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Science Saturday & Blogger Day

Today is Blogger Day! I’m thankful you’re here reading and I want to introduce you to another blog I read. Tisserand Institute is a company I trust for accurate information about essential oils. If you’re interested in information like the infographic below, then you’ll like the Tisserand Institute blog.

I’m offering you this graphic for my Science Saturday posts that I’d like to start doing. It’s important to know what your essential oils can do and what you can’t do or shouldn’t do with the oils. Knowledge is power! Here’s a little information about the popular Lavender essential oil and it’s effect on knee osteoarthritis..

So now you know! I hope you have a great weekend! If you have a favorite essential oil blog, put it in the comments below!

~ Lisa @ Honeysuckle Farm

Introducing…

If you follow me on social media, you might have seen my post introducing a blogger I recently met online. Just in case you missed the post, or don’t follow me on social media, I wanted to introduce her here on the blog because today is Blogger Day!

Blogger Andrea A. writes the blog Between the Lines: Stories from Family History. Andrea’s blog is much like mine. She tells stories about her ancestors. She also uses 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog prompts like I do. I highly recommend Andrea’s blog, especially right now when I’m not blogging due to life circumstances. If you’re looking for a good story from history, go check out Andrea’s blog and let her know I sent you!

Until next time,

~ Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog

Friday Fave

One of my favorite products are the magnets from Shutterfly. I gathered up some ancestral photos and put them on these magnets then I displayed them in my home. Here’s one with my great-grandparents:

When my grandsons come over, they often play with the magnets. They will ask about the people in the photographs and that’s when I get the opportunity to introduce them to an ancestor. My hope is that one day they will be interested enough to learn more. For now, I’m happy to get an opportunity to tell them a story and familiarize them with their family history.

You can get these magnets on the Shutterfly phone app for $2 plus shipping using the code APPMAGS. If you like my 2×2 magnets, choose the “Modern Border Photo Magnet”, then upload your four photos and type the ancestor’s name in the label bar if you want the ancestor’s name on the magnet, too. I don’t know how long the magnet sale will last so if you love these, download the phone app and get yours ordered asap! I hope you like this Friday Fave. Have a great weekend!

~ Lisa @ Days of Our Lives

Back to School – Friday Fave

It’s that time of year again – back to school! Some teachers will return this week, some of you return a little later, and some homeschools never stop for the summer! Here’s my back-to-school gift to you: a diffuser recipe that will bring calm to your classroom. I hope all of you have a great school year!

Doughboys and Polar Bears

We finish with the bayonet.

The motto of the Doughboys who fought in the Polar Bear Expedition of the 339th in North Russia.

SITUATION REPORT:

It’s 0300 on 1 April 1919. My company – Company E – is stationed near Arkhangelsk, Russia. Temperatures are frigid. The snow is waist deep. It’s a new moon. I can barely see in front of my face but I know they’re coming. I can hear them. The Bolos – Bolsheviks – aim to kill us, one way or another. They’ll begin shooting at us soon. I can feel it. I pray. I think of Fred BRUMM in Company H. Are they attacking him, too? I pray for him as well. I pray for all the Detroit boys. And then it happens. At 0330…a frontal bayonet assault on the blockhouses! God help us!
An imagined scenario that depicts Otto MOELLER on 1 April 1919.

Otto Moeller

On 1 April 1919 at 0330 in the vast nothingness of Arkhangelsk, Russia, just below the Arctic Circle, Otto MOELLER battled the Bolsheviks in a war that seemingly would not end for his unit. Armistice had already been signed in late 1918 but here he was – along with the rest of the 339th – still in battle against the Bolsheviks in North Russia and for what? The ‘why’ was never clear. No end goal, no consistent mission, no clear motive. Even after he returned to the United States he would never really know why they continued on in Russia.

I’ll be posting a full blog post about Otto this coming week and I’ll include information about Fred BRUMM who was in the 339th with Otto, but in Company H. For today, I just wanted to set the scene for you for Otto’s April 1st in 1919. Happy April 1st to you. Stay tuned. You won’t want to miss Otto’s and Fred’s experience in North Russia.

