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KinderGARDENS 2011
Blogs We Read
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Buying a farm, updated - When I was little I wanted to be the first to volunteer to colonize other planets. Yes, I am dissappointed that now I am older, the chance has passed me by...4 hours ago
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The travellers return - We were away for just two weeks but when we returned and drove into our little lane, it felt like we'd been gone a lot longer than that. The trip home was...6 hours ago
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There Is Nothing Like A Walk In The Woods - By: Notes From The Frugal TrenchesI've been a mother to two for six months. Adopting two children who have quickly become the lights of my life! As they are ...6 hours ago
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30 days all things Maple Valley Farm - day 12 - All ages helping around the house and farm, even at age 2. Children love to feel part of the bigger picture and thrive on responsibility...7 hours ago
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Reclaimed Wood for Tiny Houses - Pat Crowe of Echo Reclamation recently sent some photos of a modified Tumbleweed Lusby he completed using reclaimed materials. He wanted to let me know tha...8 hours ago
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Silver Sunday - The Name of the Lord is a fortified tower, the righteous run to it and are safe. Proverbs 18:10 (NIV) ~~~~~11 hours ago
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Why lie? - "We've decided to hire someone with totally different skills than yours..." and then they hire someone just like you, but more expensive and not as good. "We...15 hours ago
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On the Road Again - Remember when I mentioned a month or so ago that Mr Chiots and I were headed to Florida to film a few events? Well, these past two weeks we were on the ro...15 hours ago
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It’s That Time of Year - I started the first round of seeds today. Despite the snowy landscape, when we do see the sun it has some warmth. We’ll be planting before we know it! So...17 hours ago
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More Babies! - Yet again, we have had more adventure than we hoped for today. My 5-year-old Alpine, Onyx, delivered 2 beautiful bucklings this morning. At 7 this mornin...20 hours ago
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Around and About Where We Live - [image: DSC_0011] It just hit me that I've neglected to post about our little neck of the woods. Here's a picture of the small community garden that lies wi...21 hours ago
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"in real life it’s possible for reasonable people to assume, as Bungle clearly did, that what..." - “in real life it’s possible for reasonable people to assume, as Bungle clearly did, that what transpires between word-costumed characters within the bounda...1 day ago
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Cleaning Decorative Marbles - Hubby got me flowers for Valentine's Day. I love Carnations! They last forever and they smell so clean and fresh, just like spring. And in the torn apart k...1 day ago
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Cover Girl - Big Pig on South Pasture And we have a winner! Big Pig will be featured on the cover of our little upcoming project. Thank you to all the judges who voted!...1 day ago
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Step-By-Step Cabin Design - As many of you know, I am working on a DIY cabin design course and have available the first three steps for you to download and review. What you will learn...1 day ago
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some finished knitting... - The *simple yet effective shawl* is finished, and I love it. Made with fingering weight merino wool, it is soft and feathery light, but drape it over...2 days ago
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10 Challenges Facing Information Design Today - When I first set foot on my path as an information designer, I never thought the field would explode in popularity as it has today. Where there was once a ...2 days ago
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Starting the Elimination Diet :: Um, what have I gotten myself into? (Video) - Justin and I got a wild hair to do an elimination diet. Here’s our video on what it is, what we’re hoping for, how we’re starting, how we intend to make fu...2 days ago
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From sap to syrup part two - There is this general assumption that if you don’t have the right tools, you cannot possibly do x, y or z. This is complete nonsense. All my years of cobb...2 days ago
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Photo Themes from January and February - It has been a couple months since I collected all the photos that I shot in one place. Instead of going chronological I decided to group them organically t...2 days ago
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GOOD NEWS!! - I had pictures downloaded and then my browser shut down on me and its getting late.. So I will Try again tomorrow!!... *BUT I had to share the good news!!* ...2 days ago
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Mama Bean looks for the love in between all the hours of the day - There are 24 hours in a day. Let's say we sleep from 11 to 8, that leaves 15 hours. Let's say sometimes we spend an hour waking, clothing, and feeding ours...2 days ago
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Everything That's On My Mind - You know, I've been thinking. A dangerous pastime. I know.... I've been doing a lot of thinking lately - but that's part of what the Winter months are all a...3 days ago
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Organic Farming Conference - Last week, most of the Rock Spring Farm crew traveled to La Crosse for the MOSES Organic Farming Conference. I traveled over on Tuesday in his role as co...3 days ago
