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i want to make one of these... i found this one on google images, but could not find a link..      there is a how-to tutorial on how to build this twig arbor above...step by step directions for a diy project...need to find the time to find me some twigs...i think this might go well beside a grape vine so it could grow along and over it...thoughts??? 

the temps have been dropping at night lately, so it is time to start prepping plants to be transitioned back from outside to inside. i moved the pineapple plants back to the porch today. they will stay there for a few days, while being crittered inspected and allowed to acclimate a bit, then moved back inside for the autumn and winter. the pineapple plants have gotten huge over the summer with exposure to the sunshine.

Accomplishments of the homeschool day - maybe? Last week, we attempted to make a potato cannon...it would not launch the potato. Today, it became a father/son project. After a few hours, it launched the potato more than sufficiently and also became a make-shift flame thruster!  My younger son made three more arrows for the PVC bow. I think he made three...I lose count. We spent a good hour outside shooting them. He worked more on his bridge for his engineering class and finished it. :)  I hope it is as indestructible as he thinks it will be. And somehow, we collected 9 eggs from 7 chickens...so, maybe some eggs were lain yesterday after we gathered eggs...who knows?? On a side note, for the first time in 2 months, since I was not content writing nonstop all day, I actually had some time to clean. Of course, I feel like I made more messes than I cleaned. Although, I did accomplish 4 trashbags full of junk. I loaded several older curriculum things we no longer use...

I have so many things I would often like to post, but time prevails and life occurs and it never happens. Today my heart hurts, because my child aches at words spoken to him and over him. For things of harshness spoken to my child(ren), over my child(ren), about my child(ren)...I rebuke them in Jesus' name and only lay claim to the plans the Lord has laid out for them. To the girls who will cross the paths of my sons...know this, I pray for you. I pray for those whom have came and went, those who linger, and those who may be yet to come. One of you is the chosen wife of each of my sons...thereby, making you by extension my daughter. I know I will never be your mother, but I will love you as my daughter, as you will love and cleave to my son. I pray for your path. I pray your words and actions are guarded by the Spirit. I pray the hand of Jesus is upon your heart, words, and mind in all things...even if you do not know His graces in your life yet. I may never be your Naomi, and...

satan told me to accept my failures. satan said to be afraid. satan told me my limitations. YHWH said: you can do anything through Me. YHWH said: I have not given you a sense of  fear. YHWH said: you have no limits when you walk the path with Me.

the kitty has finally passed...

I was reading a blogger's post tonight from http://pisspoorinamerica.wordpress.com/ . This lady and her current situation made me think of my grandmother. She often talked about her grandparents. They were farmers and had very little - less than very little. I learned much later in my life that my grandfather worked hard, but often (it seemed from his paperwork trail) borrowed from Peter to pay Paul and was negotiating with Simon on the side...trying hard to keep his family afloat and not lose the baby and the bathwater. The lady from the blog at WordPress discussed hearing her grandmother talk about people so poor they had no pot to piss in and no window to throw the piss out of. Now, that is not necessarily a good word. Although, I do remember my grandparents discussing such as well when I was little. Memories of my grandmother tonight focused on when I was small. I remember the closets being jammed with items of all types imaginable. In the old house, the closets still are ...

I have spent most of my younger child's life trying to get him to learn how to take the high road, to understand that people that tease and bully need to be prayed for and walked away from...I teach him there is a limit to how far you walk and then you no longer turn away. With his Aspergers, it has been hard at times to explain these things to him. Now, in the last day or so, I find myself having to explain to him that he may very soon face the day where he is put to the test as a Christian. I have had to explain to my young son that within his lifetime, he may be beaten or tortured or turned out by the lost for his belief in Christ. No matter what, it is no longer time to turn the other cheek. In the time of the Old Testament, the Jewish men and women did not turn the other cheek and offer the other in passive supplication. What a farce! You do not back away when you are threatened. You stand tall, enlightened in the Word, with the Holy Spirit within you to guide you. Je...

Most importantly, next to the Lord, I got a pink pig!!   The pink pig is be-a-u-ti-mous. She has orange wings (not for Clemson) and green ears and a red butt!...Oh, and purple feet.  So cute!  I love her!   She is in the yard keeping the potty fish, the chicken, and the goat company ! So, so cute!   We went out of town to a family home for a few days. My spouse and children are forever teasing me about some of the absent-minded things I have done over recent years...like leaving the milk jug in the pantry cupboard...or telling my child to unload the dishes from the washing machine.  I know what I mean in my mind, but it comes out incorrectly spoken. So, when I arrive to the house, I open the fridge to put in our food items and this is what I see: And, suddenly...I think it is an inherited behavior and therefore, is not my fault.   We went to go window shopping and buy some items in a nearby town. We became concerned with one o...

I am thinking lately that I fear things in the flesh more than I fear things in the Spirit. A person recently told me to be afraid of the things in the spiritual realm. My response to this was I fear nothing in the spirit, because of the Spirit, for He within me leaves me nothing to fear. I have thought about this a bit in the past few weeks. I realize I have reached a place in my walk with Him, where I am no longer afraid. I know His power. I know His strength. I know His fight and determination. I know what I can do through Him when my faith is this strong. So, my prayer in determination is to fear things in the flesh as I fear things in the spirit...to stand affirmed in the Spirit when I face the flesh.