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Weekly Update: 8.16.25
The heat seemed to return in full force this week, blanketing our homestead and suffocating our motivation.
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Candice Gage
Photo Friday: Episode 114
"When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray of the infinite beauty of God."-St.
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Grace Gage
Weekly Update: 8.9.25
“I feel like the weeks have been going by faster than ever lately,” Grace gave me an exasperated look as we stood in our kitchen, mentally tallying our…
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Candice Gage
Photo Friday: Episode 113
“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.
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Grace Gage
Weekly Update: 8.2.25
We got to open our windows this week.
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Candice Gage
Photo Friday: Episode 112
“You have been my friend.
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Grace Gage

July 2025

Weekly Update: 7.26.25
It was a week of unrelenting July heat.
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Candice Gage
Photo Friday: Episode 111
"Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
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Grace Gage
Weekly Update: 7.19.25
The smell of neem and peppermint oil soaked into the muggy air as Grace and I worked past dusk, spraying the garden with our organic insecticide and…
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Candice Gage
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Photo Friday: Episode 110
“I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer…
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Grace Gage
We're Taking a Break
We've decided to move our blog from Wordpress to Substack!
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Candice Gage
Weekly Update: 7.5.25
The cold, shallow spring water rippled around me as I sat in the creek, relishing the feel of the moment.
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Candice Gage
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