i don't own a 'smart' phone

... but what I was just able to read at this blog {Hands Free Mama} was reinforcement to my non-blogging decision.  This computer is my smart phone, you could say.

 http://www.handsfreemama.com/

Her permalinks don't seem to be functioning at all, so look for the post titled "How to Miss a Childhood."  If you go quickly, it will still be the top post, so you'll be able to read the entire thing.  ;-)

{btw, I removed the shortcut from our desktop, so it's with purpose I found my way through cyberspace to find my own blog  :o  Just shy of crazy, but I had reasons to make it difficult to find via search engines...}

And yes, I'm still 'facebooking' although I'm looking for reasons to deactivate while trying to keep it minimal...  [FB is where I saw the link to Rachel's blog post]  Anyway, for now it's my main contact with folks outside my house ~ 'personal' emails appear to be a bit passe.


While I'm updating...
I finally finished reading Bonhoeffer.  [pat, pat]  And the Computer Geek is already half-way through it since I've turned the book over to him this week.  ahem.  My next assignment is to talk to a recent M.Div. who wrote his thesis on Bonhoeffer.  Meanwhile I'm headed to the jungles of New Guinea during WW2 with Darlene Deibler Rose's book Evidence Not Seen.

Can't resist livening this up with some photos from recent weeks...


Landscaping in front of the house ~

Planting fruit trees in the pasture ~

A new calf and his mama ~

Another batch of elderberry syrup ~ much better this time!

Kate's latest cheesecake ~

Wind damage!  The swing set fell on our baby sugar maple tree.  :-\

Tinting jars with Mod Podge ~

Enjoying flowers from our local florist ~

Helping with a wedding at church {Miss Artist was a bridesmaid!}

Right now I'd better take care of these breakfast dishes and prepare to accomplish other great and noble things today.  {order vitamins, prepare a transcript for the 17yo should-be-driver for the insurance co, encourage the kids to DO their school work, tend the sicky who went back to bed...}   Outside is the delightful smell of fresh-cut hay {since Tuesday} that will hopefully be ready to bale later today and/or tomorrow.  Most of the trees and shrubs we've planted here are doing well, and the newly-seeded lawn is beginning to look like a green lawn!  Tim is out in a field planting soybeans this morning, but he's almost out of seed ~ so he will get a break from that until more arrives next week.

A bientot ...

adieu

 

Someone once called me an idealist.  Well, I might add to that and say, perhaps a lazy idealist.  Neither a good marriage nor good parenting comes easily.  It’s past time to put more of my time and energy into the real life relationships that are most important.

I don’t know if it will be six months or six weeks or what.  But at this point I think I must take a leave of absence from the blogging world {as well as time wasters consumers like facebook}.  I don’t plan to “lurk” here either, so I will sorely miss reading many of your blogs!

I was going to post about our 3300-mile journey to Florida, the Carolinas, and more.  Highlights like 5 Guys Burgers & Fries in Pensacola, touring colleges, meeting George & Kim Berry of Atlanta on our Ft. Sumter tour, and being blessed to meet another blogger friend, Jodi {Granola Mom 4 God}, and her family in real life.

   

   

I was going to show you snippets of the fun little girl b-day party we had for the Popper ~ which concluded with them witnessing the birth of a calf named Beller, I might add.

    

The grass is growing with thanks to yesterday’s rain.  A shipment of fruit trees is due to arrive today.  Tim and the Cattleman picked up a load of landscape edgers today ~ They’re outside now putting landscape fabric around the front of the house.  There’s always something going on around here.  If you’re in the neighborhood, please stop in and say hello!

And if you think of us, would you please pray for us to know and display the grace of God in our lives?  Thank you! 

May God shower His goodness on each of you every day!

thank you, Conny

While I have resisted the call of pinterest, this was much needed...  Read this and keep a tissue handy!  Just in time for thoughts of Mother's Day.