Wall-O-Water
Posted on May 18, 2007 at 01:40 by Faith Acre Farm - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Here's what we used for our tomatoes this year. Got them at a local nursery $9.99 for 3. Well worth it in my opinion! We bought the plants already started & got a good 2 month start on our tomatoes!
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/wallo-water.html
New Job & Gardening
Posted on May 17, 2007 at 01:29 by Faith Acre Farm - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I've been a little preoccupied the last couple weeks. My honey had a few weeks off between his old job & his new job...so we spent that time working around house/farm :). He has a job now that allows him to actually work normal human hours! Instead of Mon-Sat 7am - 7pm, he how works Mon-Fri 8am-5pm. Its been crazy to see him driving down the driveway before dinner is even ready! He used to get home just as the ladies were getting in bed & he had to eat his dinner warmed up after everyone was asleep. We are praising God for this new job! The pay is a bit less, but we don't care about that! We're just thrilled to have him home more now!
We are working on a new chicken coop, that used to be our dog kennel. My honey built a cool nesting box station for the hens & is working on getting the open top of the kennel covered with chicken wire. When it's all done I'll post pics.
We also planted most of our garden! We're kind of doing square foot gardening. Our tomatoes were started months ago in a Wall-O-Water...so they are now huge & blooming already, we hope to be eating fresh 'maters in the next month!
So we planted:
- 3 varieties of tomatoes
- Beets
- Green Onions
- Jalapenos
- Green Beans
- Lemon Cucumbers
- Slicing Cucumbers
- Yellow Crookneck squash
- Zuchinni squash
- 2 Watermelon varieties
- Sugar Pie Pumpkins
- Cilantro
- Catnip
- Applemint
- Spearmint
- Strawberries
- Italian Oregano
- Sage
And we plan on adding some fall plantings of garlic, red onions, carrots, lettuce, spinch, & cabbage.
Speaking of the garden I really need to get out & water it.
Ta-Ta
My new favorite Recipe source
Posted on May 7, 2007 at 10:28 by Faith Acre Farm - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I love this place for recipes: Tammy's Recipes.
This blog/website is done by a Christian sahm. She tests, photographs & rates each recipe she makes....and there are a lot of them! Readers can also submit recipes to be tried out. Most of the recipes are made for the frugal/one income type of families, but are not all just beans & rice.
She also blogs about many other things pertaining to sahm, frugality, babies, parenting etc.
I make my weekly menu on Monday's, so while I sit here making it, I have Tammy's Recipe's on my computer screen the whole time! Half of our weekly meals are from her website.
Check it out!
Babies are a Blessing !
Posted on April 22, 2007 at 09:44 by Faith Acre Farm - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Wonderful, wonderful sermon here by S.M. Davis on God's Viewpoint on Having Babies. I highly encourage you to listen!
 www.allposters.com
Crazy day!
Posted on April 17, 2007 at 07:14 by Faith Acre Farm - 5 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Wow what a day! Got up this morning to find one of our chicks lame. We brought out the tractor to put the chicks in and isolated the lame chick on a nice cozy towel. I woke Saige up early so she could help me with all this transitioning. Took us 3 tries to get a clamp lamp so we could keep the lame chick warm. Finally we found one that would work...after nearly being electricuted once, climbing down into the creepy darkness of the root cellar, and scaling my daughters top bunk bed.
So the chicks were all in place and off the girls & I went to town. Town was normal, nothing too crazy there. But upon coming home we were greeted with the worst hail storm I have EVER been in! We pull in to our dog jumping upon the van like a mad-dog (apparently she doesn't like hail...go figure). So I get the big umbrella and try to get the girls out of the van and up to the house without being impaled. Whilst this is going on, we notice there is no little lame chick in the box on the porch. Dog. Darn Dog!!!!!
Ok...too much going on right now to think of the missing chicks. We have a load of groceries to get in the house, as well as a slew of library books. So I run back to the van (slipping in the two inch thick slush, in my flip-flops). Did I mention it was sunny & 60* when we left this morning? Anywho....the DOG jumps into the back of the van SMASHING all the groceries & getting nasty wet dogness all over the car!!!! I drag her out, after she jumped into every empty seat, and she headed straight into the house. UGH.
Remind me again why I wanted a DOG? 
Emergency Food Storage...
Posted on April 13, 2007 at 09:09 by Faith Acre Farm - 5 Comments - Post Comment - Link
I got a list in my email this morning on what & how much you should stock up for emergency situations. Never in my life have I lived in an "emergency situtation", but am beginning to think that a little stocking up in our uncertain times, isn't a bad idea. Not in a paranoid way, but in a Proverbs 31, keeper of my home, manager of my home, kind of way :)
My biggest problem is storage. We have a small 1100 Sq. Ft. home & no outbuilding that is in decent enough shape to house this kind of stuff. We are hoping to re-do our 90 year old root cellar & buil a shed on top of it, sometime in the next year or two. Then it will be perfect for this kind of thing! In the meantime, I may make a few purchases & stash them under my bed or at the top of our closets.
