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Wednesday

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I thought I would show you all another picture of the roses in the tree.  I took this one this morning looking down from the girl’s bedroom window.  They have really looked beautiful this year.

We are still working on school as we took about a month break before and during vacation.  We only lack 10 more days if we do double lessons every day.  Then I think we will take off the summer.  We are looking forward to it.

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After school we plan on making strawberry rhubarb jam.  I posted the recipe here http://merryheartcrafts.com/category/recipes/canning-recipes/  I have made this jam for many, many years.  The recipe I normally use is a little different than this one but I want to give this one a try.

Today I am looking forward to hanging clothes on the line, doing school, making jam and hanging out with my girls.  I have such a blessed life.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

 

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Wedding

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Hello everyone!  Whew, what a busy weekend we have had.  Fun, but busy.  Our son, Chuck, was married yesterday.  I couldn’t wait to get home today and check out this picture.  I have wanted a picture of all of us together for a long time.  I guess it took a wedding to make it happen.  And just look, we’re all dressed up too!

After the reception, we played in the hotel pool for a while before bed.  We had to do something to let the kids wind down after being still for so long.  Sam amazed us all by sitting still and quiet beside his Grace the whole time the ceremony was going on.

We stopped on the way home and enjoyed a picnic.  The weather was cool but it was still nice.

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Most things are green here now.

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We have definitely been cool though.  We have freeze warnings for tonight and tomorrow night.  Hopefully, though, when this little cool spell is over things will warm up for a while.

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Little boys wishing it was warm enough that they could get in that water.   Well, I better get busy.  I have lots to get done.   I hope you all have a great evening and God bless.

 

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Busy

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Hello everyone!  We have finally moved out of the rain and cold and into sun and warmth.  I am glad.  I am definitely ready for warmer weather and sunshine.  I have clothes on the line, windows open and enjoying the day.  I just finished baking chocolate chip banana muffins.  I have rolls rising for supper tonight so all this added together makes my home smell wonderful.

Well, just a short post to let everyone know what has been going on here.  I hope you all have a great day and God bless.

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Making Ugly Dolls

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Yesterday was a fun day at church.  All year, we had been doing something at church called “secret sister”.  We each drawed a womans name and for the year that lady was our “secret sister”.  We gave her small gifts, cards etc.  Then yesterday we all got together and revealed who our sister sister was.  We also had lots of food.

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Then we did a craft.  We made ugly dolls.  I’m not sure why they are called that.  I thought they turned out very pretty.

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We are cold here.  Our temperature is 42 degrees with wind chills in the 30′s.  We have been cold, rainy and foggy all week.  We have had to build a fire several days.  Oh well,it won’t be long until we will be complaining about it being too hot.

I hope you all have a great Sunday and God bless.

 

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Wednesday

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I thought I would share this picture of Katie that Dave posted on facebook.  She certainly is growing.  Thanks Grace for helping me do this.

Things have been moving along rapidly here.  Friday we went down to Jessica’s to fix a railing on her porch.  Saturday, Jess and the kids came up to us for a visit.  Dave is down to the wire on finishing his book.  She thought he might get more done on it if they were out of the house.  It was a really nice visit.  It had been a while since they had been up.

Jess and I went in halves on a 50 lb bag of soft white wheat.  This is totally different from what I am used to using.  I have always used Prairie Gold wheat.  Supposedly, soft white wheat is for things that use baking powder not yeast. I have had a hard time learning how to bake with it.  I made chocolate chip cookies Saturday that were FLAT and I do mean flat.  Anyway Daniel said they were delicious!  Gotta love that boy!!  So I think I have finally cured the problem.  Because I freshly grind the wheat kernels, they are “fluffy”.  I need to add 1/4 cup more flour for every 1 cup the recipe calls for.  I did that this morning with some more cookies and they turned out fine.  Next trial-pie crusts.  Our rhubarb is up and I think there is enough to make a pie.  I want to try this recipe http://theblessedhearth.blogspot.com/2013/04/theres-nothing-so-sweet-as.html

We are moving right along with school.  I think we will be finished by the end of May if all goes as planned.  We are looking forward to summer break this year.  Lots of fun stuff going on.

