Working in a huge academic medical center, I participate in this quest everyday. How do we take care of patients with quality care and still keep our heads above water? How do we balance the need to stay fiscally sound and treat all the uninsured? It is a struggle we live everyday in our little corner of the world. Like every other doctor’s office, hospital, clinic, or healthcare plan, we have to work together, work smarter, find new ways to use technology, and we must have a paradigm shift on how and who gets healthcare in this nation. Other countries have done a much better job of caring for their citizens and we can do the same. But we will have to move past partisan arguments and protecting the wealth of the business of healthcare towards accepting that we are all in this thing together and we all have to participate and give a little. Patients deserver our best efforts and we cannot deliver the care they need if we shutter doctor offices and rural hospitals and clinics. I am counting on America to do better and make this thing called healthcare affordable and available once and for all!!!

The statement by Andrew Weill (sp?) that we don’t have “health care” but rather “disease management” is so sadly, sadly true. This looks like an interesting film, to say the least.

Do you ultrasound your babies to make sure they are headed in the right direction and the pain is not from the calf lying such that it cannot get out? I would be frantic not knowing if there was some serious reason that the baby had not been born. Another worry would be a stillborn causing issues as they sometimes arrive early. Never having lived on a farm or working with livestock, I can only relate to what happens in nursing with term dates and issues with babies. When do you know to call the vet? Let us know how this all works out.

Braxton-Hicks in cows?

Oh, I like this view! What’s growing in your garden patch? Nice rolling hills of green you have there & I think I see a pond to the left just beyond the tree? And could that be an outhouse or a tool shed behind the garden? Both seem like a good choice:-)

How far is this spot from your home? And it looks like you may have another garden patch on the other side of the bend? Do you keep a garden patch in various spots along the driveway? Nice idea & great view too.

Appears that Miss Mia and I are on the same page; I hope she always keeps that nature~first spirit:-)

How we always learn something from the younger ones!

“They un-paved paradise and they put up an awesome park … oh, lalalala.”

I Love this kind of news! Sounds better for all mankind…& wildlife too! And your employees can now take lunch or a break in a nice green setting. Sounds great for adults & kids alike:-) Hope you enjoy your new indoor/outdoor spaces!

I consider myself so lucky that I will be MOVING to that area this year! Can’t wait until your store is just down the road 🙂

Unpaving paradise … I think Ft. Collins is headed in the opposite direction. http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2016/04/19/fort-collins-council-woodward-silos/83237676/

Love the bed/table! I know very little about sewing, but oh so want to learn! How I wish I lived closer…

That is beautiful!!! Great idea and great plan!
CJ

I think it was in home ec, in junior High and High School. Then later I took a 5credit, 5 day a week class in college (Cal Poly, fondly known as Cow Poly). I haven’t sewn much since, but I want to mend things, and make aprons. I also want to make flannel nightgowns with PRESHRUNK MATERIAL. Apparently the clothing industry doesn’t know about preshrinking flannel (@#*&%).

I’m inspired now to try other things too.

I began I’d guess around the age of ten making clothes for my barbie. Then it was home ec in grade school four years, then all through high school and soon after began sewing for others as well. Although I think I was born with a needle in hand. I remember making my own dresses all through grade school.

Love this idea…awesome! My grandma, where I stayed quite often, had a box full of scrapes and sewing stuff we could play with whenever we wanted to. Later when I was like 12 she showed me how to do a 9 block quilt. I have my great grandmothers sewing machine. Wish I could use it more 🙁

I started sewing in the 7th grade hom ec class and I’m still sewing. Have been sewing for over 50 yrs and its one of my favorite things to do. Love what you did with the bed frame. I agree it is much too nice to keep outside.

I learned to embroider at an early age. It’s a funny story. I must’ve been been a precocious child. My Mother ironed on designs to several tea towels. I still remember the look on her face when I finished them in one day. It was a look of horror and surprise from one who’d hoped to keep me busy for a lot longer than that. As for sewing, I learned in high school and make scrub tops to wear to work. Wonderful work table.

I learned to sew when I was about six years old, at my mother’s knee, so to speak. I started by hand (and still have one of my first projects – an apron for my dolly), and later learned to machine sew on my mother’s old Singer blackhead machine. I took summer lessons at a Singer store for five years, from age 10 to 14, then took a class my senior year in high school, where my teacher encouraged me to make a 3-piece, plaid wool suit. Later, I took some college courses in Home Ec, taught it in a high school and an adult sewing class at a college, spent two years as a Home Economist for a fabric store chain, and now teach lessons for a sewing store and in my home. I LOVE passing along my love of sewing to others!

One of my absolute favorite times to sit outside is a couple of hours before sunrise. As you may have noticed from my posting times here, I am an early riser:-) I love to sit outside & just be among the quietness before dawn. Sometimes I think I hear a hummingbird fly to the feeder hanging not more than 2 feet away from me…? And in the deepest of our hot sticky, summer months a swarm of bats will circle for…? mosquitoes (we always have lots of those here) & before you know it, one of the bats will swoop around one of my planters sitting right next to me! The first time that happened I nearly fell out of my chair.

