As you may have noticed, our kitchen truly is the “hearth” – and the heart – of our home. I recently organized some thoughts on why this is so, and how we make it work to our advantage in all aspects of our education (mine, as well as my children’s…and husband’s). Here is an excerpt [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Home Schooling and Cooking – Combining the Two
Posted in Food and Recipes, Home Schooling/Unschooling, Inspirations for Life and Projects, My Life and Family, tagged baking, cooking, food, healing, history, Home Schooling/Unschooling, self-sufficiency, Virtues/Character, wood stoves, working together on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Roland and Marla – “The Brick and the Blood,” Part 3
Posted in Ministries - Spreading spiritual wealth, My Life and Family, Paranormal on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have told you how a brick was thrown against the pale blue of my childhood bedroom wall, long ago, by an angry hand. It is time to tell you how the murder happened. Thrown bricks are seldom innocent. This one was no exception. You see, there had been a man’s head between the brick and [...]
An Illustrated Guide to Churning Goat Butter
Posted in Food and Recipes, Home Schooling/Unschooling, Traditional and Self-Sufficient Skills, tagged baking, butter, butter churn, Dazey butter churn, food, goat, goat butter, goats, making butter, making goat butter, self-sufficiency on February 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an easy skill that doesn’t take a lot of special equipment or knowledge. Determination, a moderate amount of energy, and about an hour of time are the main requirements. To read more, click here… Let’s Share If you have any butter making stories or tips you’d like to share, comment with them, or [...]
My Car, My Friend
Posted in My Life and Family, Paranormal, tagged '69 Ford, car, Christmas, college, Colorado, crime, Emotions, first car, Ford, Ford Galaxy, Nebraska, Nellie Oscar Sherman, Thankfulness, Virtues/Character, working together, Wyoming on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nellie and I skimmed through the night, from Colorado through Nebraska and into Wyoming, and twice she instinctively slowed for deer. Their eyes glowed, variable-hued orbs, at both sides of the highway, until a doe startled and shot over the fence into the field next to her. Her companions followed. Once, a black steer, matching [...]
Valentine’s Day
Posted in Celebrations, My Life and Family, tagged card, cards, Celebrations, church, romance, Thankfulness, Valentine's Day on February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Will first got me this card seven years ago. See why I love him? He’s still that sweet. (And, he’s recently had a haircut, but didn’t want to stand still for another photo shoot. He’s a dashingly handsome man when he’s not going for the English Sheepdog effect.) A Romantic Tale We had been [...]
Roland and Marla – “The Trysting Windmill”, Part 2
Posted in Ministries - Spreading spiritual wealth, Paranormal, tagged murder, Paranormal, restless spirits, Roland and Marla, spirits, the Picture Wall on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Since when does brick dust fall out of a plaster-and-lath wall? This was a question I asked myself repeatedly while growing up. This is the wall that prompted the question. It was painted sky blue way back then, and, during grade school, all I could think was how ugly the red brick dust looked against the blue wall. It [...]
Tyger Feeds K-10…Sirloin Steaks
Posted in Food and Recipes, My Life and Family, tagged beef, dog, K-10, meat, sirloin steak, supper, tenderize on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tyger’s a great helper around meal-times. She stirs batters, pounds meat, and samples foods whenever she can. Recently, she was helping to tenderize steaks for supper. She was doing so well that Will and I quit supervising her closely, and went about our own work, to the rythm of Tyger’s whacks upon the meat board. [...]
Handling Food for Health, An Introduction
Posted in Food and Recipes, tagged anger, attitudes, bread, bread making, Emotions, flour, gentleness, grinding flour, grinding grain, grocery store, Hispanic, home, Jem, kindness, love, Mexican, peace, spirits, tortillas on February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been toying with a theory lately. Actually, I’m inclined to consider it a fact, but I haven’t scientifically measured the matter, so I mustn’t present it that way to you. My friend Jem was by here one day while I was making tortillas, and he couldn’t seem to understand why I bother. “Well,” I told [...]
Ground Hog Day
Posted in Celebrations, tagged cartoon, Celebrations, groundhog, Groundhog Day on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(Image from: http://www.herenthere.com/cards/miscellaneous/groundhog1.jpg)
No Greater Joy Ministries – Increasing Joy and Goodwill, One Family at a Time
Posted in Home Schooling/Unschooling, Ministries - Spreading spiritual wealth, tagged Bible, child training, children, Christianity, daughters, families, family, fathers, friends, God, help meet, Home Schooling/Unschooling, husbands, mercy, ministries, ministry, mothers, No Greater Joy, righteousness, Scripture, Scripture teaching, sisters, wives, working together on February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My mother discovered this ministry by accident, while buying a birthday present for a grandson about five years ago. She saw a trilogy of books called “No Greater Joy,” and thought, from the catalog description, that they would serve as good homeschooling aids for my sister, Christa, who then was just beginning her homeschooling journey. It [...]
