Home & Homestead Living
~ Canadian organic seed potatoes ~ Do you like potatoes? Do you like Yukon Gold Potatoes? In the hopes the sun will shine again, I’ve readied twenty-five pounds of Yukon Gold seed potatoes for planting. Actually, the bag was fifty pounds but I shared with Daniel, our neighbor and “adopted” son. That’s how we treat him and that’s how we…
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~ Garden Angel ~ Spring means work and a lot of it when you live on a farm. The garden and orchard share a field, about an acre in size, perhaps a bit more or less, and Dave keeps asking, “do you have any room left?” Geeze Louise, do I ever! I keep putting more and more seeds and plants…
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~ growing apples ~ “He led them forth by the right way.” ~ Psalm 107:7 ~ “…By honor and dishonor, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all these things are the lives of your souls maintained, and by each of these are…
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~ thornless blackberry bloom ~ In the heart of Appalachia, indeed all of the USA East Coast, we have a saying: Blackberry Winter. It’s that time of May, around the 10th, or second weekend, or Mother’s Day, when the blackberry bushes bloom. It’s also when we experience Blackberry Winter, the inverse of Indian Summer, and temperatures plummet to just above…
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~ no passing lane ~ So, how’s traffic where you live? Blessings ~ rural living ~ cattle ~ a sense humor ~ Saturday ~
~ American wild turkey ~ “The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.” ~ Numbers 6:24-26 ~ “I am serene because I know thou lovest me. Because thou lovest me, naught can move me from my peace….
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~ lilacs, can you smell them? ~ Recently, Raeann, over at The Lady Farmer Parables, had the following on her blog and it spoke to my heart. Actually, it yelled and I think I even felt a tiny little head slap, ala Gibbs -grin-. Have you ever been lectured by a sweet young thing on being “green”? Anyway, major gripe…
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~ the storm ~ Bumper-Stickers Seen On Military Bases. “When In Doubt, Empty The Magazine” “Marine Sniper – You can run, but you’ll just die tired!” “Machine Gunners – Accuracy By Volume” “Except For Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism, WAR has Never Solved Anything.” ” U.S. Marines – Certified Counselors to the 72 Virgins Dating Club.”…
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~ evening peace ~ 1- Just one God- Put nothin’ before God 3- Watch yer mouth 4- Git yourself to Sunday meetin’ 5- Honor yer Ma & Pa 6- No killin’ 7- No foolin’ around with another feller’s gal or another gal’s feller 8- Don’t take what ain’t yers 9- No tellin’ tales or gossipin’; if ya gotta carry, carry…
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Tazewell County, Virginia is a funny place. It seems to me everyone is in competition with everyone else including each other. While competition should be a good thing, most generally around here, it’s not so good. There’s a fair bit of carping, hissing, complaining and downright rancor over the latest farmers’ market. Years ago, I helped start the first Tazewell…
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~ after the storm ~ “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” ~ Philippians 4:13 ~ “We know that in the moral, as in the physical order, nature abhors a vacancy. Consciously or unconsciously, as the years go by, all men more and more submit their lives to some allegiance; with whatever uncertainty and changefulness, some one…
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