Home & Homestead Living
~ Queen Anne’s Lace bud ~ Daucus Carota is a biennial belonging to the carrot family, is also known as Queen Anne’s Lace and, along with Protea, my favorite flowers. Legend has it Queen Anne of England (1665-1714) pricked her finger and a blood drop fell on the white lace she was making. ~ Queen Anne’s Lace flower ~ Queen Anne’s…
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~ l to r – Peaches, Dandy Man, DaniGirl ~ Patrice, Everyday Rurality, is hosting Chat Number 150…a milestone and, in the land of blog, that’s a major accomplishment! Each Wednesday, she asks five questions, answers them and bloggers are allowed to drop in and do likewise. This week her questions, my answers: 1. Do you ever watch old TV…
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~ I love this photo! ~ Grace, over at Buttons Thoughts, has been putting up hay; she’s at 410 bales and counting. (I am green with envy!) This summer is the wettest in my memory which only goes back almost twenty years in this place so others’ mileage may differ. There’s good news and bad news…the bad news is, for…
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~ big sky country ~ “For I know the plans I have for you, My plans are plans for your good, not to destroy you or bring evil to you. These plans are for your future, full of hope and promise.” ~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~ “Everything we are given and everything we are deprived of is nothing but a finger pointing…
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“One must have the capacity for happiness in order to be fully aware of its absence.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~ Blessings ~ our 19th wedding anniversary ~
~ Sadie, waiting patiently ~ “Wait and trust the LORD, Don’t be upset wen others get rich or when someone else’s plans succeed. Don’t get angry. Don’t be upset; it only leads to trouble.” ~ Psalm 37:7-8 ~ “It’s not what we take up but what we give up that makes us rich.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~ “True contentment is…
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Anita, at Castles Crowns and Cottages, is hosting a virtual travel party entitled: (The blue print says “Europe: Simply Irresistible Link Party July 18-25, 2014”) It’s a virtual party and travelogues may be imaginary or places one has visited. Last November I went to Ireland and, in several posts, you’ll be introduced to my thoughts and photos. The series will…
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When someone gives you a bag of lemons, you make lemonade…right? This wasn’t how I was taught to make lemonade but this is how a lazy woman, short on time and long on hand pain makes lemonade. Everything I do requires hand, wrist and arm strength and my hands, etc. take a daily beating. Anything I can do to circumvent…
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“For every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.” ~ Psalm 50:10-11 ~ “In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, Who alone is sovereign, does not declare. ‘That…
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~ the view from my window, this magic moment ~ Did you notice the header photo changed? It’s such a beautiful scene I wanted to show it again…go ahead, drink in all that wonderful beauty. Take huge gulps until you’re sated, filled to overflowing with the wonder of God’s holy creation. Marsha, aka Splendarosa, asked, “How can you bear to…
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“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14 ~ “While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought…
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