FOR SALE : Tons of Books, CD's and Curriculum that I need to clear off my shelves--all priced to move!  Paypal. Media Mail shipping or expedited shipping and/or insurance at buyers choice/expense.

 

HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM (all BRAND NEW!)

 

Polished Cornerstones by DOORPOSTS—BRAND NEW!  $45.00

 

KONOS In a Bag : RUSSIA (full kit! brand new!)  $25.00

 

Veritas Press ; GENESIS THRU JOSHUA (like new with cards!) $20.00

 

Art Basics for Children - Visual Manna $10.00

 

Visual Manna's Master Drawing  $10.00

 

Barker Creek's :Draw Write Now Book 6 Animals & Habitats $5.00

 

Rod n Staff English 9/10 Teacher Book only—BRAND NEW---$15.00

 

Rod n Staff English 2 Teacher and Student books $15.00 set (these are used--but still in goodshape!)

 

ABEKA : Our America Student and Teacher Book Set  $10.00

 

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY PRESS : Our Fathers World Student & Teacher Book Set $10.00

 

Bob Jones Press : A Servants Heart : Bible Truths 2 TEACHER EDITION $15.00

 

 

 

 

Books: (Used--but in good or great shape!)

 

HISTORY OF US : Liberty for All BOOK 5; Joy Hakim $7.00

 

Savage Sam : Fred Gipson $2.50

 

From Submarine to Steamboat: Robert Fulton (hardcover/dust jacket) $5.00 (brand new--!)

 

Story of Liberty (BRAND NEW!)  $10.00

 

Mama’s Torah   (BRAND NEW)   $5.00

 

Alice in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll  $2.00

 

The Race : Golden Filly Series Book 1  by Lauraine Snelling $1.00

 

Eagles Wings : Golden Filly Series Book 2  by Lauraine Snelling $1.00

 

Worldwide Guide to Homeschooling : Dr. Brian Ray  $2.50

 

Homeschooling:The Journey is the Reward : Pamela Berthume $3.00

 

If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy : Lindsey O'Connor $3.00

 

The Purpose Driven Life : Rick Warren (hardcover/dust jacket) $3.00

 

Walking Wisely : Charles Stanley (hardcover/dust jacket) $3.00

 

The Kingdom Series: Kingdoms Quest Book 5 : Chuck Black $3.00

 

Civil War Ghosts : Daniel Cohen $2.50

 

Left Behind : Tim LaHaye / Jerry Jenkins $2.50

 

Just Like Jesus : Max Lucado $2.50

 

Molly Saves the Day (American Girls Series) $2.00

 

Happy Birthday Kirsten (American Girls Series) $2.00

 

 

Black Beauty (shorter childrens version-hardcover) MJ Carr $1.00

 

The Sleepytime Ponies Trick a Trickster : Lana Jordan  (hardcover/dust jacket--signed by author) $2.50

 

 

The Tightwad Gazette II : Amy Dacyczyn (Hardcover) $2.50

 

Nightlight For Parents : James Dobson (hardcover/dust jacket) $2.50

 

The New Nation (A History of the US) Teaching Guide 3rd Ed. $5.00

 

Super Science Concoctions: Jill Frankel Hauser $4.00

 

Water Dance : Thomas Locker $2.00 (Hardcover)

 

Manatee Winter : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld $2.00 (Hardcover)

 

The Children’s Book of Home and Family : William J. Bennett  $5.00 (Hardcover)

 

Millstones & Stumbling Blocks : Bradley Heath $5.00

 

Message of the Mountain: ABEKA Book $3.00

 

 

 

These Books are from a set-- beautiful leather bound, silk ribbon bookmarked, gold paged classics! $5.00 each OR $30.00 for all !

 

Michel De Montaigne Essays

 

The Ambassadors: Henry James

 

Henrik Ibsen Plays

 

Candide : Voltaire

 

Swann's Way : Marcel Proust

 

The Annals : Tacitus

 

Faust : Johann Wolfgang VonGoethe

 

 

 

 

CDs  (ALL BRAND NEW!):  $3.00 each

 

Hey Andrew! Teach Me Some Greek Level One, The Reader, Level Two : GREEK N STUFF

 

Fearfully & Wonderfully Made : ANSWERS IN GENESIS

 

Hi I'm Riff!  (Barney CD)

 

World Book 2001 Encyclopedia

 

Sabbath Rest- No Greater Joy

 

Rainy Day Art (over 30 hands on projects)

 

Families of Costa Rica

 

 

Thanks for looking~

Lisa

Lisa@HomesteadOriginals.com

 

 

 

Okay---so who wants to win a copy of the BRAND NEW Summer issue of The Old Schoolhouse Magazine? It's HOT off the presses....not even in stores yet! :) 

 Well.....I have a few copies I'll give away, each day until July 31st!  So how to win? Just CLICK HERE to leave a comment with your contact info so I can get a hold of you when you win!  We'll draw a name each morning (actually, my 1.5yo son will) out of a hat and post the winner. 

Enter everyday, post on your blog and leave me the link in a seperate comment for an additional entry too :)

 Thanks for playing along!

