Home & Homestead Living
~ morning has broken over the Atlantic Ocean ~ Nancy, over at A Rural Journal, graciously allowed me to post this blatant commercial during her Rural Thursday Blog Hop. As many know, Dave, my husband, died in November 2011 and life has been “interesting”…let’s face it, so many adjectives come to mind and all of them pertinent but I’ll go…
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~ my feet ~ ~ Atlantic Ocean ~ ~ my feet in the Atlantic Ocean ~ ~ ahhhhh. breathing deeply ~ Blessings ~ calm ~ peace ~ serenity ~ a welcome respite ~ breathing deeply ~
“God is not man that he should lie, or a son of man that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? ~ Numbers 23:19 ~ Through the pitch-black night, the Captain sees a light dead ahead on a collision course. He sends a…
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~ Carly Shetland ~ It’s been a week or three of remembering to breath; autumn is in the air, temps are falling, humidity is falling, leaves are starting to turn. Yep, autumn is on the way, although, to be sure, there are still plenty of days with heat left to enjoy. The garden isn’t much and that’s okay. It’s been…
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~ Atlantic Ocean, North Myrtle Beach, SC, USA ~ “You will keep Him in perfect peace whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.” ~ Isaiah 26-3 ~ “The mind never puts forth greater power over itself than when, in great trials, it yields up calmly its desires, affections, interests to God. There are seasons when to be still…
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~ Post Kitty ~ “While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, whose hand was caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our President. The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Obama is…
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It’s difficult to photograph humming birds, even though there are so many. They flit, fly, swoop and all in the blink of an eye! I think there are ten in the above photo but could be one more. I think there are eleven in both these photos. The feeders are placed away from trees, bushes, shrubs and the house. The…
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“What I propose to do now is to try listening to my life as a whole, or at least to certain key moments of the first half of my life thus far, for whatever of meaning, of holiness, of God, there may be to hear. My assumption is that the story of any one of us is in some measure…
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UPDATE: Two of the feeders will take a scant four cups of sugar water, aka syrup, between them. The third feed takes the entire four cups of syrup. The smaller of the two feeders are hanging on a double shepherds hook while the larger of the feeders is hanging on a single shepherds hook. The feeders on the double shepherds…
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~ love of country ~ “And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.” ~ Genesis 29:20 ~ “Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing it all for love.” ~ St. Therese…
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~ no matter what you drive ~ Have you ever seen a puddle of fluid under your vehicle? It can be a frightening sight but if you know your colors, it can lessen the scare. It’s easy enough to check fluids in your vehicle and in doing so, you’ll sometimes prevent a small problem from becoming a large problem. Any…
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