good quote

"All great and honorable actions are accomplished with great difficulties, and must be overcome with answerable courage's. "
William Bradford

good quote

"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past . Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy

thankful

I'm thankful for all our critter running around our farm. They keep me busy and honestly I don't know what I would do with all my "spare" time without them :)
I love that I can go to the garden (or cupboard) and pick something, go to the freezer and grab some meat, that we raised, and eat it all for supper. I like that feeling of knowing where everything came from and how it was taken care of. And what is NOT in the foods we eat.
I'm thankful  that I can learn from my many mistakes along the way, and how to change and improve our farming way of life. And the ability to laugh at myself too, that helps a lot!

"I'm thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."
Woody  Allen

good quote

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Age is a issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
Mark Twain

good quote

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble, but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
Norman Vincent Peale

"Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later."
Og Mandino

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis

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"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue of every testing point."
C. S. Lewis

good quote

"A mistake is simply another way of doing things"
Katherine Graham

"A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea."
Honore de Balzac

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"Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don't listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little, they won't tell you the big stuff when they are big, because to them all of it has always been big stuff."
Catherine M. Wallace

good quote

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them."
W. Clement Stone

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
Ernest Hemmingway

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"It is virtually important that we continue to say, with absolute conviction, that organic farming delivers the highest quality, best-tasting food, producing without artificial chemicals or genetic modification, and with respect for animal welfare and the environment, while helping to maintain the landscape and rural communities."
Prince Charles

"The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That was not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the back yard."
Joel Salatin - "Folks, This Ain't Normal"

good quote

"Endure the present, and watch for better things." 
Virgil

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West

"We used to be a nation of farmers, but now it's less then two percent of the population in the United States. So a lot of us don't know a lot about what it takes to grow food."
Judith Redmond

good quote

"Difficulty mastered are opportunities won".
Winston Churchill

"All great change in America begins st the dinner table".
Ronald Reagan

good quote

I'm not sure if this is an actual quote, but rather a saying. I really liked it. It kinda sums up my life as a mom!

Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchens, laundry piles, dirty ovens, and happy kids!

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Because it's Martin Luther King Jr. day I thought I'd post some of his quotes I like! 

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
Martin Luther King Jr.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
William James

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"The best way to predict your future is to create it." Peter Drucker

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"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Winston Churchill

good quote

"Would you like you, if you met you?"


I have no idea who said this, or wrote it. I just saw it the other day and stopped and thought about it, and so I thought I'd share it and maybe you'll think about it too. If not that's ok too!

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit  to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson