Monthly Archives: June 2024

First Year #4: Floods, Pallets, Hospitality, Cooking/Schooling

The following are a few that have to do more with the past few weeks than the first year (from my starting with that intent as I started writing this post). However, they give some insights into the past year as well. Floods This past Saturday it rained, and rained, and rained. We have aContinue reading “First Year #4: Floods, Pallets, Hospitality, Cooking/Schooling”

First Year #3: Preparing the Garden

With so much native, freely growing food around us, it hardly seems necessary to plant a garden, but we’re excited to do so anyway. Not long after we moved, we trimmed a section of a field and covered it with an old, very large, billboard tarp to kill off the weeds, etc. below. That shouldContinue reading “First Year #3: Preparing the Garden”

First Year #2: Finding Free Food!!! (Foraging)

Finding FREE Food!!! (Foraging) Learning from our Chickens and Rabbits, we have been learning to find our own free food as well! (Who would have thought that it would come to this! :o) When we left our yard in Ohio we knew we would miss our developed gardens, producing mulberry trees, grape vines, apple trees,Continue reading “First Year #2: Finding Free Food!!! (Foraging)”

First Year #1: Animal Care

Have you noticed that time moves WAY too quickly!!!  Actually, it’s just as God intended it, I just need to learn to invest it wisely. :o)  I keep meaning to write an update on a specific event, thing learned, way we’ve caught a glimpse of God’s glory, etc. … and then time slips by andContinue reading “First Year #1: Animal Care”

Highwire: How DTaP Vaccine Spreads Whooping Cough

Segment: How DTAP Vaccine Spreads Whooping Cough (17min) Full Episode 372: Bad Medicine (2024/05/16) Click here for more about Vaccines. The original airing of this information a few years ago (referenced in this updated version) has stuck with me, and made me glad that we had a child with Whooping Cough a few years ago.Continue reading “Highwire: How DTaP Vaccine Spreads Whooping Cough”

Poison Ivy & Sin / The Problem & the Cure

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23) The Problem A few months ago, I was picking poison ivy from our property. Honestly, I was being proud. I’d cleaned out poison ivy before once before without a reaction, so I wasContinue reading “Poison Ivy & Sin / The Problem & the Cure”

Music, Trees, Scraps and Joyful Teamwork

Today (written March 22, 2024) was a great day. Elyse and I woke up to the boys playing their instruments together. Not fighting, but joyfully playing together! We then started with family exercise, family Bible time, family announcements and Breakfast (… as a family). And everything went smoothly and all were involved and encouraging eachContinue reading “Music, Trees, Scraps and Joyful Teamwork”