Supplications!

Hey folks.  Sorry I have not written in a few day.  But we as a family have been in prayer mode for our family to move more towards a sustainable life style. We would appreciate your prayers for our discernment

Freezer broke....no problem!

Well if you can't eat meat in wich you killed, you can still eat fresh and cheap when you have to purchase.  Remember, stay sustainable. So here is what happened.  See our freezer went out 2 weeks ago and I have not been able to harvest a deer.  So our local super market ran a special on whole fryer chickens, .79 per lb., so we were able to pick up one for our family of five. Our local farmers market ran a special on sweet potatoes.  So my lovely bride made a roasted whole chicken and a sweet potato casserole.  And for desert she made monkey bread!!!!!!. WOW. It was delicious, and easy on the pocket book! So you can still eat fresh and healthy even if your freezer is meatless! 

Sorry I forgot to get a pic of the finished

Casarole! 

Best life ever!

Part of living sustainable is trying to stay healthy!  We like to eat fairly healthy and try to exercise some. If you are not healthy and strong you can't toil!  We also take plexus slim to help us take in our herbs.  God is so good to have made an earth that we can be healthy and be sustained from His hand. 

"Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (Genesis 9:3 KJV)"

Stay sustainable my friend. 

Gone Camping!

Perhaps one of the best parts of sustainable living, is finding time to spend with those who are like minded. It's nice to sit a spell and visit with those who live a similar lifestyle.

My family and I spent the weekend camping with other Christian, home schooling families. When we talked, we knew we were on the same page about how we lived and what are values are. We ended up spending time talking about God and home school, but not only that, most of the families there pursue a lifestyle of sustainability. We ended up talking about raising hogs, butchering rabbits, the best way to pluck a chicken, the merits of sun tea, the feasibility of solar panels, the best natural way to brush your teeth, the best way to can meat, and where to find property for sale. We learned a few things and, hopefully, imparted a little bit of our minimal wisdom to others. It was also nice to be away from ringing phones and other electronic devices and to watch our children play with friends, catch bugs and sing songs around a campfire.

Just a side note, no man (or woman) is an island. We like our privacy, as most people do, but it is nice to share our lives, for a little while, with others. Seek out friends and spend some time with others who share your love for sustainability, or find some who don't, and convert 'em.     
" Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the so a man sharpeneth the countenancde of his friend"  Proverbs 27:17                                        
                        Stay sustainable, my friend!                                                                                                      

Proper tools.

When you are sustainable or trying to become sustainable, it is a good idea to aquire the proper tools, and also to Keep up those tools . So just remember take your time and stay the course and get those proper tools.  Also, one of the most important tools you can have, is knowledge.  Knowledge of how to live sustainable.   We also need to have the knowledge of The Lord , you need to know Him personally. With out God, we can not have good knowledge. And with God we can not be sustained! 

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10 KJV)

Real world? Uh yea!

Part of real world sustainability is to live as sustainable as possible and still be in a community. To me this means to save money in places were we can. From growing your on food and eating what you can kill for your family, to learning to be content with what we have in front of us, and not spending outrageous amounts of money on "stuff".   My family and I are not completely sustained yet, but we are learning....I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:12, 19 KJV)

We try to live by these basic concepts.... Try is the key word.  So tonight to cut our over all budget back, we made our on dog food.  We have been doing it for several months now and it has saved us a good deal of money. We spend about 20$ per month doing this way, to buy food for our dog it would run us about 125 per month. And to top it off, Selah helped us stack and store the food, great individual time with my very sweet daughter.

Stay sustainable my friends! 

Double freezer!!!!

Wow, well with the good harvest this season that God blessed us with, we had to purchase another freezer, so that we could have enough room for our vegetables and our meats. I am praying for a good hunting season this year.  We also purchased a meat grinder to make our own sausage and our own ground meats. We hated making two sizable purchases at the same time, but it was necessary. It's important to set yourself up for success when you can afford to, so that you're not in a bind when you can't. Call me a dork, but it was so nice and shiny, I took a picture. 

Well have a good night, stay sustainable, my friend.