Home & Homestead Living
OH MY! A few years ago, I blogged about turning your blog into a book but then promptly forgot about it. Until last week when I sat down and went through the process to take the first three years of my on-line journal and turn it into a hard copy. It’s difficult to see but the writing on the left…
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Recently I read A Dog’s Purpose by Karen McNeil and thought you’d enjoy it as well. If you don’t please, don’t tell me; I’d still prefer to think the best of you. -smile- “Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy…
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~ Gypsy Rose Lee, sleeping peacefully ~ “Consider the blameless, observe the upright; there is a future for the man [and woman] of peace.” ~ Psalms 37:37 ~ “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ~ Virginia Woolf ~ “When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more…
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Once the wintery mix stopped, it began raining and it’s rained and rained and rained and…it’s still raining. We’ve had a few hours of sunshine in the last couple of weeks but, at the moment, can’t really remember when. Perhaps last week…? A lot of rain isn’t conducive to a positive mental attitude; at least, it’s not for me. I’m…
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~ blue birds of happiness ~ “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor they maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor…
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Dang. No photos due to some kind of computer or blogger glitch; oh well, it is what it is. The last two weeks plus have been overwhelming in a variety of ways. We went from Blackberry Blizzard with a “wintery mix” to, a week later, 3 or 4 inches of rain in thirty-six hours. As Andy Griffith said, “It rained…
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~ Dave, in Romania ~ “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” ~ I Corinthians 15:26 ~ “I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so his place will be proud of him.” ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ “Life every man holds dear; but the dear…
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“Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” ~ Psalm 50:15 ~ “He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.” ~ John Bunyan ~ “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A…
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“For I am the Lord, I do not change; Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, That there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this,” Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven And pour out for you such blessing That there will not be room enough…
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In the past, I’ve written about Blackberry Winter in 2005, 2008 and 2011. There are probably a few other posts but these three give you an idea; it was also a trip down memory lane for me…a happy trip, let me add. For those who might not know, Blackberry Winter is the reverse of Indian Summer. It’s that time in…
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~ “Mt. Pilot” ~ “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” ~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~ “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.” ~ G. K. Chesterton ~ “Every thought is a seed. If…
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