It definitely was a frosty morning here in Floyd.  This is what the Parkway looked like this morning as I was going into town.  I wanted to run a few errands early as snow was predicted for this evening.  I’m glad I did as we are getting snow now.  I don’t think there will be much accumulation though.  The girls are hoping for at least enough to make snow cream.

This picture was taken at the top of our driveway.  I thought the clouds and sky were very pretty.

This is an old barn below our house.  Can you tell I am glad to have my new camera?

Not much going on here.  Time to sit and rest for a spell.  Enjoy your evening and God bless.

I know-another sunrise picture-but what can I say.  I love sunrises and sunsets.  I took this picture the other morning with my new camera.   My old camera was about 10 yrs old and had been giving me a lot of trouble.  So Hubby decided to get me a new one for Christmas.  I really like it.  It is much smaller and more compact than the old one. Thanks, Babe!

This is what we have been doing today.  We did a major spring clean of the sitting room.  Windows, curtains everything.  I think it looks so good.  We call it the sitting room because it is a favorite sitting place.  This is the view from the couch.

A great place to sit and read or sit and pray or-well you get the idea.  We are getting cloudy here with rain expected tonight.  I think they are calling for snow on Wednesday.  We’ll see what happens.  I am planning on making more bread tomorrow to take to sell.  All the other loaves sold!!!!  I think I might bake some chocolate chip cookies and see if they sell too.

I guess that’s about all that is going on here.  Oh, I almost forgot.  Sad and happy times for our church.  The new pastor was voted in yesterday.  This is good as I think he will do an excellent job.  Sad though as we will miss Pastor Tom and Sally.  I thank all of you for your prayers on this.   I hope you have a wonderful day and God bless.

Since our visit to the tea room, we have been having tea every day.  This is our “set” we have been using.  All of this, we have had for a long time except the little sugar bowl.  I found it here on the farm in one of the buildings.  It looked a lot different when I found it than it does now.  I did a lot of cleaning on it but it was well worth it.

I also took some bread Wednesday over to R G Cattle Co. here in Floyd to see if maybe it would sell.  I talked to the owner today and she said all had sold except one loaf and they would probably be buying it.  Yeah!  This is good news.  Hopefully,  I can keep on selling it. A little extra cash is always a good thing.  I also sold 2 loaves last week to a man our pastor knows.

We are moving along with our pastor search.  We had a prospective pastor speak Sunday.  He did a really good job.  We will be voting this coming Sunday.  I would appreciate your prayers on this matter.

Well, lunch break is over-time for school to start back.  I am SOOOO glad to have my computer back.  It makes it much more convenient for me to make posts.  I hope you all have a wonderful day and God bless.

I wanted to show you all my new pizza pan.  Jess got me this for Christmas!!  I have been wanting a cast iron pizza pan for quite a while.  I LOVE it!!  It really makes a difference in the crust.   I have posted the crust recipe I use here https://merryheartcrafts.com/category/recipes/bread  I’ve tried many and many homemade crust recipes.  This is by far the best I have tried and very easy to make.

We make a lot of homemade pizza here for three reasons.  One, it is 20 min from our home to the closest pizza place.  That’s 20 min there, 20 min back-not good.  Second, they are expensive-not the Little Caesar’s $5.00 pizzas.  Third, we just like homemade stuff better.  That being said, guess what we had for lunch today.

We are getting settled in today for some serious cold weather.  We were supposed to have snow today but that did not happen.  Our temperature has dropped 20 degrees since we got up this morning and is supposed to drop 20 more by midnight.  Tomorrow mornings low is -5 with a wind chill of -25.  I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT!!!  Hopefully, power stays on and water does not freeze.  I keep reminding myself, spring is on the way.  I hope you all stay warm and God bless.

Hello everyone!  It has been many months since my laptop has been in operation.  Thanks to my hero, Dave, I am tonight sitting in my chair making my post on my laptop.  Thank you, thank you Dave!!!

This weekend, Jess, Julie, Grace and myself, went somewhere new.  Something we had never done before.  It was part of my Christmas gift.  We went to an actual tea room and had the “Queen’s tea”.

We had so much fun.  We tried new things (new to us), laughed SO much and just really enjoyed the day.

Here we are getting ready to leave for our outing.

Here is my little keepsake to remind me of the fun day I had with all my precious girls.  Life is short.  I think we should take every opportunity to spend time with those we love.

Enjoy your day and God bless.

Hello everyone!  I am taking another walk down memory lane today.  I remembered this morning (before I even got out of bed) that I had this old newspaper article about my mom’s mother.  It took me  a while to find it but it was worth the search.  The newspaper was dated 1966 and I think the writing style is so sweet.  I apologize that I couldn’t get the print to be any bigger and where the paper was folded they are a few lines missing but hopefully you will be able to read it.  I also found this sale ad from a local supermarket in the paper.  I think you will find the prices interesting.