Well, I guess that’s about all that’s going on here.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I thought I would share with you all a few pictures.  Things are really coming to life here in Floyd.  This is a field not too far from our home.  Look at how green it is!!!

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Yesterday, we went to check on a job.  We took a few pictures along the way.

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I love goldfinch.  These were certainly enjoying their feeder.

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Today is a nice day here in Floyd.  Temperature is 66 degrees.  The sky is overcast though.  Dandelions are popping up all over the place.  I think it is getting close time to make some dandelion jelly.  

I hope you all have a great day and God bless.

 

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Wednesday

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Hello everyone!  This week seems to be speeding by.  We had a great Easter weekend!  We went down to Jessica’s on Sunday.  The weather there was beautiful.  When we left Floyd that morning, it was cold, rainy and super foggy.  We still had snow in the shady places.  It really felt good to have sunshine and warmer temps for the day.

We have started warming up some this week though.  Temperatures have been in the 50′s with sun.  Nice for doing outside work.  The girls and I worked some on cleaning out the chicken house yesterday after school.  Today we (Hubby included) worked on getting wood.

I wanted to share with you all a recipe for homemade window cleaner.  Jess gave me the recipe.  It really does work.  We worked on cleaning Hubby’s van this morning.  It is his work vehicle so it gets really dirty.  I made a batch of the window cleaner and it worked really well cleaning the van windows.  If it will clean them, it must be pretty good stuff.

I think it’s time for me to rest.  Getting wood is hard work.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

 

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Beautiful Sunrise

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I know I share lots of sunrise pictures with you all but I thought this one was a little different from the others.  I like the way it looks like a flame shooting up.  That is not a trick of the camera.  It actually looked like that.  Our God is amazing!

I am making some more yogurt this morning.  Today, I am trying the stawberry flavoring instead of vanilla.  I’ll try to remember to let you all know how it turns out.  We are still cold with flurries but I think it is supposed to be warmer by the weekend.

Supper tonight is crispy fried fish, oven roasted asparagus and rice.  I guess it will really be lupper instead of supper.  We plan on going to C-burg after we eat.  Sally’s Beauty Supply has conditioner on sale in the gallon container.  We want to pick up one of those and a few other things.

I hope you all have a great day and God bless.

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Winter Wonderland

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I thought I would share a few pictures of what it looks like here in Floyd.  Maybe I shouldn’t say Floyd because from what I can understand not everywhere in Floyd looks like this.  Some areas only got ice but we have snow on top of the ice.

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Yesterday was spent not doing much of anything.  Just chilling out, reading, playing games.  Just a fun relaxing day.  Watching it snow.

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It is very beautiful, however, I do believe I am ready for warmer temperatures (I think I have said that before!)  Next week, we are supposed to warm up considerably.

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My hero!  The first thing he does after a snow is to clear the vehicles and the walkway-just in case we want to get out.  Thanks, babe!  I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless.

 

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Winter Isn’t Finished Yet

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Hello everyone!  I hope you all had a nice week.  Ours seemed to go by quickly which is not unusual for us.  No church today due to bad weather.  This picture shows what it looked like about 20 minutes ago.  Now it has changed from sleet to snow and is really peppering down.   Thursday morning our temperature was 13 with a wind chill of 6 degrees.  Wow, that feels more like January than March.  I am hoping though that when April comes in it will feel like spring.  I am definitely ready for spring temps.  The girls were supposed to play their Easter specials today.  I suppose they will have to wait until the Sunday after Easter now to play them as we always spend Easter down at Dave and Jessica’s.  It is SO much warmer at her house than it is here.

I hope you all have a great Sunday and God bless.

 

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