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Dry Elbow Home Remedies

Dry Elbow Home Remedies

Beeswax Deodorant

Almond Shampoo

 1 cup water

 1/2 cup almond castile soap

 1/2 cup glycerine

 1/4 cup borax powder

 Mix all of the ingredients together and pour into a clean bottle or washed out shampoo bottle.  Allow the mixture to thicken overnight.  Shampoo as you normally would and rinse with cool water.

Ye are the sons of the living God ...Still desiring prayer for Velvet Rose

Ye are the sons of the living God

The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Romans 8:16-18 NASB

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We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him."

Acts 5:32 NIV

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Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

Hosea 1:10 KJV

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But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:12,13 ESV

Outpost Bath House

Inspired again by a book I picked up last week.  Outpost, Unleashing Your Inner Wild     by Mary Jane Butters. I just had to make a bathhouse.

It will fit the claw foot iron tub that I want to add this fall, its over at Mom's down in a deep valley by the creek. Snakes and weeds keep me from getting it now and oh the hill side. Fall project, can't wait to soak in it tho : )

I have to shore it up add some sheet curtains that I can open and close easy, don't want to surprise a trespassin hunter and scare em.

The night stand for night bathin, its close to the pine tree , really a nice place to soak in a tub if your goin be outside bathing. The washtub is sittin high because of its drain pipe. I need to bust a hole in the floor so it will sit level.

I picked the sunflowers from the garden, oh this is looking so girly but I just love it. Now that lamp worked really good for awhile then it stopped working, further notice I seen the wick was short and the fuel was low, hate when that happens. So Outpost supplies will be in order next shopping day.

This old pan will be nice to use for tossing water over ones head and backside. The grandkiddies will have a blast in the outside bathhouse. I'll put em all in there when I get the iron tub, save from tot'in water ; ).

I'm finding old stuff that I have kept for years, they are working out great in the Outpost. Heres an old iron chair that is perfect for sittin in while shavin your legs, or maybe scrubbin the grandkids. DH says for scrubbin his back, I say, heck fire scrub my back.

Thats homemade soap (not mine) and a knitted washcloth (now thats one I did). And take a look at that icecream maker, didn't have all the parts but sure makes for a good towel holder.

Oh bringing up the wood and nailing , the weather a bit warm, (hot). I had to sit a spell , have a cold pop. I found this little seat down in my junk pile too. Great for sitting on and wiping the brow.

Put up a clothes line to and washed the vintage apron and hand stitched cloth for wipin your hands on at the wash station by the outhouse.

The first night Sis stayed. I butchered out a couple of young roosters earlier and we cooked them on the firepit.

A bit about eating chicken I raised from a day olded. You know I don't really like to eat a chicken I just took out a few hours ago. I know my grandmother did it , chicken every Sunday, 365 days a year. But me, I'd rather not. I like to wait awhile, get the chicken out of the freezer and then cook. I thanked the roosters for giving up their life and very grateful for food that I can raise for my family and know what we are eating. I thank the garden for its life to, growing and death that it gives to us as well. Meat eater or not, everything we eat has life that we take so we can live and Blessings for it should always be.

DH joined us, he had no problems with eating the young roosters and we had our evening meal. Chicken, bake beans, potatoes,cooked onions ( cooking onions in foil will make you go crazy with hunger, I think its the best kind of smell when cooking oustside). Oh and some collard greens. Camp coffee too.

Its just plain fun fixin up some grub in the chuckwagon. I just love it.

I brought up this old iron kettle that I use in the fireplace at home, its perfect for heating up water to do dishes and now bathing : ).

Well we sat around the campfire and had coffee and talked of plans for a harvestfest in the woods. Sis wants to decorate the trails with spooky stuff for the kiddies, not to spooky tho. I like the Autumn look. So we'll do both. Her side, my side.

Time to call it a day. So DH headed home to watch some TV and sis and I played battleship that she brought over. Haven't played that for a very long time lol. She beat me so one game was enough of that.

I will be bringing up games that will be fun to play when sitting in the Outpost. I love the game of chess, my favorite and sis is the only one who knows how to play, but she doesn't like the game. Gosh she was the one who taught me how to play, maybe because the student passes up the teacher . : ) But for sure got to make a checker board out of an old stump, and sometimes put the chess pieces on it, just incase a chess player comes mosing through.

After sis sunk my battleship we wanted to get some reading in. By golly I read a book and finished it this weekend by Hannah Hinchman. Little Things In A Big Country

It has a lot of illustrations, makes for reading a book fast : ) But oh what good ideas for doing my own journal and watercolorings. Brought up my watercolors to for some outdoor painting. Gosh I think I have moved to the woods.

We had a good nights reat, sis had her fan on, so heard mostly the night sounds of a fan going :/. Cooked up a good breakfast , bright and early. And oh that coffee in the mornign outside, soem kind of good I tell ya.

