Home & Homestead Living
~ His sheep know His voice, John 10:1-10 ~ “The joy of the Lord is your strength.” ~ Nehemiah 8:9 ~ “A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” ~ Bertrand Russell ~ “The fruit of the Spirit is love,…
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~ Acorn cookstove, circa 1914 ~ This isn’t the greatest photo I’ve ever taken but it does show our cook stove; an Acorn, made in 1914. The stove stop has seven burners, one of which is a sauce simmer and all are propane gas. The three ovens are electric and the warming oven is at top left. One of the…
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Lately, there’s been a sense of ennui around here. Nothing definite, nothing I can, quite, put my finger upon but, a very real, air of ennui. The dictionary says ennui is “a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom”. I am not bored nor do I have a lack of interest; in truth,…
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~ SW Representative Rick Boucher voted YES to Cap and Trade ~ RE: Cap and Trade – Don L. Blankenship, Chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, fourth largest coal company in the USA notes, “In Spain, an economics professor calculates that green job schemes have destroyed more than 110,000 jobs in that country, of 2.2 jobs destroyed for every one…
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~ the place where morning gathers at Thistle Cove Farm ~ Are you familiar with Rich Mullins? He was a extremely gifted Christian song writer and musician who passed away in 1997 but left behind a legacy of music and words that are haunting in their beauty and are being sung still today. He played several instruments and was best…
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Hallelujah! Daylight savings time is behind us for a few brief months. It’s not that I mind it during the spring and summer but for whatever strange reason, by the time we slouch toward October, my body rhythms are totally skewed. Yesterday, I woke up and felt approaching normal; this morning I work up and felt like I was reborn…
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~ Live Within Your Harvest, church sign ~ “People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and…
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~ The view from my bedroom window, for a couple of weeks at least ~ Anyone remember that old Emmy Lou Harris song, Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town? Great song and singer; she’s got the gift of harmony and I can’t carry a tune in a bucket. It’s just not fair. As to the above photo,…
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~ the last of the cosmos, kissed by frost ~ Autumn is my favorite time of year, although, it’s also the most difficult to make an adjustment to the changes in light and time. I know DST doesn’t change until November 1, Sunday, 2 a.m. but the already shortened days confuse my cicadian rhythms and both body and mind suffer….
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“And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” ~ Psalms 73:25-26 ~ “No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world’s storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven’s glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear. O God within my…
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This is the letter I sent to elected Commonwealth of Virginia representatives; please feel free to send a similar, or even this letter with your signature, to your elected representatives. Dear Senator: Certainly reform is necessary to rein in health care costs but that reform is best attended to, in my opinion, the industry and not the government. Government should…
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