Franklin Springs Sale

Just wanted to pass along that Franklin Springs is having a sale. They have some neat resources, we bought the video “a journey home.” It was very good. Here is the add they emailed us.

Better Hurry… New Fall Film Gift Packs are on Sale

“…We love all the Franklin Springs films. We also like to give them to other friends and family members!… Thank you for making such wonderful films for Christian families!” - St. Paul, Minnesota We are pleased to introduce our NEW gift packs for this fall shopping season. These films will provide a wide-range of family enjoyment, and are a great addition to any home DVD library. The holiday season is fast approaching and these films are a great way to gather families together for times of fellowship and encouragement. For a limited time, we are deeply discounting all of our film packs. This is a great opportunity to expand your family film library. For one week only, we are offering FREE SHIPPING on all gift pack orders. These discounted prices along with our free shipping offer is the best value we have ever offered our customers on these great film packs. Your free shipping coupon code is: giftpacksnow0334 The NEW Five Films Gift Pack The NEW five DVD gift collection is available for a substantially discounted savings of just $62.00. (Regular combined retail price: $99.75.) This discounted savings is only available for a limited time. “…These are amazing!!!! Thank you so much for all the excellence that was put into making something that is so God-honoring and encouraging for families that desire to live for the Lord!” - Neosho, Missouri The set includes An American Adventure: The Living Legacy of Jimmy Gentry; Measure Twice, Cut Once; Inherit the Land; Pull Up a Chair; and A Journey Home Learn more, watch the trailers and order now > ~~~ Ten Films Gift Pack For a limited time we are making available the 10 film library gift pack (10 DVDs) at a substantially discounted savings of just $99.00. This library collection includes some of our most recent award-winning films at the substantially discounted rate of just $10.00 per-DVD. This is a limited time offer, order today. “I just ordered my second copy …because I can’t bear to be without a copy when I loan mine out.” — Miles, TX Includes A Full House of Blessing: The Inspiring Story of the Nicklas Family An American Adventure: The Living Legacy of Jimmy Gentry Measure Twice, Cut Once Still Standing: The Stonewall Jackson Story Inherit the Land: Adventures on the Agrarian Journey A Journey Home The Eden String Quartet: A Bountiful Blessing The Peasall Sisters: Family Harmony The Family Meal Table Charlie Zahm: An Evening Of Classic Melodies Watch the Trailer and Order the 10 Pack Now > ~~~ The Complete Library Gift Pack 20 Films, the Entire Franklin Springs Collection All for just $190 for a limited time! We are pleased to make available the Complete Library Collection (20 DVDs) at a substantially discounted price of just $190.00. This unique library collection includes all award-winning Franklin Springs film titles at the substantially discounted rate of just $9.50 per-DVD. That’s a savings of $209 off the retail price—a savings of $10.45 off each DVD! Act now to take advantage of this very special complete collection. “Your films are simply some of the best gifts we could ever give!” - Raleigh, North Carolina Includes… Homestead Blessings: 1. The Art of Gardening 2. The Art of Canning 3. The Art of Herbs 4. The Art of Bread Making 5. The Art of Candle Making 6. The Art of Soap Making 7. An American Adventure: The Living Legacy of Jimmy Gentry 8. Measure Twice, Cut Once: Essential Building Basics for Young Men 9. Pull Up a Chair: The Story and the Songs with Nathan Clark George 10. The Eden String Quartet: A Bountiful Blessing 11. When Robin Prays 12. A Full House of Blessing: The Inspiring Story of the Nicklas Family 13. Still Standing: The Stonewall Jackson Story 14. Inherit the Land: Adventures on the Agrarian Journey 15. A Journey Home 16. Charlie Zahm: An Evening Of Classic Melodies 17. The Peasall Sisters: Family Harmony 18. The Family Meal Table 19. The Terri Schiavo Story 20. Rejuvenate with Serene Watch a trailer now to learn more about the films in the Complete Library Gift Pack ~~~ Perfect Gifts to warm family gatherings and enrich home life The Homestead Blessings Collection Additionally, our much loved Homestead Blessings collection — featuring the West Ladies — is available for the discounted price of just $75.00 for all six DVDs in the set — a savings of 37% off the retail price for all six DVDs. Order the complete Homestead Blessings Collection now for just $75.00 Order as Three DVD Sets Homestead Blessings Collection I Order the first three Homestead Blessings DVD set on sale now for just $39.95 The Art of Bread Making The Art of Candle Making The Art of Soap Making Order Homestead Collection I for just $39.95 ~~~ Homestead Blessings Collection II Order the Homestead Blessings II DVD set, on sale now for just $39.95 The Art of Canning, The Art of Gardening, The Art of Herbs Making Order Homestead Collection II for just $39.95

We hope your fall season is filled with many wonderful family gatherings and times of memorable fellowship. We look forward to continuing to provide your family with encouraging films for many years to come. - The Team at Franklin Springs Family Media

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Blog SLOW Down fixed!

