He Was Very Helpful

Note by Savannah and art from Tressa when she was 5.

This note was given to me by my 9 year old grand-daughter Savannah. I couldn't believe that she had this in her heart for her Lord. I told her that I would put it on my blog to share with others. I love the end......... "He was very helpful." Is that not sooooo true? From the faith of a child. I am thinking on how important it is to share with our children and grand-children our love for our God. She is being taught and she is definitely getting it.

Thank you Savannah for reminding me of a very important truth. I want to walk in a way so you can follow. I will love you forever Savannah!

This is what her note said, if you can't read it.

Nature is great because God created it

He has provided us life, family and love/joy

Jesus is are redeaimer.

He paid for our sins.

He was very helpful.

A Door To the Past

This door has been opened a many time on this farm, that we now live on. It is worn and old and I am sure has many stories to tell over the past 100 years of being owned by the Stubbs family. I was walking around our farm this morning thinking about Grandma Jo and Grandpa Jack who have since gone to live with the Lord. Grandpa had his little bird call that he would call Grandma to see where she was at. That means more to me today then it did days ago. We would come over with our little boys and work along side them in their garden. Off to the side of the garden Grandma had planted her Peonies, that she would use on Memorial Day to decorate the grave stones as she called it. Today we will use those same Peonies on Grandpa's and her grave stones. It is kind of strange, that she planted them and we are now using them for her. I was wondering if the flowers I am planting now will be used on my grave someday. It seems like when you are young you will live forever. I am not thinking that now.

I am realizing that it is so important how you love your family now. Hope your day is blessed as you think of your loved ones, that are not with you today. Know that I am praying for you. For some I know that this day will be very difficult. Know that I am praying for you.

Planting

I had wanted to use my old wood boxes some way in the garden. I think it turned out real cute. The plants I put in are the kind that will trail over the edge of the box. It is always hard to wait for them to get to that stage. If you have any ideas for containers or want to send me pic's I would love to see your ideas.

My wheel barrow was full of sugar peas and sweet pea flowers.

Sugar Snap Peas and Sweet Pea flowers together.

When I planted my Sugar Snap Peas, I wanted to see what it would be like to put in some of my Sweet Pea Flowers in between the Sugar Snap Peas. When it all blooms it is going to look so pretty.

Yesterday we were able to get almost all of our flowers and herbs planted. If you put your herbs and flowers together you will have more color. I put in so many Lemon Verbena plants! I also plant flowers in addition to the marigolds in my garden. I spend a lot of time in my garden in the summer and I just want to see pretty flowers. The weather is starting to get warmer outside and it is good to have almost all my veggies planted. Our day yesterday was very productive in getting things planted. If we can get our pumpkins and corn in I will be so glad. It has been such a wet spring for us here in Kansas. I think it has been hard for a lot of people to get things in on a timely basis. Everything is really coming up though. A little tip for everyone, who is going to plant potatoes. Our friend Alicia, said as soon as you see the first leaves on your potato plants popping out of the garden start bringing dirt up along each side up over the leaves and make another mound. Do this one more time. I guess it gives you more potatoes in the end. I hope it does what she says.

Spruce Colorado Blue Tree

My sweet husband just planted my Spruce Colorado Blue tree (that is the name on the pot). It will be a few Christmas' till I can put on lights! It will be just like Alaska here on the farm! Now all I need is to figure how to get the ocean on the farm. Enjoy your weekend.

A Big Day On The Farm

New Baby Chicks from the hatchery

Gail and Mark John came to my house this morning delivering my new little chicks, that we ordered months ago it seems. I ordered 3 White Cochin, White Crested Black Polish, 3 Black Cochin, 3 Golden Polish (they gave me a free one!) and 2 Black Silkies. We got them all from

https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com. They are the tiniest little things. I have them off the side porch of our house, so I will enjoy the little peeping noise. There always seems to be one that finds it's peeper!

Mrs. Emma is to the left and Mrs. Cluck is to the right. If you notice there are milk jugs in the middle nest? That is because all the girls in the coop would take the nest over when the moms went to go eat. Then the mom would come back and she would go to the middle nest, because another girl would have taken her place.

Mrs. Cluck turning her eggs.

