by Melinda | May 27, 2014 | God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Hope, Life on the Rock, Uncategorized, Work, Working Out Faith
We worked all day. Hard. Reclaiming cement-like, rocky ground into garden space, spreading a truckload of mulch, moving landscape rocks, and finally planting flowers. On one of my trips with the wheelbarrow to bring landscape rocks to the site where they were...
by Melinda | Apr 30, 2014 | All in the Family, Dream Scape, Home on the Range, It's Not About Me, Legacy, Life Abundant, Living the God Life, Mimmie's Heart, Texas, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment
I’m not sure when this dream began. Now that I think about it, it may have been as early as when I was a girl, and we went to my Uncle Leland’s lake house. He had an A-frame, fitted with a stairway that led up to a room tucked into the point of the...
by Melinda | Apr 26, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Mimmie's Heart, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment
Brody is at that point where he is putting the toddle in the toddler. He’s pretty much walking everywhere, but not without a fall about every 10-12 steps, or stopping to wave his arms in a tight-rope-walker-style balance attempt. It’s adorable to...
by Melinda | Apr 21, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, Home on the Range, In the Eye of the Beholder, Mimmie's Heart, Thankfulness, This Magic Moment
It began yesterday, and had nothing whatsoever to do with Easter. Oh, we had a lovely Easter day…beautiful church service, a nice meal, a wonderful, nourishing rain. But, later in the afternoon, beds were stripped, and equipment was unpacked from a...
by Melinda | Apr 10, 2014 | Home on the Range, Living Low, Love Free, Reaching Out, Thankfulness
No. This is not a post about the theme song from Frozen, although now we’re all singing it. I’m sorry. This is actually a post about those skunky German Shepherds from the other day. Remember them? Well, they stayed with us through yesterday, when,...
by Melinda | Mar 29, 2014 | Eyes Wide Open, God in the Everyday, He's Bigger than Me, Home on the Range, Life Abundant, Sitting in the Corner, Trust, Working Out Faith
A couple of days ago, I was setting out to make dinner. I gathered all my stuff, which included the ingredients for a really nice salad, and, at the last minute, decided I would add some chicken. I pulled out my cast iron skillet, and a couple of chicken...