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My infamous friend Cathe made these for me a while back. I finally found my picture today while cleaning out photobucket,
Aren’t they gorgeous!?!?! I can’t use them enough. They are so thick and durable, I think these will last me a lifetime! Thank you Cathe.
You can find more of Cathe’s items here
Thank you dear Cathe for helping me once again on my knitting quest. I am still a begginer knitter. I am trying new things, learning much more, and ripping out even more. Thus, when I tend to acomplish something it is quite a thrill. This week’s acomplishment happens to be a round (yes ROUND!) dishcloth.
I picked the pattern up from here, The pretty cotton dishcloth, and have been messing around for a few months. Finally my dear mother brought me home some beautiful cotton yarn from her out of town trip and stop to JoAnns. I knew almost immediatly which pattern I wanted to do.
So yesterday on the way to Morgann’s open house, out came the needles, pattern, and yarn and into the diaper bag they went. The first rows were easy but then I was to leave two stitches on my needle and completely ignore them. uhhhh, right. My limited capacity brain could not comprehend. No comprendo amigo. I handed the stuff to Mumsie, “explain”. She looked at me with her peircing eyes, “I don’t do patterns. Call Cathe, or Kirky.” Sorry mother but where could I go to hear?
I impatiently waited til we got home, which was not too long after that since it was Euphemia’s naptime and we were still babysitting. I almost immediatly IM’d Cathe. IF there ever was such a picture of a modern Knight in shining armour (feminine version of course) this was it. With much patience Cathe explained it to me. About 15 minutes later I had it all figured out… sort of. It didn’t look right so I kept going… and going… and going… finally I finished one petal. It looked right! Whew. Better do one more to be sure I don’t forget, then I can get a good night sleep.
This morning, I made breakfast and whilst we ate it I continued working, I dare not forget!!!!
I quickly snapped a picture and smiled with pride over what I have acomplished. Things are beginning to look up. With help of dear friends I am figuring out how to do things that I have longed to do for many years!
So, for those that would like to see what I have been trying to acomplish…
Today is Morgann’s graduation. I am sure my Mother will blog about it. But it left Friday very busy.
We mostly did a lot of gardening. But I made some fresh tea as well.
I am really looking forward to my tea. It’s bought from -www.bulkherbstore.com and I was so pleased with the excellent service they provided.
In my tea is Red Raspberrt, Alfalfa, Nettle, and Peppermint. And it tastes excellent!
We then did our gardening-
This is a little decor on my part. I L.O.V.E. Pinecones. I think they add the sweetest decor’ to any garden. This is how I spruce up flower beds.
We also planted some herbs, mint (ladies, my solution to get rid of ants. We will see if it work’s or not. )
Here, I put them up by the house. You can see more of my flowerbed decor’. I don’t claim to be an expert. Nor is there a particular style of decorating. I just throw in what I like.
Upclose shot;
There’s that sod again!
This one will go in our house. We are not sure where exactly since our diningroom table already homes 2 plants and the computer desk one. Maybe on top of the bookcase by the open window. Early morning sun, afternoon shade. Perfect!
I also planted one Zucinni Squash plant. The poor lil thing looked so neglected at Walmart when I was purchasing the mint so I decided to find a home for him as well. We love zucinini around here.
He looks more perky today. 
This is our summer garden, we think those are cantelope, they are voluntary whatever they are. We’ll love em!
This is what happens when you have to work the soil a lot. I am not sure what number of fixin’ this shovel handle is on but it’s not it’s first.
But our happiest moment of the day was to find lil basil peeking from the ground. They have survived first stage. Shall they continue on to the next round? Doesn’t that just wanna make you smile! Have a wonderful weekend!
God give you a good Sunday worship!
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Do you have a problem with housekeeping? Do you lack the motivation and the skill to acomplish such a task? We have found the solution! Ants!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Proverbs 6:6-8 says:
“Go to the Ant, You sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, which having no chief, officer, or ruler, prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest.”
HOW true this is. Lets just examine the first part, Go to the ant, you sluggard. Well the ants have a goal and that goal is to keep you on your toes. You DO go to the ants. You look all over your carpet and any suface area’s trying to find out where they are and what exactly they are doing.
Next part, Observe her ways and be wise. Did you know how clever ants are??? They can find any nook and cranny in your home. They find any way in and it’s hard to drive them out. It is your job to outwit them!
The rest of the verse- which having no chief, officer, or ruler, prepares her food in the summer, and gathers her provision in the harvest, tells us that she has no plans on obeying your stern commands on leaving. You can broom threaten, fire threaten, Boiling water threaten, and any other forms of torture or death threaten but they are still persistant little buggers. Sigh.
So, you are probably wondering by now what has this to do with housekeeping?? Well I have excellent news for you. We are now selling these fantastic homekeeping helpers for just $1 a thousand. We will even include and extra thousand in there for free! If you have trouble keeping your kitchen spotless, you will no longer! Do you remember that drop of water still left in your glass? Well these little guys are a great reminder never to let that happen. Do you suffer from not vaccuming the floors every day? Have no fear! Within a week you will have the cleanest carpets on teh block-maybe even the whole town!
