tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40998165008597414892024-02-20T03:05:31.280-08:00The FarmeretteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger434125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-51638004025233410462014-01-13T09:39:00.003-08:002014-01-13T09:39:42.315-08:00LinksFrom Facebook:<br />
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/i-learned-everything-i-needed-to-know-about-marriage-from-i-pride-and-prejudice-i/281110/">I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Marriage From Pride and Prejudice - Karen Swallow Prior - The Atlantic</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christine-grossloh/have-american-parents-got-it-all-backwards_b_3202328.html">Christine Gross-Loh: Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?</a><br />
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<a href="http://boardingarea.com/flyingwithfish/2009/09/01/five-flight-attendant-blogs-you-should-read/">Five Flight Attendant Blogs You Should Read - Flying With Fish</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-4888414331798140782014-01-13T09:35:00.001-08:002014-01-13T09:35:25.100-08:00Too much<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N9kthK48M6I/UtQj29FEeoI/AAAAAAAAGCE/9Gh4wRQUuMs/s640/blogger-image--1444303815.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N9kthK48M6I/UtQj29FEeoI/AAAAAAAAGCE/9Gh4wRQUuMs/s640/blogger-image--1444303815.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today I was a little exhausted. I think over Friday and Saturday I did too much. Friday I had four outings! First was toastmasters, then the functional neurologist, then the acupuncturist and then finally a bridal shower in the evening. Whew. On Saturday I was tempted to do too many things in an effort to cross things off my list so that by today I was definitely tired and even feeling a little dizzy. After church we had about 25 people over for Daniels 17th birthday, and approximately half of those seemed to be teenagers. It was loud!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-57513147819659634102014-01-09T23:40:00.001-08:002014-01-09T23:42:25.719-08:00Shopping and spending<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Jacob (his shoes pictured above, photo by the man himself), mums and I all bought new shoes today. It was a win win win shopping trip, so yay Jesus. The gal who took my feet measurements confessed to being a little perplexed about my true foot size as my feet are narrow and my arches are long and start at different lengths. And this is why I hate shoe shopping. I forgot to ask her how narrow my feet were now; they used to be a 4A which is pretty crazy and made my 9-9 1/2 sized feet look deceptively tiny. We used to call them "hot dog" feet. </div>
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In other news, I finally bought a purse. The last one I bought 3-4 years ago while we were waiting to stand in line for a Pioneer Woman book signing. So yes, it was looking a little sad. I settled on a sensible brown one, but I may throw caution to the wind and go back and get the tourquoise one instead. Decisions, decisions, decisions.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-32935295166422788932014-01-08T20:26:00.001-08:002014-01-08T20:26:55.876-08:00Dear friend<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y2zvW-MjGag/Us4lDtFHp-I/AAAAAAAAGBk/YD56QISCnlk/s640/blogger-image--1353983742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-y2zvW-MjGag/Us4lDtFHp-I/AAAAAAAAGBk/YD56QISCnlk/s640/blogger-image--1353983742.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O7wt51UiGcs/Us4lAUAohaI/AAAAAAAAGBc/rGJLpsNd1Nk/s640/blogger-image--1682453286.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-O7wt51UiGcs/Us4lAUAohaI/AAAAAAAAGBc/rGJLpsNd1Nk/s640/blogger-image--1682453286.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Today was the last day of Sharon's visit to Portland. I picked her up and we went out to breakfast at Bijou Cafe in downtown Portland where we split two delicious hashes. Then it was time for the airport and bittersweet goodbyes. I'm crossing my fingers and praying that it works out for her to move back here before too long!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-81010437347550569692013-09-21T21:49:00.001-07:002013-09-21T21:49:11.096-07:00Day 262<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today was another day hanging out at home. Bible time, a hike through the hills, a swim at the pond, and Call the Midwife (season 2) to finish the day off.</div>
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Today Sally and I dropped the kids off at her parents house (Uncle Roger and Aunt Susan are amazing. It was their anniversary and they offered to watch them!) and then headed off to Ellen's house! After lunch at Rubio's and attempting to ride the wooden horses at the Nut Tree, we went to the Outlets. Then it was back to her house where we had an amazing steak, garlic green beans and garlic toast dinner with Jason and baby.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-83536976470932781622013-09-17T21:38:00.000-07:002013-09-21T21:43:37.316-07:00Day 260<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Spent the day hanging out with Sally and the kiddos, enjoying their daily routine. Today involved a walk by the lake to the park, lunch time outside, a 2 hour conversation while the kids napped, sorting through baby clothes, night time stories and watching The Great Gatsby with her and David. </div>