SO check out this calculator that will tell you how much you need for "Emergencies". This is cool:
Food Storage Calculator
She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet. ~Proverbs 31:21
Matchy-Matchy :)
Posted on April 12, 2007 at 07:05 by Faith Acre Farm - 4 Comments - Post Comment - Link
Are these not the CUTEST Jumpers ever?? My sweet online friend Brandy from Arrow Hand Creations, made these precious matching jumpers for my girls! If you are looking for modest, feminine & beautiful clothing for your children, I would look no further than Arrow Hand Creations! She is just starting to stock again after taking some time off, but you can peek at a couple things she has made.
Got Chicks?
Posted on April 4, 2007 at 08:50 by Faith Acre Farm - 2 Comments - Post Comment - Link
www.allposters.com
WE DO!
Today we picked up:
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2 Barred Rocks
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2 Rhode Island Reds
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2 Buff Orpingtons
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2 Banties
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2 White Cornish Cross
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1 Auracana
YAY for SPRINGTIME & Sweet little babies :)
Great weekend!
Posted on March 27, 2007 at 09:21 by Faith Acre Farm - 1 Comments - Post Comment - Link
We had a great visit from my in-laws the last couple days. Kev's Dad, Mom & Sister all came from Parma, Idaho to visit us! They are just a blast to be with and the best house-guests you could ask for.
The day they arrived, Kev decided we should go on a "walk". Little did we know, it was a 3-mile HIKE through the Cowiche Canyon. AS pretty was it was, I am not entirely fond of heights...especially when the wind is blowing 50 mph!  So Mom & I spent a lot of time looking at our feet and trying really hard not to "look down".
Yesterday we took a day trip to Leavenworth, WA. It's a cute little Bavarian style village in the mountains of Western Washington. Look back a bit on my blog and you can find pictures of when we went there with my Grandparents.
Anyway, we had a fun time walking, shopping, eating and taking in the gorgeous scenery. By the time we got home we had nothing left in us and all pooped out after dinner! The poor dog was just rarin' to go though, since she had to spend the whole day in the kennel. Might as well as had a newborn in the room with us last night...for as much as she woke us up!
Well, it was a loverly time spent with loverly people! We love you Dad, Mom & Tammy!!
Allowing God to Determine Our Family Size
Posted on March 21, 2007 at 10:02 by Faith Acre Farm - 11 Comments - Post Comment - Link
One of the fundamental tenets of feminist ideology has always been the right of a woman to determine for herself if and when she will have children and how many children she will have. Shulamith Firestone, a popular feminist thinker and writer in the 1960's and 1970's, spoke for the movement when she insisted: "The heart of woman’s oppression is her childbearing and childbearing roles."
The Christian world has been unwittingly influenced by this way of thinking, leading to the legitimization and promotion of such practices as contraception, sterilization, and "family planning." As a result, unwittingly, millions of Christian women and couples have helped to further Satan’s attempts to limit human reproduction and thereby! destroy life.
As Mary Pride points out in her penetrating book The Way Home,
"Family planning is the mother of abortion. A generation had to be indoctrinated in the ideal of planning children around personal convenience before abortion could become popular. We Christians raise an outcry against abortion today, and rightly so,. But the reason we have to fight those battles today is because we lost them thirty years ago. Once couples began to look upon children as creatures of their own making, who they could plan into their lives as they chose or not, all reverence for human life was lost...
...Abortion is first of all a heart attitude. "Me first." My career first." "My reputation first." "My financial plans first." And these exact same choices are what family planning, which the churches have e! ndorsed for three decades, is all about."
The world says, "Children are a burden." God’s Word says children are one of the greatest blessings He can give a couple (Psalm:3-5). Yet we look up to heaven and say, "God, please don’t send me any blessings!"
The world says, "The purpose of marriage is to make you happy. That may or may not include having children." God’s Word on the other hand, teaches that one of the vital purposes of marriage is to produce children who fear and reverence the Lord (Malachi 2:15).
In the apostle Paul’s first epistle to Timothy, we are reminded that childbearing is a basic, God-given role for women. Paul exhorts younger widows to "marry, to have children, to manage their homes, and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander" (1 Tim! othy 5:14). "Women will be saved through childbearing - if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety."
("Lies Women Believe and the Truth That Sets Them Free"
by Nancy Leigh DeMoss)
Note: If you have had a near death experience due to having children and there is nothing you can do to alleviate this from happening again, then please take the recommendation of your physician and do not have any more children. I do believe that God has given us wisdom to make right decisions for our lives within the frame work of His Word.
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