Lisa

 

www.allposters.com

I seen this over at http://onechristianmom.blogspot.com/  & thought that I would join in.

 

1. Who is your love? My husband, Mike

2. How long have you been together? Whew! 15 1/2 years!

3. How long did you two date? Are you ready for this?  4 months to the day we got married!

4. How old is your love? 38

6. Who said “I love you” first? Umm?  Probably him.

7. Who is taller? He is.  He is 5'11 & I'm 5'4".

8. Who sings better? Hmm...We sing all the time, but not together other than at church.

9. Who is smarter? He is.

10. Whose temper is worse?  We are both pretty hot-headed.

11. Who does the laundry? I do mine & his. The girls do their own.

12. Who takes out the garbage? The kids!

13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? That would be me!

14. Who pays the bills?  I write out & mail all the bills.  But then again he's the only one employed so you decide.

15. Who is better with the computer?  He works with a computer every day for work but I also love the computer so it's a toss up.

16. Who mows the lawn? He does.  That's his secret obsession!

17. Who cooks dinner? I usually do but if I am sick or something he can cook pretty well.

18. Who drives when you are together? He does. He makes me nervous when I have to drive.

19. Who pays when you go out?  Again, he is the only one making any money so I guess he does.

20. Who is most stubborn? Ooh, that's a good one.  I would probably say me.

21. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Neither of us.

22. Whose parents do you see the most? Probably mine.

23. Who kissed who first?  I think it was a mutual thing. I don't really remember.  Is that bad?

24. Who asked who out? I guess he did.  We went to a hockey game with his brother & my sister.

25. Who proposed? I do remember that one.  He did!

26. Who is more sensitive?  Neither of us. 

27. Who has more friends?  We have the same friends. Just people we go to church with. No individual friends really.

28. Who has more siblings?  Ah ha!  That belongs to me!  I have 7 sisters, 3 brothers & 4 foster sisters & 3 foster brothers.  He has 1 brother & 2 sisters.

29. Who wears the pants in the family? LOL! I plead the 5th on that one! I'll answer this way...He wears pants & I wear skirts!  LOL!!

30. How did you meet?  Oh boy!  Here we go!  My older sister was married to his younger brother & we met at their reception.  Does that sound like a hillbilly song or what? LOL!!  He was 21 & I was only 16.  We started dating about 6 months after that...when I was old enough for him.  Yeah!  17!(?)  LOL!  And we've been together ever since!  How romantic-like!

Okay there's our story, in a nutshell.  Now let's hear yours!

 

 

Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show.

"The time to look is during the dark hours before dawn on Tuesday, August 12th," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "There should be plenty of meteors--perhaps one or two every minute."

The source of the shower is Comet Swift-Tuttle. Although the comet is far away, currently located beyond the orbit of Uranus, a trail of debris from the comet stretches all the way back to Earth. Crossing the trail in August, Earth will be pelted by specks of comet dust hitting the atmosphere at 132,000 mph. At that speed, even a flimsy speck of dust makes a vivid streak of light when it disintegrates--a meteor! Because, Swift-Tuttle's meteors streak out of the constellation Perseus, they are called "Perseids."

(Note: In the narrative that follows, all times are local. For instance, 9:00 pm means 9:00 pm in your time zone, where you live. )

Serious meteor hunters will begin their watch early, on Monday evening, August 11th, around 9 pm when Perseus first rises in the northeast. This is the time to look for Perseid Earthgrazers--meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond.

"Earthgrazers are long, slow and colorful; they are among the most beautiful of meteors," says Cooke. He cautions that an hour of watching may net only a few of these at most, but seeing even one can make the whole night worthwhile.

A warm summer night. Bright meteors skipping overhead. And the peak is yet to come. What could be better?

The answer lies halfway up the southern sky: Jupiter and the gibbous Moon converge on August 11th and 12th for a close encounter in the constellation Sagittarius: sky map. It's a grand sight visible even from light-polluted cities.

For a while the beautiful Moon will interfere with the Perseids, lunar glare wiping out all but the brightest meteors. Yin-yang. The situation reverses itself at 2 am on Tuesday morning, August 12th, when the Moon sets and leaves behind a dark sky for the Perseids. The shower will surge into the darkness, peppering the sky with dozens and perhaps hundreds of meteors until dawn.

Above: The eastern sky viewed during the hours before sunrise on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2008.

For maximum effect, "get away from city lights," Cooke advises. The brightest Perseids can be seen from cities, he allows, but the greater flurry of faint, delicate meteors is visible only from the countryside. (Scouts, this is a good time to go camping.)

The Perseids are coming. Enjoy the show!

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Ok...what do you do with pigs that eat chicken?

I know the obvious...put them in the freezer. But, in this instance, that isn't the best answer, although I am seriously pondering learning the butchering trade right now!  UGH!

Our new pigs, those pregnant sows we picked Saturday, they ate 2 of my laying hens.  Didn't have a chance-- just attacked them and then proceeded to pull them apart like some warped game of tug-o-war or something.

