A Homegrown Family: Busy November Weekend

Monday, November 7, 2011

Busy November Weekend

We had a busy weekend with my dad visiting. We had a lot of fun now back to the daily ins and outs.

Yesterday we drove to the coast where it was windy and a little chilly on the water. But we did get some very pretty pictures of the birds.

Saturday we went to the little zoo in Hattiesburg, they have done a lot of work there and it looks good. I can't wait to see what it will look like when they are done with the projects we saw in the works.

A pretty little goldfish pond near the train and Praire Dog town.

The little alligator

I loved this sign discouraging litter bugs.

This little guy was loving the attention of all the kids and cameras

Finally a bread in the Sun Oven, not a yeast bread but a quick bread. It worked just fine except it was a very cloudy day off and on and so it took all day to bake. It would so much better if the day was sunny instead of cloudy. It started out lovely and sunny and then all of a sudden clouds everywhere. Oh well maybe next time...

I hope your weekend was a blessed one and that you have a blessed day.

Love,

Erika

1 comment:

AnonymousNovember 7, 2011 at 8:41 PM
I must share that I am a bit 'green' about your oven my friend! What a nifty stove :)

And what a wonderful weekend you had Erika.

Thank you so much for writing again...I have missed you :)

Maria
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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.