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Save Your Home Ideas With Pinterest! - Dreaming of building a new home someday, but not quite ready? It's never too early to start the planning process. In fact, making a list of what you like a...3 days ago
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making magazines talk - One of the talks I've got coming up is at Making Magazines on March 16th. I'm trying to work out what to say for that. The brief is to do something about the...3 days ago
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Designer Aquaponics System - When I was a member of the team that developed the AeroGarden (2003 – 2009), our entire design focus could be summed up in one thought – We were taking hyd...4 days ago
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Blizzard of 12 - Getting dumped on today. This is the biggest snow storm of the entire winter so far. I'm not doing the garbage route today in all this so this will ...4 days ago
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Fresh Milk (Part 2) - As we mentioned in our Fresh Milk! post and the Meet Honey post, we are getting in to jersey cows and raising them for fresh milk (I really don’t like the ...5 days ago
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MOSES Farming Conference, Oil Presses, and Cost of Fuel - So I got a call from Bill Muldoon this week asking me if I’d like to join his at his Grillo booth (shared with Joel from Earth Tools) at this year’s MOSES ...5 days ago
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A Hurco SLV-40 arrives at the MCRR! - Hahaha...some of you are probably asking "what the **** is a Hurco SLV-40?" (A plea to the machinists of the world...please skip the next few paragraphs!)...6 days ago
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What's Up... - While the outside world is still covered in snow and ice, inside our little greenhouse celery and onions are beginning to germinate...and oh so slowly do ...6 days ago
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First Chicks of 2012 and the Kids Learn the Ropes - This morning I moved 11 eggs to the hatching incubator....the first one was already starting to pip... As of this evening the first chicks of 2012 have begu...6 days ago
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—1825—Sugar Maple Trees - #91 *Collecting Maple Sap in 1906 * (photo link for historical information) *If the farmer wish to save his sugar-maple trees he ought not to tap them in...6 days ago
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Our One Year Sabbatical - Update - First and foremost, my husband and I are now keeping our facebook page up to date almost weekly. So if you want to add us over, go here. Just be sure to t...1 week ago
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Nike Just Does It, Again and Again - Yet another good example of Nike getting out and doing things to help people become better at their sports, not just saying things to them through advertisin...1 week ago
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Far too much time has gone by for me to assign any sort of title to this post! - Bereket's new glasses: We ordered them online for only $20, including frames and prescription! I thought that was pretty great since our insurance does n...1 week ago
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Slippery news - One of the things needed, if you're going to strive for rationality- is "facts" that have some chance of being real. And it's getting harder to get hold o...1 week ago
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Broccomole - a yummy recipe for broccoli stems! - I was busy this morning blanching and bagging loads of broccoli for winter. It feels to good to have a full deep freezer, with lots of yummy healthy foods th...1 week ago
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Unified Search and Address Bar In Safari - Apple has just announced Mountain Lion, the next update for the Mac operating system. As I was looking through the screenshots from developers who got to...2 weeks ago
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town hall meeting slides - Hey all, For those of you who missed (or forgot!) our town hall meeting last night, I've attached the slides below. The subject last night was this question:...2 weeks ago
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Satsuma Plums - Sharon has just harvested a load of Satsuma plums from the community orchard, I’m so excited that these are the red fleshed variety of plums that I dream a...2 weeks ago
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Booklist 2010 - So, I was going to post this uhm, last year, but then I just kind of forgot about it, and then I discovered that I had literally lost my booklist from 20...3 weeks ago
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"It's Lambing Season!" - One of our ewe's, Lassie, lambed in December! It's always so much fun to have babies on the farm! The little ewe, Holly, and Mama It's supper tim...3 weeks ago
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Mohammad is following Jesus - My name is Mohammad. When I was 16 years old I lost my father then mother. I have 3 brothers and one sister. I used live as a bad person. I had many Christia...3 weeks ago
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Monistary visit in Calistoga, CA - The Kids playing by the koi pond A saint for every day on one icon Kassi so princessly. These koi like cheerios A lovely day in Caliostoga. The koi wer...4 weeks ago
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Deliberatism - I’m taking a short break from ideasonideas. (Don’t worry—I’ll be back.) I’m doing so in order to find a little time to work on a new project that I feel st...4 weeks ago
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Repurposing Wool Fibers - Despite my interest in frugality, I'm relatively new to thrift stores. Generally I don't enjoy shopping, but there are a couple of Goodwill stores on ro...4 weeks ago
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Masonry Heater Part III: A Finished Finnish - My 22" finnish contraflow heater core is finished. It probably isn't precision perfect, but considering I had never laid a brick before in my life; I'm pre...4 weeks ago