Our blog was having a very hard time loading. Even from page to page it was having a hard time finishing loading. Come to find out Word Press has a new Twitter link for word press blogs. But some how they added it into our sidebar with giving us the option of using it. I found it this morning and removed it and the blog came back to speed instantly. Sorry for any trouble you may have had with our blog in the mean time.

~Blessings~

The Winner Is…

Hope you enjoy the book Carrie. Sorry we don’t have 20 more copies so the rest of you could each have one as well. But maybe we will do another give away in the future for some thing else. This was kind of fun. Special thanks goes to Judah too, for helping with the hat.

We Have A Winner

We have a winner for our free book give away. We have emailed the winner and are waiting for a response so we can announce it here. We will post it soon…..

Two Days Left For The Free Book Drawing

Just a reminder~ there are two days left for the free book drawing.

The drawing is for a copy of this book on preserving food without freezing or canning, It teaches how to use salt, oil, sugar, alcohol, vinegar, cold storage, and lactic fermentation.
We will draw the names on the 15th of Ninth Month (2 days from now) and mail the book on the 1st of the next month. That is the goal. We have several names in the hat already. If you want to add your name to the hat, email us your name and email address so we can contact you for the shipping address if you win. You can email us at wilkinson4jesus@yahoo.com

~Blessings!~

Today’s Thoughts

Today’s is cool cloudy and it is trying to sprinkle on us. We have some family visiting and staying in their motor home in the drive yard for the weekend. It is nice to some long term visitors.

The frost has hit us twice now this past week and killed off our zucchini for good. It also did in our tomato’s. Our cauliflower finished and we harvested it and one and a half laundry baskets of broccoli. We made several gift bags of food and made a big batch of broccoli salad for dinner the other night. Our onions and cabbage are still growing nicely, as are a few other plants. With all the rain we have had the last several days we have not had to water. Low 60’s are forecast for our highs all week.

The kittens have names sooner than we thought they would so that is a good thing. Sometimes naming our pets can be a long event so we were glad this time it only took a couple of days.

We have one name in so far for our free book drawing, so get your name in to us if you want to try to win the free book. Read more at the link to the book drawing.

Hope you have a nice weekend.
~~BLESSINGS~~

Cool Day

Today was a cool day. Infact it was a little on the cold side. Rain all morning and a cold wind in afternoon. It is hard to believe that it was only a  little over a week ago we had a very warm week with one day hitting a very HIGH 93 Degrees F. That is the warmest I personally have seen on the thermometer since 1996, that’s in 13 years. And now we start to prepare for winter by finishing projects and picking up the yard. Moose season will soon be here then winter on it’s heels. Brrrr…..

On this rainy day, I found this posted on the web about rain, thought you might think it was interesting. I posted it below for your convenience too.

Weird, Weird Rain

Heads up! There’s all kinds of strange stuff falling from the sky: frogs, sardines, jellyfish, alligators and maybe – just maybe – cows! Here are some documented cases of really weird precipitation.

As I sit writing this week’s feature and glance out my home office window, it’s pouring rain outside. One might say it’s raining cats and dogs. Not literally, of course. But that’s not to say that at times in many areas around the world that it hasn’t rained things just as strange as felines and canines. Sometimes, things even stranger.

Weird rain is one of the more bizarre – and still largely unexplained – phenomena that is periodically (yet continually) reported from all corners of the globe. There have been accounts of frog rain, fish rain, squid rain, worm rain, even alligator rain. The logical explanation for the odd occurrences is that a tornado or strong whirlwind picked up the animals from a shallow body of water and carried them – sometimes for hundreds of miles – before dropping them on a bewildered populace. This explanation has yet to be proved, and it can’t quite account for all of the documented incidents, as you’ll see below.

Here are some of the more unusual cases – a small sampling from thousands of reports over the years – that defy all rational explanation.

Frogs

• In 1873, Scientific American reported that Kansas City, Missouri was blanketed with frogs that dropped from the sky during a storm.
• Minneapolis, Minnesota was pelted with frogs and toads in July, 1901. A news item stated: “When the storm was at its highest… there appeared as if descending directly from the sky a huge green mass. Then followed a peculiar patter, unlike that of rain or hail. When the storm abated the people found, three inches deep and covering an area of more than four blocks, a collection of a most striking variety of frogs… so thick in some places [that] travel was impossible.”
• The citizens of Naphlion, a city in southern Greece, were surprised one morning in May, 1981, when they awoke to find small green frogs falling from the sky. Weighing just a few ounces each, the frogs landed in trees and plopped into the streets. The Greek Meteorological Institute surmised they were picked up by a strong wind. It must have been a very strong wind. The species of frog was native to North Africa!
• In 1995, reports Fortean Times Online, Nellie Straw of Sheffield, England, was driving through Scotland on holiday with her family when they encountered a severe storm. Along with the heavy rain, however, hundreds of frogs suddenly pelted her car.