Did you forget to dry the floors in your bathroom? Leave the toilet seat up? Hamper needs to be emptied? That’s ok! These are hourly reminders of what needs to be done and you will end up with a bathroom fit for Martha Stewart!
Dishes didn’t get done last night?? Don’t worry! Your problems have ceased. I guarantee that you will never forget again once these critters have found their way on your counters.
Do you suffer from insomnia??? No longer! These wonderful ants will make sure you work so hard that you fall asleep before hitting the pillow and you will be sure to stay asleep while you think about what the morrow brings.
Did you always want to be like Daddy? Fill his shoes so to speak? Well here you go! Within 3 days I guarantee that you can have a painless bald head! While pulling your hair out you will have so many other thoughts on your mind and certain words that you dare not speak that you will never miss the pain from loosing your hair!
What did I tell you???? Doesn’t this sound like the solution for you?
We have really benefited from them… and you will too!
Tune in tomorrow to find out another solution!
Today I took Euphemia and my younger siblings to the park. I also remembered to take the camera. Warning; Many pictures ahead!
Jenna found it more fun to climb up the toys.
Lorna enjoyed sliding
Moment of acomplishment!
Ethan wanted to be all boy… so…
He kept begging me to take pictures.
Aunt and Neice…
Euphemia enjoyed the slide as well!
This scene should have been video taped. Ethan was calmly telling Lorna, “OK Lorna, Legs in, out, pull em in!”
Andra then wanted a turn…
Emma was interested in the dirt, what a sodbuster.
Jenna snapped this one of me. Now you know the real reason I took them to the park.
So we all decided to have devotion time.
Andra and Emma decided grass was better than dirt.
“I’ve been deserted!”
Group picture take 1
Group picture take 2
Take 3… We’re getting somewhere!
Direct sunlight always gives such happy expressions!!!
I hope you enjoyed our outting as much as we did!
So, I have these lovely set of chairs. I have had them for about 3 years. they need re-upholstering. I haven’t done it. Always afraid to mess something up. Well today I succumbed. You know it’s bad when your daughter can start picking at the padding. So I bought some fabric, bribed begged Mumsie for some help and turned this;
into something a little more like this;
I do have a more finished picture but I need to still upload it and it’s getting late. However, I am very pleased with the work and so is hubby!!!!!!!!
In reply to this ladies post about my comment, I am replying with a long comment of my own.
Well if we waited for perfect soil we would never get any planting done. LOL! We just need to get the soil turned enough and worked enough so that we can actually dig holes, rows, whathaveyou to actually plant the stuff. Right now if you go into the yard and pick up a shovel most of the dirt you will work for about maybe 1 hour (without soaking or anything) to get a gallon size hole. It’s hard as a rock. We do have some sandy area’s and taht is where i want to plant some things this fall. the problem is, it’s right in the sun, little shade so even with a good thick layer of mulch you still get browned leaves from the intense heat and I don’t think plants need a good California tan. 
LOVE mulching. We use left-over straw from the “local” feedbarn place and it also provides a cover crop for later on because the oat seeds tend to plant themselves. It’s so cool.
we usually get rain sometime in Oct. and January, maybe March. Those are our rain months. Usually all day drizzle and maybe 1 hour or 2 of hard rain. So a lot of our watering is from wells and such so water gets to be somewhat expensive when the droubt is here. So we use the water drop off from the cooler to soak the grounds.
I am choosing a few snapshots that I took yesterday since Saturdays are so busy for me. Enjoy!
This was our lunch. We had chicken salad with fresh spinach, pears, and carrots. Emma had prunes and plain yogurt. David enjoyed his Alqualine water and I did some Raspberry tea.
This is what I dubbed David’s bookshelf although there are some of “my” books on it. The bottom shelf consists of Louis L Amour and Zane Grey books and some picturesque books like Countryside Virginia, all about Horses and pictures, Archery, how to be a cowboy, how to tan hides, guy stuff . The top shelf holds various books. Our classic, Reader’s Digest series. Picked up at thrift stores and yard sales for a $1 or less. There are two books that I really enjoy as picture books, one is Bill Coleman’s Amish pictures, and the other is a bday gift from hubby titled, “Historic Scotland” (Home of my ancestors). He has a Germany book or 3 (His ancestors) and there are some English Literature books as well. This bookshelf sits in the livingroom for visitors to browse. We live such a dull life that visitors often look for something to do while visiting.
This is actually a doll Mumsie gave me so I could sell it on ebay. But when it was brought home Emma loved it so much that we dubbed it her first birthday gift (if I never finish her sweater I started )
See what I mean? She loves the thing. It’s even bigger than her! I don’t think we are going to have any trouble with her and the new little one on the way.