Celebrate Your Name Week

This week is Celebrate Your Name Week. Each day has a designated topic. Today is Namesake Day. Since I’ve already written about this topic, I’ll just link my previous post here. Tell me in the comments if you were named after someone or someone was named after you and who it was/is.

You can find my post here: https://honeysuckle-farm.com/the-power-of-a-name/.

Enjoy your week!

Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog

Stories for the Boys: #Triggered

I was wandering around the Twitter-verse last night after midnight and I found a hashtag that I decided to follow. One of the things I found triggered a memory so I thought I would share for the boys.

A Time-Travel Story

The daily prompt I encountered was, “Name a time-travel story you enjoyed”. I began thinking of the time-travel stories I’ve read – quite a few. I wrote one of my own so it helps to know what’s already out there. My brain settled on one book in particular and here’s the memory it triggered.

My “Perfect Book at the Perfect Time”

When I was a child, my love of time travel stories was kicked off by Andre Norton with her book Octagon Magic from her The Magic Books series. It’s one of the earliest books I ever remember reading. I lived in a small, rural town that didn’t have a public library at the time (at least not that I can remember). I don’t even remember having a school library at that time! Our library “service” came via a pamphlet in the mail every month. I couldn’t wait for that pamphlet to arrive!! I would pore over all the books marking ones I would like to read. I wonder if my mom ever missed that pamphlet? I’m not sure she saw enough of them to know we were getting them because I swiped them!

Anyway, at that time, you would choose your book(s), mail the order back in and in a few weeks you’d get your book to read. #OldSkool

Cover of Andre Norton’s *Octagon Magic*.

I may or may not have gotten the book through the mail service. I really don’t remember how I got access to that book but I suspect it was that service. (However, my mom was working on her Bachelor degree to be a school librarian so it could just as easily come from her!) I never read any other book in the series and don’t remember even knowing it was a series until I was an adult and looked for that book again. In fact, I don’t think I ever read another Andre Norton book. If I did, it didn’t leave an impression like this one did. There’s nothing like the perfect book at the perfect time!

My Wish For You

My wish for you is that you find your “perfect book at the perfect time” sooner rather than later, and that you find many “perfect books” during your lifetime. A quick recommendation for my grandsons: the author Jon Scieszka. His goal in writing is to create books for boys who don’t necessarily like to read.

Happy reading,

Grandma, aka Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog

It’s Pooh Day!

Today is A. A. Milne’s birthday, otherwise known as Pooh Day. Pooh had a lot of wisdom to impart. Here are a few bits of wisdom Pooh laid down for us:

On Love & Friendship

“If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

“A hug is always the right size.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

“Any day spent with you is my favorite day. So, today is my new favorite day.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” ~Winnie the Pooh

“The most important thing is, even when we’re apart…I’ll always be with you…” ~ Winnie the Pooh

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

“‘We’ll be friends forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet. ‘Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”

“How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”~ Winnie the Pooh

“I’m never afraid with you.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

On Loving Yourself

“The things that make me different are the things that make me, me.” ~Piglet

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” ~ Christopher Robin

On Happiness

“It never hurts to keep looking for sunshine.” ~Eeyore

One for Cousin Camp

“We didn’t realize we were making memories. We just knew we were having fun.”

And One Final Tidbit

“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was going to happen.” ~Winnie the Pooh

Go out today and be adventurous! Love generously, keep looking for sunshine, and remember how lucky you are.

Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog

New Year, New Goals, New Themes: 2023

Happy 2023! I’ve officially been blogging for 15 years now. Crazy to think it’s been that long! There aren’t a lot of things I stick with for that long but here we are!

The first theme for this year is “I’d like to meet”. We recently lost my uncle, Max. We lost him shortly before Christmas. Today I was reflecting about him seeing and talking to my grandparents (his parents) a couple of days before his passing. I think about this a lot because it’s happened to so many people I know right before they passed away. In regard to my ancestry, there are a lot of people I’d like to meet. I know I won’t get to meet them all since we won’t all be going to the same place after death. Hopefully, I will meet the majority of them though.

