Home & Homestead Living
These Merrill shoes have been in use for ten, or more, years. They are my morning barn “boots”, easy to slip on/off, comfortable and I use them to run to the barn, make sure everyone is doing all right, feed the barn cats and come back to the house. As you can see, they are a mess! The sides are…
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Are your auto headlights cloudy? A couple of years ago, I talked with an auto repair owner and he told me Toyota would charge me around $400 per headlight, to replace the plastic covers. Um, I don’t think so! So, I learned to live with cloudy headlights. Then, I read somewhere about using a paste of baking soda and water…
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~ some of my daily supplements ~ Dave used to call me a cynic. I’d respond, “yeah, but a cynic is simply a realist with more information.” He’d nod and smile knowingly. In yet another power grab, fueled, I sincerely believe, by filthy lucre, Senator Dick Durbin of IL, along with the FDA – who we know…heavy on the sarcasm……
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“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.” ~ Proverbs 27:23 ~ “A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ “Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.” ~ Anne Frank ~ “Laziness. Unwarranted repose…
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It’s difficult to tell but there are four rather beady eyes peering at the camera. It wasn’t so bad when it was just one, the full grown skunk with a broad splash of white on her (as I’ve since discovered) back. Now she’s bringing the family. Yes, the skunk family has moved to Thistle Cove Farm. The dogs and I…
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Vince Flynn, 47, husband, father, son, best selling author and patriot died Wednesday, June 19, 2013 at United Hospital in St. Paul, MN. In 2010, Mr. Flynn was diagnosed with cancer yet continued to write his best selling Mitch Rapp novels. There are fourteen best sellers and, before publication, had to be reviewed by various national security agencies because they…
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~ Sadie says, “Certainly not me!” And, in my neighboring state of West Virginia, where they’ll allow anyone in the class room (including me), a Marshall University employee by the name of Christopher Swindell went on a rant about killing folks. Apparently it’s fine though, because he’s a liberal and wants the conservatives dead …he wants people with whom he doesn’t agree dead…
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Jen, Finding Heaven Today, has a post on…fear which is what I call most of the unknowns in life. She talks about leaving the boat which reminds me of the card someone sent Dave and I when we bought this farm. The card showed two people, standing at a crossroads, with a sign that pointed “Normal” and “Off the Beaten…
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“…You, O Lord, are our Father, Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.” ~ Isaiah 63:16 ~ “My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me.” ~ Jim Valvano ~ “It is a wise father that knows his own child.” ~ Shakespeare ~ “To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a…
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Someone said, “My idea of hell is the thought that I have to live in the world you seem itching to put together.” “We have become increasingly an audience waiting to be entertained. Never before have we been able to live in a world with so many forms of unreality.” “There are times we need to be protected from the…
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“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things which you do not know.” ~ Jeremiah 33:3 ~ “Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.” ~ Douglas Bader ~ “Immaturity if the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.”~ Immanuel Kent ~ “Men give…
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