Homestead Heritage

Homestead Heritage just a few miles north of Waco, TX is a great place to walk around and see how a group of 800 people live off the land. I was told that only about 200 people actually live on the property (510-acre homesteading community) and everyone else comes into help. They say that they are a non demoninational group of Christians. If you get the chance go, go to the deli at the information center. All of the food is natural and made from scratch on the property, not just organic. Vanilla ice cream on the side of a slice of blackberry/rasberry pie is fantastic!

Visitors are invited inside the 200-year old restored barn, which showcases the work of the village’s craftspeople. Inside the barn are handcrafted furniture and accessories plus hundreds of one-of-a-kind heirloom gift items—pottery, wrought iron, quilts, handmade brooms and baskets, mesquite shepherd’s lamps, wooden cutting boards and spoons, oil lamps, beeswax candles, natural soaps, needlework, original watercolors, cards, children’s storybooks and homesteading how-to’s as well as Homestead Farms specialty foods and Homestead Gristmill Baking Mixes.

The Living Room

I moved the book shelves, books, and furniture from the Family Room, see below, into the Living Room. It kind of felt like we were going to move, but without the boxes.

The Family Room

Today, in our family room we had the carpet guys peal back the carpet to add new sub flooring on top of the old sub flooring and replace a section of sub flooring that was cracked.
Tomorrow: new carpet pad will be laid down and the old carpet re-laid back. No one but us will be able to tell how the new sub flooring improves the room.

Time

I have always wanted to know who manufactured TIME......

This company is on Imperial Dr and Sante Fe in Waco, TX. They make lifts of all sorts and uses. How they got the name Time Manufacturing Company, I do not know...

Here's their philosophy:
At TIME Manufacturing Co., our philosophy is simple...build the most effective aerial devices in the industry by introducing new and innovative ideas and combining them with proven technology and long-term durability to give customers the finest equipment available.

St. Patricks Day

It's St. Patrick's Day. A Guinness to drink!
Some Interesting Facts about Guiness:
1759: Arthur Guinness signed the 9000 years lease to St. James's Gate Brewery.
1763: Arthur was elected Warden of the Dublin Corporation of Brewers.
1767: Arthur became Master of the Corporation of Brewers.
1769: First export shipment of GUINNESS® to England.
1770s: Arthur began brewing Porter at St. James's Gate.
1799: Arthur made the decision to cease brewing ale to concentrate solely on brewing porter.

1801: First recorded brewing of West India Porter, now known as GUINNESS® Foreign Extra Stout.
1803: Arthur Guinness II took over the St. James's Gate Brewery on Arthur's death.
1817: First recorded shipment to United States of America.
1821: Regulations for brewing Extra Superior Porter were laid down, now GUINNESS® Extra Stout.
1830s: St. James's Gate Brewery became the largest brewery in Ireland.

1855: Benjamin Lee Guinness took over St. James's Gate Brewery on the death of Arthur Guinness II.
1858: First recorded export of GUINNESS® Stout to New Zealand.
1860-1865: Benjamin Lee Guinness donated £150,000 for restoration of St. Patrick's Cathedral.
1862: The first trade mark label is introduced for bottles of GUINNESS® Stout.
1868: Edward Cecil Guinness (Later Lord Iveagh) took over St. James's Gate Brewery on the death of Benjamin Lee Guinness.
1880s: St. James's Gate Brewery becomes the largest brewery in the world.
1886: GUINNESS® becomes the first major brewery to be incorporated as a public company.
1890: Edward Cecil Guinness established the Guinness Trust, to provide homes for the poor.

1927: Rupert Guinness (Second Lord Iveagh) becomes Chairman on Edward Cecil's death.
1929: First official advertising campaign for GUINNESS® is launched in Great Britain.
1936: First overseas GUINNESS® brewery is opened at Park Royal in London.
1939: Rupert Guinness donated Iveagh House, St. Stephen's Green to the Irish Government.

1927: Rupert Guinness (Second Lord Iveagh) becomes Chairman on Edward Cecil's death.
1929: First official advertising campaign for GUINNESS® is launched in Great Britain.
1936: First overseas GUINNESS® brewery is opened at Park Royal in London.
1939: Rupert Guinness donated Iveagh House, St. Stephen's Green to the Irish Government.

Newspaper Tree

One morning we did not get our morning Waco Trib newspaper, so I thought.... then one day I found that it was in the front tree.

Sunday's

Sunday: St. Albans Episcopal Church, then off to lunch. Today it was Jason's Deli. I ate half of my grilled cheese sandwich plus I ate 1/2 of Stephanie's Miami Panini. Rachel always enjoys a baked potato with butter and cheese!