farm, Even more dirt!!  We live in California and we just do not wear shoes unless we have too.  I know this is a bad habit . but we do it.

My daughter Kristi was verry sick on summer she had pneumonia and Shayna and I along with a hired man where building a barn.  So we set up a tent with a bed and a air cleaner for Kristi.  I went to go check on her and I found her in the pig pen curled up in the pigs bed of straw with her 500lb sow wrapped around her , she kept Kristi safe. So my family is odd.

But guess what all the dirt washes of in the shower/bath.  There is a wonderful new invention called a washing machine.  You add your clothes and SOAP and it washes them , Amazing I know.   Check them out!!

This FARMER is proud to be a FARMER.  I was not brought up that way.  I was brought up a rich *B*.  My dad is a famous singer, guitar player.  I was raised with singers, movie stars and more. 

But you know what makes me happy?? My life as a FARMER , growing thing , animals.  When I am done at the end of the day I take a shower and use SOAP to get clean.  When I am done I slip on my Guess jeans & shirt, la mystere bra.     ok some habits are hard to break !!  

 I do look for  jeans that someone bought and they did not fit , or wore a few times to buy.  why pay $79.00 for my jeans when I can get them for about $20.00 on ebay?!?!? 

Did you know you can find brand new clothes at thrift stores?  Yes, it is true.  We find them all the time.  We like some brands. I love Guess, the girls love Bongo and Candies, Roxy, but we buy them at a way lower prices than we could ever dream of getting at a regular store on sale.

Anonymous get real !  My friends keep looking and buying used.  The other people do not know what they are missing!!

God Bless, mj

Make your own butter

One day last week I remembered that I had bought some heavy cream over the holidays for Moma's Favorite Cookie, which I am GOING to post the recipe for! REALLY! :)  Well, I thought with this much cream, it would be a good time to show the children how to make butter... well the easy way to make butter.
We pulled out the ole food processor.
Poured in all that cream and turned it on...
There were a few different stages that I told them we would see...
First of all we saw it just as a liquid, as it is as cream.
We would start seeing the cream slowly becoming thicker, until we had it at the whipped cream stage.
They all tried it at this point and sneered... sadly they thought it would taste like cool whip.  Pitiful, huh? I told them at the enormous amounts of 'stuff' added to cool whip and this was so much better, and that we could add a little sweetner if we wanted whipped cream, but we want butter!
Keep it moving, keep it moving...
FINALLY!
BUTTER! :) HURRAH!
Please forgive the skunk stripes down my child's hair... our New Years Party got a bit crazy! :) haha
Mmm... this butter is good, Mom!
We even took the buttermilk and put it in a jar to use later and washed the curds with ice water to help get all the milk off so the butter would last longer.
Now a solid. How crazy are we? Doing school when we are supposed to be on holiday? haha... so is the life of a homeschooler.
I hope you have a great day friends.
From My Homestead to Yours,
~Chas~
Chasity L. Burrell
Heritage Acres Farm

I did IT

What I did may be no big deal to you but for me and hubby, it is great.  What is it??  My marketing cost.  I usually  spend about $1000 to $1500 a month of food for our family.

What I did is make a list of dinner from meat we have on hand. So them I made a list of what I need to complete each meal.  Guess what I spent a $118.00 to make 25 dinners!!   I am so happy!

The dinners are:

1. Corn beef cabbage  Tonight's dinner.

2. Taco's

3. Baked chicken , green beans, rice rolls.

4. Steak sauce over rice, corn , rolls.  Made

5. Beef stew, salad , corn bread.

6. Egg plant pasta, salad, rolls.

7. Steaks , bake potatoes, salad , veg.

8. Breakfast.

9. Mexican dish, rice , beans.

10. Meatballs, mashed potatoes, rolls.

11. Chicken bake dinner, salad, rolls.

12. Pork steaks , mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls.

13. Green bean casserole, salad, rolls.

14. Hamburger helper , mac~n~cheese

15. Pork chops, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls.  Made

16. A BBQ baked chicken, baked fires, beans.

17. Leek soup, corn bread.

18. homemade pizza's.

19. Chicken pot pies, salad, rolls.

20. Veggies beef soup, corn bread.

21. Beef pot pie, corn bread.

22. Chicken ~N~ dumplings, salad

23. Pasta dish,  salad ,  Garlic bread.

24.  Beef roast, salad, rolls.

25. A Mexican dish from left over roast, rice, beans.

This is the list of dinners I made.  What I do is ask hubby what he wants for dinner the night before.  Then we defrost it in the morning unless it is a roast then we start it the night before.

Please check out my other blog there is some info on how we are not going to be able to buy used clothes anymore, it is a new law.

God Bless, mj

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