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<i>1. Moving a ton of hog feed around with the tractor.</i></div>
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<i>The feed gets placed into eight barrels which each weigh around 250lbs. I then manhandle two at a time onto the tractors bucket, drive the tractor inside the barn and then unload them onto pallets. Let's just say it's a really good workout.</i></div>
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<i>1.-3. From my morning walk with Juli after toastmasters. I love the caravan!</i></div>
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<i>4. Got the pigs settled in a new pasture.</i></div>
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<i>1. God totally made my day when, as we were looking for a parking spot in LO so we could picnic by the lake, we passed a Salt & Straw ice cream truck. Oh yum. Mom and Jacob had never had their ice cream before, so I treated them. :)</i></div>
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<i>2. After a day full of errands, came home and made two blue berry pies. One of which got consumed immediately as Scott and Juli came over to visit. This one is now waiting for tomorrow (breakfast?). Or possibly for Andrew and Daniel once they get home. (Pam Forster's recipe)</i></div>
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<i>3. I also made two peach pies! This one, that I'm too impatient to wait until it's baked to take a picture of, is for John, the owner of our local fruit stand. He gave me two boxes of peaches in exchange for a homemade peach pie. I hope it lives up to his expectations! I, of course, made one for us to eat tomorrow. The recipe came from The Pie and Pastry Bible.</i></div>
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<i>Now it's off to bed once the peach pie is done cooking. </i></div>
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<i>Picked up Jacob from gymnastics camp today (Andrew's teaching camp this week) and here's some pictures!</i></div>
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<i>1. This evening Mom and I went to a PEO meeting. I hadn't been in ages and it was lovely to catch up with people again. About half of the ladies have known me since I was 8! They are all real sweethearts. Afterwards, we enjoyed cruising around Lake Oswego (the lake, not the town), with the windows down, admiring the beautiful homes.</i></div>
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<i>What else? Homeschooling, Piano lessons, and not much else!</i></div>
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<i>1. Jacob driving Andrew in the tractor. </i></div>
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<i>2. We visited Scott and Juli for the evening. The flowerbed that Juli and I planted together is looking fabulous!</i></div>
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<i>3. Waiting for dinner to be ready. I know this looks lame, but everyone had just gotten kicked out of bugging the girls in the minuscule kitchen! It was a delicious spaghetti dinner.</i></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-4863987445097882102013-06-24T21:57:00.001-07:002013-06-24T21:57:45.953-07:00Day 175Well, apparently it's time to fix the fence between the home paddock and the back pasture. It's obviously sagged low enough that Mooser (the holstein steer) got over it easily enough to feed off of the pigs grain this morning. I had banished him and the other two cows into the back pasture, as I'm tired of feeding extra grain to the pigs and they've basically been having a hissy fit ever since. The moo and mope all day long. Silly cows.<br />
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The sheep in the orchard got moved to a fresh pasture today. Now we can finish mowing the orchard!<br />
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Also, the turkeys are now finally ensconced in their pen and hopefully they'll stay there. I'm tired of going out to put turkeys away at 11 pm! Just as I'm ready to head to bed, it's ooops, I forgot about the turkeys. Sigh. I've lost two this week thanks to problems with the electric fence and one night I think I got out there too late. Which meant that after coming home from volunteering at Champoeg for 6 hours, I got to slit a turkeys throat by moonlight. How romantic, right? The poor turkey had a dislocated projecting coracoid (wing) bone, which looked rather painful and the only solution seemed to put it out of it's misery. Daniel trooped out with me to the processing trailer to supervise, since he's a pro, but I did the actual dirty work.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-63163117720160487222013-06-18T23:09:00.001-07:002013-06-18T23:09:40.927-07:00Reading, lately, WeedsWeeds are the name of the game lately. Until the last few years, we've been at a standstill with the ongoing weed battle between the thistles and us. However, the last few years have seen the emergence of weeds that we had not battled before, namely, foxtail. Oh, you are my nemesis. And I'm noticing creeping buttercup where the pigs where last winter. So. In an effort to win the war, I've been doing some reading, mostly on the fabulous site, On Pasture, and I'm slowly putting together a battle plan. <br />
