Home & Homestead Living
~ Super Sadie and Sophie Lauren Butterball ~ For some reason, this photo makes me think of Superman. Remember? He’d stand, arms crossed, as he gazed in the far distance. I tried putting antlers on the dogs…Christmas, doncha know?…and they rebelled. Sadie would run between my legs…I think in embarrassment…and Sam would just shake his head like, “you’re taking this…
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~ daybreak over the valley ~ Is it because of Santa and the North Pole we equate Christmas with snow? Yesterday afternoon, right at 3:00 -as if by some timetable known only to God- it began to storm. And, storm it did with a passion! Miss G. was here to share lunch and then to sew and when I looked…
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KEEP CALM AND TAKE A NAP Blessings ~ naps ~ naps ~ naps ~
~ Dave in Bedouin camp, Sahara Desert, Morocco ~ “I made you grow like a plant of the field. You grew up and developed and became the most beautiful of jewels.” ~ Ezekiel 16:7 ~ “Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they…
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~ Rogue River, Oregon salmon fishing ~ According to this site and the person writing the post, the top five regrets of those folks who are in the last stages of life are 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. 2. I wish I didn’t work…
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~ sunrise over the valley ~ “If they obey and serve him, they will spend the restof their days in prosperity and their years in contentment.”~ Job 36:11 ~ “Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.” ~ Selma Lagerlof ~ “But godliness with contentment is great gain.”~ Timothy 6:6 ~ If you’d…
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Oh dear God. It’s only been two weeks. Blessings ~ God’s strength, grace, mercy and love ~
~ Thanksgiving Day, 2011 ~ Today, Thanksgiving Day, was beautiful…bright, sunny, warmish and such a delight. We’ve had cold rain and high winds much of this week and today was a gift! Much of last week was sweater weather for the dogs and jacket weather for me. It’s a foretaste of what’s to come and I think, and have been…
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~ in tandem ~ “Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” ~…
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Perhaps this seems a strange photo to place on my blog but, from where I’m sitting, thanks are in order. Each and every day, brave people, truly brave people, put themselves on the front line for you and me. Soldiers, medics, EMT’s, police, sheriff’s and deputies – they all put on their boots and go to work in the morning…
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~ the sun is always shining, somewhere ~ “For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one;he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.” ~ Psalm 22:24 ~ “The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds…
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