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Conquered the Clutterbug Nests! - Hello everyone! I hope you are all well and have had a good weekend. I had a busy weekend and am happy to report that I have finally conquered the 2 worst ...5 weeks ago
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Playing in the snow. - We finally got some snow. Not enough to do more than one snow family with, but it was enough to do that. So they did.5 weeks ago
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My Interview on The Setup - My Interview on The Setup: I’m a fan of Daniel Bogan’s The Setup and am honored to be on a short list of interviewees alongside heroes like William Gibson...1 month ago
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Everything Starts Somewhere - In the overall scheme of things a new desk might not be the biggest news item for our family. But since I'm the one that handles all the family's paperwork...1 month ago
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2012 Jump Start! - This is where we started January 1, 2011. The Littles were really little. Please forgive me for stealing this from Baby Bangs, a blog that I adore and fol...1 month ago
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Tiny House Living – January 16, 2012 - Tiny House Living is a newsletter on tiny houses, simple living, and sustainable architecture. The following are excerpts from news recent articles. Tiny H...1 month ago
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It Ain't Over Yet - We are all home now, and reflecting on all that God did in our lives, and in the lives of the people of Kalavai Irular Colony. Many things didn't go "right...1 month ago
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Short-Term Stored Foods at Year-End - Barely a week past the solstice, but the chickens can tell the days are already getting longer - two eggs yesterday, another one today. We last got eggs in m...2 months ago
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The momentum of Steve Jobs - Satellite - Craig Mod - The momentum of Steve Jobs *Note: I wrote this a few days after Steve’s death, but due to an intense work schedule, and being generally overwhelmed and wa...2 months ago
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Cover for "Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers" - Hot off the presses, I thought I'd share with you the cover for my next book, Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers.* I'm curre...2 months ago
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A Year of Ideas, Volume Three - Chris Butler’s mixbooks are an reversal of the popular trend towards e-books: they scrape and un-digitize and materialise bits from the internet, regressin...2 months ago
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Crying Wolf Movie - Crying Wolf Movie (HD) from JD King on Vimeo. I found this movie about wolves and thought it was a good one.3 months ago
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Steam Locomotive Ultra-Detailing in “O” Scale…N&W K1 #107 - HERE WE GO AGAIN!!! A commission was received from a well know publisher and modeler. Here’s a teaser… The Client had originally contracted with a self de...3 months ago
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OWS needs a new home. - I've been thinking about OWS a lot lately. I'm excited that people are finally standing up and saying "the system is broken!" and demanding something chan...3 months ago
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Individual Cuts vs. The Whole/Half Hog - I thought I would expand a little on the cuts vs. whole/half animals post a little since there were a couple of comments on my previous post. First of all ...4 months ago
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Birthday Skydiving!! - Holy crap!! Let me tell you jumping out of a plane is a very freeing and cleansing experience. Knowing that this could be the last couple of minutes on ear...4 months ago
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KinderGARDENs Winners - I've spent the last couple of days going over our series and your wonderful posts. I am amazed by the tenacity of we gardeners! We've had unprecedented droug...4 months ago
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Glorious Complications - We need to re-rethink our city garden philosophy. This year the intensive companion planting got way out of control. Our approach, knowing that we would ...5 months ago
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Moving Day! - Farmer’s Daughter has moved to its own domain! You can find me from now on at http://farmersdaughterct.com In other news, I’ve also made this cute FD butt...6 months ago
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AND 2011: What Questions Are You Asking? - What kind of questions are you asking? For years, many of the questions have seemed to orient around “product” questions. Church leaders scrambled to find th...6 months ago
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“We’re Spent” - Some of you may remember me writing about ideas around the participation economy back in Spring 2009. One of those articles was entitled “The Post Consumpt...7 months ago
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Justin-Wagner.com - Hey guess what?! My wife was ever so wonderful to set up a new blog for me. You can find it here: Justin-Wagner.com8 months ago
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Parting Shots: Samurai Girl in Chicago - After leaving our friends at the Japanese Cultural Center to head to Big Bowl (our favorite restaurant in Chicago, and a site of great sentimentality since...10 months ago
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Garden dreaming... - My poor garden has been so sadly neglected but as my energy returns I have trying to do a little here and a little there. Recently (um, in January, actual...11 months ago
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TAD's Greatest Hits - It's always bothered me that the blog, (unlike the book), goes in reverse chronological order, so I thought I'd make a (probably final) post of greatest hi...1 year ago
