After my meeting on Monday night, I came home and canned 16 jars of spaghetti meat sauce. Since I don’t go to bed until 12-1am, I just got busy! Here’s the photo of my work: I also found some strawberries for a pretty good price (1€) a basket, so I bought 4 and made 7 [...]
Blessings for this week are: Tuesday March 10th, 2009- Our friends brought us 4 huge croissants to eat with our breakfast A friend emailed asking if we needed any vegetable seeds…thank you Angie!! A family of 4 in Northern Spain will come and use our guesthouse for 5 days in April! It’s a welcome blessing [...]
Here are some more photos of the recent visit from Greg, Abigail and Preston. Jesseka and 2 year old William stayed home in Chicago. Please click on the photo to enlarge it. We are very thankful to the Lord for the blessings of family.
Well, John came home today (Friday the 6th) from the bank, saying that our Spanish bank just made a new rule to hold our checks 1 month from now on. It used to be a week then 2, 3 and now 4 weeks. The process goes like this: we get our deposit each month on [...]
What an interesting little book this is: Originally published in 1832, this extraordinary manual for the homemaker of modest means is far more than a mere “cookbook.” Here is a quote: “The true economy of housekeeping is simply the art of gathering up all the fragments, so that nothing be lost. I mean fragments of [...]
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