Tag Archives: gardening

Don’t Let the Devil Steal Your Lunch!

Posted on July 11, 2011

Gardening, like life, carries with it some real challenges. We’ve been fighting with the bunnies all year. Usually the cats and the dog keep them at bay, but since we gave away our overabundance of barn cats last year and the dog is getting old, the rabbits seem to be taking over the place. It all came to a head last week. I was away on a ministry trip and received a call from Susan. “The rabbits ate my zinnias and almost wiped out the beet greens,” she said with exasperation. Now I wasn’t too … Continue reading →

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Anointed Spring

Posted on June 5, 2011

By Susan Shanklin Tom said I should call my article this time, “The Spring That Never Happened”. Does that phrase fit what is happening in your life today? Something that you have been waiting for and keep looking for, and it just never seems to come to pass. It’s the end of May and it’s 48 degrees and the wind  chill is 44 degrees. Folks, we shouldn’t be talking about wind chills here in late May. May is Spring for us here in upper Midwest. Wind chill is for January and I’m wondering if I … Continue reading →