At Home…in Alaska

Another great giveaway from Tim Challies!

Blessings,
~Tamara
♥ oxoxox ♥

This week for Frugal Friday, I have a question.

Does anyone have a good auction site (besides Ebay) to recommend? Personal experience with the site preferred but all suggestions are welcome. Also, feel free to rave about why you like it or give a big fat warning.

Thanks!
~Tamara

Chickens

1/01 1 (F)

1/02 2 (M & F)

1/03 1 (L)

1/04 1 (F) So far so good in “rescuing” eggs…

1/05 3 ! But, I spoke too soon…M & L’s eggs were eaten. F. is really, really starting to annoy me!
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I’m so excited!

Check these out…

They are prototypes for a wholesale customer but I think they turned out wonderful for my husband’s first ones!

The ulu is there for size reference. All of our ulus are 5 ½” across the blade. The handle widths and heights vary.

Look for wooden bowls soon in our knife and gift shop!

Blessings,
~Tamara
♥ oxoxox ♥

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Chickens

12/20 1 (M) - Whoa! Whadaya know?! An egg! Almost as exciting as the very first time it happened… Unfortunately, we were too late in discovering it…and it was eaten!

12/23 1 (M) We were quicker this time and the egg is ok.

12/25 1 (M) Eaten again!! What’s going on?!?

12/27 1 (M)

12/28 1 (F) EATEN! Right in front of B. and it’s her hen (F) the poor dear.

12/30 2 (M & F) But, we only rescued one and caught F eating the other again. What to do, what to do…

12/31 1 (M) Saved!

Egg Total = 8

Children

12/2 Baby L.’s 2nd tooth is in! (Bottom left incisor)

12/5 L. is saying “mummum” more because I’ve been practicing with her over the last few days.

12/12 L. is definitely saying “mumma” now and I’m pretty sure she’s referring to me!

12/19 I think L. is talking about me when she says “mumma” which she says regularly now…but she hasn’t actually called to me from her crib or anything yet.

Celebrations

12/16 Caroling Party at U. Harry & A. Pat’s house!

12/24 Christmas Eve Party at U. John and A. Sandy’s house!

12/25 Christmas! Morning spent at home as a family (including T.’s parents), dinner in the late afternoon at U. Gary and A. Judy’s house. What a blessed time of the year this is! We love getting together with family since everyone is usually so busy the rest of the year.

12/31 New Year’s Eve at home! All of us (including baby) stayed up late again this year playing games, playing and generally enjoying each other’s company and then enjoyed the fireworks “displays” in the neighborhood across the street from our front porch. (Fireworks are not allowed in the city limits but every year some daring neighbor decides to chance it.) Then all off to bed a few minutes later pleasantly exhausted!

Weather

12/10 Snow ¼ ”

12/11 Snow 1 ½ ”

12/18 Snow ½ ”

12/20 Snow ¼ ”

12/25 Snow 1 ½ ”

Snow Total = 4 “

‘Til next time,
~Tamara
♥ oxoxox ♥

it’s Spring when…

Our cat killed and presented us a full grown rabbit in the middle of the *living room* (!!!) a couple of days ago. Boy, did that cause a ruckus amongst the natives! We were actually talking of skinning and eating it but then thought we shouldn’t deprive our hard working cat of his prize and dh tossed it out into the garage. By this time though the cat had lost interest. We left it there hoping he’d eat it some time in the night after everyone had settled down and gone to bed. No such luck. Oh well. The kiddos got to play funeral the next afternoon.

~T.
♥ oxoxox ♥

“Like the church, the state has made itself irrelevant. Its power has grown with far greater rapidity than the freedom and tranquility of the people. Its grasp of reality is poor because the state sees itself as the maker of reality. Mitchell, in Bismarck and the French Nation, referred to Otto von Bismarck’s “habitual paranoia” and its impact on history. This fact of paranoia is now basic to the modern state: it distrusts families and intrudes on their domain; it resents the freedom of the church and seeks to curb it; it will not grant that many if not virtually all independent schools are better educators than the state schools; it controls business as though the state alone can exercise reason and morality, and so on an on. The state in every area has made itself a roadblock to the people to some degree or another. As the state’s incompetence grows, so too does its claims to authority, its claim to total irrelevance, and, in time, its claim to totalitarian power.

~ R.J. Rushdoony, from The Decline of Relevance, Chalcedon Report August 2007, emphasis added

A relevant quote considering current events.

I’m sure most everyone in the blogsphere knows about this…but I’ve been busy and didn’t have the time to check it out until now. If you haven’t heard (or were just too busy like me to do anything about it), please consider using the link below to find out more and to sign up! We’d sure appreciate the help this month.

You couldn’t use some free $$ these days?!

Thanks and have a great weekend everyone!
~Tamara
♥ oxoxox ♥

PS - Did I mention there is a deadline? May 15, 2008

GA #3 - Bead Tissue Tote

jessleigh!

Congratulations! Please pick your favorite from the list and we’ll mail it right out!

(Btw, I had variations set up for the tissue totes and wanted participants to be able to choose their favorite right away but for some reason the settings “disappeared.” I’ve reset them and so far everything is fine again and *I* can see them. *jessleigh* let me know if you can not.)

GA #1 and #2 - I’ve decided since there were so few participants that you all are winners! Since some of you entered for both, I’ll let you have the choice of whether to advertise your blog or your business and I’ll rotate through two at a time starting with the top of the list. So, entrants 1 and 2 will have the first week, 3 and 4 will have the second week, etc. until you’ve all had a space for a week.

Thank you all for a fun week!

Blessings,
~Tamara
♥ oxoxox ♥