Weeds of the Season

With all the new growth, rain, sun and fair weather of spring, brings lots of plants. Every year I start off on a quest to try to identify what plants are what, so as not to throw away perfectly edible plants. This year, I will try to id and catalog all the plants that have grown on our land.

Today I spent 8 hours weeding, mulching, edging, pruning etc. etc. It was awesome. I'm super sore too. But...here are the weeds (food) most prevalent in our yard and beds this spring.
1. Canada Thistle
2. Purple Dead Nettle
3. Prickly Lettuce
4. Garlic Mustard
5. Dandelion
6. Onion Grass
7. Wild Strawberry (Indian Strawberry)
8. Common Groundsel
9. Plantain
10. Clover
11. Speedwell
12. May Apples
13. Mullein
14. Burdock
15. Early Poke
16.

Pookie- Tookie- Tookie- Pookie

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Great Sites We Love

New pictures up on Flickr!
Also...
Here are some websites we love a lot. They are all very important to us. I don't expect you to go through all of them, but you should!!! Ha ha. Seriously. They will change your life! :) You can use this as a resource from time to time, too.

For Sewing:


For Knitting, Crocheting, Felting:
http://www.ravelry.com
http://www.knittinghelp.com
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEss10/index.php
http://www.knitmap.com/
http://www.dailycrocheter.com/

Awesome Blogs!:
http://colorjoy.com/
http://www.bramblestitches.com

Patterns Etc.:
http://hyenacart.com/stores/FernandFaerie/
http://www.tinybirdsorganics.com/organiccotton/clothpads.html

Mamas (Frugality, All of the above included):
http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com
http://www.radicalfrugality.info/main.html
http://www.instructables.com/

Wholesale Organic Baby Clothing:
http://www.kokobeanshop.com/pages/koko-kouture-15.html

Gardening:
http://www.yougrowgirl.com/
http://www.gardenguides.com/

Hemp:
http://hempbasics.com/shop/ecom-prodshow/1mm_hemp_cord.html

Hot Sauce!!!:
http://www.torchbearersauces.com/

Flameworking:
http://www.talkglass.com
http://www.lampworketc.com
http://www.brentgraber.com
http://www.mountainglassarts.com
http://www.unlimitedoxygen.com
http://www.theglasshive.com
http://www.glasstorchtech.com


Where to Find Raw Milk!:
http://www.realmilk.com/where4.html#pa

Enjoy!

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Also, to the right of this post, you'll see a place to put your email address in so that you get notifications for when our blog is updated!!! Isn't that awesome?!! :) Ha ha.

I hope you are all doing well. We are currently awaiting the New Moon to arrive. Yay!

And by the way, love is the best.

Lynays

...Calm in the Midst...

Untitled, a photo by hikingfortruth on Flickr.

We abruptly arrived in Lancaster, by way of train, on Thursday evening, to help out our family. We will be here indefinitely. Everything is okay, but Jack and his twin brother Jim need prayer. They are both struggling with some depression and anxiety issues. Jim has been hospitalized and Jack is being closely monitored by family, friends and his siblings. We are in contact with his doctor, who is in the process of possibly changing his medication. The current medication doesn't seem to be helping much. He has been taking it regularly, as he should.

The boys are doing very well and are very positive. They are at their uncle/aunt and cousin's for the weekend.

Any prayer would be much appreciated during these hard times. We are trying to maintain a very calm and peaceful environment here in the house. Jack is responding very well to the calm-quiet-love and peace of family and friends.

Love,
Grace

Life is Discerning

a photo by hikingfortruth on Flickr.

Listening to Peggy Honeywell. go ahead. go to www.grooveshark.com and put in "Peggy Honeywell". have a listen. It's good stuff.

Lately I'm thinking a lot about being a confused individual in a really strange world that I think I understand so much that it's beyond understanding. And I resent this place. I'd rather be thinking than letting all this pass by though. Mostly, I'd never notice how crazy this place is. People come and go, sceneries come and go, events and ideas come and go. I'm standing solitary in a whirlwind of movement and activity. Going about business. And I'm trying to stay completely still. Not getting sucked into it all.

It's so time consuming that I'm almost...

And in this place, surrounded by people afraid to step out, including myself, and stand solitarily together, we dream and write of a better way. We write dissertations with genius thoughts and expressions but don't find a way to express them in intimate public situations. And people grow weary. Weary of let-down hopes. I'll write these thoughts and they're at the core of who I am, but the next time I meet someone I"ll probably do what I hate, because I do it everytime. Hi, how are you, how are the kids, how is work, all those turbulent whirlwind activities that keep us from getting on a deeper level with one another.

I want to really know people. To be able to act the way I feel and not be concerned about looking like a total wierdie. Because my core is so different than social norms, and I think most people's are, or I'm just hoping I'm not alone, that if I were to remain consistent in this frame of mind, I would be looked on as a total lunatic. Because all social norms, are in one way or another, not totally necessary with divine law in action.

I hope for people who hope that the divine law would overrun our social talmud that is so consumming.

My typos and mixed up sentence constructions are all on purpose.

I LOVE YOU

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