Home & Homestead Living
~ Italian cannellini beans ~ On Saturday, I did a lot of outside work and, as usual, came inside ravished with hunger. Dave used to shake his head as I’d stand in front of the refrigerator or chef pantry door, waiting for either food to jump into my hands or inspiration to strike. On Saturday, the former didn’t happen but,…
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“Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.” ~ Hosea 10:12 ~ “Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow.” ~ C. S. Lewis ~ “The more…
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~ Carly Shetland ~ There really aren’t any normal days on a farm although each day brings some of the same chores – feeding and checking on the animals, checking water, gates and fences. Each morning, after tending to my needs as well as those of the house cats and dogs, I check on Carly. She’s a Shetland, a primitive…
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~ F-16 fighter jets ~ The last day of January, 2013, the US Senate voted, overwhelmingly, to send F-16 fighter jets and 125 M1A1 Abrams tanks, to Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood. Some of the F-16 fighter jets have already been delivered and the Abrams tanks are to be delivered in a couple of months. President Obama could have stopped this vile…
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Don’t you just love it when good things happen to nice people? That’s the case with Nicole Mikkelsen-Snow of Darn Good Yarn. Nicole started Darn Good Yarn (DGY) to give women and their families in Nepal and India a chance for a decent living and a better life. At the end of October, Nicole sent me her newsletter wherein she…
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~ some of my aged flock, l to r – Polly Merino, Buffy Suffolk, Easter and Samuel Romey ~ “To love at all is to be vulnerable. (yes, it does hurt.) Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. (don’t you mean, probably?) If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give…
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~ Tippy, grooming Gypsy ~ Recently, someone asked me if there really was a “Pounding Mill” as shown on my left side weather button. Yes, there really is a Pounding Mill and it’s just down the road. What isn’t entirely truthful, is the weather shown there. Oh, I expect it might be right for Pounding Mill but it’s certainly hardly…
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Unfortunately, what most people know about Saint Patrick is St. Paddy’s Day and green beer but the story is one of rich heritage to both the Western World and Christians all over the world. Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, has his holy day on March 17th, his death day. Holy days have been bastardized turned into holidays and,…
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~ Sam, chasing Rooster Cogburn ~ “The one who follows instruction is on the path to life, but the one who rejects correction goes astray.” ~ Proverbs 10:17 ~ “Discipline is training that develops and corrects.” ~ Charles Stanley ~ “Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.” ~ Dave Ramsey…
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~ borrowed photo ~ Dear Abba, please bless Pope Francis I. Give him Your strength to do the job You have set before him. Please allow the wind to be at his back and his face toward the Son. Give him peace, joy, patience, humility, wisdom, mercy, discernment, and love in abundance. Allow him to be long suffering and full…
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“The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want…” ~ Psalm 23:1 ~ “If you ever find it hard to sleep at night, don’t count sheep. Instead, talk to the Shepherd…lay all your burdens unto God and nothing will disturb you.” ~ unknown ~ “The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.”…
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