Not much going on here.  We cut wood on Saturday as it was fairly warm here.  It is a full days work when we get wood.  George cuts it, the girls and I wheelbarrow it to the truck and stack it.  We then bring it home, split it as we unload it , then stack it in the building.  As I said it is a full day but then that load is completely finished.  I like that.

Well, I better get busy.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

Hello everyone!  I wanted to share with you all this picture of my grandparents.  I only yesterday came into possession of this picture.  My cousin found it with some of her pictures and sent it to me.  I have no idea when it was taken but they look fairly young to me.

I was flooded with memories as soon as I look at the picture.  So many years have passed since I had seen a picture of them.  I thought maybe I would share a few of these memories.  My Maw was one of the nicest women anyone could meet.  She always had a smile for us grandkids-you know the kind that makes you think you are SO special.  She was an excellent cook and could make the BEST biscuits you would ever taste.   She became sick with cancer when I was about 8.  We lived fairly close to them so we would go visit often.  Every time we went I always wanted something to eat.  Once after she had gotten sick we were going to visit.  Mom fixed supper before we left because she said Maw wasn’t doing too well.  She told me “Now you have just eat so I know you are not hungry.  Don’t you ask Maw for something to eat.  If you do, I’m going to whip you. (Yes, I grew up during the time when kids did get spanked)  Maw ain’t able to cook nothing.”  Okay, so we go over to visit.  We are sitting on the front porch.  Maw is on the porch swing.  I am thinking I sure would like something to eat.  So in true child fashion I say, “Maw, I would ask for something to eat but Mom said if I did she would whip me!”  I can still see her getting up from the swing, giving my mom a look and saying, “Rosie, this child is hungry”.  She walked in the kitchen with me, gave me a biscuit, hugged my neck and back out on the porch we went.  Now, you know I wasn’t really hungry.  I just needed to know that everything was alright with my Maw.  And to me, that day,  it was.

Now a memory I have of Paw.  My paw died of black lung.  It is a hard death.  When he was in the hospital right before he died, there was a young man in the bed next to him.  I remember Paw telling him about Jesus and how he needed to turn his life over to Him.  I listened carefully.  A few days later, Paw went home to be with his Jesus.  From that moment, my life changed.  I will always believe that his death was the true beginning of my life.  Watching him die showed me eternity was real.  Where I spent it was up to me.  I decided I wanted Jesus to be my Savior, my Redeemer, my Rock.

I like to think I have a little of both of them in me.  I love to feed people.  I love to tell people about Jesus.  Thank you all for taking this little walk down memory lane with me.  I pray you all have a wonderful Christmas and God bless.

This is one of the things I have been busy working on.   My friend, Retia’s daughter is expecting a baby girl very soon and I wanted to make her something special from me.  I finally got it finished.  So little Miss Jocelyn, you can come whenever you are ready.

We have had beautiful weather here today.  Our temperature is upper 50’s with lots of sunshine.  AMAZING!  I love it.  We had a little snow Tuesday night.  It was pouring down.  Looked like a blizzard but it didn’t last too long.  Just long enough for everything to get a good covering, making it all look beautiful.

The youth did their Christmas play Sunday morning at church.  They all did a great job.  I know we are a small church but our plays always seem to be so good.  Everyone seems to put forth a lot of effort to do it and I think it shows in their performance.  I do have some sad news though.  I don’t think I have shared this with you all but Pastor Tom is leaving us.  He said he really feels like the Lord wants him to step down and have someone younger step in as our pastor.  Now I’m not one to try to tell someone what the Lord is speaking to them about but we certainly will miss him and Mrs. Sally.  He says he will stay until the committee finds someone else but it just doesn’t feel the same knowing he will be leaving soon.  The committee has interviewed several people and one is scheduled to preach a trial message on the first Sunday in January.  I would appreciate your prayers for our church on this matter.

Well, I think that’s about it.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

Every year the girls and I try to do a gingerbread house.  I think this years one turned out pretty good.  We buy the kit and then decorate it however we want.

Another thing we try to do every year is enjoy this coffee.  It comes from Fresh Market and we LOVE it!  It is (of course) only around at Christmas so that makes it kinda special.  I think I will have to make us some after I finish this post.

Grace is finally feeling some better.  She had to go back to the doctor on Monday.  They gave her an inhaler to use here at home and that seems to be helping.  Julie is feeling better as well.  Yeah!

We had ice on Sunday so church was cancelled.  The youth were supposed to do their annual Christmas play.  We were kinda glad church was cancelled, that way the girls didn’t miss doing their parts in the play.  Hopefully, we will get to do it this Sunday-depends upon the weather.  Sometimes December is a rough month here.  Today is nice though with sunshine.  The temperature is mild-40 degrees with not much wind.

Well, I guess that’s about it.  That Christmas coffee is calling my name.  Enjoy your day and God bless.