Oh, & nighttime is a wonderful time to take pictures of your garden (true, as in your article & links) the flowers look enhanced & the blemishes of the plant seem to disappear:-) I also adore my white bloomers & intentionally try to sniff-out fragrant bloomers to plant for the bees, butterflies & me. I’ve often found bumblebees hugging/latched onto a flower as early as sunrise until it warms up a bit & can fly/move. Some creatures seem to enjoy traveling through town just as the sun breaks in the morning. It is at that time of day that I have seen: a raccoon family moving along the road & seen deer walk the sidewalk as if someone had an invisible leash attached (I really thought it was a Great Dane at first sight) & have spotted a scraggly looking coyote ( & foxes) which take the same path the deer followed.

We have a friend that finds planting at night (midnight or later) very relaxing; she once planted over 100 tulips bulbs at that time. Moonlit gardens are indeed~enchanting:-)

Reading this post reminds me of the beautiful moonflowers my mom and I raised one year. The blooms are large, smell sweet, and are a joy to photograph! They seem mysterious, but are so pretty, the white in contrast to the green vine.

Aren’t you girls just the cutest!!! Just like a farmgirl . . to wear her workboots to bed! 😀 😀

I really do like that design. I own a 20 year (+) Corning-ware set that I bought from Woolworth & Lothrop shortly before they went out of business years ago; I use those pieces, a lot. My CW set has handles which you can clip on for stove top use & remove for oven use but your handle looks like it could actually go into the oven(?).

For years now, I have searched for a true Corning ware shop (we use to have an outlet just across the bridge here) but cannot locate one here or online now? If I had my way, all of our food would be cooked in glass or glazed ceramic. Hubby only uses our small stove top CW pot for cooking his oatmeal:-) I’m using our CW sauce pans for oven use today & their glass domed lids. I love that you still have that nice sauce pan MaryJane & that it is in such great condition! Thanks for sharing Megan & happy treasure hunting:-)

Oh, P.S:-) I believe hubby mentioned recently that they will soon faze out Pyrex…? I really hope they don’t do away with Pyrex too. My husband bought another (just-in-case) Pyrex measuring cup for us when he first heard the news about Pyrex but this new cup already looks different & the glass is a tinge yellowish~not pristine & clear like they made them before?

Wow! That is really cool!

Here’s information from Wikipedia on Pyrex (and it explains why recent Pryex doesn’t hold up the same).
Older clear-glass Pyrex manufactured by Corning before 1998, Arc International’s Pyrex products, and Pyrex laboratory glassware is made of borosilicate glass. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, borosilicate Pyrex is composed of (as percentage of weight): 4.0% boron, 54.0% oxygen, 2.8% sodium, 1.1% aluminium, 37.7% silicon, and 0.3% potassium.]

According to glass supplier Pulles and Hannique, borosilicate Pyrex is made of Corning 7740 glass, and is equivalent in formulation to Schott Glass 8830 glass sold under the “Duran” brand name.[11] The composition of both Corning 7740 and Schott 8830 is given as 80.6% SiO2, 12.6% B2O3, 4.2% Na2O, 2.2% Al2O3, 0.04% Fe2O3, 0.1% CaO, 0.05% MgO, and 0.1% Cl.

Pyrex glass cookware manufactured by World Kitchen is made of tempered soda-lime glass instead of borosilicate.[12] World Kitchen justified this change by stating that soda-lime glass was cheaper to produce, is the most common form of glass used in bakeware in the US, and that it also had higher mechanical strength than borosilicate—making it more resistant to breakage when dropped, which it believed to be the most common cause of breakage in glass bakeware. Unlike borosilicate, it is not as heat resistant, leading to an increase in breakage from heat stress.

The differences between Pyrex products depending on manufacturer has also led to safety issues—in 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission received several complaints by users reporting that their Pyrex glassware had shattered at high temperatures. The consumer affairs magazine Consumer Reports investigated the matter after obtaining copies of the complaints, determining that the complainants had in fact been using World Kitchen-produced Pyrex products, and had incorrectly assumed that they would have the same characteristics and strength as their borosilicate counterparts.

This makes me so sad, it’s science gone very bad. Brings to mind the old saying, “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should”. Thank you for bringing this out into the public awareness zone & reminding everyone just what’s at stake.

I loved this. Thank you Mary Jane for sharing once again with all of us! I have terrible allergic reactions to GMO products. I’ve always thought that my reaction to beef was in direct relation to all the pesticides, etc. Thank goodness that we garden, can, freeze, hunt & fish. On a similar note, my grandgirl was diagnosed with copper poisoning last year from the water in their town of Columbus, IN. She ended up in the ER when her vomit was blue. The ER docs called the CDC for more information to help her. The CDC told the docs that with all the pesticides & herbicides running off from the farms into community wells, it is no wonder. The worst states are Indiana & Iowa. She now drinks only purified water including at school.