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I was not tagged for this meme either but it sounded interesting so I decided to do it too:) (Like so many others who found it just as interesting):)
As I understand it you need to mark or bold the books you've read. so here goes:)
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran (interesting and scarey)
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (interesting and misguided)
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair (very political in nature but makes you think)
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eyes by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Both in Russian and in English)
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (both volumes with my grandmother)
#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I did not correct the incomplete titles but those that read them would know anyway:)
That was a walk in history for me:) Some read in school as required reading, some because of curiosity and some because it touched my family in one way or another. (And I adore Ray Bradbury. I met him at a college lecture and who later allowed me to participate in a local radio production from the Theatre in the Round, of Dandelion Wine. He also signed my copy of the script at the time):)
Anyone can be tagged now:)
God be with thee!
Sister Lori
75 Cost Saving Tips....
Good Cheap Food
1. Buy raw ingredients instead of prepackaged foods. If you don’t know how to cook, learn. You’ll save on food bills, and your body will thank you for it in the long run.
2. Buy in bulk from a local health food store, or place bulk orders directly with mail-order companies. If you can’t meet their minimum order size, go in on an order with another family, or organize a larger food buying club.
3. Avoid the middleman and buy directly from farmers. Look for farm stands, community supported agriculture programs and farmers markets.
4. Eat fruits and vegetables in season, when they are least expensive. (Once, we found organic watermelon for three cents a pound!) Stock up when they’re cheap and freeze or can any excess for later use.
5. Keep up with what’s in your refrigerator and make sure nothing spoils. Once a week, make soup or casseroles to use up vegetables and other leftovers.
6. Calculate the price of food per pound when you visit supermarkets. Doing the math will help you spot good deals.
7. Don’t overeat. When you do, you’re flushing money down the drain.
How to Avoid Rent
8. Find a live-in elder care position and help someone stay out of a nursing home. There’s always someone desperate for reliable help, and often there are no qualifications needed other than compassion.
9. Help renovate a house in exchange for lodging. This is how we came into our current home.
For the rest of the article, click here....Mother Earth News
Piggies on The Homestead and other chat
We have a bred sow coming to the homestead tomorrow afternoon and I'm hardly ready for her. She is due within the month, so we'll work on a suitable section of the barn for her, ready for piglets. Hmmm....how many piglets might we have here soon?
Our Miss Kitty came up from the barn Tuesday to eat, as she usually does. She weaned her Easter morning kittens a while back, and has been looking just this side of side-splitting the past couple of weeks, so we've been watching her to see when she might drop her newest litter of kittens. Well, after her meal, she stretched out, lounging in the sunshine of the front steps, and all of a sudden one of the youngers came running in -- "Miss Kitty pooped on the porch". Gee...nice. Upon walking outside, the comment changed, though, to "Miss Kitty didn't poop poop...she pooped out a kitten" complete with lots of eeeewwwwws and a couple of awww, gross.
See the benefits of living on a homestead and homeschooling? Yeah...neither did I. I think we need some new lessons in how babies, baby kitties at least, are born.
Either way, Miss Kitty seemed a bit caught off guard this time around. This is her 3rd litter...first she had only 3 and none made it to 2 weeks old; then her latest batch, our Easter kittens, numbering 5. This time, however, Miss Kitty was large enough for way way more....she had 8 total, losing one very tiny weak girl within an hour. I think she's a bit over whelmed with so many. She's a great momma, but she's just a bit weird about it all this time around. She feeds them a short while, then comes out of her 'nesting area' and sits away from them for the longest time. So far, everyone seems to be doing well, so we haven't intervened. Guess I'd have been overwhelmed had all 9 of mine come together at once, too.
We will be starting to set up a table at the local Farm Market here, I'm thinking August 1st. I spoke to the man who runs it and he has no problems at all with our selling baked goods and the like. Our market is very small....only 3 or 4 set up weekly for the most part, but it's a place to wet our feet with all of this and see how it goes. Truthfully, it won't take long for word to spread that "that Amish family with all the kids is selling baked goods" and we'll see if it's worth the time and such to get there. They are open Wednesdays & Fridays, but we'll start with Fridays I think. Well...with school starting, maybe Wednesdays would be better. We plan to sell our loaf bread, maybe some quick breads, assorted cookies and some homemade jellies. I'm not sure about pricing -- what do you think? I know folks around here jump on homebaked goodies, and loaf bread seems to be a treat to many. We thought with school starting, the cookies might go well for lunch box treats. We printed a flyer up to take along as we won't have all these things with us each time unless things go really well...
