FarmerJ | June 20, 2010
We’ve enjoyed an incredibly pleasant week of weather at the Farmstead. The evenings have been near-perfect with cool temperatures and calm winds. The severe storms kept at bay all week. Thursday evening, Darling Husbie and I were outside wandering through the gardens, both admitting it is evenings like that one that give us desire to [...]
FarmerJ | June 3, 2010
The sky was quite the display of Mother Nature’s wonder and awe again this evening. There was a massive thunderstorm to the north of us moving eastward. The EBS radio was blaring constantly, alternating between severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings as the front made its way. But, it was all north of us, so I [...]
FarmerJ | May 1, 2010
With great anticipation, my Buddy Box arrived the other day! My bestest buddy in Arizona and I have enjoyed sending each other little care packages ever since I moved to Nebraska. It’s incredibly fun, and silly, and heartwarming. I will tell you, though, the goodies I get from her are always better than those she [...]
FarmerJ | April 4, 2010
For God so loved the world, the He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. ~ John 3:16 Because He Lives We, Too, Shall Live In this restless world of struggle it is very hard to find Answers to the questions that daily come to [...]
FarmerJ | March 11, 2010
Twice a year, we get to watch the amazing phenomenon of geese migrating. The Farmstead seems to be right in their flight path, because literally, thousands upon thousands of geese fly overhead ~ south when winter is approaching, and north to signify the blessings of spring are coming. It’s that time again. And, it’s a [...]
FarmerJ | March 3, 2010
The best treasures someone can have, in my opinion, are memories ~ innocent childhood memories. I have many memories of Grandma Mary, but without a doubt, one of my favorite memories of Grandma is her delicious chocolate chip cookies. The chocolate chip cookies she made when I was a child, not the ones she made [...]
FarmerJ | February 5, 2010
…to get out of Honey-Do’s. But, this is one of the most creative methods I’ve ever seen! Now, this is neither my soldier nor our couch ~ but it is too funny not to share with you. I know some of my ‘deployment sisters’ have seen this photo before. Hopefully, it will remind you of [...]
FarmerJ | January 22, 2010
I finally completed a project that has been gnawing on me for about three years now! Of late, I’ve been experiencing what Darling Husbie has coined as ‘Projects Beget Projects’ ~ you know, you set out to complete one task and in the process another task spawns, so you tend to that task which quickly [...]
FarmerJ | January 19, 2010
We were blessed with some spectacular scenery a few days ago. One evening last week, we had some fog set in. The temperatures were conducive to creating a strange phenomenon to us transplanted desert dwellers ~ freezing fog. When the water droplets in fog freeze, it creates rime. There is soft rime and hard rime. [...]
FarmerJ | January 15, 2010
The massive earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 12 also hit home a little on the prairie lands in Nebraska. The first thought I had when I’d heard the news was about the children and staff of Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos. You see, in my former life, I worked as the Director of Sponsorship for [...]
