Month: March 2009

      My children like to laugh about this.  Dani has laughed until she almost could not breath right in the midst of the produce at our local Costco.  Well, it turns out, as it generally does, that Mom was right after all.     You see, it happens like this……We like our bananas a bit on the […]

           The strawberries are in the ground!  We spent most of Monday afternoon working on it, but they are in the ground.  Copper did a last pass or two with the tiller in the morning, and we planted in the afternoon.  Will measured the space between plants and marked where they should go.  I […]

            The rain that falls to the earth and waters the land is a common grace.  That is, it falls and waters the land of the evil as well as the land of the righteous.  This is also an accursed world, and the rains sometimes do not fall and there is drought.  At […]

           I graduated from a public high school in 1974.  I obtained my A.S. degree two years later.  Somehow, though, I never encountered Animal Farm in any of my classes.  When the book popped up as the first selection for Barbara Curtis’ book club, I jumped at the chance to read it.  The […]

     I can’t help myself.  I’m in love!  

     For those that are interested, I’ll be updating at the end of this post throughout the day.  You can check the time in this post’s title to see when the most recent update was posted.   I would, of course, covet your prayers for my daughter and her wee babe yet to be born.       […]

     Looking well to the ways of your own household can, and does, mean many different things.  The way that I look well to the ways of my own household will be different from the way you look after your own.  The differences may be great or they may be small, but there will be […]