Home & Homestead Living
“…and your strength will equal your days.” ~ Deuteronomy 33:25 ~ “He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, is very much in love with sorrow and peevishness, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down upon his little handful of thorns. Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them, and the…
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It’s New Year’s Day and, hopefully, you’ve celebrated in a manner that’s left you full of life and looking forward to this new year and all the promise it holds. We celebrate quietly at Thistle Cove Farm, no mad dashing about, no frantic parties, no serious consumption of spirits, no overeating. Heck, we don’t even stay up to see the…
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~ every day, a new beginning ~ We’re at that awkward time of year, the week between Christmas and New Year’s when things are either piling on and we’re scurrying like mice trying to finish out year of end projects or we’re working on some serious down time. Funny how there never seems to be an in-between yet I’m trying…
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~ Santa came to Thompson Valley! ~ If your Christmas was as fabulous as mine, you’re a very happy and blessed person! Yes, we had some wonderful gifts, both given and received and some yet to come but it’s more that we spent it together, Dave and I with the critters, here on the farm. We spent this Christmas in…
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~ Morris Knob ~ “I have come that they may have life and have it more abundantly.” ~ Jesus Christ, KJV John 10:10 ~ Merry Christmas, until next time, Blessings ~ life, abundant and full ~ Jesus Christ ~ Christmas ~ salvation ~ eternity ~
~ Nativity in Winston-Salem, NC ~ For more than fifty years, every Christmas eve, we’ve read the second chapter of Luke. Mom started this tradition when we were small children and I’ve continued it as an adult. It’s just not Christmas without reading about Luke’s account of the birth of Christ on Christmas eve. Recently I read someone’s account of…
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~ American Curly horses, waiting for breakfast ~ I’ve not ventured off the farm since the snow storm but the needs of the animals will always make me go. The horses and sheep both needed minerals and anyone who knows me knows I’m keen on minerals. I firmly believe good food, good water and minerals make the fleece as…
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~ J.W’s Christmas gift ~ This is the quilt I made for JW, my nephew. He loves to hunt and is a real home-boy, steady, reliable, courteous and spends his evenings, mostly, at home. Last year, I made him a fleece throw and he uses it constantly. Unfortunately, it’s a tad short and he has to choose to have…
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I want to be an old woman. -click to view you tube video. By the way, Paula won a pair of rug mugs…err, make that mug rugs… but left no way for me to contact her. If you’d like them, please leave a comment and random.org will choose someone by Wednesday, 7:00 a.m. I’ll try and mail them Wednesday afternoon…
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“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was wtih God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.” ~ John…
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~ walnut tree, back pasture ~ Perhaps you can tell from my header photo, we live in a, fairly, remote area of Virginia. There are other areas of Virginia that are far more remote but we’re “out there” by almost anyone’s definition. Just ask the folks who manage to make it here for Sheep Shearing Day -smile-. Invariably,…
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