Home & Homestead Living
The most recent months s have been fraught with problems. I refuse to use the word “issue” as it always makes me think of the New Testament woman with the “issue of blood” who touched the hem of Jesus’ robe. First the Honda’s complete and total exhaust system needed to be replaced. Yes, that’s correct, from stem to stern the…
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“TO MARY MARGARET McCASLIN: On how, after weathering a bereavement, one feels abandoned by God; on how God works on our behalf even when we feel He is inactive; and on the necessity of continuing to use the ordinary means of the spiritual life during times of extraordinary need. 2 August 1954 Thank you for your letter of the July…
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“When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the…
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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a…
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Dewena, at Dewena’s Window, is a huge fan of Faith Baldwin whom I’ve never read. FB was a friend of Gladys Taber who is one of my favorites and today, on Miss Baldwin’s 128th birthday, Dewena posted a poem. “I have come back to quiet ways; to Things of silent wonder, instinct with…
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Recently, on social media, this photo caught my attention. Dave and I were so totally green at farming but God was (and is) good and kept us (me) safe and all the while teaching me lesson after lesson after lesson. One year we bought hay like the photo and it was enormous, easily weighing 1,000 pounds, perhaps more. It arrived…
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After I post this, I’ll begin answering your kind comments left lo! these many months. As you read, you’ll begin to understand. Also, there’s some glitch with adding photos so those will be added later. Hopefully. If you’d like to catch up March, April, May, June, July, and now August be sure to sign up with your best e-address so…
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~ Sadie Beau Hunkous, my final heartbeat ~ If trouble comes in three’s, the farm and I should be safe for a while. A very long while, please God. Today it was Sadie Beau Hunkous taking the rest of my battered and shattered heart. If you’re one of those people who don’t understand how animals are part of the…
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Sadie and I as photographed by my sister and I’m not quite sure why dressing like this brings me such pleasure. The hat, shawl, apron, dress, spinning wheel…all hand crafted by loving hands. Even the shawl pin is hand made. Sadly, I’ve forgotten names but the shawl is hand spun, hand woven from a Michigan shepherd and the wheel from…
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If you’ve always dreamed of country life now might be the time to put feet to that dream. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s life changes in a moment and today is the day because tomorrow never comes. This article gives an excellent beginning for making the move from city mouse to country mouse and if you remember Green Acres,…
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