Everyone has a story to tell. Life is like an empty book, and as life unfolds, chapters are added. Most families have photographs that they have taken through the years. It is like a trip down memory lane as you pick up each old photo. You remember all wonderful or funny things that happened. We […]
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Chapter Three Green Beans and Amish Bonnets The garden was in and the little family waited to see signs of growth. Everyday the children would run out to check for green beans to pick. Daddy was out every evening tending and weeding that big garden. Living next to some low land, the mosquitoes would
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Chapter Two First Spring on the Homestead Soon enough, Daddy was back to work on the old house, with Miles at his side. Pounding and sawing and more dust. When the drywall started to go in, the dust covered the entire second floor and Mamma was not in the least bit happy. The children
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I started writing stories for the kids about our memories on the homestead. Hope you enjoy reading it to your kids, too. Pictured above is our very first homestead. Mark is working with Miles when he was only two years old.Chapter OneHome in the CountryNot so long ago, and not really far from here, there
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When I reflect on the year of 2011, I can see so many hard times but so much we learned through them. Last evening as I sat crying and telling Mark all about these trials. Trials after trials, things that seem bigger than life sometimes. Then I started looking back to my whole life, a
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There is much debate online about waterbath verses pressure canning, especially with “low acid” foods. My experience has been through the Amish. They do not have internet, nor do they know about most of the books out there that talk about the canning process. This has been a process they have handed down through centuries
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Yesterday was a typical situation for us homestead folk. I had about 5 bushel of rotten apples that others would serve the local deer. I look at the dirty brown apples and say, “lets make applesauce!!!!” Everyone else says, including my loving husband, “Are you sure they are safe for us?” I smile and say,
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I got a last minute call from the Amish to butcher 140 layers. They called me while they were killing, skinning and gutting. I was not expected to help on that part. I ended up getting 40. Today we cut all the tiny bits of meat off the bone and ground it up for chicken
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If you never heard of the charlotte mason style of educating, it is a very amazing concept involving creativity and eagerness to learn. I love it. I have been doing it for years without ever knowing. Proof is in our homesteading DVDs. Life is a learning turf and we live to learn and grow in
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“It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the Earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers.” Isiah 40:22 This is a verse we used as we studied geography. The earth is like a circle, right? But when I told the children that we are as grasshoppers, Junior started sobbing. He said, ” I
