Archive for 'Homestead Happenings'
Politeness Revisited & Catching Up
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 […]
Posted: June 15th, 2008 under Loving My Children, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings, Childbearing, Bla Bla Bla.
Comments: 21
Preliminary Steps
One thing we have been walking through as we work toward our goals, is the idea that nothing happens overnight. For every plan, there are preliminary steps that have to happen to make the end turn out properly. The bigger the plan, the more prerequisite steps.
In order to go to Israel, we have to first […]
Posted: May 20th, 2008 under Weirdness At Our House, Progress Is Good, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings.
Comments: 14
I’ve Gotta Tell *Someone*
My seven year old son is particularly adept at dragging a day’s lesson of Explode-The-Code out for several hours. If I could find any verses referencing it (which, to his chagrin, there are none), I might be able to call it a spiritual gift. However, I am convinced that it is a gift to be […]
Posted: March 7th, 2008 under Recipes & Kitchen Fun, Homestead Happenings, Herbs & Homemade Medicine, Healthy Living (Or Something Close), Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 7
Taking A Quick Break
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 […]
Posted: November 29th, 2007 under Homestead Happenings, Bla Bla Bla.
Comments: 2
Mr. Visionary Returns
Had I not previously been nine months pregnant seven times over, I would surely have thought that these were the longest two weeks of my existence. Granted, they were indeed fifteen of the l.o.n.g.e.s.t. days in quite some time, and we are a bit worse for the wear, but Mr. Visionary’s trip to Israel […]
Posted: September 18th, 2007 under Progress Is Good, Making It A Home, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings, Home Where They Belong.
Comments: 6
All Good Things…Must Come To An End
It is bittersweet at the end of the sabbath each week. We are so grateful for a day to rest physically and spiritually, to enjoy sweet fellowship with Father, and to love on each other, that we never want it to end. And yet…there is still a work to do, and we desire to […]
Posted: September 1st, 2007 under Homestead Happenings, Holidays & Celebrations.
Comments: 6
She Comes Back
Well, the break was refreshing. I was sorely disappointed, however, to find that being away from the computer didn’t free up gobs of time for me. My two well-worn excuses for never having enough time have failed me.
I always thought that if we kept a tighter schedule, with every moment planned, and the day running […]
Posted: August 30th, 2007 under Profundity Abounds, Homestead Happenings.
Comments: 7
The Adventure Begins? Or Continues?
In the midst of trials, I am often so focused on surviving the season that I can’t see past the immediate circumstances. Yet, looking back from the opposite shore, I am acutely aware that my Father was purposing to do a deep work in my heart. At the time, I never understand how deep […]
Posted: June 28th, 2007 under Walking Humbly With My God, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings.
Comments: 29
More On Traveling Light
I can’t help but notice, as Cheri did in the comments yesterday, that Father is developing a recurring theme in His people, and wanted to share a post by my friend Carla Lynne. Her family is further along this purging and refining journey that Father is helping our family along, and I count it a […]
Posted: June 5th, 2007 under Let's Think About That..., Walking Humbly With My God, Homestead Happenings, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: 3
When A Door Opens
Change is in the air. The grass is reappearing, leaves are budding, and the apple trees are in bloom. Although in some years the transformation is more profound than others, this change never fails to come. He has promised that His seasons will remain. Spring in all its brilliancy will always displace the dark monotony […]
Posted: April 11th, 2007 under Walking Humbly With My God, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings.
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Worry, Tilling and Fussing
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 […]
Posted: March 24th, 2007 under Fun and Funner, Loving My Husband, Homestead Happenings, Bla Bla Bla.
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The Dream
I was walking along, minding my own business, when it happened. Two Autumns ago, during my early morning driveway walk, I had my two partners: my gun (because of lions, tigers and bears) and my Walkman. The day in question, I happened to be listening to a Jonathan Lindvall tape ~ nothing unusual there, I […]
Posted: February 21st, 2007 under Walking Humbly With My God, Loving My Husband, Homestead Happenings.
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Self Talk
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 […]
Posted: January 4th, 2007 under Seeing The Good, Homestead Happenings, Bla Bla Bla.
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Resolving: Stuffage
During the last 48 hours or so, as Mr. Visionary and I have had our opportunity to partake of the gastroinstestinal virus that has been passed through the family, I have had much time to stare at the ceiling (or the bathroom flooring) and consider. As I laid there mulling over how advantageous it is […]
Posted: January 2nd, 2007 under Progress Is Good, Making It A Home, Homestead Happenings, Frugality & Stewardship.
Comments: none
Learning Curve
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, […]
Posted: December 14th, 2006 under Homestead Happenings, Healthy Living (Or Something Close), Bla Bla Bla.
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
I am quite sure it has gotten worse since we moved to the farm. In fact, I can hardly remember anything more than a rare occurence when we were city-folk. And it never happened at an innapropriate time…at least not often. Things are definitely regressing.
I am a very visual person. I can perfectly picture house […]
Posted: November 11th, 2006 under Weirdness At Our House, Training Them Up, Recently Overheard, Loving My Children, Homestead Happenings.
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The Cow Watchers
While I’ve never read the book or seen the movie, I am vaguely familliar with the story of The Horse Whisperer. Sounds like an interesting story, and I may read it someday (or perhaps not). But for now, our family has stumbled into the lead roles of a real-life version of the spin-off. It has been given a working title of […]
Posted: November 10th, 2006 under Weirdness At Our House, Late-Breaking News, Homestead Happenings.
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Lovey’s New Family
After much research into feline gestation, mammalian feeding, and preparing a ‘habitat’ that meets a mother cat’s requirements for birthing, the children would like to announce the arrival of their cat Lovey’s new family:
Animal husbandry counts as science credit, right?
Posted: October 19th, 2006 under Is This Really School?, Homestead Happenings, Bla Bla Bla.
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My Kind of Excitement
I perhaps should have been a bit more specific in my prayers for labor to start. Although this morning was a little too much excitement for me, the kids had a wonderful time.
I awoke to find tree guys from the power company limbing branches inside our second cow pasture. Concerned about this particular cow, who […]
Posted: August 23rd, 2006 under Weirdness At Our House, Seeing The Good, Homestead Happenings, Childbearing, Bla Bla Bla.
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Nesting Analogies
All my mental wranglings aside, I cannot seem to come up with an apt analogy for my current
obsession distraction. The official, generally accepted term for my condition fits on some levels, but is not an exact match. In this most recent flare up recurrence, I have also stumbled upon the hard evidence that not only […]
Posted: July 31st, 2006 under Making It A Home, Homestead Happenings, Frugality & Stewardship, Childbearing.
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