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We love getting together with family and friends for picnics and good fellowship.  Yesterday our table looked like this.  We enjoyed a wonderful meal with our friends, the Horns.  Dave, Jess and kids came over for a while also.  It was a really nice evening.  Today we went to Pandapas Pond for another picnic.  Chuck and his family came, Jess and her family and us.  The younger kids played in the pond and us older ones sat around and talked.  Great times.

I wanted to let you all know about what has been going on here in the last few weeks.  George is taking a much needed break from chemo.  While he is on this break, the doctors have decided it is a good time for him to have his surgery.  The tumor on his bowels has shrunk enough that they are going to remove it.  This is a huge praise!!  They will be removing the fistula that is connected to his bladder, repairing the bladder and removing his colostomy.  This will be happening on Wednesday, May 27th.  We so appreciate your prayers on this as this will be a major surgery.  They estimate he will be in the hospital for 5 days.  The tumors are still present in his liver but this will greatly improve his quality of life(these are the doctors words).  All we know is what we have said all along-GOD IS IN CONTROL AND GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!!

Enjoy your day and God bless.

This is my new favorite salad.  It has spinach on the bottom, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, black beans, strawberries and feta cheese.  I usually do not like vinaigrette dressings but this raspberry one is really good with this salad.  The spinach is store bought but

ours is coming along nicely.   I look forward to our own fresh greens in our next salad.

I thought I would share an early morning picture with you all.  These two pictures were taken from our front porch as Hubby and I drank our morning coffee together.  I am so blessed!  A year ago at this time we did not know if the Lord would give us another year together or not.  The same applies today however one thing we do know-God is in control and I praise Him for that.

Enjoy your day and God bless.

Hello everyone!  Today the girls and I have been busy making strawberry rhubarb jam.  This is one of our favorite jams.  This year I used the recipe from here http://hickeryhollerfarm.blogspot.com/search?q=strawberry+rhubarb+jam

Our rhubarb cut up and ready to go.  There is enough rhubarb left to freeze some and share some.

Strawberries and rhubarb combined and ready to start cooking.

Finished!  I doubled the batch and got 6 and 1/2 pts.  YUM!

Enjoy your day and God bless.

Yesterday the girls spent the afternoon picking dandelions.  We are making dandelion jelly.  We tried to make it several years ago but it never set up to jelly stage so we had dandelion syrup.  It was very good just not what we were trying to make.  So this year we are trying again.  We followed the recipe found here http://www.simplycanning.com/dandelion-jelly.html

They picked about a gal. of dandelion flowers however this was too many.  Next time we will not pick as much.

The most time consuming part is getting off all the green stuff.

They are such a pretty yellow color.

I have excellent helpers though so no matter what we are doing it goes fast and is lots of fun.  These girls are awesome!

After finishing the dandelions, we enjoyed chicken on our new grill (my birthday gift from my other awesome daughter and son-in-law)

Enjoy your day and God bless.

Hello everyone!  Look at my pretty birthday cake my friend Vicki made me.  Thanks so much Vicki!

We celebrated with pizza and cake.

She got me this infuser.  I have wanted one of these for quite some time.  It will fit over any size canning jar (wide mouth).  We had a great evening. Thanks again Vicki!

I thought I would share a few spring pictures with everyone.  I am not sure what these flowers are.  We made a trip to Rocky Mount today and they were on the side of the road.

Mayapple coming up.

Redbuds blooming.

Wild mustard.

Weeping cherry.

Pretty tree(in other words, I am not sure what kind of tree it is).

Bluebells.

More pretty flowers.  Rocky Mount is off the mountain from us.  They are warming than we are so their season is about 2 weeks ahead of us.And just because I know everyone wants to see more pictures of John Luke, here he is coming home yesterday evening.  Enjoy your day and God bless.

Isn’t he beautiful!

Daddy doing the first diaper.

Our friend Bumblebee, who sat with us all day, all night and all day again just for this moment! Mommy, Daddy and John Luke.  God is good all the time and we praise Him for this brand new person in our family.