Hi! Welcome to my blog! My name is Jane (PlainJane) and I am the blessed and happy wife to Jeff and doubly blessed mama of two perfectly wonderful daughters. Please join me as I share our Lifestyle of Learning through Christian homeschooling and homesteading on our little hobby farm with our prairie girls.
Bookworm is our dd14/9th grader.
Our perfectionist and over-achiever. She loves reading, playing violin, her Paint horse, Annie, being a farm girl, and History re-entacting.
Ladybug
is our dd11/6th grader.
Our "girls just want to have fun" girl. She loves to play and has a great sense of humor, but also likes reading, music, her Quarter Horse, Kitty, and History re-enactment.
We are finished reading
the Moody books
By Sarah Maxwell
and HIGHLY recommend them
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he said to them, "Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law. They are not just idle words for you -- THEY ARE YOUR LIFE. By them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess." Deuteronomy 32:46-47
Oct. 23, 2007~ Just Rambling ~
This Week So Far…
Sunday was a good day, church was pretty good. I dearly love all our senior adult friends in the early traditional/hymn-singing service that we attend, but it was fun to see some of our "younger" friends there this time and stay after to gab with. My one exception is that I’m having trouble following along in my Bible when Scripture is read – Sunday I had to do a triple-take to see if I was in the right passage – it seems like our church is using a different version every week, and Sunday’s text was sooo far off (watered down) from the KJV that I didn’t recognize it. And of course, they put the hymns and text on a screen, so there is no need to anyone to question what is being taught. Hmmmm, it looks like we need a Reformation here. It was a very timely example of what we have been reading in our online Bible Study about how the Bereans were commended for their searching the Scriptures in Acts 17:11.
We had a very atypical Monday. Lately we have been getting a late start on everything (my own fault) and not getting much done. Monday’s are usually our tired/overly-sensitive days anyway, but not this time. We got all our school done and not a tear was shed. Woohoo. It was a very productive day.
I also made a rather interesting discovery yesterday about our family’s history – see my dear Aunt (my daddy’s sister) made me a most precious Christmas gift a few years ago – she typed up a notebook of our family history – a very neat read since my daddy was born in 1913 and my grandpa was born in 1888 – a family of 16 children; there are fun stories of travel by covered wagon and the like – my grandpa was a wonderful storyteller. Anyway, I have read through this notebook before, but something caught my eye as I was looking through it again Monday – I noticed that our little Ladybug was born on the exact day – 2o years later – of my grandpa’s death. And our little Ladybug has so much of my daddy and grandpa in her – both in looks and personality. What a blessing! (tears) So even though there were no sons born past my daddy to carry on the family name, at least I have this precious connection to cherish.
Of course, Monday did not go without incident – we had just begun dinner when we all stopped and listened. Was it geese flying over? I opened the door and heard/saw that our chickens were as upset as can be. At first we ignored it, after all, the tacos were sooo good and chickens are sometimes funny that way. But this was different, they just kept on and on. Jeff went out there and couldn’t see anything out of line. They calmed down some – but were still upset. I couldn’t help but think that something wasn’t right, so after we cleared the table, I put on my winter jacket and called my babies (what I call the chickens). They seemed relieved that I was there, but after a quick head count – that I did about 5 times, I saw that one was missing. Oh no! I got the rest of them all tucked in for the night, and then went searching. No sign of feathers, nothing. Ladybug did see one of the 2 look-alike red/buffy hens running in a panic towards the woods/river after the incident – but we don’t know if that was the missing one or it’s twin – running in fear & then returning. At any rate, the missing hen has little chance of survival. My guess is that an owl flew in and carried it away (the owls are really numerous and hooting loudly now); or if the missing one did just run to the woods, it probably has now met it’s demise with a predator or from the cold. I will be extremely surprised if it shows up today. Too bad, the loss of any of our animals saddens me deeply. We must be in for quite a winter; the varmints and predators are legion this fall.
Oh, I love catching up with you. [ 0= I am sorry about your sweet chicken. I found it interesting that you mentioned how the animals are acting and what kind of winter we are going to have. I have heard others that live on farms making comments of how there are signs of a "more" kind of winter. Here I am praying for a mild winter. / 0= I am praying that our temp. water won't freeze. Maybe if there is a early snow then that will insulate the water pipe ??? ((praying)) [ 0= I was so hoping to follow along that Bible study you mentioned from your friend. I NEED to get on that and it sounds like I would REALLY enjoy it.
Well at least you have your own alarm system with the chickens, if anything were to go amiss. Its still a bummer about one missing, but then again YES those owls can be quite the predator when they are hungry. A friend of mine has a neighbor who lost their lil dog(a weiner dog) to a owl... makes me shudder. BTW that pop up pic is really neat looking.
Hello. Just stopping by from Jen IG's blog. I hope you don't mind if I add you to my freinds list-My oldest daughter is pretty convinced she wants you to adopt her so that she could live on your farm. We do have a cat almost exactly like your black and white one, but for some reason Otis is no substitute for a horse even though he is as big as one.
Oh, I am sorry to hear of the loss. That would be a hard reality of a hobby farm. I am just too tender towards animals. I remember (here comes a book) my days of raising a Jersey calf. I loved her and wanted a dog, really! She ended up butting me with those nasty horns and I realized she would never love me like animals did on TV! (ha) But I still loved her.
Jenn
My sil wrote today to say that a fox got into their backyard (in Fort Collins, CO - in town) and got their bunnies out of their pen - which had been reinforced to prevent this as they had lost a previous one the same way. Their girls are brokenhearted.
I hope that you get good news in spite of how it looks.
Hi! We just made our Jamestown replica today! We saw your post on Amy's Colonial curriulum at Homeschool in the Woods. I bought it (and the AMerican Revolution). I since found out a friend also has the Explorers one so we are doing much history using that this year! Thanks for sharing or we wouldn't be enjoying our History so much. I plan to blog on it at some point and share some things we have added to it. Three great books so far have been, Jamestown (Adventures in Colonial America) by James E. Kinght, Roanoke: The Lost Colony, An unsolved Mystery From History By: Jane Yolen, and Who's saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage? By Jean Fritz. We plan to read some of the American girl Felicity and also the My America books of ELizabeth's Jamestown Diaries. We watched the movie called Keeping the Promise (based on the book The Sign of the Beaver.) That was very good, as well. If you have any suggestions for use, please stop by my blog to share. I value your recommendations.
Thanks!
We even finished our 
Jeannie 
