A Homegrown Family: Plain and Simple

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Plain and Simple

this week at the at the cottage....

beans for chili cooking away they were presoaked that week but never cooked also sourdough bubbling away for bread

a new compost pot, we found this at the thrift store for $2, it looks like a honey pot Pooh would have

grinding wheat

sourdough kaiser rolls rising

gentle reminders

Wyatt teaching 4Hers to make ink from berries and quill from turkey feathers..

a new slip from the sheet I told you about, I love this lace it makes me feel pretty and yes those are my knees LOL. Someone we know has asked me several times over the last 3 1/2 years, "So still doing the girlie thing?", Well HELLO I am a girl I can't deny it and don't want to I like wearing my skirts, I like being a girl!

I hope you have a wonderful, delightful, girlie day!

that is if your a girl...

Love, Erika

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AnonymousJanuary 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM
Oh Erika...how beautiful! Everything just says - simple and beautiful!
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♥ my diary♥January 6, 2012 at 12:09 AM
nice post! thanks for sharing! blessings soraya
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AnonymousJanuary 8, 2012 at 7:37 AM
The compost pot is wonderful. I don't have a pot but I think I will do this. I have a stock pot that is aluminum that I do not cook with, I think I'll use that one :-)

m.
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Marqueta (Mar-kee-ta) G.January 8, 2012 at 2:20 PM
Dear Erika,

I like your compost pot! Our "pot" is whatever bowl or bucket hasn't been left outside at the moment. :)

The slip is so nice; I have a couple of sheets I'm saving to do something similar.

Blessings on peace and simplicity!

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.

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Plain and Simple

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