Behold the Man...series

 Today we are going to start a new series. I am reading a new book. 

"Behold the Man!!" 

by Taylor G. Bunch 

This is one of my favorite authors. 

There are so many wonderful treasures in this book - I decided to share some with you each week! 

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True History is really "His story." Jesus Christ is the creator, preserver, benefactor, and redeemer of all mankind,. He is "the first and the last" in all that is worth while; He is the "Alpha and Omega" of all that is to be desired. He is the author of all light and truth, and the finisher of all righteousness. 

Though written by more than forty men, covering a period of fifteen centuries, the Bible is the only history that gives the proper place in its records to the Creator and Ruler who presides "over the kings of the earth;" who "ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will." Revelation 17:18; Daniel 4:32...

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Next weeks post is even better! Can't wait for you to get to read it! See you then :O) 

The Toxic Body Positivity Movement | The War on Women | Episode 2

Good Morning - today is part 2 of this series - "The War on Women"  

Best Deal

So it is a good thing that I have found some great deals over the last several weeks and just had not had the chance to get posts written up about them because last week I did not get to do any fun thrift store shopping. :O( 

This first toy is a Baby Einstein toy. I thought it was amazing. It is a wooden surface and yet it is touchable and does all sorts of things - tells about colors, animals, musical instruments and it also have a couple of different language options! What a great toy!  

I am sure this can be found at all sorts of different prices- I just screen shot one of the options. 

So the $2.00 that I paid for this was a great deal!! 

 

Postponed but Working on a Plan

I have spent a good amount of time over the last month or so getting ready for the new gardening season. But I still had plenty of things to work on this week, while we had bad weather. 

When I went through my seed packets and used my post-it notes to write the dates to plant on them- there were a good number of them that suggested January 28th. So my plan had been to start seeds on Sunday, but when the cold front came through early and it was already 30 degrees outside on Sunday I soon realized it would be dumb to start plants at that time. It would mean I would have to run a space heater in our sunroom and with our electric bill already running almost double what he has been running - I knew it would be a bad idea to add on top of all our other usage- running space heater as well. 

So during our major ice event. Yes  - we had a couple of inches of ice in places. It looked like it could be snow- but we did not get snow, we got ICE! A lot of ice! Anyway so some of my extra time during this weather event- I sat down in my sewing room and I worked on planning out my garden. I already know what all I want to plant, I just needed to figure out where I would going to put everything. 

I have kind of hit a brick wall - I think it is because there are several things that I plan to plant but I have not received the seeds yet. And I know I should just move forward with plan but I guess I just want to make sure that I actually get those seeds before I set my plan totally up. 

It feels good to have this much of my plan set up and I can not wait to get some seeds planted. There is one of the varieties of Kale that I ordered  - Dazzling Blue Kale from Baker Creek that I am still waiting on. And it is one of the things that I need to get started. Hopefully that order will arrive soon so I can get things planted. If not I will just have to move forward and then just start that kale when it comes in. At least I have a plan. 

Working on planning your garden like what you will grow and where you will grow what are great things to do during yucky weather. It helps distract and gives you hope for sunny days to come. 

# 10 Jack Sequeira- Significance of the resurrection

Happy Sabbath! I hope you all are doing well and staying warm! :O) 

Learn from our experience.... please

 If you have spent anytime watching preppers youtube channels- you are aware of all the tactics that they use to try to get your attention to watch their videos. And I know that many people shy away from that kind of thing. I do not like those types of videos either. But what I do know is that it is best to be prepared than to find yourself without the things you need and no way to get them. 

Today I want to share an experience that helps reinforce the importance of being prepared. Last week - my main focus was on the 4 appointments that my husband and I had coming up on Monday and Tuesday. Oh and throw in the mix a mri of the brain - which by the way - thankfully was normal. And I did not get the message that this week we would be in the middle of an ice storm. I wonder if it got past me or if the weather people did not realize it would be this bad... I don't know... what ever the case here we are. On Monday, thankfully we were able to get at least 2 of our important appointments taken care of and got home safely. We have not left the house since then. I had not intentionally prepared for an ice storm - but thankfully we have had mostly everything we would need or a way to work around it. Thankfully I even had bandages, gauze and medical tape to help my husbands 2 infected in grown toe nails that had to be cut out on money. This I am very thankful for. 

Had I not learned with 2020 the importance of having what you need and extras if possible - we might have been up a creek over the last several days. Oh and I have seen on Facebook where people have talked about going to store to get groceries because they were running out of food and guess what? Many stores don't have basics that are needed. I am guessing we will probably be smartest to wait till Sunday or Monday to go get groceries if possible. It would be better to wait and have the possibilities of getting more of what we need then to have to make several trips. 

So basically what this blog post is about- if you don't already do a bit of prepping for the possibility of not being able to get to the store or not being able to find what you need at the store- then the best time to prepare for those times is when there is not an emergency going on. It is on your weekly trip to the grocery store- to pick up an extra one of these and an extra one of those. And slowly have extras of what you use on a day to day basis. You do not need to do this all at one time. Nope. Just slowly get the things you need. With prices of things going up and up. It has been a bit helpful to have a few extras of things put aside so that maybe I can wait till something goes on sale before I buy more. Anyway I do hope that you learn form our experience - you never know when something might happen and you will not be able to get to the store for a few day or a week or what ever. Start now - doing a bit here and a bit there. 

Need Help in Setting Up a Seed Starting System?

Good Morning! Today I want to share a great video about a great seed starting system! Ever since my sister shared this video with me, I have wanted to share it with you guys. It is really a great system and really helps in the planning stages of gardening. And since we are having some icy weather -I decided to get this set up to share with you just in case you are stuck at home like I am. 

The good news is there are still things we can do to prepare for the upcoming gardening season!!! Since I have not been able to start any of my seed yet - because of the extreme cold weather right now, I have been working on getting important information together. I have a notebook that I am gathering information I will need - all in one place. I have the name of seeds, when to plant, depth, spacing apart, transplant date, container size, and how many seeds I want to plant of each item. All this information is important and when it come time to plant this first round of seeds, hopefully within the next week, I will have easy access to all this important information. 

Thankfully over the weekend when the weather was much warmer - I was able to get out and measure all of my garden beds. I will be transferring this information onto my master copies of the layout of the garden so that each year when I am in the planning process I will be able to easily figure up how many plants will fit in each bed, depending on what I am planting in the garden boxes.

Last week end I also got my green stalk planter set up. I will be giving this one more year before I totally give up on it. I am hoping that I had just used the wrong type of soil for them and with this issue fixed- I am hoping for success. I plan to plant my different lettuces in it and a row of arugula. It will be interesting to see how it does. In the past I have been very disappointed in it, but maybe it was user error. We shall see. 

I do hope you all are staying warm and safe. Here is a little video to help you pass the time and learn some helpful information for helping you get your garden planned. 

Enjoy! :O)