My little buddies

July 30 008

Luke 18:16

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the Kingdom of God.

Have we had fun, well its is more than eating. I wouldn't trade this water gun for any of this stuff I am supposed to be eating.

The Boys taking a bath

July 25 oo8

St. Luke 18: 17

Verly I say unto you,Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therin.

After a hard days work this is one thing we love to do. Never mind all those bubbles, I will even drink a little of it if it comes nesseary.

Walking

June 17: 008

Matthew 21: 6

And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them.

When we think of it the disciples traveled by foot, they went out with out any purse or extras of any kind of protection. Jesus was their proctor.

I remember walking every where we went and never thought much about it and I wonder if we could do that now. The Lord was always there and protected us where ever we went. I pray these little feet will be guided buy His hand all through life.

Mixed violets

July 13 008

Psalm 90: 17
And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us: y ea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

I have found these violets to be the most joy of any plant you can have, they will just keep blooming and blooming, big clusters of them and now you can see what else can be done with them. This white with the blue edge around it is a cross between the light blue and the dark blue. My first. Just put your plants in a two part pot, especially made for African violets, put a job stick in the bottom with some water and put two plants of two different colors and see what you
can do. You will only have to keep that water and job stick in the bottom of that pot and water about once a month but will go longer than that
if you can not get to it. Happy flowering.

From the garden

July 7-8 ---008

Genesis 1:12

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

This is some of the vegetables from my garden, the squash,( yellow and zucchini), tomatoes, egg plants and the jalapeno peppers has really been good this time. I have cooked every kind of squash cassserole you can think of, just livenly it up with some of the jalapeno peppers, onions, garlic and celery really does make a good dish. I think I like it best with some pork sausage or ground chuck stired in with it. I can never get tired of the blueberry pies. All of this I have to limit so the sugar and salt really does make a differance, I can use splenda in the pie but just can't hardly eat those tomatoes with out that salt.

I hope every one else is blessed with some of this or all, just doesn't seem like summer with out those fresh vegetables. My garden is small and the different kinds are limited but I do have another small garden with some cucumber, onion, and garlic, then the herbs stashed around in pots, that to is good in these casseroles. Dannelle has been a great help this year bringing plants,fertilize and mulch, even helping me gather it.

berry Pickers

July 4Th 008

Numbers 11:5

We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons and the leeks and the onions , and the garlic.

This is some of the berry pickers we had a while back, and was a lots of good conversation going on and a lots of berries picked.

Reaching back for how it use to be reminds me of how it was when I was a child and remembering things my mother cooked. I don't know if she cooked the Shoofly Pie or not but I am sure she cooked some sort of pie that she put molasses in it. If she did put any kind of sugar it was the sugar she scraped from the inside of the molasses can. Now that was a long time ago but the molasses cookies were so good with that rock sugar she got from the can. I can almost smell it now. My niece that was picking the berries sent me this Pie recipe so you can see what you think it will taste like

Aunt Emmy;s Shoo fly Pie 3/4 tsp backing soda

1/4 cup shortening 1/4 tsp salt

1 1/2 cup flour 3/4 cup molasses

1 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup hot water

Work the above ingredients together

1/8 tsp nutmeg

pinch of cinnamon, ginger and cloves, mix well together and add hot water. Pour into an unbaked pie shell, combine the crumbs and liquid in alternate layers, with crumbs on bottom and top. Bake 15 Mins. at 450 then 20 Mins. at 350

I am reaching a way back now and getting a recipe .

July 3 0008

St Matthew 18: 14

Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Well folks I have me two little basket ball players. I think they wont to drive cars just as well, Just let me have those keys and I will show you. This is the time of my life with my uncle and paw paw Bob showing us how to ring that ball.

Blueberries

July 3 0008

Numbers 11: 8

And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it:and the taste of it was of as the taste of fresh oil.

And the "Melt in your mouth" cake is one of the best you can make of the blueberries. There was enough of the berries to go around this time. Even though was not as many this time as there was last year. We had plenty of rain this year and they were delightfully big and nice. I still have lots of them on the trees and picked a gallon just yesterday. Now I have some to give away to someone that needs them.
We had lots of pickers and even the two year old goes out and picks and doesn't even look back when you tell him he might get in a bug bed. Never mind that I'm going to pick berries and I will try eating a green one if I please. Even climb the tree.