Nancy Chisum

interests: genealogy, gardening, herbs, foraging, reading, history, journaling

[Wolf @WolfprwX]

Man Saves Fox Trapped Beneath Frozen Lake.

[INTERNET POST @internetpost01]

What a beautiful thing! 😍
Doctor removes the bandages from the Baby's eyes, he stays silent and then gets emotional upon seeing his mother's face for the first time. ❤️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@ronsterd89 For dipping eggs to color them at Easter. Came with Paas egg color kits.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In a worn-down stone farmhouse tucked high in the Yorkshire Dales—where winter winds slipped through every gap and snow could swallow the fields for weeks—Hannah Hauxwell would get up before daylight and walk straight into the cold, on her own. No central heating. No fancy equipment. And she didn’t make a show of it.

Born in 1926, Hannah took over Low Birk Hatt Farm after her parents died. Plenty of people would’ve left, especially as the years went on and hill farming started to fall apart. By the late 1960s, the money just wasn’t there anymore. Neighbors sold their land. Younger generations headed for the cities. Hannah stayed.

Life was relentless. She carried water by hand, fought through brutal winters to look after her cattle, and lived without electricity for years. She earned so little that at one point she was getting by on only a few pounds a week. But walking away from the farm—the place that had made her who she was—never felt like an option.

Then, in 1972, a TV documentary brought her story into living rooms across Britain. People tuned in expecting something grim. What they saw instead was a kind of quiet toughness. Hannah’s face—weathered, steady, completely unsentimental—came to represent a kind of rural endurance many thought had disappeared. She didn’t romanticize hard living, and she didn’t ask anyone to feel sorry for her. She just got on with it. When someone asked if she felt lonely, she didn’t dodge the question: sometimes, yes. But self-pity was never the point.

Later on, she did allow her life to change. She sold the farm and moved somewhere more comfortable. Still, what people remembered wasn’t tragedy—it was her strength, the kind that doesn’t need applause.

In a world sprinting toward ease and convenience, Hannah Hauxwell stood for something older and rarer: self-reliance, restraint, and a deep loyalty to a place and a way of life.

© Colorized History

#archaeohistories

[News 4 San Antonio @News4SA]

SEARCH FOR MISSING TEEN | https://t.co/plCopGf7kV
Family and friends gathered early Saturday morning to search for a missing 19-year-old Camila Mendoza Olmos who was last seen near her home on Christmas Eve.

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@GrandmaSuzys @kelly_ques Unbelievable! What a jerk that guy was!

[Not A Number @myhiddenvalue]

A lady at the grocery store shows that every single thing she picks up now says “Contains bioengineered ingredients”

“I'm here at Aldi, and almost everything they have contains bioengineered food ingredients.” This is all fake food."

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@rstone6192008 Different than Frito Pie. Sounds good!

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

Oklahoma family finds large brown diamond at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park https://t.co/LyyxdWRn71

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

I'm attending this event. RT if you think others will find this helpful 🙌 https://t.co/qzZHrWJoUl #Plants4thePeople

[In Touch Ministries @InTouchMin]

“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (Prov. 4:23 NIV).

What does that look like in your daily walk with God? How do you protect your heart from influences that pull you away from Him?

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@BarronTNews_ Well that's what he did to Charlie Kirk isn't it? But no. Death penalty... yes but don't make it a circus.

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@RedLineReportt Well gosh didn't he invent the internet? LOL

[Fr. Chris Vorderbruggen @FatherChrisVor1]

Lord, we pray for the elderly who sit alone in quiet rooms, whose hands once held children, whose voices once filled homes. Comfort their loneliness with Your presence. Let them know they are not forgotten, but cherished, beloved, and held close to Your heart.

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

@WakeUpPatriott I doubt that many Trump supporters listen to him anyway

[Nancy Chisum @ChisumNancy]

You know I don't recall any "attack on free speech" comments when Tucker Carlson's network took him off the air.....

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness.”

Written by Thomas Jefferson in a letter to George Washington, this quote is as relevant today as it was in the 1700s.

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