Category Archives: Around the Home

Grow Your Own Food: Bachelor Button Tea

“If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.”  ~ William Ewart Gladstone     The full and wonderfully rich days of August are upon us. In between cuddling my sweet […]

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The Gift of a Clothespin

“My Lord is not limited; He can again supply.”  – George Muller   “Mommy, the laundry is all over the yard,” my nine year old reported, as she ran up to the house, finding me in the kitchen.   “Oh, they must have blown off the line – I have no laundry pegs,” I told […]

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Tender Lives

“It is a great thing to take these young and tender lives, rich with so many possibilities of beauty, of joy, of power, all of which may be wrecked, and to become responsible for their shaping and training and for the up-building of their character. This is what must be thought of in the making […]

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Pressure Canning {Sloppy Joes}

      In finding it challenging to spend much time at the computer in the summer time, a quick video replaced today’s blog post. Of course … it is about canning… 🙂 My summer “hobby” …                       ~Sloppy Joes ~ browned ground beef ketchup […]

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The George Washington Garden {2020}

  “I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no […]

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