I have made this ice cream for years. I got the recipe from Rachel Cokely.

Good morning everyone! It’s been a while since my last post. I hope you are all doing well. Check out my newest kitchen helper!! Its a presto digital canner. I have wanted one of these for several years. I first saw one on a YouTube video, Acre Homestead. I think it will definitely be a good helper.

And just in time, as the garden is starting to produce! Just look at all that beautiful food!

Jess had a birthday the beginning of this month. I made her this pumpkin pie afghan. It is made with the peek a boo stitch from Bag O Bag crochet. I really like how it turned out and I think she likes it too.

I had planned on doing a garden update today but we got some much needed rain last night so I guess I’ll save that for another post. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

God bless!

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all having a great day! We are good here. I wanted to share a little garden update. The raspberries are just starting to ripen. We love raspberries!

The grapes and the blueberries are looking good. The blueberries should start to ripen within a few weeks.

John Luke especially loves blueberries.

Zucchini and squash are getting started.

Ain’t they cute!

This picture is of the tomato row and the raised beds in the middle garden.

This is the raised beds in the upper garden. The peas are just about done. I will be pulling the vines this week and planting something in their place. Maybe some flowers.

I love this time of year! Enjoy your day and God bless!

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are all having a good day. I wanted to show a few garden pictures (ok, so maybe more than a few😂). We got some rain last week so everything is really growing good. It always amazes me, I can water for a week and things just barely stay alive. The good Lord can send rain and everything just pops! The above picture is the broccoli and cabbage.

Yellow squash, zucchini and cucumbers with some cosmos flowers on both ends of the row.

Corn. The plastic bags tied to the cattle panel is to hopefully keep the birds from eating the seeds!

Peppers. We have had some chilly nights so the peppers are a little slow taking off.

More squash. These are white patty pan squash.

Sugar snap peas. These are loaded with peas and bloom. We have already been eating from these.

Carrots

Rampicante squash at the cattle panel and georgia candy roaster squash in the middle of the bed.

I have okra and beans planted in the garden too but they are not up yet.

Tomatoes. I trimmed these yesterday and many of them needed to be tied up to the trellis.

Potatoes

Early green beans planted in this little raised bed. My mom always wanted to have fresh green beans from the garden by the 4th of July. So I always plant a little patch in remembrance of her.

Blueberry bushes are loaded!

Our beautiful rose bush. Trust me when I say the picture does not do it justice. It is beautiful!

God bless!

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all having a good day.

In my previous post, I showed you all the new seed storage container I got at Michael’s. Yesterday during the rain, I worked on putting my seeds in the new container. In the above picture, you can see what it looked like before. I think it is obvious why I wanted something new.

The system itself wasn’t bad. I had everything in folders in alphabetical order. It just needed to be gone through. I put the older seeds in ziploc bags and stored them in a closet. Newer seeds are in the new container.

I moved all the supplies underneath in the milk crate.

I think it looks so much better. Definitely an improvement! It always amazes me how little improvements like this can make such a difference.

God bless!

Good morning everyone! I hope you are all having a good day!

We are getting a really good rain here. I am sitting on my glassed in front porch enjoying the sound of rain on my tin roof. I have a fresh cup of coffee, candles lit and my handsome man, Juicy (my cat) curled up beside me.

Thank you, Lord!

We have been having some difficulties getting the rain water to go into our big rain barrel up at the garden but, judging by the above picture, I think it is doing ok now. I hope so.

Grace and I went to Christiansburg yesterday to get the gutter attachment for the rain barrel. We stopped at Michael’s. We found this picture case on sale for $17. I was so happy. They are normally $41. I see so many people on YouTube use these to store their seeds in. If the rain continues, I will probably work on putting some seeds in this today.

Michael’s didn’t have a lot of yarn but we found this one on clearance for $3. I love the colors. I like to build up my yarn staff during the summer so I have plenty to work with in the winter.

I forgot to show you all my new little sitting area in the garden. I love it!! I am thinking about an umbrella for it but I don’t know yet.

I guess that’s all for now. I hope everyone has a good day. God bless!

I am trying this recipe today using our lemon balm. I got the recipe from Homesteading With The Zimmermans on YouTube.

Hello everyone! I hope you have all had a great week! I thought I would share a few things that have been going on here. I spent the morning doing chores that I have been putting off. 😁 First, I cleaned out the rabbit hutches and then the chicken house.

Very happy hens! We also put fresh hay in the duck house but I forgot to get a picture of it. Next year’s compost pile started.

Lunch for today. Yum!

On Wednesday, we made a trip to Mill Mountain Zoo. It is a small zoo but lots of fun.

Her arms are almost as big as an eagles! We have measured arm span by this eagle for years.

We missed Dave on this trip but he was gone to a conference.

I hope you all have a great Memorial Day weekend. God bless!

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Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing well. Things are good here. Busy but good. I wanted to do a garden update so this post contains quite a few pictures! First, just look at these raspberries! The vines are loaded so hopefully this year will be a good raspberry harvest.

The blueberries are looking good too!

Look at all these cute little baby grapes! These grapes are seedless Concord grapes and they are so sweet!

A few of the tomato plants are starting to bloom!

All these boxes contain different varieties of cherry tomatoes. In front of the tomatoes, I planted a small row of green beans in each box.

These are all the other tomatoes. There are 31 plants in this row. Lots of varieties. Some of them are new to us, some are not.

We are starting to get a few peas!

Carrots are looking good!

Zinnias

Rampicante squash

Georgia Candy Roaster squash. This is a new to me variety. It is a type of winter squash.

A volunteer potato plant

Peppers, about 20 plants. Different varieties. Many of these are new varieties for us to try.

Squash, zucchini and cucumbers in this row.

Broccoli and cabbage

I planted this row of green beans this morning. I couldn’t get the contender green bean seeds this year that I usually plant. These are a new variety called provider. Hopefully they will do good for us.

View from the top of the garden at the grapevine.

I guess that’s enough garden pictures for now. Hopefully more to follow as everything grows.

God bless!