Archive for October, 2008

Giving Back

 …I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me… Matthew 25:35
My thoughts at Writer…Interrupted today revolve around the generosity of believers to one another. A month or so [...]

Going Back to the Land

I still have a lot more city girl in me than country, depending on how survivalist a mindset you might have. Sure, I love canning and storing up food for my family, and having chickens and eggs and a garden this summer made me as giddy as a little girl playing house in her tree [...]

Perfect Pancakes and My Day

This morning I got up at 6 a.m. and made buckwheat pancakes. Now buckwheat flour has a really strong flavor, so we always mix one recipe of buckwheat pancakes (using the Arrow Mills Buckwheat pancake mix brand) with our favorite from scratch pancake recipe. Here it is, finally, a recipe I came across this year for truly [...]

There’s a Nip in the Air!

Fall has arrived! Leaves are everywhere, and they’re so beautiful that my oldest has taken to finding the attractive ones and spraying them with a clear acrylic sealant to trap their autumn perfection…
I usually love the gradual change of Fall, from hot summer to winter’s cold, but this year the change seems a little too [...]

Are You Worried About What the Future Holds?

We in the USA are all wondering “what next?” Financial experts are riding the pendulum, some reassuring us that things will quiet down soon on Wall Street, others predicting huge inflations and urging us to stock up on rice, beans and wheat while we can still afford them…
Optimistically, I could see this crisis as being [...]

Teaching Humility to Our Daughters

We just got back from our church’s annual Family Camp–a weekend getaway to a beautiful ranch retreat that’s tucked back in amongst hills and trees…so I’m getting laundry done, catching up on emails, etc, and came across this “must-read” post!
Credits go to MInTheGap who has written “Teach Her Humility” at Weekend Kindness. Why am I [...]

Wedding, Apple Juice, Baby Showers and Leather Projects

This title about sums up the major points of my week from Sunday’s wedding to this moment.
Tonight I finished canning all the apple juice that we girls and my mom juiced from thousands of apples on Tuesday…okay, after six hours of processing apples, it felt like a thousand! And it’s unbelievable how many apples go [...]




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