Just when I thought I was doing fine with not feeling obligated to blog, I learned a reason why I should - at least every once in a while - check in with some manner of post. My Mom and Sisters-In-Law have convinced me that it just is not proper that I leave them hanging […]

Anybody else get this after asking, “Honey, will you please encourage the boys to get their morning chores done quickly?”

Who knew that an impromptu wrestling match was the proper response? Apparently these guys hear and speak a completely different language than us girls. (And Doodle just can’t resist a little danger.)
 
I think I’ve been schooled. […]

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I’ve been tagged by Cheri. This is the first time I’ve ever “played” internet tag so this will could be fun. I am to list 7 random facts about myself. Let the record show that had this come from anyone else, I probably […]

During the last month or so of barfdom, I let a lot of things in blogdom slide. But, being on the mend (right, Father?) I am endeavoring to catch up a bit. Bear with me.

The Mathetes Award was created to honor those who are about YHWH’s Word, have a heart to share YHWH’s Word, and […]

We’ve been doing all the last-minute preparations for putting our house on the market this week, so time for the computer has been nil. During a quick break this afternoon, I found this test, and spent wasted a few minutes completing it. It was good to have at least one thing completed today. I wonder […]

You know that last post about the otoscope contest, well…I actually WON one!
Cool, huh?
Go see, and see some other neat articles that explain how to use them and why…HERE.
By the way, I am still planning to get back here and answer Lynne’s questions, but I’ve been swamped. Mr. Visionary and I are speaking at […]

Out and about early this morning, I was given the opportunity to ponder both the moronic and oxymoronic. My driving behind a school bus with it’s screaming, jumping and wildly flailing un-seatbelted children gave me impetus for the former, and the morning news on the van radio supplied the latter. In the few brief minutes […]

So, we were in town some today. The kids were great…it was the other folks who encouraged me to stumble. Father saved the day just before I blew my testimony. He’s good that way. I submit this not as an example of righteousness, but as proof (only those who do not know me in […]

I’ve been busy for a while, and haven’t posted, but I do have a good excuse. We were getting ready for a yard sale, then preparing for the Wallers’ coming to our house ~ cooking ahead, moving furniture, etc. After they left, we followed them to another town and stayed in their bus for a […]

***This post is an answer to something in the comments section of yesterday’s post, What Will We Do With It? Please read that first, in order to understand this response. ***

Let me begin by assuring you that you do not sound silly or naive. You sound like a person who has lived so long […]

Often we are met with incredulity from folks who find out that we have no television reception in our home, we do not listen to the radio, nor do we take the newspaper. Exactly two seconds before the revelation, had you asked one of these people if we seemed backwards, uninformed or out-of-touch with […]

Apparently efficiency has no relevance anymore. Effectiveness as well, has left the building.The concept that the Lord has methods rather than just loosely defined principles is no longer accepted, either. From all appearances they have gone to the far country, never to return. They have been replaced by a new creature called simply, […]

It all started when I killed my tiller. OK, so maybe it’s not a mortal wound, but it doesn’t exactly till, either. When the thingy that holds the roundy part in place fell completely off as  I rammed gently bumped the cinder blocks at the end of a row, I knew I was in trouble.
Having […]

When the clock read 9:21 this morning…
Flower Child: “It’s really 8:21 in the morning.”
Flower Child: “But it’s 9:21a.m. under Communism.”
The girl is right ~ I hate Daylight Saving Time, too.

During a too-quiet-for-comfort moment this afternoon, Doodle was discovered scaling Mr. Visionary’s bedside refrigerator, atop which is a month’s supply small stash of dark chocolate.
Flower Child: ‘Doodle, what are you doing?’
Doodle: ‘I’m keeping myself interested.’
Flower Child: ‘Well, you need to get down before I tell Mom. You know you’re not allowed up there.’
Doodle: ‘Well, what […]

I surely would have thought the days of women swooning were over. What with the 1960’s having done their upheaval and corsets, too, being a thing of the distant past, fainting was, in my humble opinion, only for the overly dramatic. Recent events however, have caused me to rethink my position.
Not having bounced back from […]

So my girlfriend calls today, checking on our new cow, and casually asking if we had received her Christmas gift, “You know, the one I left you last week”. When two girlfriends and their children were here for an impromptu tea party, our collective children enjoyed themselves, tea-ing, partying and sundry other giggle-inspiring activities, while […]

Deep sigh.
It’s over. I was truly dreading it, knowing that the dispersing of such information could very well cause us to be the laughing stock of the church, I didn’t want to tell.
When you go to church with almost all farmers, especially folks who were raised on a farm, eating, sleeping, breathing farm life, […]

After coming across what seemed to be the 4000th or so post on someone’s blog starting with “I’m sorry I haven’t posted in awhile.” I decided it is time to rethink what makes a good blog and the expectations that have come to be part of it. I am thinking that no one should utter […]

I can positively say that Daylight Savings Time was not God’s idea.  The same goes for alarm clocks. As a matter of fact, no, I do not have a chapter and verse reference on that, but I have deduced it based on basic human physiology.  There is something very beautiful about waking up with the […]