Happy Spring

OH we have waited so long for this weather!! I managed to get some of the garden in...spuds, onions and spinach and sweet radish

Oldest daughter is soon done with college yr 2, and in 2 weeks we will be moving her to an apartment, it has been a fun process getting her items together and shopping for fun new things to get her started/

Work has kept me busy as well as all the stuff here at home...I hope to get some blocks created for the cancer comfort quilt this weekend and will share some photos!

Hope all in blog land are doing great!!

Reba

Healing Foods

I came across a site long ago while surfing the net and I did not book mark it of course but had taken some good notes and as I was cleaning out this past weekend in my sewing areas I came across this and wanted to share it.

I am always on the lookout for Holistic ways of healing and I really should put this into my practice....would most likely be healthier




Healing Foods of the Bible
The Scripture and your diet

Apples

Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

Barley

Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Beans

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side."

2 Samuel 17:28-29
brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Bread

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Dairy

Isaiah 7:15, 22
He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 22) And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Proverbs 27:27
You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.

Figs

1 Samuel 30:11-12
They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat-- 12) part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

Fish

Leviticus 11:9-12
"`Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. 10) But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest. 11) And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. 12) Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you.

Deuteronomy 14:9
Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

Luke 24:42-43
They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43) and he took it and ate it in their presence.

Fruit

Ezekiel 47:12
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing."

Deuteronomy 8:7
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; 8) a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9) a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

Garlic

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Grains

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Grapes

Numbers 13:23
When they reached the Valley of Eshcol,[1] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

Genesis 9:20
Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

1 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

1 Kings 21:2
Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."

Herbs

Numbers 11:7 -9
The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. 8) The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. 9) When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

Psalm 51:7
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

John 19:29-30
A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips. 30) When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Honey

1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.

2 Samuel 17:29
honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Meat

Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Leviticus 72:227
The LORD said to Moses, 23) "Say to the Israelites: `Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24) The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. 25) Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be[1] made to the LORD must be cut off from his people. 26) And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27) If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.'"

Leviticus 317
"`This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Melon

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Isaiah 1:8
The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.

Milk

Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Isaiah 7:22
And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

2 Samuel 17:29
honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Nuts

Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Olives

James 5:14
Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

2 Kings 18:32
until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, `The LORD will deliver us.'

Onions

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Pomegranates

Deuteronomy 8:8
a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

Spices

Matthew 23:23
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Luke 11:42
"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

Vegetables

Daniel 1:12-17
"Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13) Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." 14 ) So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. 15) At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16) So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. 17) To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Wheat

Jeremiah 41:8
But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat and barley, oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others.

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Yogurt (curds)

2 Samuel 17:28-29
brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Hello~

I did not realize it has been near 2 weeks since my last post....my goodness where has the time gone.....well I know where some of it has gone so here is the updates from my little corner of the world!

Basketball first and foremost....Our girls made it to sub section championships...They did great but we did lose in the finals but second place to get that far is nothing to sneeze at so we are still very proud of them.....Our daughter was not able to participate in the final game as she was in Costa Rica for a week with her Spanish class....Once I get some of the photos on my lap top I will upload a few of them for you to see...she took 450 some photos and they are BEAUTIFUL! I just might have to travel that way some day!!

So yes between basket ball.....and youngest was gone for a week..the oldest came home for Spring break....LOL I feel like I had a revolving door for a few days. But I loved spending time with her and getting some major house work done!

A co-worker and a friend from work....her mother is in a battle for breast cancer and I am assisting her in creating a small quilt...we do have a few blocks made and it coming together very nice....so that's anew project I am working on...Will share photos of that too hopefully this next week!!

Our ground is bare.....but been battling floods....*ugh* We go from one extreme to the next. so yes this next week I have some good photos to share with all of you.

Today oldest daughter announced she took yet another part time job that could have potential for full time position and she has signed a lease for an apartment ....so we got the fun day today to go search fro some furniture....she found a darling recliner and an entertainment center...end table and a queen size 7 pc bedroom set and a lamp...so she is well on her way to having her new place completely set up!! We are so proud of her....I had to laugh as she paid her down payment to her apartment and she said to us...I am so proud of myself....I didn't have to ask you guys for money!! Did we raise that girl right or what!!

My Reiki Studio has been extremely busy the last two weeks as well,...It is alsmost like people came climbing out of the woodwork....but that will be a fun update for another time...perhaps later this Spring.

Until then....I hope all of you are having a great weekend.... and hope the week ahead bring all things great for you


Reba~

TGIF

Am I the only one that is glad it is friday!? WOW what a month I have had.

