If you're looking for a Christmas movie, look here 🎄

Thanks for the effort, whoever you are!

https://news.1rj.ru/str/+krIE-x52fWA4ZDIx

Blessed Christmas Eve to you ✨️

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. --James 4:8

Looking forward to tomorrow morning 🎄

These bread machine cinnamon rolls are amazing 🎄

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20156/clone-of-a-cinnabon/

Cozy Christmas Watching 🎄

We love the BBC Historic Farm Series-- there are quite a few seasons and each one focuses on a year of farming practices and traditions from different eras.

Here's a link to the Christmas episode from Tudor Monastery Farm.

https://youtu.be/6BwqihlXSmA?si=3HbvrZ-eqYud38E5

Sarah is a friend to all 🤍
She is a stalwart advocate of our people, our values, and our needs.
Even a couple of bucks from each of us would get her and the kids on the road.

Greetings everyone, I am in a bit of a pickle and would very much appreciate your support. Thank you🙏🏻


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We watch this documentary about the European history of making gingerbread every year. It's interesting and comfy. Enjoy ❤️

Merry Christmas!🌲
https://youtu.be/09-lFvs31mk?si=BRUWfYO2euezKY07

Blessed Feast of the Holy Family to you ✝️

Praying peace to and within your family ❤️

Merry 5th Day of Christmas 🎄

Here is another comfy and wholesome white watch for the family ❤️

This is the Christmas episode of this series about the history of Welsh farm life in 1620.

https://youtu.be/3Gyu4d8K9OI?si=NeT_r-xbS40sBd6Q

Blessings to you ✨️

Happy New Year!

What are your homesteading plans for 2026?

Thank you to all the generous souls who helped ❤️

I can't thank you all enough! I spent all day Saturday driving down to Georgia after much research and scouring the internet to narrow it down to what would become my new-to-me minivan. And guess what? It passed a pre-purchase inspection with flying colors, the price was right, the mileage low, and I was able to drive it home Saturday night!

The money you gifted me through the fundraiser and private donations bought a beautiful 3rd gen Toyota Sienna complete with a sound system, backup camera, and (easily cleaned) leather seats. All the little things that help mom life run more smoothly. The kids love riding in it, and I can fit so much in the back, from groceries to scooters, cleats, soccer balls, and more. The roof rack will be helpful for camping trips, and it seats up to 8 people- perfect for a growing family.

I am almost speechless at the speed at which you all came through for me and my family with this fundraiser. I feel very loved and supported by our amazing community. Thank you🙏🏻

As a token of my appreciation I'll be offering one of my handwoven textiles to a randomly drawn name from the donor pool, and I'll also be offering a handwoven textile to each of the top donors.

For Christmas, we made the eldest people in our family journals to share their memories, wisdom, and life stories. We included a timeline of world events during their lifetime — both for them to ponder, as well as to have in the journals for future generations to access. Below is our timeline list. A wild time we've been living through, for sure. If you can think of any others, please share.

1946 -- Levittown built
The first mass produced housing development

1949 -- Communist revolution in China

1950 -- McCarthy Hearings:
Senator Joseph McCarthy heads hearings to find communists who had infiltrated American institutions

1950 -- Cold War begins

1961 -- Berlin Wall built

1952 -- Hydrogen Bomb created

1963 -- JFK Jr assassinated

1964 -- USA government perpetrates Gulf of Tonkin hoax in order to claim reason to enter Vietnam conflict

1965 -- Vietnam War: US conventional forces deployed. Open warfare against North Vietnam begins

1965 -- Hart Celler Act
Abolished national origin quota system, paving the way for America to become majority nonwhite by 2050

1967 -- USS Liberty destroyed by Israel
Israel attacks and sinks the USS Liberty off the coast of Egypt in a false flag attack -- attempting to provoke USA to fight Israel’s 6 Day War. But, United States sailors survived to tell the truth and to call for help.