Oh DH came up for breakfast, I think he could smell it cookin and had the perfect timin down just right, he took my eggs I was cookin for myself.

Everyone left when mention the bathhouse. So I was on my own to whip something up. So I worked onthat project and even had some time for reading.


All gathered at the campsite later in the evening. We popped some corn out on firepit Sunday night. Best shut that lid for we'er hit!!!

Oh does that look good and I don't think I burned any.

I didn't bring up a big bowl so had to use my dish pan for the popcorn, it was clean.

Sunday night I camped alone. I almost had DH going to stay but come to find out he was just going to get into my beef jerkey stash. I smoked him out on that and booted him out of the camp : P. He had been cutting wood and was in some posion ivy , so he didn't want to scrub up in the bathhouse , so home he went .

I almost had Coal our lab mix stay but she barks at critters and I do want see critters. Got to see a Screech Owl fly in our camp, oh is it little and so cute. It just looked down at us. To dark to take a picture. Theres a bird that few right by me and landed close , i yet to ID it. It is dapple brown,gray witha very long beak. Not a woodpecker for sure. I almsot thought is was a young owl at first, then when I seen the beak, wow what is it? A Pinocchio owl!!!

Our Coal is a great pup, loves the trails and jumping in the pond. Almost catches the frizzbie (sp), brings it to me everytime and lets go without a struggle.

I love this shot of her,even tho its fuzzy, its how she is always on guard and aware of her surroundings. She is laying by the Outpost tent.

Here she is laying down by my foot next to the campfire. I think that is sweet but she is really there because she knew I tossed on some bacon for breakfast and she remembers. But still it's nice to have a fur friend that is close.

We had beautiful Labor Day weekend. Mom and sis are coming up tonight for a wiener roast and some outdoor coffee. We'll get some for ol time stories from Mom and her campout days.

But even though we have fun my famlies thoughts and prayers are for those in the hurricane Gustav area. So we will be talkin about that at the campsite for sure. I always wonder if our family would up and leave or stay. Everyone has to do what they feel they need to do. If not prepared and how prepared is enough makes you think of your own area. The two weeks without eletric power sent me on a mission to have things on hand, like my lantern that was short on fuel yesterday :(, oh well back to the drawing board and planning.

Take good care, sure glad you stopped by
Blessings and safety for all.
linda

Much Love

Honestly... how sweet are you guys? Thank you so much for your heartfelt comments on my last post, well, all my posts... you guys are terrific.  I truly know God's Hand is at work in our situation.  I am confident that we will be victorious through this trial.  xoxo
Something rather exciting is coming up 'if' I can get things moving.  There is a craft show at the end of this month that I am going to enter.   I KNOW!  I have never entered a craft fair before.  No, it is not one that you win a prize or anything, just one that you rent a booth and set up.  I have some things in the works...
Pumpkins of course... it is the perfect time of year for them... and I just LOVE them!
My dishcloths...
The quilted table square I have made and hopefully a few more...
Maybe some soft shoes...
My sweetie snowman...
Maybe a few of these Lil' Pumpkin Onesies...
My head is SPINNING! I am so excited and I just want to get things made so I can do this.  If this year I do alright I could really plan and enter next year and be able to make things ALL year until the time of the fair. 
If you are interested any almost any of these items you can visit My Etsy~Heritage Acres Farm Goods most everything is there.  Have a great day friends, enjoy this Labor Day with your family!
Love to you all,

LOUISIANA SWEET POTATO PRALINE COFFEE CAKE

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Bloomin Beauties

Sunflower
The sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant in the family Asteraceae and native to the Americas, with a large flowering head (inflorescence). The stem can grow as high as 3 metres, and the flower head can reach 30 cm in diameter with the "large" seeds. The term "sunflower" is also used to refer to all plants of the genus Helianthus, many of which are perennial plants.


Petunia
The origin of P. x hybrida is thought to be by hybridization between P. axillaris (the large white or night-scented petunia) and P. integrifolia (the violet-flowered petunia). P. axillaris bears night-fragrant, buff-white blossoms with long, thin tubes and somewhat flattened openings.

Daylily
These plants are perennial. The name Hemerocallis comes from the Greek words ἡμέρα (hēmera) "day" and καλός (kalos) "beautiful". The flowers of most species open at sunrise and wither at sunset, possibly replaced by another one on the same stem the next day. Some species are night-blooming. Daylilies are not commonly used as cut flowers for formal flower arranging, yet they make good cut flowers otherwise as new flowers continue to open on cut stems over several days.



Black Eyed Susans
Rudbeckia hirta is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) native to most of North America, and is one of a number of plants with the common name Black-eyed Susan that also has purple on the side.

Mama's favorite is: Black Eyed Susans
My favorite is: Daylily
Wildflower: Sunflower
Planted: Petunia

Aren't those great flowers? I sure love them and will be sad when summer is over and the leaves and snow fall!
 Hope you enjoyed this little flower lessson.
Prayers and Blessings,
        
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