Well we had a bitter sweet game this evening down in Marshall MN at SMSU, we took second place in tourney and certainly nothing to look down on. So proud of our young ladies and the season is now complete. they went home tonight with their silver medals...and a trophy. Our daughter did get to call just before the game to say hi to the coach and wish the team well...(mom didnt handle that so well) but was her choice to go.
As she complains to about 35 of us on speaker phone "Its sooooo hot " LOL I said well you could have stayed in frozen ville and put up the 2 inches of rain we have and now soon in flood stages and surrounded by mud and water.... Not sure what she expected when she was going to visit so close to the equater...LOL.

Now my life is gonna slow down some...Im happy hubby is already wondering what we will be doing and I guess neither one of knows what we will do now for entertainment but I will make sure should we come a cross something that I will share with all of you.

I am cutting this short as I am exhausted from over time and long hours in my shop and tomorrow is a catchup day on cleaning and laundry after I get home from taking a co-worker out to eat.

Hope you all have a great weekend. I know I plan to get some R&R done as well!


Reba~

We made it to Subsections Championships

Oh wow what a week.... We play Friday night over in Redwood Falls, against Yellow Medicine East and won...Bitter sweet win for my daughter a s she has dreamed of this since she was a little tyke and we were going to games. But as some know she departs this evening for Costa Rica Spanish class trip for 8 days....and she will miss our next game on SMSU floor in Marshall....and she is sooo bummed... but she told the team they will win any how and she will be back to help stomp em in State!! WOOT Lets hope so huh!!
Sisters sharing the moment after a huge win...you'd never guess the short one is the oldest huh....LOL.... People g et them mixed up all the time due to height and size
Becky with her medal...she was so proud. She had a hard time fighting those tears and so did mom!

Winning team!! What a week.....So proud of these young ladies! They did a great job. Even though our daughter will not be present at the next game in Marshall, we play against Pipestone Friday, we plan to go tape it for her and we plan to cheer them on on her behalf!

Good Job ladies we are so proud of all of you~


Now a new week begins, not sure why but I just hate Mondays, oldest is on Spring break for a week but only home for the weekend....here to see her sister off on her trip then headed back to college for her job, She informed us she found a lil apartment with utilities furnished, but she needs some furniture..I said to my husband" HEY this is perfect timing cause we have a graduation next yr! " LOL not so sure he liked that idea..... But none the less will be fun shopping for her!

Other wise not much new. Weather wise has been nice....snow is slowly melting and we can actually see part of the driveway! Predicting rain on Tuesday so should be a sloppy mess! Ahhhh Spring!!

Have a good week gang!


Reba~

Well not as bad as it was a few weeks ago but still deep...but the good thing is we have seen SUN for about three days now, which in my book is totally awesome! I am sooooo ready for summer!
Not much has been happening here, been actually in a funk I guess. I have not done any crafting, cleaning or anything else., too busy at work and then next week now my youngest leaves on a Spansh Class Trip to Costa Rica...But we have now hit a snag............. We are now in our basketball playoffs...we won our AA sections last night and have a second Game on Tuesday night.....if we win that we have one more game then next Fri but if we lose we are done......so shes got a bitter sweet feeling going on....if we win both and go to State shes gonna be Costa Rica when that game comes....so now we have to figure out how and what to do if it comes to this......she wants to stay with the class on this trip but sh e also wants to be part of the basketball team either way win or lose...UGH always something it seems.

Oh and yes Prom is coming thus the new dress for a girl who hates dresses...LOL colorful I must say but fits her personality!

It is a perfect for her I do not even need to alter this one!! WOOOOHOOO

well it too 3 days but we finally got plowed out somewhat still icy and snow mounds evr where but such is life I guess this time of year.
After being stranded a few days in town it certainly is good to come home even if we do have a yard full of snow! Then a few days later we get nailed again just when I think we cant possibly have any more room for snow.............


I love it when people call into work over a storm day, or because they can not see and yet some how I always seem to get there, However I usually do not get there with out some type of assistance as you can see in the video. I apologize for the bad quality as I am not one to have such a steady hand but I am sure you get the idea after seeing it. This was taken on January 16 at 4:00 a.m... We still have to dig our way through the railroad when the winds pick up. Did I ever tell you I have a wonderful husband for taking on such a task!!


Not much else new here other than the weather, I am still cleaning out closets and drawers and cupboards, I did get to Montevideo yesterday and went shopping and got some new things ordered for a basketball scrap book. Hope to begin on that in the near future, I am getting behind and soon March is here and will be time to plant a garden again.

Hope you all have a great week and keep being creative!


Reba~