In these uncertain days, there seems little to give us hope except to keep our eyes on Jesus. If we do, He takes every opportunity to assure us He hasn’t forgotten us. Four days before Israel suffered an attack on Oct. 7, I awoke every hour through the night with a strange word on my mind. Finally, about four a.m. I awoke again with the same word echoing. “Colo mundo. Colo Mundo.” I knew I’d never remember it in the…
A couple of months ago I spread this plastic to kill all the grass and weeds at the farm. In December I’ll take up the plastic and scatter wild flower seeds. The winter snow (hopefully) will water them and by spring I’ll have a nice stand of flowers for my bees to work on. This past weekend my son, Josh and I planted six blueberry bushes my daughter, Jennifer found on sale at Walmart on the north end of the…
A friend sent me a YouTube string I found extremely interesting so I decided to share it with you all. HAMAS EXPLAINEDRabbi Jason Sobel (a born again Jew) What the Bible and Historical Context Say About Israel (and Hamas on youTube) Genesis 6:11& 13 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before Me for the earth is filled with violence through…
Instead of the annual Pumpkin Party at our farm, we had a work day. The buffer-zone next to the corn field needed to be rid of trees, saplings, and wild, thorny blackberry bushes. With three chain saws, copious amounts of tree-stump killer, and a brush hog, we flattened a 15 foot by 300 yard area. The next task, the three-sided barns. The horses like to use that as their bathroom. The guys shoveled mounds of manure (pictured above) into the…
Until this week we could have sworn we were still in summer. Then we had a frost warning. The weatherman cautioned us to cover our tender plants. We had to switch the air conditioning and 90 degree days to turning on the furnace. How quickly times change! In a few days we’ll have to drag the dolly from the garage and perform the arduous task of moving the plants from the patio to the basement. They will stay there until…
The rain we had a week or so ago really kicked the okra into high gear. I only like it fried, except if it’s pickled. Boiled is too slimy for me. I tried a canned recipe last year with a slice of lemon in it. It wasn’t my favorite, so I tried another recipe this year. According to the directions you have to let it sit a few weeks, so I finally popped open a jar the other day. This…
I love zucchini, but there is just one problem. They don’t know when to quit. So far this year I’ve eaten zucchini split with jack cheese in the microwave for two minutes at least four to five times a week, zucchini bread, and I’ve even made zucchini flour. I found this cookie recipe to use yet another zucchini. They get more moist as the days go by–if they last that long. Zucchini Cookies Beat together:1 C. sugar½ C. butter1 egg…
I recently went to the farm to check on the garden and the bees. While there, I noticed some dead branches in the Lilac bush. Since I didn’t want to go to the barn to get the clippers, I reached in and broke off the dead branches. A while later my hand began to itch. Then my arm. Then my face. Yep! I hadn’t paid any attention to the other growth in the bush. Poison Ivy. I’ve never had that…
My bees don’t have a lot of flowers to work on, so I decided to make them a wildflower garden. I tried planting some wildflower seeds I bought from the hardware store last spring. Nothing came up but weeds. Then I learned from a car salesman at work that those seeds are not indigenous to this area. He told me to buy Aromatic Aster, Showy Goldenrod, Purple Beardtongue, and Wild Bergamot seeds from www.mowildflowes.net My next project was to buy…
Are you familiar with that saying, some days you’re the dog and some days you’re the fire hydrant? That’s how I felt last Saturday. A friend and I had planned for a long time to extract honey from her hives. I haven’t gotten any from my hives this year, but she had, and I had an extractor. For 40 years I’d stored that thing in my basement in its original box. I belonged to my dad. He’d planned to reestablish…