Good gifts, bountiful provisions, and a happy spirit.

Good News #1

The smoldering heat of the last few weeks has prevented me from doing anything other than watering the garden. No weeding. No harvesting. Nothing. Today's trip to the garden was...interesting to say the least. My pepper plants had disappeared and only after a few hours of work, did they finally reappear! The soil that was brought it for my garden apparently had grass seed throughout, because grass is nearly over running my entire garden. (I have not been weeding it like I should have...) I worked diligently to pull weeds (that I could) or cut grass with scissors (huge clumps of soil would break away from the earth with some, dismanteling my precious plants!) Then I covered with newspaper and black plastic trash bags. There is SO much more to do, but much has been done. Thank goodness. We harvested three monstrous zucchini plants and several more 'normal-sized' ones. And I even was able to BRING A FEW TOMATOES IN THE HOUSE! We ate our fill and had some left over-PROGRESS!!! :-)

Good News #2

I went YARD SALING!!!!! Hip, Hip, Hurray! There was a neighborhood sale on Saturday, in an area I was a bit familiar with, so I packed up the kids and headed out. (Of course, to ENSURE that I got the car, that required me to drive Matt to the farm at o-dark thirty...) The sales were in a posh neighborhood, and with posh-often comes childlessness. SO-I didn't get as many clothes as I had hoped. I was able to find four turtlenecks for Rynnie-Roo. Four is better than none, wouldn't you say? :-) I also found a down comforter and matching pillow sham for her bed (since I don't have any twin sized blankets) and even one for Andrew, when he GETS a bed. I got a few books for Corynn, fewer for Matt, and one for me- the hardcover book 'Scarlet', the sequel to Gone With the Wind. Oh-yes. A huge bag of paper dolls (from the American Girl collection and Little House on the Prairie to Barbie and Disney characters!), a planetarium, and a WHOLE BAG full of brand new sachets, pillow covers, and other little gifts to put in baskets for .25 a piece! I love collecting little gifts to surprise people with, especially when you can bring such joy for .25!!! So you see, the PROBLEM with yard saling-you often buy things you are NOT looking for! But, truly, it was so refreshing and I got GREAT deals. I love yard saling.
SO much!

Good News #3-

A cow has died. Of course, that isn't REALLY good news. In fact, the farmer has such a hard time parting with cows, that even when they are 'scumbag cows' he keeps them on. But THAT is another story. The good news about THIS cow, is that she is going to fill up our freezer! What freezer, you may ask? The freezer we have been PLANNING to buy for four years but never could part with the money. Then Matt promised-THIS YEAR we would, but STILL we both have procrastinated. NOW-this lovely cow, has given us the motivation to ACTUALLY do it. I am already PLANNING a list of things to load it up with. So-we get our freezer and we get about 50 pounds of ground beef. Good gifts. Praise be to the Lord for his provisions above and beyond what we need.

Good News #4-

Notice anything different about my blog? Look on the right hand side of my blog and you will see I figured out how to post graphics on my blog! It took a long time (really, I am such an idiot when it comes to computers!) and I am not SURE I know exactly how I did it, but I did! Notice too, I made a list of my canning and preserving for this year. I will be adding to it as I 'put things up' for winter.

Good News #5-Best for last...

My husband is sweet and my children are sweet. I am so blessed to have such loves in my life, who openly express their love and appreciation for me. Who thank me for my work, praise me in the gates, and tell me of their love-not only with words, but with sparkling eyes, hugs and kisses, sweet smiles and whisperings in the night. The Lord has blessed me, indeed.