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Commercial Aquaponics Training - On March 21 to March 24, Green Acre Organics is offering the first ever mainland training course for the popular Hawaiian aquaponics system created by Frie...1 year ago
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Etsy shop and MITTENS! - Hey everyone, I've not been posting here and I apologize! I guarentee that it's not because I haven't been crocheting, I have! I also learned to knit th...1 year ago
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Train Travel - My spouse, her sister and their mother are taking a train to California. I dropped them off earlier today at the terminal. I just received a MMS Photo o...1 year ago
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End of the Line #2 - The Okefenokee Swamp Layout was cut out of the room today. A sad event and a I wouldn't let the guys take pictures. The good news is all the lumber has be...1 year ago
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Sands of time - Sands of time slipping through my fingers Flowing like streams of water Not to worry They flow back In to the endless ocean of sand Without hurry ...1 year ago
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This blog has moved - This blog is now located at http://sugarmtnfarmblog.blogspot.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subs...1 year ago
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Packing Up and Heading Out - This is it. My final Typepad post. I’ve packed up and headed over to my new site. All the same content, slightly different look. You can subscribe to the new...1 year ago
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Quick Story: Monjou - Most Excellent Friends and Family! I apologize for not being able to post formally through an internet connection. In addition to having a pretty break-nec...1 year ago
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Issue 16: How To Design & Build a Home - Tiny house design and construction is my favorite topic. In this issue we’ll discuss how to approach this somewhat challenging task. I’m also very happy to...2 years ago
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A guess? Anyone? - Does anyone have any idea what my two youngin’s are doing? My ten year old is wielding an ax and appears to be chopping ice? All the while, his little sist...2 years ago
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A Fresh Start - As I had mentioned in this post, I am starting over. I've taken the last 2 years to quell my fears in the kitchen and now am embarking on a journey to actua...2 years ago
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Learning to Make Cheese from the “Queen” - the finished ball of mozzarella, originally uploaded by cafemama.2 years ago
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DIY - *(I thought I'd cross-post this here--it's also on my blog, Milk and Ink. My husband, whom I am still teaching the fine art of email (for over 6 years...),...2 years ago
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SMILE school - We went from dinner to the home of Pastor Job, where we met the pastor and his wife, along with another churchplanter (Ebenezer) and pastor (Moses). T...2 years ago
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Next writing project announced! - Okay, so the next step in my new writing project is the other new blog: Thoughts You Can Think About (or not) I’m treating it similarly to this blog, but I...2 years ago
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Mystery Shopping - I am convinced that if I did not have a family or anything else to do I still could not support myself on Mystery Shopping. Here is a picture of my paperw...2 years ago
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No More Silk Creek Chicken Blog - We have moved all posts and all new posts will be over in the Silk Creek Alpacas Blog.2 years ago
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We've Moved - I packed the cart, straightened the joint up, and moved over to the new place today. Hope you'll come visit, and hope you'll adjust your bookmarks accordin...3 years ago
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BLAH what a long time since I have been here - I have loads of excuses but it does not matter much I have neglected this blog and I am sorry to those who have been looking forward to listening to me bab...3 years ago
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Living Room - Our living room is ALMOST done! Need to have the fireplace surround finished and tie it in with the railing.3 years ago
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Final Entry from India - Friday after breakfast, we shared our impressions of India and the work. Many years ago John D preached a sermon about the many people who have yet to be t...3 years ago
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Headed Home!! - Update - Jack just called me (Sami) and asked if I would post and let you know that he and Raj and Prema just took the teams to the Chennai airport where t...3 years ago
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Tomorrow!!!!!!!!!! - Well tomorrow is the big day. We are leaving Japan after living here for two years. The way I reckon it Logan has spent half of his life here. We have had ...3 years ago
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Bent...Not Broken. - Hi. I know it's been a long time. I'm sorry. Really. I could try and tell you all the reasons I haven't blogged for about a month...which may actually be i...3 years ago
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The Time Of Our Life
Churches we have Attended
- Prairie Lakes Church -Waterloo IA
- Grace Church -Erie PA
- Ashraya -Chennai India
- First Church of God -St. Joseph MI
- Granger Community Church -South Bend IN
- Mars Hill -Grandville MI
- Stony Creek Church -Utica MI
- Summit Community Church -Ofallon MO
- Oakland Woods Baptist Church -Clarkston MI
- Houghton Baptist -Houghton MI
- Lakeshore Baptist Church -Stevensville MI
- First Reformed Church -Grandville MI
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