Monday, July 27, 2026

Hay Season

Hello Everyone,

It is hay season here. We stop and watch the huge farm machines with their air conditioned cabs and up to date fascinating amenities.

If I can manage my time properly I'll make a hay season dress.

Miss Lillian, our little granddaughter, is busy trying hair styles, and is busy sewing for her wedding. She is going to marry a young preacher in Missouri. I will tell more about it in a video.

We are all doing the best we can and keeping cool with plenty of ice and taking dips in the stock tank .

All is well here and I

hope all is well with you.

We are having a Ladies Day at our little congregation and my daughter Lily Beth and her daughter Lillian are conducting the event with singing, reading, reciting poetry, a Bible Brides quiz and a delicious Afternoon Tea luncheon. I will include pictures of table arrangements and party favors soon. It will also be a gift card wedding shower for our bride-to-be.

I still plan to converse with you on video when the rush is over.

Lydia Ruth

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Excessively Diverted

Hello Ladies,

My granddaughter, Miss Lillian (the young lady who wrote the book I posted about a short while ago) is getting married at the end of August, and so we are busy preparing.

You might enjoy seeing the colors she is using in her wedding

After Miss Lillian wrote her novel, The Lawman's Daughter, she was introduced to her future husband by his sister, an acquaintance of Miss Lillian, who also read her book, or so I am told. From there, things went quite rapidly to a proposal and both families are overjoyed. The future groom's parents, grandparents and siblings say Miss Lillian is the one they prayed for all these years and the family of the bride --siblings, parents and grandparents, say the same. There's not a discordant note amongst us regarding this wonderful situation, but since she must live far away from Oregon in Missouri, guess who will cry the most!

She is designing and sewing her wedding dress. Here is the under slip on the line .

Here it is being styled and draped on the dress form. it looks like something fabulous from an artist, which she is. I have not seen the bridesmaids dresses yet but i'm sure they follow the same dress code on the invitation.

Here is part of the details of the couple's invitation to the wedding:

Saturday, July 11, 2026

Happiness Today

I'm still well and happy and trying to get back to broadcasts.

Thank you for being so patient!

Lydia Ruth

The Little Chap Who Follows Me!

A careful man I want to be;
A little fellow follows me.
I do not dare to go astray
For fear he'll go the self same way.

I cannot once escape his eyes,
Whate'er he sees me do, he tries.
Like me he says he's going to be;
The little chap who follows me.

He thinks that I'm so very fine,
Believes in every word of mine.
The base in me he must not see;
The little chap who follows me.

I must remember as I go
Through summer's sun and winter's snow,
I'm building for the years to be;
The little chap who follows me.

Author: Unknown

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" So far as this world knows or can vision, there is no attainment more desirable than the happy and contented home."

This is a Proverbs 31 and Titus 2 teaching blog, where you will find some ideas for creating the kind of home life that gives you a sense of well-being, creativity and accomplishment. It will help you understand the reasons for being the Biblical keepers of the home, as opposed to the world's answer of being career women outside of the home.

I really hope to help restore the culture of the home, which is a never-changing precept of the Bible: marriage, home and family. Young women especially need to know there is something else of greater importance than college and career, and that they play a vital role in making a stable family. In order to have strong marriages, respectful children, and good churches, women need to return to the home. My blog is based on the precept of First Timothy 5, verse 14:

"I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully..."

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England's Queen Victoria wrote in 1870, "I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings, and would surely perish without male protection."-- Queen Victoria, 1870.

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