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Canning Taco Soup & Enjoying Life

  Why should we need extra time in which to enjoy ourselves? If we expect to enjoy our life, we will have to learn to be joyful in all of it, not just at stated intervals when we can get time or when we have nothing else to do. Laura Ingalls Wilder After visiting on […]

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Tied Down

“Jesus made it quite clear when he said, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.” (Matthew 12:30 ESV) I am amazed at how many Christians refuse to acknowledge this fact as it relates to the government school system. Our education is either based on biblical truth, […]

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Why Bother?

   “The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.” – Theodore Roosevelt   The table was laden with 260 cobs of fresh-from-the-farm corn. Picked by our neighbours just this morning, it was all ready for the yearly Provisional project of putting it away for winter (and spring and […]

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My Reading List

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice   The August rain was pouring down, my […]

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Wind Chimes & Homemade Egg Noodles

“I saw you toss the kite on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the grass — O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song…” The Wind; R.L. Stevenson     When the breeze blows around this […]

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