Monthly Archives: August 2020

Don’t Waste a Bean

‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.‘ Jeremiah 29:5 Bent low, my fingers searched the leafy green bean plant for the fruit of our labour… my young son, only 4, was helping me pick beans that morning. “Don’t waste any beans – find them all,” I told him, encouragingly. […]

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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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