Home & Homestead Living
Burning the brush pile so we can have a cookout. Erik uses the chain saw to cut up downed tree limbs… and on the tractor with stacked fire wood in foreground. Always enough good food! Big B’s usual look when someone says something he thinks is stupid -LOL-. I was going to say I almost didn’t recognize Daddy John out…
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~ daybreak ~ “And afterward I will pour out my Spirit on all people Your sons and daughters will prophesy Your old men will dream dreams Your young men will see visions.” ~ Joel 2-28 ~ “All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find…
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life beautiful giveaway ends Friday, Sept 14. ~ stables at Thistle Cove Farm ~ Behind the stables is a livestock water trough that, fairly often, gets an air lock. The upper left end is where the John Deere is stored, the hay loft is top middle and the lower right is where the Ranger lives next to the tack room….
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~ morning breaks in the valley ~ “Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind…“ ~ Psalms 26:2 ~ “A retrospect of my whole life, from the earliest period of my recollection down to the present hour, leaves me with this impression; that I have been, and am being, guided by a gracious and a…
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~ Lily, waving hello ~ While at the barn, recently, I hear mewling. Eventually, I followed the sound to the hay loft where I found this little one. Kimberly, a young friend, named this little one Lily which is odd, because in the last month or so, two human Lily’s have crossed my path. Anyway, Lily it is and she’s…
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Vicki, 2 Bags Full, is having a Grow Your Blog party and wants you to come but only if you want your blog to gain more visitors and followers. Vicki is an amazing woman…kind, generous and talented; if she weren’t so nice, she’d be intimidating as all get out! She has a Sacred Yarn Room…love it!…and makes these amazing, beautiful,…
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~ winging their way home ~ “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! The LORD looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned, he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all…
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ Under my feet, my piece of heaven has thistles galore and I spend a lot of time chopping those thistles. I’ve been told thistles are a bi-annual crop…and I use the word “crop” loosely…and need to be chopped before their flower goes to seed. I’ve…
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~ colorful carabiner key fobs~ If you live in a household with other folks who drive, do you, often, get your keys confused? Dave and I used to get our keys confused all the time. One day, I finally figured out that if I used colored carabiner key fobs, it was a lot easier to, quickly, find the keys I…
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Patrice and Wendell, or is that Wendell and Patrice?, over at Everyday Ruralty have a blog hop on Tuesdays. They call it Chats on the Farmhouse Porch and ask five questions. 1. What’s the last thing you baked? Bread and have almost given it all away. Each week I bake and then hand out the results to folks. Some weeks…
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~ double rainbow ~ “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope, and a future.” ~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~ “Encourage is oxygen for the soul.” ~ George M. Adams ~ “When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on so…
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