Home & Homestead Living
No problem admitting this…I am a boring woman. I tend to stay on the farm, doing things that need doing in order to (right now) put the farm and house to bed for the winter. Today was a good day, mostly, but I am so bummed out. More to come on that later; right now, I’m talking about Quikrete and…
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“Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh in vain.” ~ Psalm 127:1 ~ “Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a…
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It’s that time of year when the needles are covered in yarn and a lot of flat surfaces have piles of knitted hats, scarves, cowls, fingerless mitts, etc. There are two little girls and four little boys in the valley and hats have been made for all of them. I’ll make more hats, for the other children and folks in my…
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“Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him until the will of his enemies.” ~ Psalms 41:1,2 ~ “It’s not how much we give but how much love we…
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Today is the Autumn Equinox and it’s chilly, raining and, in one word, miserable. Daddy always says the weather we have on the season’s change, will be the predominate weather for that season. yay. Cold, rain and misery for the next three months. And, if what I heard might even be true, snow flurries tomorrow. Oh joy. The weather report…
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Daddy, center, celebrated his 85th birthday this weekend and we gave him a surprise party. There were a couple of big surprises…the first was Dustin, his youngest grandson (right of Daddy) who flew in from Florida. This photo shows his brother, JW, to Dustin’s right, and Steve, Daddy’s only son and on his left. Daddy, on the left, with Tommy…
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Jim and Gladys, children, grandchildren, DIL, SIL “The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the gray head.” – Proverbs 20:29 – “Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.” – Marilyn Monroe…
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~ Sadie, checking on Carly ~ “Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way.” ~ Psalms 37:7 ~ “Envy is thin because it bites but never eats.” ~ Spanish proverb ~ “As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.” ~ Antisthenes ~ “Envy…
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someone sent me the following which I’ve changed, just a little… EXCERPTS FROM A DOG’S DIARY ~ Sam P. Spade, Secret Agent and Sophie Butterball Lauren ~ Day number 180 ~ Sadie Lovebug Hawkins ~ OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE! OH BOY! KILLING A GROUND HOG! MY FAVORITE!OH…
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~ Gypsy Rose Lee ~ “See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God…
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Our lives, as Christians, should be one of worship. Standing at a sinkful of dirty dishes or over a pail of dirty diapers (does anyone even use cloth diapers anymore?) or pushing a vacuum or mowing the lawn is worshipful if we have the right spirit. Today, my list of chores include mucking out the barn. I’ll take shovels, rakes,…
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