Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 Our to-do list on our new homestead has yet to get shorter. I was pretty naïve to underestimate the time and difficulties involved to start a new lifestyle in our forties with four young children. In the midst ofContinue reading “Frost Flowers”
Category Archives: Reflections
Homestead Update: 2024/11/25
New Bunnies, Processing Chickens, Pilgrim’s Progress, Mushrooms, and so much more. This has been quite a week! Baptism Acts 2:38 – And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the HolyContinue reading “Homestead Update: 2024/11/25”
Homestead Update 2024/11/05
Everyday is just like today… very full and completely unique from every other day! :o) We’ve been amazed at how full every day is, not just busy (though they are), but full. Our prayer continues to be that in the fullness (and busyness) of it all, that we would continue to be focused on Christ,Continue reading “Homestead Update 2024/11/05”
Homestead Update 2024/10/07
Life is certainly full on the homestead! We have been hoping to have a slower time to write, but everyday comes with its own unexpected blessings and challenges. Being close to the land does have its own adventurous possibilities. Instead of waiting for a down time, we are learning to rearrange our priorities to createContinue reading “Homestead Update 2024/10/07”
First Year #5: Marriage/Parenting, Church, …
Marriage, Parenting, Growing with God, etc. There is so much new in life that it would be easy to lose ourselves in endless work, while letting the investment into other important areas go. What is meant to help us draw near to God and to each other can easily become all consuming and bring separation.Continue reading “First Year #5: Marriage/Parenting, Church, …”
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”
3rd Culture Living 