Is anyone else having a wee bit of trouble with Blogger? Every time I want to load a photo I get a Security Message saying “Information from this secure page will be submitted to a page that is not secure on www.blogger.com. Submitting sensitive information is strongly discouraged.” So, I’m sufficiently frightened enough not to have photos on this post!…
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Rural Thursday Blog Hop #1
~ my garage, built to order ~ oops…forgot to say, if you’re looking for the Thankful Follower give-away post, look here; you have four more days to comment. Nancy, Rural Journal, and Lisa, Two Bears Farm, are hosting a blog hop today and invited me to join them. We’re supposed to blog about rural living, recipes, homesteading tips, animals, photography……
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Thankkful Give-Away for Followers
THANK YOU! Dave would, in great excitement, call out to me, “You’ve got another Follower!” That tickled him, and me, so much; thank you for that gift, that great memory. He would click on your names, visit your blogs…never leave a comment though -smile-…and tell me, “you have the nicest followers!” Very rarely did he leave a comment on my…
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~ God’s Grace ~ ” I love the Lord because He has heard my appeal for mercy. Because He has turned his ear to me, I will call out to Him as long as I live. The ropes of death were wrapped around me, and the torments of Sheol overcame me; I encountered trouble and sorrow. Then I called on…
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https://thistlecove.farm/2012/01/gods-grace-i-love-lord-because-he-has.html
All Will Be Well
“All things shall be well You shall see for yourself that All manner of things shall be well For as the body is clad in the cloth, And the flesh in the skin, And the bones in the flesh And the heart in the trunk So are soul, and body, clad and enclosed in the goodness of God As…
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Sabbath Keeping
“The Lord has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted…to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair.” ~ Isaiah 61:1-3 and Luke 4:18 ~ “[Death] is what life is…
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Pam’s Story
~ Tim Tebow, photographer unknown to me ~ As some may know, I am not a sports fan and don’t pay attention to sports. Probably, I should be ashamed to admit I had no clue who Tim is but folks have, somewhat graciously, put me on the right road -smile-. I am however, always in the corner of another Christian…
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The Stages of Grief
Way back when, I went to Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA to obtain a Bachelor of Science in Recreation, Parks and Tourism. I specialized in convention and visitor bureau development and geriatric recreation and worked various internships including senior centers. Part of the prep work for the geriatric recreation portion of my degree was taking geriatrics classes and in…
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Sabbath Keeping
“I will be glad and rejoice in your love; for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul.” ~ Psalms 31:7 ~ “O Lord I my best desires fulfil. And help me to resign Life, health, and comfort, to Thy will, And make Thy pleasure mine.” ~ William Cowper ~ “Nay, all by Thee is ordered, chosen,…
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A Usual Snowy Saturday in January
~ Buffy and Polly…or is it Sally… ~ There’s an old saying, “no rest for the righteous and the weary don’t need none”. Ain’t it the truth! Oh, and by the way, the word ain’t was in popular usage as late as the 1960’s and considered correct use of the language. Also, the word et for eat. I know language…
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A Dog’s Life, All Six of ‘Em!
~ waiting for breakfast ~ We’re having Ole Man Winter visit the farm today; wind chills are around zero, temps are around 10 above F and the sun is playing hide and seek…mainly hide. We’ve been to the barn to count noses, feed animals, check water and now it’s after lunch, time to do…well, what needs to be done is…
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