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 From the Heart:

  This last week I seem to be eating, sleeping, and drinking garden work.  I have truly enjoyed it more this week but when things get as hectic as they are now I dream of just sitting and knitting or blogging.  But there is a season for everything.  A time to... plant  and that is what the season is right now.  I am going to have to release that I cannot get around bloggyland like I would like to but that is the way it is right now. 

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   I am praying that I can make and sell enough rhubarb juice to afford a laptop in the near future.  There is 6 of us in this household that competes for the two computers.  I would love to go find a quiet place to go and write for a while.  I haven't been able to sit and write my future ebooks at all and I would like to be able to do that in the evenings.  Which is when my Handsome and boys like to use the computer.  So that is a goal of mine.

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In the book "The Well Watered Garden" I was suppose to look for a surprise from the Lord.  I had been looking and wondering what God would show me this week.  It wasn't till today did I really see what that surprise was.  Last year my BIL salvaged some plants from the garden of where he use to live at and gave my MIL and I some of the bulbs.  I was wondering what one Iris was going to look like and it finally bloomed this week.  Here it is ...

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I love the colours that it has !  It is one of those old time iris's and it seems soooooo Victorian to me.  Yes,  you get to see that my garden still has lots of work to be done.  You get to see pics of weeds and all, lol.  But they are healthy weeds.  [0;

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On the Homefront:  

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We are in planting the garden craze !   Go down to In the Garden and you will get to see some pics of what we were doing this last week.

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Also we are possibly going to court with our friendly neighbor.  It has been hung up and even our lawyer is getting frustrated with our neighbor.  All the games that seem to being played.  Our neighbor wants to change some of the wording in the easement agreement.  I am not sure what all the leagaleze says and Handsome will be meeting with our lawyer soon.  I keep reminding myself that it is all in God's hands and it will be in His timing and His way for He is in control. 

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In The Garden:

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We ( Handsome, boys, MIL,  WWOOF'er ...a willing worker on organic farm and I )  planted a lot of different kinds of summer and winter squash in the ground this week.  We took all those little starters and planted them.  ((happy dance)) 

Here are some pics of what we have done....

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We planted summer squash outside the green house.

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Here is a big shot of what it looks like as of today where we have been crazy busy working in the garden.  This is our winter squash beds.

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In the School Room:

We did our basics on top of all the activies and putting in the garden.

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Bible: 

 discussing "Created For Work" by Bob Shultz .

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My Boys Read Out Louds: 

  Luke ...is reading "By the Shores of Silver Lake" by L. Wilder

 Noah... is reading Farmer Boy.  

 Nicolas.... is working his way through SSR&W books and  BOB Books. 

 Our Read Aloud :

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The Young Fur Traders by ... R.M. Ballantyne

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Nature Study:

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We got to learn all about what you need to add to the soil to give it what different plants need.   Some plants are heavy feeders and some not so much.  We learned how to give the layers of manure , blood meal, bone meal, rock phosphate, and wood ash to help the plants will thrive.

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In The Craft Corner: 

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I only seem to have time to knit for a few minutes here and there.  Really, if I am fortunate I get to knit while Handsome has a bit of computer time at night.  And that is if I am not making something like sourdough bread, yogart, or granola.  Sunrise to Sunset keeps coming to my mind lately, lol. 

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In the Kitchen: 

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 I successfully made baked falafels and pita bread yesterday !! ((happy dance)).  I love that I am finding and tweeking to my needs and tastes of good things for my family to eat.  I am writing all my costumized recipes down and they will be going into my ebook cookbook that will be for a very good price.  I want to pass on to others what God has been teaching me with a family of allergies and candidas yeast.  Plus it has a tightwad'ish twist to it too ! 

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This Weeks Boys Pics:

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Luke taming the jungle of weeds that crept in . 

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The guys bringing manure and peat moss to add to the soil for the raised beds.

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Taking a water break

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Okay back to work !

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Weightloss Wednesday:

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My exercising really consisted of me working hard in the garden.  This week I hope to get back to Walking Away The Pounds with Leslie Sansone.  I am trying to make my portions of food smaller and I hope to figure out portion sizes better soon.  I am eating healthy and moving which is a good thing.   I am doing things that are low in fat for example the baked falafels that I made are soooooo much better for me than fried ones.

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The House That God Built Update:

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There is talk about putting on the sofits soon and putting on the final coat of succo soon too !  I shared about our water easement in  From the Heart.  All will fall into place when the time is right for the Lord. 

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Mother Culture:( for definition go HERE ) 

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My reading has been very slow and not much of it.  Life is full and the season to read again will come again soon.

 I am still reading "Created to Be His Help Meet" by Debi Pearl and Holy War by John Bunyan . So I am  momentarily putting on hold re-reading " A Charlotte Mason Compainion" by Karen Andreola. 

There is the reflections and ramblings for this week.