Homesteaders

[MoonShadows]

I drive by where our town has there mulch pile everyday. It looks beautiful, but it is made up of chopped up leaves and debris they pick up along the roadside, especially when people rake their yards in the Fall. I won't touch the stuff no matter how good it looks! I can only image how polluted it must be from road runoff...gas, oil, salt, chemicals, etc. I would rather spend money on extra mulch (compost) if I can't make enough myself.

 

[rancher hicks]

I drive by where our town has there mulch pile everyday. It looks beautiful, but it is made up of chopped up leaves and debris they pick up along the roadside, especially when people rake their yards in the Fall. I won't touch the stuff no matter how good it looks! I can only image how polluted it must be from road runoff...gas, oil, salt, chemicals, etc. I would rather spend money on extra mulch (compost) if I can't make enough myself.

this is why I don't stop to pick up bags of leaves in front of houses. I've no way of knowing who has poisoned their lawns or not. If it were up to me they'd ban all these companies that spray the lawns. Beside you can't eat the free dandelions that grow if you've sprayed.

I prefer my own compost. At least I know what goes in there.

 

[Beekissed]

I picked up nearly 300 bags of leaves in the closest town to me and didn't think twice about it. The brief contact leaves have with the surface of a lawn before they are raked and bagged doesn't seem too big of a risk to me. Now, if they were spraying chemicals all over their trees that would be another matter, but I'm not going to worry about that either...I live in the mid-Ohio Valley, otherwise known as Chemical Alley. If I'm not dead from breathing the air here, I'm not likely to die from a few leaves that touched a few lawns that may or may not have been sprayed with something in the spring and summer.

A person just has to have some faith about things beyond our control and I have it.

 

[Beekissed]

Bread coming out of the oven now...filling the house with a sweet, sweet goodness of aroma!

Will visit my only surviving uncle tomorrow and take him a loaf of each kind, whitish wheat and banana nut bread. I'll take him a dozen eggs too. God has blessed us richly and I like to pass it along when I can.

 

[Loc20chick]

Bread coming out of the oven now...filling the house with a sweet, sweet goodness of aroma!      Will visit my only surviving uncle tomorrow and take him a loaf of each kind, whitish wheat and banana nut bread.  I'll take him a dozen eggs too.  God has blessed us richly and I like to pass it along when I can. 

I never thought that baking bread would be something I would get into until I accidentally bumped into a baking thread here at BYC. I'm now baking every week and haven't bought store bread for over 2 months. I have learnt to make several different breads even sourdough ones. fresh out of oven bread is just so yummy , now hubby n daughter seem to be hooked too.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Making a batch of bread today, both regular table bread and banana nut bread.  It's a rainy, cool day that just seems to warrant fresh bread and venison stew.  Every time I go through the age old motions of making bread I think of all the women down through the world who have made these same motions, rocking to the rhythm of the kneading, adding a bit more flour, kneading some more....I feel a connection with all those women, of all tongues and peoples.  I especially feel a connection with my mother and grandmother, as making bread was a weekly thing for them, this was a common chore a lot of women did as a matter of routine back then. 

I can't remember the last time I bought a loaf of store bought bread...and I'm glad of that. 

home baked bread is the best. And I am 100% with you on the "bread dance" and connection to the past. My great granny made the best bread in the world, all the way until she just couldn't any more. I am just so glad I still have her recipe for it. Yummy, old recipe are the best. I made hearth bread yesterday and both loaves were gone.

 

[Beekissed]

My boys always thought it was yummy too until I had to start making them learn how to make bread too. I'd come home from work and find that one or the other had feasted on the bread I'd made the night before until it was almost gone. The new rule was whoever ate the most had to make the next batch. They all got very adept at making the bread and were quite proud when they made it even better than Mom.

Them having to go through the process of the making of the bread sure put a brake on the amount they would sit and snack on at one setting.

 

[Chicken girl 15]

I picked up nearly 300 bags of leaves in the closest town to me and didn't think twice about it.  The brief contact leaves have with the surface of a lawn before they are raked and bagged doesn't seem too big of a risk to me.  Now, if they were spraying chemicals all over their trees that would be another matter, but I'm not going to worry about that either...I live in the mid-Ohio Valley, otherwise known as Chemical Alley.  If I'm not dead from breathing the air here, I'm not likely to die from a few leaves that touched a few lawns that may or may not have been sprayed with something in the spring and summer. 

A person just has to have some faith about things beyond our control and I have it. 

have you ever read the Serenity Prayer? It is all over my house, my coffee cup and my nightly reading.

I only ask because you see things in a very unique light. I love reading your posts. A lot of what you say reminds me of my family. I would love to have more people like you on my hill in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Beekissed]

have you ever read the Serenity Prayer? It is all over my house, my coffee cup and my nightly reading.

I only ask because you see things in a very unique light. I love reading your posts. A lot of what you say reminds me of my family. I would love to have more people like you on my hill in the middle of nowhere.

Awwwwww! You are so kind!!!

I've read that prayer a time or so. Mostly I just follow what God tells me is good for my life and let Him guide me in all things...even the little things like chickens, gardening, and what to do with each day of my life. I try to commit everything to Him and He's faithful with all the things I give Him, so I just keep doing that.

These verses are my version of the Serenity Prayer and every time I apply them, the promises made are given unto me.

Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!
5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4: 4-7

With your kind heart and simple wisdom, I bet you would love to get in on helping a really great BYC friend get her old life back..this thread just got posted and it would be great if everyone would share the link all around. I don't know if you know LindaB220, but she's a real sweety and well known here and she really needs her friends right now. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1089202/i-want-my-life-back

 

[Chicken girl 15]

Awwwwww!  You are so kind!!!     I've read that prayer a time or so.  Mostly I just follow what God tells me is good for my life and let Him guide me in all things...even the little things like chickens, gardening, and what to do with each day of my life.  I try to commit everything to Him and He's faithful with all the things I give Him, so I just keep doing that. 

These verses are my version of the Serenity Prayer and every time I apply them, the promises made are given unto me.

[COLOR=800000][SUP] [/SUP]Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice![/COLOR]
[COLOR=800000][SUP]5 [/SUP]Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=800000][SUP]6 [/SUP]Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; [SUP]7 [/SUP]and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.  Philippians 4: 4-7[/COLOR]

With your kind heart and simple wisdom, I bet you would love to get in on helping a really great BYC friend get her old life back..this thread just got posted and it would be great if everyone would share the link all around.  I don't know if you know LindaB220, but she's a real sweety and well known here and she really needs her friends right now.  https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1089202/i-want-my-life-back

I am so blessed to now have you in my life. I can't understand your friends pain however I do know the pain of a terminally ill child. There is no replacement for her loss but I think if we all work as a family we can help her set on a new path.