TODAY is also "hatching day" for my Momma chickens, that are both laying on eggs. Mrs. Cluck & Mrs. Emma have been sitting away for 21 days today. This morning Mrs. Cluck was turning her eggs (she has one duck egg she is sitting on). She knows just when they need to be turned and which egg needs the turning. It is so amazing to me that the Lord has ordered spring time for new life. Today will be a big day!

Blessings and thank you for stopping by!

Lilly & The Garden

Hello everyone, Here are some pictures of our planting this last week. It was so nice to get out in the dirt. We have had so much rain this last spring and it has been very difficult to get the garden in the ground. Farmer's Market will be a little bit late for us.

Lilly helping me plant tomatoes and peppers

Two birthday’s ago, our son and his family took me to the Yoder Auction where the Amish and English come to sell their animals. At the last Friday of each month Yoder has an auction that has chicken, ducks, turkey’s and lots of other kind of animals. It is so fun to go and watch the people there. I ended up buying 2 male and 1 female Black Cochin. I named the female Fuzzy Feet, because she has feathers all over her feet. Well, I didn’t need two males. My neighbor friend Gail and her son Mark John love chickens. I thought I would give them one of the males. They named him Timothy and he loves living at their farm. Well soon after my male died. Not sure why, but then I didn’t have a male and I so wanted to have them have little chicks. Mark John and his family were going on a trip, so they let me borrow Timothy. Fuzzy Feet started laying eggs. I then took the eggs and incubated them. At this same time another farm family had found a nest of guinea eggs that were not

going to make it, because the nest was in the field where the sheep were. Guinea’s are really good for eating bugs in your garden, but they do make a lot of noise. Any way, Lilly was born. It was kind of late in the season. Beings that she was so small she got to lives in a bird cage, that I hung in the front room on a hook. I know that is a little weird to have her in the house, but it worked out perfect for Lilly! She is now laying eggs. I am hoping to go to the Yoder Auction at the end of this month to find Lilly a male Cochin.

I took my little "Lilly" outside for her first time. She followed me everywhere. She even fell into the tomato holes a few times. It was so funny. Her legs must have been dangling in the hole, because she could not move. We had to take her out each time. She loved it outside though. Lilly and I worked away planting tomato plants. In each hole I put in a cup of alfalfa pellets and a crushed up egg shell. My husband did some reading on the pellets. We are just trying it this year and we will see how it works.

Lilly thinks she likes the outside better then inside. I have kept her in my little milk shed, that was used for storing the milk when my husband grew up with his family. They were dairy farmers. The shed works great as a brooder house for my little chicks and ducks.

Just wanted to show you what Taylor and I built. It is a garden tepee. It was not easy and doesn't look quite like what we wanted, but when it is full of little cucumbers for our "fridge pickles" it won't matter. We had such a good time laughing. We made a special memory together that day. As you can see, we put nasturtiums by the cucumbers. They are really good for keeping squash bugs away. Yes!!!! Hope that it works for me. Then I won't have to be "a squishin squash bugs! Can't wait for Monday to start planting some more things. I will keep you posted. Blessings to you!

Ready To Eat....... And Give Away

Here is the picture I told you I would post of the bread! I let it set over night in the fridge. I also fixed up a little gift for our friend Alicia. We are going to the Abbeyville Rodeo tonite together and Alicia will be so happy to get some Lemon Verbena Bread. Wish I could give a gift to each one of you also! Tell me what you think if you ever make this recipe up. I would love to see your pictures of any of your recipes using herbs. Enjoy your weekend.

Lemon Verbena Bread

Hello everyone, a "big thank you" to all of you that came over to the conference this morning. It was such a special time talking to everyone. The girls say thank you also.

This recipe is the recipe I talked about. I really like the herb "lemon verbena". It smells so wonderful and it was said this morning that you can also make tea. I am going to have to try it. I make little muffins for our tea parties using the mini muffin tins. You might want to try that also. Enjoy and happy gardening everyone! If you want to print this off, click on this link.

Here is a picture of all the ingredients. I will post tomorrow a picture of the bread. It is so good!


http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu214/prairieflowerfarm/LemonVbreadrecipecardflat.jpg