1: Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2: But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. 3: And he shall be like a tree […]
This past Sunday, we drove up to where it all began. The day that we promised to love one another for the rest of our days. Mark and I were married in this little chapel in Door County 15 years ago this month. I saw the chapel while studying at Lawrence University. It was hand
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With joy I proclaim that we have not won this battle we were fighting for the past four years. It is with joy because joy is something that NO ONE can take away. Joy in trials is something that no one but a child of God could understand or know. I know that I am
The photo above is of Miles and I. I was hiking up a cliff holding my baby boy. My, has time gone by! Miles is nearly 14 years old. I took care of 5 little ones all by myself most of the time when my husband was out earning a living. I would take my
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David Yutzy is an Amish man about 70 years old or around that, I would say. About 3 years ago, Debi Pearl assisted me on a trip to Mexico for stem cell treatments. She was my wheelchair pusher, my third arm, and my faithful confidant. One fine misty Mexico morning, Debi took my arm and
Nothing in life is all Cake and Pie. Sometimes you can have the cake but never get to eat it. Life is bitter sweet, some things are hard to swallow. The trick is to make sweet lemonade with those sour, sour, lemons. So many times when I write here I try to find all the
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Rolling hills and fences flowing, Horses pull wagons for hay mowing. Smells so sweet the fresh mown hay, It lays along rows where the grasshoppers play. The men are in the fields hard at work now, Workin the land by the sweat of their brow. They know the land like a mold they did cast,
Erin has asked me to write about myself. She said that the Post folks would be interested in knowing how Evie and I learned our skills that help us live a pioneer lifestyle. Right now we are not able to live as complete a pioneer life as we have in the past or would like
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The washhouse is near completion and there are much woes for a homestead lady on washday during the winter months. After my husband drove me many times in the horseless carriage to my mother’s home loaded down with many baskets of laundry to wash in her electric machine, I realized there must be some
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Basics in Homesteading: Where Do You Start? I understand from Mark and Erin Harrison that people on the post have been wondering what has become of us. Wonder of wonders, some have even missed us. When the computer crashed it was several months before we could get in fixed and the only connection we
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