A Homegrown Family: Plain and Simple

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Plain and Simple

at the cottage....

I know another one~but I have been up since 3:45am so............

Isis, napping...this is just about all she does besides eat. But she is walking better...when we walks, and she is looking better.

Raspberries sprouting need to get them in the ground

Sniff real hard....you might smell the loviness coming from these beauties

I can't wait for the roses to bloom I have plans for them....

Mary in her harness, she went to the airport with me this morning to take hubby too early this morning. It was nice having her companionship with me....

The ladies this morning, the black one is the rooster, his name is Darth Maul. Hes actually afraid of everything and doesn't live up to his name very well at all, and all his ladies are alot bigger than him.

The barn I love this barn...

the clotheslines in the early morning sun...

Strawberries sprouting, we planted 50 over the weekend

potatoes! Love them.

And I am happy to report nettle growing in the meat chicken yard. They are not in this yard yet but will be in a couple of weeks that will give this lovely time to grow more along with its cousins so I can harvest it.

Sassafras is showing signs of growth to can't wait to harvest of of them.

Have a blessed day

Love,

Erika

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AnonymousMarch 16, 2011 at 2:28 PM
Oh Erika...what a beautiful place you have been blessed with! Truly a calm and restful place...I can hear the chickens if I stay quiet enough :-)

M.
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The Old-Fashioned Homemaker. . .
~Does her best, and leaves God the rest.
~Does not indulge in self-pity, but loses her life in the service of her fellow man.
~Dresses to please her Lord and family.
~Guards her health as her greatest wealth.
~Knows that an apron is a girl's best friend.
~Knows that home-making is an art and a science, and is always learning something new.
~Lets her joy bubble out in song, all day long.
~Lives in His light, not her own.
~Loves Nature, and teaches her children to respect its Creator.
~Never gives up.
~Strives to be self-sufficient.

Thomas Jefferson’s 10 Rules to Live by:
1. Never put off tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
4. Never buy what you don’t want because it is cheap.
5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. How much pain the evils have cost us that never happened.
9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, count to a hundred.

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.