I asked my husband today if he ever thought about this part of death – like, who would visit him and escort him out of this world when he died. He said no. Me? I think about it a lot. I think about the people I hope to see again after my death. I’m the opposite of my husband. In fact, I have a running list and have made requests for who escorts me from this life to the next. Never hurts to ask, right?

So, in addition to Jesus and a few prominent Biblical figures (I’m looking at you, Queen Esther!), I’d like to meet the two angel grandbabies that I never got to meet. I’d like to see my son again and my grandparents (Audrey, Gene, Jessie, and Troy) and great grandparents (Mark DRAKE, Edith HUBBARD DRAKE, Ralph LARKIN, Bessie WILLIAMS LARKIN, Albert BATES, Dettie GIBSON BATES, William RITER, and Laura BULLOCK RITER), but most of those are people I’ve already met and the theme was who would you like to meet. So, in addition to my angel grandbabies, I think I would like to meet Emily HENNIG or Lavina PILGRIM DRAKE. I’d like to know what they’re stories are and why I can’t find any information about them. Add in Lucinda DOW GIBSON. She had a crazy life. And maybe the great-grandmothers I didn’t meet – Laura BULLOCK RITER and Dettie GIBSON BATES (see links above). (I’d even settle for meeting the great-grandpas I never met: Ralph LARKIN, Albert BATES, and William RITER – see links above.) We could all sit down and have tea together and discuss the lives they led. I wouldn’t even mind if we discussed what I got right and what I got wrong about them on my blog. I could own up to mistakes in my research for this particular tea time.

Alas, I’ll have to wait. Hopefully they’re waiting for me in the place I intend to be after my death. I’m dying to find out…ha ha. Couldn’t resist that one. In the meantime, I’ll just have to keep researching and keep updating my death bed request list.

I apologize for the morbid start to 2023. Despite the morbid start (or maybe because of it), I recommend clicking the names above to read my blog posts about the people mentioned in this blog. I hope you have a wonderful year – meet all your goals, see all your dreams come true, and find all the love you ever wanted in your life.

All my love,

Lisa @ Days of Our Lives blog

~ Ink & Perfume ~

New Year, New Products

I hope you are all enjoying your 2023 so far. This week (already!) is our first full moon of 2023 – the Wolf Moon! In the past, I’ve done limited edition bracelets for full moons but this year I’m going to do essential oil blends. These blends are also limited edition. In addition to the full moon blend, I have two new blends for Epiphany. I have both diffuser blends and perfume blends in a roller bottle.

Wolf Moon Blends

Blended to take full advantage of the energy of the Wolf Moon while it’s in the Cancer zodiac, this roller bottle has lavender to ground you, peppermint to uplift you, and rosewood to round off the scent. It’s a must-have for this month! I have 5 ml dropper bottles for your diffuser or 10 ml roller bottles for you to wear as a perfume.

The 5 ml dropper is filled with undiluted oils and the cost is $10.
The 10 ml roller bottle has premium Jojoba oil as a carrier base and the cost is $15.

5 ml dropper bottle and 10 ml roller bottles.

5 ml dropper and 10 ml roller bottles for size comparison.

Epiphany Perfume

Whether you call it Epiphany, Twelfth Day, or Three Kings Day, celebrate it with a subtly spicy perfume blend. This is a calming, spicy scent that has Frankincense and Myrrh as the main essential oils blended with a third oil that tones down the spicy-ness of the main oils to produce a subtle perfume. The carrier oil for the Epiphany roller is Jojoba which is wonderful for your skin.

The 10 ml roller bottle cost is $15.

Blog/Facebook Exclusive!

Celebrate January with a unique scent for your home or yourself. These products are not yet on my website so if you’re interested, you’ll have to message me. You’re getting first dibs on my new, limited edition products! Last day to purchase these products is January 31st.

I hope you all have a great week! Until next time,

Lisa @ Honeysuckle Farm/Ink & Perfume Blog