Peanut Butter $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen
Chocolate Chip $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen
Oatmeal Raisin $2.00/dozen with nuts $2.50/dozen
Cinnamon Spice Cookies $2.00
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip $2.00/dozen
Amish Sugar Cut-Outs $3.00/dozen w/icing glaze
Homemade Granola $2.50/quart $5.00/gallon
Breakfast Crescents 3/$1.00
Homemade Jellies $2.50/pint
White or Honey Wheat Loaf Bread $3.00/loaf
Mini Loaves, White or Honey Wheat only $1.50 each
Pumpkin Bread, Applesauce Bread, Banana Bread $3.00/loaf
Everything will be made with fresh ground flour -- if not, we'll note that -- and the honey we use as sweetener is local. The Breakfast Crescents are quicka nd easy -- the Market opens early, so we thought it might be a good thing to have along.
Do I need to print a basic kind of label for anything, do you think? A listing of ingredients, at least...we thought about just listing that on the flyer and bagging the goodies up in a simply manner.
Either way, that's the game plan at this stage. Something else we have talked about is using the church Sunday School room for a school room. I know, I know...homeschooling means home. The children are a bit distracted here...phone calls, just plain ol' nice weather outside, etc. We talked to Bro Bud about using the room at church....remember, our church is smaller than small....and he will run the thought past the Trustee Board, but he doesn't see a problem. My line of thought here is this: we do morning chores and head up the 2 miles to church early in the morning, 8 am at the latest. We pack a basket of homeschool needs and a water jug (I don't want to be a burden to the small church's resources, such as water and electricity...we will use th lights in that room, but not the a/c). Schooling is done without distractions around us, or the urge to get up to do something that truly could wait. All in all, we should be back home aroun noonish- 1 pm. Then the tasks of the homestead day can be accomplished, with plenty of time for dinner preps as well.
Our little church is just that...little. There are under 40 members on 'the roll' and most of them home-bound and elderly, so the attendance is typically 25-30, including ourselves. It was only in the last 5-7 years that the church got electricity and a couple of a/c units, as well as a wall gas heater. Plumbing isn't much older. This is a rural church with folks who have lived lives of frugality that would be a test to most of us. They truly have a make do or do without frame of mind. I don't want to create a burden, so we offered to sort of 'rent' the room for schooling...a fee to cover whatever increase in electricity or water they might see. That was met with rather deep offense, though. We are family and the church is there for the community, plain and simple. If it doesn't contradict something in The Word of God, then Bro Bud says they have no reason to say no.....and homeschooling lines up with The Word.
We probalby won't do this for any long term, but I do want to see if it will help us get back on the right track. Honestly, it's totally MY fault that we have shifted into a sloppy school schedule around here, and this is really more a band-aid than a true repair. What we need is a repair to character training and responsibility, diligence and so forth. But, I've allowed us to slip pretty far onto the wrong side of distractions, so we need to get rid of them and go with stripped down and bland for a bit to re-focus ourselves I think. I can't strip down the house without a rebellion of large proportions, so this is the next idea in line.
Emily has her last visit to LeBonheur next week -- Friday, July 25th. I'm glad to see an end to this 2-year-long trek, but we'll miss all the wonderful nurses and doctors we've met during our time there. Ahhh, but the savings in gas will be wonderful!
Just another day?
Some things are getting done around the homestead. First off, yesterday I had to appear in court for the Interdiction of my mom. All went well and it's almost all taken care of. At first the lawyer said it would be this pertition, that court appearance, this appeal, that judge chambers meeting. I mean I thought it was going to be a long drawn out thing, but apparently I misunderstood what the lawyer was telling me, and all it took was one appearance and a few questions. I still have a few pieces of papers to sign and a bit of info to gather, but for the most part, it's complete. Thank God for that, it didn't stress me out or anything, but I did want it over with. Now I don't have to worry about mom's needs being met, I have the autority to do it myself. So thats done!