Fish

• A powerful whirlwind might explain a rain of small fish, but it cannot account for the ones that fell on a village in India. As many as 10 people reported picking up fish that weighed as much as eight pounds that had come crashing down on them.
• In February, 1861, folks in many areas of Singapore reported a rain of fish following an earthquake. How could the two possibly correlate?
• Golfers dread gathering clouds and a rain that might ruin their game. But imagine the consternation of several duffers in Bournemouth, England, in 1948 who received a shower of herring.
• Priests often pray for blessings from above… but fish? In 1966, Father Leonard Bourne was dashing through a downpour across a courtyard in North Sydney, Australia, when a large fish fell from the sky and landed on his shoulder. The priest nearly caught it as it slid down his chest, but it squirmed away, fell to the flooded ground and swam away.
• These things don’t always happen in a heavy rain. In 1989, in Ipswich, Australia, Harold and Degen’s front lawn was covered with about 800 “sardines” that rained from above during a light shower.
• This report is most unusual: In an otherwise clear sky in Chilatchee, Alabama in 1956, a woman and her husband watched as a small dark cloud formed in the sky. When it was overhead, the cloud released its contents: rain, catfish, bass and bream – all of the fish alive. The dark cloud had turned to white, then dispersed.

Flesh and Blood

• In 1890, Popular Science News reported that blood rained down on Messignadi, Calabria in Italy – bird’s blood. It was speculated that the birds were somehow torn part by violent winds, although there were no such winds at the time. And no other parts of the bird came down – just blood.
• J. Hudson’s farm in Los Nietos Township, California endured a rain of flesh and blood for three minutes in 1869. The grisly fall covered several acres.
• The American Journal of Science confirmed a shower of blood, fat and muscle tissue that fell on a tobacco farm near Lebanon, Tennessee in August, 1841. Field workers, who actually experienced this weird shower, said they heard a rattling noise and saw “drops of blood, as they supposed…fell from a red cloud which was flying over.”

Miscellaneous

• In 1881, a thunderstorm in Worcester, England, brought down tons of periwinkles and hermit crabs.
• In November, 1996, a town in southern Tasmania was slimed! Several residents woke up on a Sunday morning after a night of violent thunderstorms to find a strange, white-clear jelly-like substance on their property. Apparently, it had rained either fish eggs or baby jellyfish.
• A Korean fisherman, trolling off the coast of the Falkland Islands, was knocked unconscious by a single frozen squid that fell from the sky and konked him on the head.
• In July, 2001, a red rain fell on Kerala, India. At first it was thought that a meteor was responsible for the strange-colored rain, but an analysis showed that the water was filled with fungal spores. Still, where did all of those red spores come from to be rained down in such concentration?
• From about 1982 to 1986, kernels of corn have rained down on several houses in Evans, Colorado – tons of it, according to Gary Bryan, one of the residents. Oddly, there were no cornfields in the area that might account for the phenomenon.
• In August, 2001, the Wichita, Kansas area experienced an unexplained rain of corn husks. The news report stated that “thousands of dried corn leaves fell over east Wichita – from about Central Avenue to 37th Street North, along Woodlawn Boulevard and on east – each about 20 to 30 inches long.”
• In 1877, several one-foot-long alligators fell on J. L. Smith’s farm in South Carolina. They landed, unharmed, and started crawling around, reported The New York Times.

Perhaps the most bizarre report is one that, unfortunately, cannot be confirmed. It may be just the stuff of urban legend, but it’s so weird and so amusing that had to be included. I’ll leave it up to you to decide whether or not it’s true.

Sometime around 1990, a Japanese fishing boat was sunk in the Sea of Okhotsk off the eastern coast of Siberia by a falling cow. When the crew of the wrecked ship were fished from the water, they told authorities that they had seen several cows falling from the sky, and that one of them crashed straight through the deck and hull. At first, the story goes, the fishermen were arrested for trying to perpetrate an insurance fraud, but were released when their story was verified. It seems that a Russian transport plane carrying stolen cattle was flying overhead. When the movement of the herd within the plane threw it off balance, the plane’s crew, to avoid crashing, opened the loading bay at the tail of the aircraft and drove them out to fall into the water below. True story or hoax? One investigation traced the story back to a Russian television comedy series.

Personally, I think the story is the most preposterous…. Wait a minute… I think I just saw something large and black and white fall past my window. Is that mooing I hear?

Something That Helped ~ Morning Sickness

I have found that there are several brands of soda companies that are making classic style soda’s like root beer and ginger ale, and cream soda. The one we found available here in our local store is Thomas Kemper. They make a very good ginger ale that helps settle a stomach that may feel a little uneasy due to a bug, or if you are fighting morning yucky poo’s. It worked well for me when I was pregnant with Destiny. This brand was also sweetened by honey and sugar cane which is always a plus. No high fructose corn syrup if your trying to avoid that kind of thing. The ingredient list is fairly short. And only 45 mg of sodium. It has a slightly stronger bite of ginger than many other ginger ales and “it taste great!” …or can I say that (lol)…  or did “Tony the Tiger” have copy right on that expression?

America’s Revival~ email

~~This was in my email in box today thought I would forward it on to you.~~

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“They shall mount up with wings as eagles.” —Isaiah 40:31

Happy Fathers Day

Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there, including our own.