Good morning everyone!

We had a surprise visitor last night. I have no idea how this little guy got into the house but he was there. He was hid under the big cabinet in the dining room.  Thanks to Grace’s quick reflexes and smart thinking, she was able to catch him. We carried him up to the barn and released him.  Hopefully he stays up there.

Last night was our last cool night(hopefully). I have a few more plants to get out in the garden today. The garden is looking good. I will be doing a garden post soon.

I hope you all have a good Mother’s day tomorrow.

God bless.

Good morning everyone! This post is mostly a catch up of some of the things we’ve been doing. Friday, Grace, Katie and I went to Christiansburg (big town). Grace had to take her final exam in biology.  She did great by the way. She only has one more week, one more final exam and she will be out for summer break. Yay! We are looking forward to lots of fun things we have planned. While Grace was taking her exam, Katie and I went to home depot and got the supplies needed for our project. She built the brick walkway Friday evening. Then we built the raised beds yesterday and filled them with plants and seeds. So exciting!! I love that she is interested in gardening!❤

I am experimenting with some pepper seeds. I know it is extremely late to start them but I want to see if they will produce any fruit. We’ll see how it goes.

Another project we did was split our wood for the winter. Daniel was able to help us this year. He couldn’t help last year because he had broken his collarbone.

We sure are thankful for his help!

Sam helped with puttting down some new landscape fabric and burn new holes!

Katie helped with getting some early seeds started.

John Luke helped with some measuring.

Baptism and confirmation day into the Catholic church!

Dave took us out to eat afterward to celebrate.  I just love this picture of Grace and Katie.

We did some cleaning up around the house and one the of things we removed was some  vines. Apparently mixed in with those vines was some poison oak. I am highly allergic as you can see. Both my arms were broken out. These pictures were taken after a week of misery.

On a lighter note, flowers are starting to bloom

Asparagus is coming in and we are enjoying meals on the Blackstone!

God is GOOD!

I’m pretty sure this recipe came from Spend With Pennies. It is a easy smoothie recipe. I do add honey for sweetener or whatever sweetener I have on hand.

Good morning everyone! I hope you have all been having a good week.  Here are a few pictures and updates since my last post. Weather has been really nice here after the ice storm so we’ve been doing a little outside work. One of the first things I did was get the arched trellis back in order. It will definitely have to have a new cover this spring but this one will do until I get a new one.

Next we did some work on the grapevine

It was in need of a good trim

It looks so much better!

Another place we are working on is the forsythia area. It has been years since we trimmed this area. As you can tell, it is extremely overgrown.

It is looking much better but not finished yet. I’m very excited about getting this little area cleaned up and looking good.

I found a new to me cucumber variety to try this year. I thought it looked very cool. We’ll see.

Grace’s latest painting and…

First coltsfoot sighting!

Special sunrise this morning! Today makes 7 years since my sweet Julie went to heaven. It is a hard day for me. However, the sunrise reminds God is always there!

I hope you all have a blessed day!

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you all are having a good day. Last week was very interesting here. First we got about 4 inches of snow which was quickly covered with a thick layer of ice. It was definitely a mess.

Many tree limbs are down in our yard.

There are quite a few more but I didn’t get any more pictures of them.

Major damage though from all the downed trees. Our power went off Wednesday morning and didn’t come back on until Sunday evening.  We were definitely ready for it to come back on.

We have a generator though and Grace and I were able to get it started so we didn’t lose any of the food in the freezers. We cooked our meals on the wood stove and used the water from the rain barrels to flush the commode. All in all, not too bad but definitely makes for lots more work without electricity. So many people have it much harder than we do when the power is out.

I think I read that about 80% of the county was without power. Some areas are still without it. Many surrounding counties were hit with this storm as well. Another storm is supposed to be coming in on Wednesday but it is just snow(hopefully).

However, God always has beauty to show us!

God bless!

Good morning everyone! I hope you have all been having a nice day. It is a beautiful day here in Floyd.  Temperature is in the upper 40’s. A great day for working outside.  Our rosebush was in desperate need of being cleaned. It had not been trimmed in years.

Also raspberries vines had taken over but unfortunately not producing hardly anything so they needed to be cut back as well. Now to get it all raked up and put in the brush pile!

As usual, though, I forgot to get a before picture but trust me when I say it looks a lot better.

I very seldom take pictures of myself but here I am, red cheeked from working outside.  I love this time of year.

God bless!

Good morning everyone! I hope you have all been having a good week.  I thought I would share a little of my week with y’all.  Jess and the older kids were busy doing a little bowling with some of their friends so JL and I had a little Mawmaw day. First we went to McDonalds.  He loves to go in and eat.

Then we came back to the farm. He played a video game with Grace and then it was time to take Grace to work. We just hung out at his house after that until Jess and the kids got back. It was a fun day.

This is Grace’s latest painting.  I absolutely love it.❤ 

We had a fun little trip with Daniel to pick out his colors for his poncho. These are the colors he picked.

I have already started it. I think it looks really good.

I guess that’s about all. I hope you have a great day.

God bless!

Good afternoon everyone! I hope you are all having a great day. It is a really nice day here. Our temperature is about 60°.  We do still have some ice and snow in the shady areas but almost all of it is gone. I did a little garden work this morning.  I cleaned out the carrot bed and as you can see I have helpers. Cows are such curious creatures.

Next I worked on the bed where I plant early peas. I need to remove that big clump of weed but I didn’t have my digger thing with me so I will have to do that later.

Next I worked on the asparagus bed. It is always a challenge!

It looks so much better!! I can almost taste that fresh asparagus. We love asparagus, especially on the Blackstone grill Dave and Jess got us. If any of you ever get the opportunity to get yourself a Blackstone grill, I highly recommend it!

This is the brush pile. All this came from the asparagus bed. Amazing!

I also think it might be time for me to invest in some new garden gloves😀

God bless!

Good morning everyone! So I finished Sam’s poncho. He loves it! I also had enough yarn to make him a hat to match but I don’t have a picture of it. Daniel has decided he wants one too!❤  We will be going to Joann’s soon to pick out his yarn. I love it when family members request for me to make them something.

https://aflavorjournal.com/small-batch-homemade-biscuits/  I made this biscuit recipe this morning.  It was really good. Makes 5 small biscuits which is perfect for us.

Grace had her first day of classes for this semester Wednesday.  All went well. After class we went to Michael’s and got the art supplies that she needed. She is taking painting, biology and psychology. 

I guess that’s all for now. God bless!❤