Today is someone's birthday in our home, coughmecough. As I was saying my prayers this morning, at first the only thing I could think to say was, "thank you God for letting me wake up to another day and letting me make it this far, " LOL. Did I ask to see another 46 years, NO, I look at it like this, each day is a gift at this age, I'll just be happy to wake up next week. LOL. Not that I'm soooo old, although I do feel 90 some days.
My youngest gave me the beautiful bouquet of roses that I shared with you all a couple of days ago. My daughter gave me a fabulous purse that she picked up on her vacation to Tenn last month, and my eldest son is taking me out to eat at Chilis tonight. I have never been there, I really don't eat out much at all. There are several new places in town that I have never tried. So with all this love be thrown my way, I'm feeling good today. Now if I could just get someone in to do the laundry and cooking, a perfect day would be had.
Well I do hope everyone is having a good morning, enjoy your July heat.
Top 5 on my First Love list
Top 5 of 40 on my first Love list:What can I do today to "have more than a passing thought of Him"?
What can I do today, to "really focus on Him"?
If I 'think' with my head, then that is all I am doing.......using my head. Hmmm, and my head is wrapped in flesh.
Ok, skip that.
If I just pick up the Word and read......then I am just reading with my eyes. Again, flesh.
Ok Skip that.
My heart.
See, that's the real problem.
My heart. Oh and the fact that I have my "running shoes" on.
Yep, remember when the kids were 2-3 years old and when they got a new pair of tennis shoes, they would say
"LOOK HOW FAST I CAN RUN NOW".
Yeah, I have a pair of those on.
Kids were right: You CAN run fast in them.
So I need to sit down, untie the strings to my running shoes then Let HIM take them off.
And while I am sitting still........hand Him my broken heart.
He has the Perfect Glue to fix it.
Why I won't sit still and give it to Him.......baffles me.
Ok. Today. Sit down, untie shoes, allow the Lord to take them off.
Hand the Lord my broken heart. Every piece.
Then:
Be still.
Be still and know.
Be still and know HE is God.
GOD.
He is God.
KNOW He is God.
Still know He is God.
Be
10 Things I will never say to my kids
I am always amazed at people.........the stupid stupid things that come out of their mouths.......10 things I will never say to my kids
1. I hate you
2. This is all your fault.
3. This would have never happened, if it weren't for you.
4. You are worthless.
5. You were a mistake.
6. I wish I would have never had you
7. You are stupid.
8. You act just like _____ (fill in a persons name you OBVIOUSLY hate)
9. Because I told you so
10. I love you because you are my child, but as a person, I hate you.
Choices............Which would you chose?
Situation 1Someone has verbally abused you, for years and years. Twisted your mind and your heart.........This someone is the parent figure in your life.
Choice A: Hurt them back as much as they hurt you
Choice B: Forgive, and let them continue to abuse you
Choice C: Forgive, and put distance between you and they
Situation 2
A "friend" is using you. You know it deep in your heart. They only call when they need something or it is conveinent for them.
Choice A: Tell them off
Choice B: Forgive, but keep trying to be friends.
Choice C: Forgive, but stop putting in the effort. Let this "friendship" run it's course.
Situation 3
A "friend", who is steeped in pornography, but wants to be critical about YOUR walk with Jesus........this friend not only talks out both sides of their head, but is underneath a very angry person, constantly critiquing your parenting abilities (when they themselves are not married, never have been and have no kids), constantly throwing your past up in your face, and in general just a real yucky person to be around.
Choice A: Tell this person to go jump in a lake
Choice B: Forgive them and continue your relationship with them hoping they will change
Choice C: Forgive them, but put distance between you and they.
Situation 4
You have a neighbor that you have invited to church. They say they don't want to go because it's full of 'people'. But this neighbor jabbers your ear off every time you come to the fence (indicating that they are longing for a relationship). But when you take the neighbor to church, they are quite, withdrawn.......but you know they want to be "part"........
Choice A: Tell the neighbor it's not worth their time to try, just stay home.
Choice B: Pray, and encourage the neighbor to go.
Choice C: Pray and keep inviting, keep encouraging, keep dragging them along......
What say you??? This curious mind wants to know???
*** Quilt Giveaway at the Old Red Barn Co. ***
This quilt measures 65" x 87" and looks as she puts it, "Vintage-y" . In my opinion, it would look absolutely beautiful lying over a chair, in hanging quilt shelf or better yet, spread right over a bed for beautiful summer color. Check it out and enter today!
