MERCY! The photo options are set on 320 dpi, lowest I can get it, and it still takes between 2 and 3 MINUTES to load a photo...lordy! I'm thinking this post will be heavy on verbiage and light on sights. Recently, my old house needed new gutters. It needed new gutters because the company who put ... Read More about From the Crown to the Sole to the Roots at Thistle Cove Farm
Sabbath Keeping
"Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will ... Read More about Sabbath Keeping
Sabbath Keeping
"But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." ~ Joshua 24:15 ... Read More about Sabbath Keeping
Thistle Cove Poppet’s Maiden Voyage
Y'all know how difficult it is for me to leave home. Truly, leaving my animals, farm and home is hard enough but to leave sights like these six white tail deer above...dang near impossible! Watching Anna as she considers climbing the maple tree. In the past two weeks, Donald has been working ... Read More about Thistle Cove Poppet’s Maiden Voyage
Sabbath Keeping
"Honor your father and your mother." ~ Exodus 20: 2-17 ~ "It is through consecration that drudgery is made divine." ~ author unknown ~ "We carry our mothers inside us, their voices, their habits surprise us, slipping out suddenly, after we're opened to life's pain. When we've ... Read More about Sabbath Keeping
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” -Rumi-
Dear Dave, God restored the years the locust had eaten when He gave you to me as a friend, then husband. He and you gave me the best one-third of my life on this piece of heaven on earth, this Sanctuary we named Thistle Cove Farm. When I tell people how we met, then courted six years before finding ... Read More about “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” -Rumi-
A Handmade, Homemade Life
~ tired, old fence ~ Can anyone tell me why restaurants say, for example, "homemade ice cream" when it's clearly not homemade? Just another something to puzzle me. April came and went and, mostly, so did I. Seems I was always getting ready to go, going or coming home. Lest you think it was for ... Read More about A Handmade, Homemade Life
Sabbath Keeping
"Then when you call the Lord will answer. "Yes, I am here," he will quickly reply. All you need to do is to stop oppressing the weak and stop making false accusations and spreading vicious rumors! Feed the hungry! Help those in trouble! Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the ... Read More about Sabbath Keeping
Sabbath Keeping
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." ~ Proverbs 29:18 ~ "Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate." ~ William Arthur Ward ~ "The first great gift we can bestow on others is a ... Read More about Sabbath Keeping
Thankfully, it is Friday.
Nancy, A Rural Journal blog, has brought back Random 5 Friday where folks join in by posting five random facts about any or everything. Frankly, I'm over the moon happy it's Friday and am seriously considering a tub of hot water, Marcia Willet's A Prodigal Wife, a tot of Jack Daniels with honey ... Read More about Thankfully, it is Friday.