A Homegrown Family: E and F are for.....

Monday, August 8, 2011

E and F are for.....

I forgot all about E on Saturday.....but I will add it here with F. Hubby actually had the weekend off so we had a nice relaxing weekend so he could rest up.

Earthy: from the dictionary coarse, unrefined, simple and natural. That's me and I can be quite rude on occasion as well :0)

Erika: again that's me....

Eggs: they are not my favorite food they taste funny to me sometimes and I have to be in the mood for them.

Flowers: I love them all kinds but mostly fresh cut from a garden, field, or side of the road.

Fragrance: I am not into to many fragrances I prefer naturals over manmade, and I don't like them to be overpowering in odor, that gives me a headache.

I cut these this morning, the bees were having a lovely time on them and their cousins. When Ash and I walk this morning I will see what wild ones I can pick.

Fresh: I love fresh food with lots of Flavor.

Moonflower, it only blooms at night and this was the first bloom last week. One has bloomed every night since. They have a lovely, lite, aroma, almost like gardenias.

Have a blessed day....

Love,

Erika

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Marqueta (Mar-kee-ta) G.August 8, 2011 at 11:23 AM
Dear Erika,

I think I like the "Erika" E best of all!

Love,

Marqueta
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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.