Some things just SHOULD NOT be improved upon!
Okay, so I know this post is going to be WAY OUT THERE however, I just have to share my two cents on this matter!Having lived very remote and "off the grid" I understand the love of the "good old days" and the reasons why our ancestors improved upon ideas. The Simple days weren't at all easy -believe me I know I have lived it first hand! With that said, I do believe there are some things that just should NOT be improved upon!~ What in the world could I possibly be talking about?
FLUSHING TOILETS!
You remember the "old fashion" style of toilets at the stores and restaurant where you actually had to flush the handle right? Well those have been improved upon with "Motion Sensor" toilets! Yep! You know exactly what I am talking about now don't you dear friend?! The other day, it finally hit me how much I despise those things. I was once again doing this "Peak A Boo" dance trying to get the toilet to flush before I left the stall. I must have been DANCING there in front of that sensor for what seemed like 5 min. (I know in reality it was probably only 45 seconds) however, Beth Joy was outside the door waiting patiently. When I finally did get it to flush I exited the stall exhausted! I had just completed a ballroom dance in a Wal Mart bathroom! "SHESH!" I said. She must have known not to ask me what the problem was because she only smiled her sweet little Beth-Joy grin! I said, "I'm sorry baby! Let me wash my hands and we will be leaving." Still no words from Beth, only a smile. I think she knows words would have got me talking about how frustrated I was and she didn't really need to hear the story. So there I was exhausted from dancing with the Wal Mart toilet walking to the sink only to discover what? That now they have replaced the "old fashion" faucets with Motion sensor faucets!!!!! No! Why me?!?!?! Okay, I took a deep breath gathered my composure and proceeded to put enough soap on my hand to clean them properly. Of course I was going to need to use the faucet to get water to wash my hands so I started waving at the motion sensor, and I waved and waved and waved and waved.. still nothing! I smiled, giggled and looked at my sweet Beth Joy standing behind me with that smile of hers. "Beth?! I don't know how to get this thing to work can you try for me?" Her first words were, "Sure Momma. I'll help you!" Now that made me feel OLD... my 13 year old is going to show me how to use a faucet! Beth began waving at the faucet and had the same results as I... NONE! The soap on my hands was now a sticky substance and I felt I needed to wash them all over again. We both tried waving at each faucet in all sorts of directions until finally the Lord had mercy on us and a Wal Mart employee walks in to say, "Oh, those sinks are broken!"
Rolling my eyes and laughing Beth Joy and I felt a sense of relief! At least we have an explanation for why they weren't working and it wasn't because we were motion sensor challenged. As I tried to wipe the sticky substance, once called soap, off my hands Beth and I giggled and at the same time said, "some things just shouldn't be improved upon!"
Just thought I would share in case any others out there have had to do the "Peek a boo" dance with a toilet and "wave" at a faucet. It's NOT YOU!!! It's simply that some things really should NOT be improved upon!!
***Citizens For Affordable Energy***
Please take a look at THIS video from John D. Hofmeister President/Shell Oil Company. He's started Citizens for Affordable Energy and plans to advocate for Energy Independence, education, Good Stewardship and also alternative types good for the environment too. Please check it out and think about joining the cause to STOP depending on other Countries for our Energy. Check out His thoughts below:
our Vision is: "Establish national energy security strategy to deliver affordable short, medium and long-term environmentally conscious energy solutions for America."
Our Mission :
Citizens for Affordable Energy will educate the public and its leaders about energy, its uses and implications, its basic contribution to American competitiveness, and its critical role in life style choices. It will advocate increasing the supplies of all types of energy within the U.S.; supporting technology and innovation to improve the efficient use of energy; ensuring that the development and distribution of energy is done in environmentally sustainable ways; and promoting the development of the physical and regulatory infrastructure needed to deliver more energy to consumers.
We are now working on how best to articulate and communicate more broadly what we will call simply our "four mores" in the coming months and years: more energy, more efficiency, more environmental stewardship and more infrastructure.
We will detail how we will operate, educate and advocate so that we offer non-partisan solutions instead of partisan paralysis, hope rather than cynicism, and action rather than argument.
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Founder and CEO
Citizens for Affordable Energy
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