Comments for Simply Serina http://simplyserina.wordpress.com The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. ~Thomas More~ Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:21:09 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on My Links Are Gone! Help! by Grace http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/my-links-are-gone-help/#comment-5017 Grace Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:21:09 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1406#comment-5017 No, I can't see them. Why don't you copy & paste into a new page instead of trying to edit the existing one? Just a thought. Sorry! What a BIG pain. I had a similar issue with WordPress lately... maybe their experiencing technical difficulties??? No, I can’t see them. Why don’t you copy & paste into a new page instead of trying to edit the existing one? Just a thought.

Sorry! What a BIG pain. I had a similar issue with WordPress lately… maybe their experiencing technical difficulties???

]]> Comment on More About Me by serinat http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5016 serinat Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:48:18 +0000 #comment-5016 thanks for commenting, jill. i'm having trouble seeing it, too, but when i try to edit it, i can still see it. i'll check it out. i'd be sad to lose all my links! thanks for commenting, jill. i’m having trouble seeing it, too, but when i try to edit it, i can still see it. i’ll check it out.

i’d be sad to lose all my links!

]]> Comment on More About Me by Jill http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/about/#comment-5015 Jill Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:53:34 +0000 #comment-5015 Hi Serina I am a follower of Jesus too, in Hilton, South Africa. I found your site through someone on the Yahoo wool soaker group (can't remember who though-maybe Tricia...unless you belong to it too?). Last week your Links page had a ton of interesting places to search through, and now I can't find them. Am I missing them? Where did they go? What is confusing me is that on my Blackberry they're all there. TBH I wouldn't even bother you with this, but I have sent a link to your site to my cousin's wife who is starting to CD, and she will be even more confused than I am :) TIA Jill :) Hi Serina

I am a follower of Jesus too, in Hilton, South Africa. I found your site through someone on the Yahoo wool soaker group (can’t remember who though-maybe Tricia…unless you belong to it too?).

Last week your Links page had a ton of interesting places to search through, and now I can’t find them. Am I missing them? Where did they go? What is confusing me is that on my Blackberry they’re all there. TBH I wouldn’t even bother you with this, but I have sent a link to your site to my cousin’s wife who is starting to CD, and she will be even more confused than I am :)

TIA
Jill :)

]]> Comment on The High Price of Farming by Reagan http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-high-price-of-farming/#comment-5014 Reagan Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:39:00 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1402#comment-5014 Maybe if you are lucky, the Menonite community will come in and buy it! Where my family farms, almost everytime a local farm goes up for sale the local Menonite community pool their money, pay cash, and buy it for one of the families in their community. It's pretty cool! My Grandpa's farm has two next door neighbors who are Menonite. One is especially industrious. He has his own windmill and two greenhouses! He provides fresh produce for my Grandpa (and his wife sends him baked goods) all the time! They are such neat people! Maybe if you are lucky, the Menonite community will come in and buy it! Where my family farms, almost everytime a local farm goes up for sale the local Menonite community pool their money, pay cash, and buy it for one of the families in their community. It’s pretty cool! My Grandpa’s farm has two next door neighbors who are Menonite. One is especially industrious. He has his own windmill and two greenhouses! He provides fresh produce for my Grandpa (and his wife sends him baked goods) all the time! They are such neat people!

