I’ve begun another deer hide, and I wanted to show you how it turned out so far. I’m happy with what I’m learning, and, after cleaning four other hides, can see a significant difference in my fleshing skills.
Will nicked this one in places while skinning it, but most of the nicks were near the edge, and won’t [...]
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Advent Countdown: A Lump of Coal for Christmas – my perspective
Posted in Celebrations, Christmas, My Life and Family, tagged Celebrations, Christmas, Christmas gift ideas, Christmas gifts, Christmas stocking, coal, coal burning stove, gift, gift ideas, gifts, lump of coal, romance, self-sufficiency, stocking stuffer, stocking stuffers, Thankfulness, wood stoves on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the last two years, Will has given me a lump of coal for Christmas. You know what that means, right? Every naughty little girl or boy is supposed to find a lump of coal, or a switch, in his or her stocking come Christmas morning.
I am sure Will thinks I deserve another lump of [...]
Advent Countdown: Jack Frost Begins His Visits
Posted in Celebrations, Christmas, My Life and Family, tagged condensation, condensation images, frost, frost images, ice, ice images, ice pictures, Jack Frost on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was hoping to find and post some cute stories about Jack Frost, but I ran out of time.
So I will just share these lovely pictures of his handiwork.
Enjoy!
Images from the Internet -
My children asked me what Jack Frost looks like. I think this is a plausible enough likeness.
Jack Frost’s handiwork on my front door [...]
K-10 Kennels Sign
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged dog kennel, dog training academy, German Shepherd, German Shepherd Dog, German Shepherd Dog kennel, German Shepherd Dogs, guard dog, guard dog breeds, guard dog training, guard dogs, k-10 kennels, K-10 Von Canein, K-Ten, k-ten von canein, personal protection dog training on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Will agonized over what to write on the billboard type sign for K-10 Kennels. He wanted something which would allow people to know what the property was for, as well as warning off uninvited pheasant hunters and the like.
This was of great importance, because we had had shots put off in the yard while we [...]
K-10’s 2nd Birthday
Posted in Celebrations, My Life and Family, tagged birthday, brithday celebration, dog birthday cake, dog birthday celebration, happy birthday, K-10, K-10 Von Canein, K-Ten, raw dog food on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
K-10, too, had a happy birthday. [Please ignore the crappy formatting of this post...there seems to be a glitch with the picture of my daughter and K-10.] Will fixed him a birthday cake of ground beef, eggs, chicken, and hotdogs.
He knew it was his birthday, and could hardly wait for his presents. Besides the cake, he got [...]
Billy’s Clay Giraffe
Posted in Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, tagged art, artwork, clay, claydough, crafts, giraffe on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Billy likes working with claydough…for hours at a time. It’s about the only thing he likes doing for hours at a time, besides making noise. So I thought I’d share one of his recent creations.
It’s a female giraffe, eating from a yellow tree. Not too bad, considering his usually clumsy little fingers.
Maybe he’ll have a [...]
Tyger’s 3rd Birthday
Posted in Celebrations, Home Schooling/Unschooling, My Life and Family, tagged gardening, birthday, happy birthday, garden, gifts, presents, birthdays, Laura Ingalls Wilder, gift ideas, birthday celebrations, Little House Books, oxen, calves, Farmer Boy, Almanzo Wilder, shovel, spade on November 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tyger had a blast today. She got to spend the whole day at Grandma’s, as we had work to do there.
We did not have the actual celebration until evening, so Will could be there, but Tyger tried hard all day to convince us to let her have herr panful of brownies…and every candle in the house to [...]
What Was Your House Made For?
Posted in Home Improvements, Ministries - Spreading spiritual wealth, My Life and Family, tagged attitude, attitudes, building a home, floor plans, home, home improvement, Home Improvements, home plans, house, intentions, new home, new house, the power of intention on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I never thought much about this question until we bought the farm house. Once it was ours, and we began seriously cleaning out trash and sorting the rest of the belongings left there, I began to reflect on the “feel” of that house versus the one we are still living in.
The one we are living [...]
Homestead: A Clean Entry
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, tagged entry way, entryway, environmentally friendly cleaners, green cleaning products, homemade cleaners, lavender, lavender buds, lavender cleaner, lavender flowers, orange peel, trash, vinegar, white vinegar on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Progess!
Here is the entry way after it’s first cleaning and mopping. Will and I took a deep breath and plunged in – wearing work gloves – to remove the mouse-mess-infested, ever-smelly mountain of trash in the corner. In this pile we found many surprises.
I had assumed, at first, that this pile was primarily camping gear [...]
Homestead: The Demon-Cat in the Pantry
Posted in Home Improvements, My Life and Family, Paranormal, tagged brownie, brownies, cat, cats, Christ, demon, demon cat, demon cats, demons, Lord, pantry, Paranormal, pray, prayer, spirit, spirit cat, spirit cats, spirits, spiritual warfare, types of spirits on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The spirit in the old lady’s closet wound up in the pantry. It is just across the wall from the closet, and I felt truly simple when I went in there to see what I could see (with my spiritual eyes), and saw the same fellow, lounging around making faces.
There he stood in the back corner, staring disgustedly [...]
