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”
Category Archives: Reflections
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”
Azure Standard
We have been members of Costco for quite a few years. As it was, the amazing price on steel cut oats and whole grain brown rice alone covered the cost of membership. With both of these now being gone (and having been gone for quite some time), we started looking into options. The best optionContinue reading “Azure Standard”
Egg Yolks… How orange can they be?
We have loved having chickens. Our boys go out to play with the chickens and all of us love watching their silly antics. Ours free range so they get themselves into all sorts of mischief. By free ranging they also get themselves into all sorts of good food! And this impacts the health of theContinue reading “Egg Yolks… How orange can they be?”
Bee Hives
God’s creation is so amazing. Recently we have been getting ready to start a beehive. As part of this, we have been learning about God’s creation of bees. Bees are an amazing creation. From the detailed ways they can communicate with each other, to their all fulfilling their vital roles, to their knowing to takeContinue reading “Bee Hives”
Rhyming Sermon Notes: Resurrection Day 2023
Why is Good Friday good? 1 Peter 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit. This year our church and another church restarted their tradition of celebrating Good Friday together,Continue reading “Rhyming Sermon Notes: Resurrection Day 2023”
3rd Culture Living 