Home & Homestead Living
Happy December! There are 31 days in this month; 13 days to do for others, 13 days to do for family and 5 for yourself. Some of these will overlap…others, family and self and that’s all right. If you don’t do them all, that’s all right, just try your best. If you choose to not doing any of them, it’s…
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“And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” ~ Micah 6:8 ~ “With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.” ~ Ezra Taft Benson ~ “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while…
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The evening before Thanksgiving, Mary called to let me know someone was serving Thanksgiving lunch, with all the trimmings, the next day at the county fairgrounds. It sounded great to both of us so we agreed to meet around noon. Life Church volunteers, I think headed up by Jennifer Beth, along with volunteers from other churches, served turkey and all…
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This morning, at 0:dark thirty the phone rang and when it rings at that hour, I’ve a good idea who is on the other end. This morning I was right; Mary wanted to know if I could keep Drew, her grandson. The regular baby sitter had influenza (that’s what it sounded like) and all their other stand by’s were sick…
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My brother, a retired law enforcement officer, now works at flipping houses and he’s pretty good at it too. Anyway, one day we were talking and he asked, “What do you do all day? I mean, it’s not like you have a job.” (I’m glad we were talking on the telephone and he couldn’t see my expression.) So, this is…
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“Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, in due time their foot will slip; for the day of their calamity is near, And the impending things are hastening upon them.” ~ Deuteronomy 32:35 ~ “Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.” ~ Walter Scott ~ “But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have…
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This morning, my knees are crying like babies and at first, with an idiot’s wisdom, I thought “It must be going to rain.” Then I checked the weather and find it’s not supposed to rain until Wednesday and reconsidered the knee situation. Oh. Right. The wood stack on the back porch went from the above to which meant one step…
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“It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the organizer, Who gave us the freedom demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag. And whose coffin is draped…
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One of my favorite things to make (and eat) are roasted cherry tomatoes with EVOO, sea salt, cracked pepper and rosemary. It’s about a quart of tomatoes, a double drizzle of EVOO and enough salt and pepper to perk it up a bit. After roasting for a few hours at 300 degrees F, I take them out and, depending upon…
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“He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.” ~ Isaiah 26:6-9 ~ “Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.” ~ George Eliot ~…
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Under the little boy it reads, “Clothes make the man but the HAT makes the cowboy!” The big boy is Dave; we were at a birthday party and there was a poster the children could put their face in and have photos taken. It amused Dave to do the same; now it amuses me. Daily. “I measure every Grief I…
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