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First of all, the weeds accumulating ties in nicely with when we started haying 3 pastures regularly and 2 not at all. I think I'll start alternating between the 3 haying pastures so that the 2 aren't so burdened. It will mean less hay, in a way, but then again, if we don't do anything weedy hay isn't worth anything!<br />
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<a href="http://onpasture.com/2013/04/09/maximizing-spring-green-up-without-destroying-summer-pastures/">http://onpasture.com/2013/04/09/maximizing-spring-green-up-without-destroying-summer-pastures/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4099816500859741489.post-53958987760956888962013-06-17T21:29:00.002-07:002013-06-17T21:29:58.891-07:00Day 168<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>What else? Recovering from family camp!</i></div>
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<i>What else? Church! And visiting with my new friend, <a href="http://backcountrymaiden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Elisabeth</a>.</i></div>
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<i>1. A beautiful church in Portland</i></div>
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<i>5. What else? Strawberry shortcake for dessert!, visiting with Emily and meeting Ronan (5 weeks old), doing school with Jacob at the Chinese Medicine place, taking Dad to the airport for a quick business trip, a leisurely nap!</i></div>
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<i>1. & 2. Getting feed at the feed mill with Tyler</i></div>
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<i>3. Touring a friends almost-new home! So excited for them.</i></div>
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<i>5. A very blurry last minute picture of my new hair cut (and semi-new glasses). I took nicer photos outside, but they aren't uploading right. Grr.</i></div>
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<i>6. What else? Drove the large trailer all by myself to get compost today! Very exicitng.</i></div>
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<i>Mostly today was one of those fly by the seat of the pants day. Yesterday's plans mostly changed. But it's all good. </i></div>
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<i>1. A lazy morning. Working on my crossword puzzle (I"m slowly getting better!), enjoying the flowers from the wedding on Saturday. Also note the cat's collar that needs a new battery and the row of lazy heads sitting on the couch under the window. :)</i></div>
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<i>2. A visit to the much loved plant nursery! Finally, finally, finally got some vegetables. And some roses to replace the ones Tonka ruined, argh. And some annuals</i></div>
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<i>What else? A little bit of placing and planting. Scott was here for dinner. Also cooked the first ham from the pigs I raised. It was delicious!</i></div>
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<i>1. What I wore Sunday. I was very excited to finally figure out a way to wear this flowered shirt that I bought an embarrassing number of years ago. It looked great with a layered pearl necklace and a vintage black/silver necklace. </i></div>
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1. I've been making Kombucha and it's been going quite well. I remember we tried making it years ago, but we never got the hang of it and it just seemed to awkward and gross. There are several reasons I believe it's going so well this time. First off, is the container. See that spigot a the bottom. That makes it so much easier to get the liquid out! No lifting up the SCOBY, you just drain it into your jar of choice. And secondly, I'm more of a believer of the importance of good bacteria. That helps! Plus, I've learned that it's very easy to mix with fruit juice. So if it starts tasting to sour, I just stir in some concentrate and it's much better.</div>
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2. What else today? Mostly just lying low, tummy hasn't been feeling quite right. But I've been quite productive in getting some things done that I was pushing off when the weather was so nice. This evening found just Tyler and I at home, so we had a nice dinner of leftover pho, with this mango avocado salsa. So good! Then we watched the Truman Show while folding laundry, and finished the evening of by watching the this TED talk.</div>
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The parentals and Daniel and Jacob got to attend a Jamie Soles Concert, which was awesome and now they're out partying it up, Andy's watching Star Trek with a friend.</div>
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<i>1. Excellent quote discovered while thrift shopping with Amanda and Sara Jane</i></div>
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<i>3. What else? Went to a first-time-in-a-long-time birthday lunch to celebrate Sara Jane's birthday with Amanda. It was super lovely!</i></div>
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<i>Also, enjoyed having Scott and Juli over while the parentals were gone at a HOOPS barbecue.</i></div>
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<i>1. Made Rhubarb Crisps for dessert tonight. For dinner we had marinated barbecued porkchops, sauteed cabbage and red potatoes with chives.</i></div>
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