Our chickens have their home in the barn, and a nice, fenced yard.  I have 3, however, who are definitely roamers.  If we clip their wings any further, they won't have but a bare bone frame over on that side, yet they still manage to climb that fence and roam the yard.  They have a route...they ceck out the goats and puppies for a day or so, even roost in the puppy pen with them.  No one has ever cared (athough those blasted puppies have enjoyed playing with the younger pullets....and have killed a handful of them as well).

But, the pigs...they are in the other side of the barn, along the outside pens.  The chickens go through the horse lot there into the timber to wander.  A couple ended up in the pigs confinement and well....tug-o-war time.

I can break those puppies of playing tag with my chickens, but what do you do with a pig who has a taste for chicken now?  It rather worries me that the children don't typically think much of getting into the barn, and they help with the feeding and such.  As far as I'm concerned, these are dangerous pigs.  You know, around here, the standard was that when the Revenue men cam poking around and causing trouble, you just tossed them into the pig pen and let the hogs have them.  Nothing left to dispose of.

Now I have pigs that have shown a very dangerous side to themselves.  I'm not really interested in the additions to the freezer menu anymore, no matter how wonderful the other tastes.

TODAY'S VERSE from HEARTLIGHT   --   http://www.heartlight.org/
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                                                         July 24, 2008

VERSE:
   O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of
this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
    -- Romans 7:24-25
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THOUGHT:
   Our bodies are mortal and flawed. They are tainted with our
weakness and sin. But, by the grace of God given us in Jesus
Christ, our future does not rest in the dust with our bodies, but
in the power of our perfecting Lord.

PRAYER:
   Almighty God, thank you for giving me life beyond the death of
my mortal flesh. Thank you for giving me holiness beyond my
sin-stained flesh. Thank you for delivering me from death and
bringing me into your glory. Now, dear Father, may my words, deeds,
and thoughts reflect your grace and power in all I do today and
each day that follows. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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Here’s a fun freebie download, it’s a set of six different panhol potholders.

Free Potholder Patterns...TipNut

We got our oven yesterday.  We are all so happy.  I can't imagine not having one.  I know people who wouldn't have hurt without an oven, but for us it was torture.  LOL!  Even my little  3yo understood we couldn't make bread, cake, muffins, etc. 

Last night to break in the stove we made a half batch of sugar cookies.  After I got to starting on them I was freaking out with each ingredient... sugar?  (I threw out the open sugar, do I have any other sugar?),   Cream of tartar (we threw out most every spice in the cupboard, but I had a spare new one in the bulk cupboard), almond extract?  (I knew I threw it out, but I had recently bought some new that I hadn't opened and it was ok).  I didn't have any regular white flour, but I did have bread flour... the cookies ended up a bit heavy, I imagine from the higher gluten content.  I imagine we won't eat the entire batch anyways... Steve and I are trying to eat healthier and the girls are just not woofing down the sweets.  It was more of an effort to give Paige some Mommy time.  She saw the oven and said... Mommy, I want to make cookies.  She wanted some "normal" back into her life... so we made cookies. 

As we were placing the cookie dough onto the sheets Paige looks up to me and says so sweetly... Mother, I am glad our oven is back... with a soft sigh. 

The oven does look almost identical to our other one... which we were told to replace as close as possible.  Even thought we had just bought the oven this January, the model is not a current one, even thought it was new.  So, we had to find something as close as possible with the current models.  We lost our warming burner.. .to get it was another $100, but we didn't use it and it was in the way.  But now all the burners are able to cook with two different sizes... so it was a trade off.  I am happy with the exchange.  I would have liked to have gone back to a gas top /bottom electric oven, but that was more yet and not comparible in price... I just find I am not crazy about the flat top stove.  It is not flexible in my mind and the pans swim on the top surface... driving me crazy!  But DH loves it and I will eventually get used to it.  Dh says if I can't manage after a year he'll buy me an LP stovetop... But that seems silly to me altogether! 

Anyways, we all just sighed when the oven came... life is feeling more normal. 

Warmly, ~Melissa

 

 

 

 

LIME AIDE

 

1 cup lime juice

4 cups water

sugar or honey to taste

Adjust to your taste

serves 4

 

 

Lemon aide

 

2 cups lemon juice

2 cups sugar

half gallon pitcher

 

 

Lemon Lime aide

 

1 cup lemon juice

1 cup lime juice

2 cups sugar

add water enough for half pitcher

 

All drinks could be substituted with honey or any other types of sweeteners.

Well, after taking a much needed blogging break ~~ I have prayerfully decided to resume my blog here at HSB!  I I want to use my precious time wisely, so I will try to blog with purpose & under God's direction. I am not sure how much time or how consistent I will be this time around. We'll see how it works out. :)

I have chosen to call my blog: " In all things give thanks" based on the passage from Ephesians 5:20:

" Giving thanks all ways for all things unto God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ."

One of the things that God has been showing me over this past year is to be truly thankful in all things ~~ both the good things, the great things, the hard things and yes even the painful things of life! In ALL things we are to give thanks & it is my hearts desire to use this blog to bring glory to Him and to lead others to do the same.

May you be blessed!

~ gloria ~