1967 -- armed Black Panthers take control of California capitol

1967 -- Summer of ‘67 Race Riots

1968 -- MLK Jr assassinated

1968 -- RFK assassinated

1969 -- Americans land on the moon

1969 -- Woodstock

1969 -- Communist riots and violent actions in USA -- Weather Underground

1970 -- The Great Inflation of the 1970s -- 14% inflation and mass unemployment

1973 -- Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that declared abortion a US Constitutional right

1973 -- Oil embargo leads to American gas rationing

1975 -- Church Hearings
Televised congressional hearings reveal that the US Government, through the CIA, has:
--Operation Mockingbird (CIA operatives infiltrated domestic and foreign news outlets to spread propaganda)
--MK Ultra (human experimentation for mind control done on American subjects)
--Cointelpro (CIA operatives infiltrated American organizations considered subversive in order to discredit them)
--Family Jewels (report detailing many illegal activities conducted by the CIA)

1975 -- Vietnam War ends

1976 -- Microsoft founded and beginning of personal computer sales

1989 -- Berlin Wall falls

1990 -- Katyn Massacre truth told by American government
--American officials had agreed to lie about WWII mass exectuion of 22,000 Poles in the Katyn Forest. US Officials knew that the Soviets had committed the murders --- but blamed Germany for the atrocity.

1991 -- USSR dismantled, Cold War ends

1992 -- first “Global Warming” international frameworks passed

1993 -- World Wide Web becomes public

2000 -- contested presidential election

2001 -- Sept 11th attacks

2001 -- US Patriot Act passed

2004 -- Facebook starts

2005 -- Youtube begins

2006 -- Wikileaks launched -- exposing government and political corruption around the world

2007 -- 1st iPhone released

2008 -- Barack Obama elected president

2008 -- Financial collapse, Bail outs

2009 -- 1st cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) invented

2011 -- Occupy Wall Street protests

2012 -- Trayvon Martin death marks beginning of increased race conflict with US President Barack Obama’s first comment being “He could have been my son.”

2015 -- Legalization of homosexual civil marriage

2015 -- “Migrant Crisis” begins flood of Europe with 1.3 million middle-eastern migrants in 1 year. Flood continues unabated

2015 -- “Transgender Rights” movement begins in the public sphere with the sweeping of “Drag Queen Story Hour” across public libraries of America.

2016 -- Populist sentiment leads to election of Donald Trump in USA and Brexit in UK

2017 -- popularization of giving “Transgender” children “puberty blockers” leads to battleground between those who favor this as “gender affirming care” and those who oppose as child abuse

2018 -- United States government recognizes Holodomor as genocide -- estimates of 14 million Ukrainians genocided by Soviet Union in 1932

2020 -- contested election

2020 -- January 6 protests -- protesters point to myriad of election process irregularities and go to Washington DC to protest. Mainstream media narrative labels protests, which did no significant property damage and perpetrated no deaths, as “Insurrection at the Capitol”

2020 -- Sweeping manhunt, arrests, and imprisonments of January 6 protesters

2020 -- Covid:
-- international lockdowns, world wide economic collapse, vaccine mandates

2020 -- “Summer of Floyd”/“Black Lives Matter”
-- antiwhite riots sweep USA and much of Europe. Many white Americans embrace the ideology of “Black Lives Matter” organization -- and “kneeling” to BLM becomes a cultural trend. BLM protests march throughout American cities -- harassing and attacking white people in cars, blocking roadways, attacking whites in outdoor venues, and setting fire to white neighborhoods. USA media covers this as “mostly peaceful protests.”

2022 -- “Ukraine War” begins. A complex war that can be summarized as an European and American proxy war against Russia. Propaganda fed to activate American and European public against Russia.

2022 -- AI Chat GPT released

2023 -- October 7th Attacks -- Israel’s attacks on Gaza leads to international shift of public opinion -- marking first significant cultural opinion against Israel since its creation

2024 -- Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Supreme Court case overturning Roe v. Wade -- thereby returning power of abortion regulation to the states

2024 -- UK bans use of puberty blockers in minors

2025 -- Digitial ID announced in EU and UK

Blessed Epiphany to you ❤️

Today, we celebrate that Jesus is the Savior of the World — all peoples, all nations, all of God's creation.

Happy Friday ✨️

Our favorite "nesting box" — safe, clean, easy 👌 And a bit about raising chickens in winter.

Happy Homesteading ❤️