New At This...

Learning how to eat from our garden.

Every step is a learning experience.

From how to harvest and how to preserve or use

the produce to it's fullest potential.

We learned how to pickle our first batch of beets.

Tom jumped in to lend a hand (or two).

These are really delicious!

And the best part is,

there are so many more beets waiting in the garden.

Next... we might try canning some.

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The lettuce is doing so well!

This is for dinner tonight, when our family 

comes for dinner!

Menu: Chicken Caesar Salad, crusty bread,

and pickled beets on the side.

At Grandma's house, there is always dessert...

Root Beer Floats tonight.

With tempertures up in the 100's, it will be a perfect dessert.

Freshly picked carrots are a great way to start off the evening.

I hope they washed the carrots first.

 

How do you use your garden produce?

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"If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land."

Isaiah 1:19

 

End of the Year

Remember when you were young 

and collected buttons?

There were all kinds of buttons...

funny, thoughtful. even political. 

Then came bumper stickers.

Again, some funny, thoughtful or

political.

With computers, came, what are called Memes.

They are catchphrases that are passed on to others via the computer.

It's the end of the year and I have collected a lot of Memes. 

Now it's time to 

clean out my computer and start fresh.

So here it goes...

some funny, some thoughtful and

some political.

If you have read ALL of these Memes,
you probably know
me a little better, now!


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"Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true. whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable- if anything is excellent or praiseworthy -think on such things."

Philippians 4:8

Fall From My Point of View

Yes, it Fall or Autumn.

I looked up the difference between these words.

(link)

( I love to look up things like this)

Both refer to the season,

between summer and winter.

I knew that!

But Autumn is the more a formal way to refer to the season.

So, that's what I'm going to call it.

(Even thought I'm not a formal type gal.)

Autumn is Idaho is lovely.

But then again it's lovely everywhere.

For me it's more of the change

 from one season to another.

I like how Autumn puts on a big show!

  Morning sunrise from our backyard.

We moved to Idaho 4 and a half years ago.

It took some time to adjust to all the changes.

But the one change, that I have always enjoyed,

is driving out on the back roads.

Sunday is the best day for this.

Farmers aren't plowing or harvesting.

Peoples aren't racing to their jobs.

The light from the sunrises are
 sometimes breathtaking.

As we pass cornfields and hay fields, I think how blessed

I am to be able to see,
 the seasonal changes.

I never get tired of it!

I look for the familiar horses, cows sheep or goats.
that are grazing in the fields.

I now know each farm and who has what growing

 or what is in their pastures.

We live near The Birds of Prey National Conservatory.

So, you can look up,
 once in awhile, and see hawks or
eagles soaring above.

Never gets tiring!

We also live near a lake that is home
to geese and ducks.

This time of the year,

The Canadian Geese 

(or is it Canada Geese)

are overhead, all day long.

I looked up the difference
between the two names and found that

The Audubon Society,
 refers them as Canada Geese.

In this report, it says the 1772,
the Oxford English Dictionary,

refers to the birds as
Canada Geese.

Sometimes we just call them Honkers.

After the easy drive, 

we come to the entrance of our church.

What a great way to start our 

worship and fellowship.

Enjoy Autumn and the Honkers

God is good!

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"In the beginning, God created the heaven and earth."

Genesis 1:1