]]> Comment on The High Price of Farming by SursumCorda http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-high-price-of-farming/#comment-5013 SursumCorda Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:26:19 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1402#comment-5013 Around here, the developers swooped in after the freezes of the early 80's devastated the local citrus groves and other farms. The farmers might have been able to recover -- the weather has been normal since then -- but the temptation of the offers from land speculators was too much for most to resist. Some local farmers hung on to their land for a while, helped by an agricultural tax exemption (otherwise taxes for increasingly valuable land would have been prohibitive). Our favorite plot of land -- actually a cattle ranch, rather than a farm -- managed to hang on through the tax exemption and also a creative renting of the land for art shows, campouts, and the like -- it was right in the middle of very, very prime real estate. But it, too, was sold, when the old rancher died and his heirs preferred the (very considerable) money to the land. :( It is all very sad, and despite my general feelings against governmental interference, I believe it is a matter of national security (and therefore a proper governmental concern) to encourage small, independent, and diverse farming. Instead, we make it harder on those folks -- as we do on small businesses, which I see as critical to our national economy. Around here, the developers swooped in after the freezes of the early 80’s devastated the local citrus groves and other farms. The farmers might have been able to recover — the weather has been normal since then — but the temptation of the offers from land speculators was too much for most to resist. Some local farmers hung on to their land for a while, helped by an agricultural tax exemption (otherwise taxes for increasingly valuable land would have been prohibitive). Our favorite plot of land — actually a cattle ranch, rather than a farm — managed to hang on through the tax exemption and also a creative renting of the land for art shows, campouts, and the like — it was right in the middle of very, very prime real estate. But it, too, was sold, when the old rancher died and his heirs preferred the (very considerable) money to the land. :(

It is all very sad, and despite my general feelings against governmental interference, I believe it is a matter of national security (and therefore a proper governmental concern) to encourage small, independent, and diverse farming. Instead, we make it harder on those folks — as we do on small businesses, which I see as critical to our national economy.

]]> Comment on The High Price of Farming by robina http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/the-high-price-of-farming/#comment-5012 robina Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:32:21 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1402#comment-5012 ugh, what a bummer. ugh, what a bummer.

]]> Comment on 27 Week, 6 Days by TulipGirl http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/27-week-6-days/#comment-5010 TulipGirl Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:27:52 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1383#comment-5010 It's so exciting to hear the details of pregnancy. . . you sound like you are doing great. For #3, we were without a birth attendant one month prior to my due date. And, in the end, it all worked out. . . I'm sure it will for you, too. It’s so exciting to hear the details of pregnancy. . . you sound like you are doing great. For #3, we were without a birth attendant one month prior to my due date. And, in the end, it all worked out. . . I’m sure it will for you, too.

]]> Comment on Garlic Planted 2009 by jennifer http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/garlic-planted-2009/#comment-5009 jennifer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:25:50 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1400#comment-5009 i planted our garlic a few weeks ago, and if i can manage to remember not to till it under next spring, i'm hoping we'll have some fresh garlic, too. i've never grown it before, so we'll seee.... let me know your snail mail address,a nd i'll mail that stuff to you. i planted our garlic a few weeks ago, and if i can manage to remember not to till it under next spring, i’m hoping we’ll have some fresh garlic, too. i’ve never grown it before, so we’ll seee….

let me know your snail mail address,a nd i’ll mail that stuff to you.

]]> Comment on He’s TWO! by Sonya http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/hes-two/#comment-5007 Sonya Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:37:35 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1397#comment-5007 he is so sweet. October is too full. No more october "happy to you's" okey? I hope you get a computer solution soon, I'm feeling deprived of pictures of things, esp my nieces and nephew. he is so sweet.

October is too full. No more october “happy to you’s” okey?

I hope you get a computer solution soon, I’m feeling deprived of pictures of things, esp my nieces and nephew.

]]> Comment on Knitty by Mandy http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/knitty/#comment-5006 Mandy Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:55:49 +0000 http://simplyserina.wordpress.com/?p=1395#comment-5006 Your list of things to learn in knitting echo mine completely! The trouble is, I knit left-handed, so that makes it doubly hard to find a mentor! There is a knitting group that meets at my library, and I wish I could join, but it is on the night that I work. It kills me to watch them all knitting, (I work at the library), wishing I could join! Your list of things to learn in knitting echo mine completely! The trouble is, I knit left-handed, so that makes it doubly hard to find a mentor! There is a knitting group that meets at my library, and I wish I could join, but it is on the night that I work. It kills me to watch them all knitting, (I work at the library), wishing I could join!

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