…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 [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Going Back to the Land
Published by October 25th, 2008 in Cooking and Food, Homemaking and Life. 25 CommentsI 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
Published by October 22nd, 2008 in Cooking and Food and Life. 5 CommentsThis 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 [...]
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?
Published by October 11th, 2008 in Christianity, In The News and Life. 9 CommentsWe 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
Published by October 5th, 2008 in Christianity, Life and Weekend Kindness. 5 CommentsWe 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
Published by October 2nd, 2008 in Life. 10 CommentsThis 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 [...]
