Home & Homestead Living
“…it’s a funny thing about gifts- we usually don’t consider ours as unique or as stunning as someone else’s gifts because whatever ours is, it comes so easily to us that we don’t get the big deal about it.” ~ Patsy Clairmont ~ Blessings ~ Patsy Clairmont ~ encouragement ~ laughter ~ gifts ~ YOU ~
“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.” ~ Proverbs 27:23 ~ “You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,” said the Lion.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~ “How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in.” ~ Oscar Wilde ~ “There is…
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~ at least 4 deer ~ Can you believe August is gone, school has started and Autumn is less than two weeks from today? whewwwww! Tempus Fugit, eh? Last month I made jam, here, and today I made four more pints of peach vanilla and the slow cooker is full of Wolf River apples, known for making delicious apple butter,…
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Random.org drew #8, Lynne’s name of Irish Garden House as the winner of the apron. Lynne, please send your snail mail address in a private note and I’ll mail next week. As an aside, have you used Random.org? It’s interesting, click on the link to read more but know this…originally, it was developed by Dr. Mads Haahr, a prof at…
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~ August full moon, the sturgeon moon ~ The Five Solas Sola Scriptura Scripture Alone 11 Timothy 3:16 II Peter 1:16-20 Solus Christus Christ Alone John 14:4-6 Acts 4:8-12 Sola Gratia Grace Alone Ephesians 2:8-10 Sola Fide Faith Alone Romans 3:21-26 Hebrews 11:1-2 Soli Deo Gloria To God alone the Glory I Corinthians 10:31 Prayer Keeping ~ Donald ~ Jim…
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Do you know Tammy, Flat Creek Farm blog? Recently she posted Mr. W was back in the blacksmith shop, making, among other things, trowels out of railroad spikes…yes, railroad spikes! Tammy gave the address of Mr. W’s etsy shop so I hied myself there quick like a bunny and found the above. sigh. To misquote Keats, a thing of beauty and a…
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Sadie and Sam are both “good helpers” during farm chores, keeping an eye open for ground hogs, rabbits and other “farm vermin”. Dang. Now that I’ve loaded all these photos, I check and find out National Dog Day has been changed from Aug 26 to 31. tough. It’s after 9 p.m. and my flannel nightgown wants to go to bed…
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~ Kit Carson ~ “Above all else, guard your heart for out of it are the issues of life.” ~ Proverbs 4:23 ~ “Follow your heart, never surrender your dreams. Always believe in yourself and let God do the rest.” ~ Simphiwe Ntuli ~ “I could take time to compliment you on your beauty and physical features, but I want…
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This is my view, every single day…I am blessed. Bald eagles live here and sometimes I’m able to get photos. This bald eagle was eating carrion while the crow dared dance too close. Milkweed, Monarch butterfly food. Amazing, how a fawn this little can jump a fence. Difficult to see but three fawns on other side of fence. Milk…
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This gentleman was tending an orphan fawn, about eight weeks old, and telling people about wildlife. The fawn was curious but kept well wrapped so he couldn’t leap away and fall on the concrete floor. Now if my title offends you…keep it to yourself because I’m not one to rewrite history and this was one of my favorite children’s stories….
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“Taste and see that the Lord is good, blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.” ~ Psalm 34:8 ~ “Let the past sleep, but let it sleep on the bosom of Christ, and go out into the irresistible future with Him.” ~ Oswald Chambers ~ “Human nature is what we were put on this earth to rise above.”…
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