Home & Homestead Living
Chateaux de France is a delightful black and white, hard cover book, printed in 1951 and covers the great chateaux of France. It’s printed on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, written in French and includes 64 beautiful chateaux. Above, left, is St. Germain and on the right, Sully-Sur-Loire. This book is a tiny piece of history, the glorious history…
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~ Multi-flora Rose ~ There are some things, when said, that simply make life better, easier, more blessed…more. I’m sorry. Thank you. You’re Welcome. You’re the best. I love you. Please. Excuse me, please. May I help you? I care about you. I like you. It’s a great day to be alive. God is good. Would you help me, please?…
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~ open doors ~ “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” ~ Genesis 2:24 ~ “Keep the eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.” ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ “Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.” ~ Austin…
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~ view from my window ~ “Weep not for me though I am gone, Into that gentle night. Grieve if you will, but not for long, Upon my soul’s sweet flight. I am at peace, my soul’s at rest, There is no need for tears. For with your love I was so blessed For all those many years. There is…
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~ apple blossoms ~ The apple tree is in full bloom and bees are busy with pollination; the morning is beautiful but only after a rough start. Photos are going to get a bit graphic so, if you’re squeamish, better close out the page now. ~ Dogs doing as nature intended ~ Early this morning, as usual, dogs and I…
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~ evening falls ~ “For I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth: And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God, Whom I shall see for myself, And my eyes shall behold, and not another. How my heart yearns within me! ~ Job 19:25-27…
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~ Thistle Cove Farm flowers in bloom ~ It’s a rainy, warm Good Friday and I always think how fickle are crowds. It doesn’t take much, does it, for a crowd to turn from jovial, joyful to murderous, mean. I also don’t understand Good Friday? What’s good about it? Oh, I understand Christ and the cross and how “God sent…
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~ April’s pink moon, through the branches ~ April’s full moon is called the Pink Moon and it was beautiful. This photo isn’t the best one I’ve ever taken but I love it anyway. Perhaps because it reminds me of the still quiet of early morning, a bit before sunrise…? The dogs and I were wandering in the yard and…
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~ stash fabric ~ WHOOPS! Liar, liar, pants on fire… remember that one from childhood? Since Dave’s illness I’ve gotten a lot of practice saying, “I’m sorry.” My brain works, sometimes, and the memory not at all, most of the time. When I said I’d found the rag rug wreath link at Retro Farm Wife, I well and truly thought…
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~ Chef’s Choice ~ So many bloggers have been delighted with CSN stores and I am no exception. Last autumn, they asked if I’d like a gift certificate so I could do a review on my blog. You may remember, other events precluded virtually everything else in our lives and I didn’t take CSN up on their kind offer. Last…
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~ view from my window ~ “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” ~ Proverbs 22:6 ~ “Your children need your presence more than your presents.” ~ unknown ~ “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven…
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