Home & Homestead Living
Glenda, over at Gg-Notes on the Journey, has written she’s cutting back on her posting; her hands and her time tell the tale. I wrote her to say I wear braces on both hands; they help rest, support and protect my hands. At night, I slather my hands with muscle rub, making the dogs crinkle their noses and question if…
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~ laundry on the line ~ Do you notice as the days, weeks, months, years pass there’s less of you and more of work? It seems more difficult to get as much out of the days as before. Before what? you may ask. Well, before that last birthday; actually, before the last decade of birthdays. Seven loads of laundry means…
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“Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against thee.” ~ Psalm 119:11 ~ “Be careful of the words you say, Keep them short and sweet, You never know, from day to day, Which ones you’ll have to eat.” ~ unknown ~ “Duty is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all…
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~ a neighbor’s home ~ UPDATE: Boy – size 6 pants and shirt, size 2 shoes and lost all his toys, he walked out barefoot Adult female – 2X shirt, 38 pants, size 9.5 shoes Adult female – medium shirt, 34 pants, size 8.5 shoes Adult male – XL shirt, 30/32 pants, size 10.5 shoes If you want my street…
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“The more alive you are, the more you are aware of death.” ~ Samuel Menashe ~ Refusing At Fifty-Two To Write Sonnets It came to him that he could nearly count How many late Aprils he had left to him In increments of ten or, say, eleven Thus: sixty-three, seventy-four, eighty-five. He couldn’t see himself at ninety-six — Humanity’s advances…
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~ He is Risen! ~ ~ excellent photographer unknown to me ~ “The Lord lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God, the Rock, my Savior! He is the God who avenges me, who puts the nations under me, who sets me free from my enemies. You exalted me above my foes; from violent men you rescued me. Therefore…
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Here we are, in the tropics of Alaska, also known as Barrow. When we were packing for this trip, I told Dave, “Honey, you need to take a jacket or sweater.” He barely glanced my direction. “Oh no. I’ll be fine; it’s not going to be that cold.” I looked askance. “Dave, it’s Alaska and not only Alaska, we’re going…
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~ everything borrowed from an e-mail sent to me ~ “Everyone concentrates on the problems we’re having in our Country lately: illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida… Not me–I concentrate on solutions for the problems — it’s a win-win situation. *Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. *Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise…
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~ Gypsy Rose Lee ~ Praise be to the Almighty! I’ve had two good days…yesterday and today…where I was able to do something other than cry. I’ve been catching up on bill paying and took my laptop and printer to Kewloff Computers and put everything in the capable hands of Jason and Tara, the owners. Dave found Kewloff when the…
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https://thistlecove.farm/2012/04/gypsy-rose-lee-praise-be-to-almighty.html
~ a rooster blew in from God knows where ~ “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.“ ~ Psalm 14:1 ~ “An atheist was seated next to a little girl on a plane and he turned to her and asked “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up conversation with your fellow passenger”…
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~ lambie, lambie, lambie ~ After pouring my guts heart out in the last post, I feel ever so much better, although, I think it has more to do with your kind comments than the emptying of my soul. In my case, soul emptying isn’t so much courage as the fear of standing before God, hopefully in the far future,…
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