G-SON GETS BRACES

With the security cameras we have it is interesting on some morning with activities from insects or birds in the early morning that set the camera off before daylight that I get to actually watch the sunrise in pictures.

This first picture is about 6:15.

This one is 7:10............

And by 7:30 the sun is peeking through the trees.

 IR and CA were here early with RL staying home and her other g-ma coming to stay with her.

As I finished chores this morning I couldn't help but notice all the colorful late summer flowers blooming around the yard. I love morning glories and there were a couple colors showing off today.          

All my Rose of Sharon bushes are blooming right now.                                                                               

This plant I bought as a Moon flower but it isn't that and seems to be more on the Jimson weed side, although it still has a nice big bloom it has no aroma and the flower doesn't completely close during the day.       

A sure sign of Fall is this  Fall Clematis that is running wild over everything it can climb on waiting to be pruned back as I have to do each year. It is pretty but so invasive.   Also this pot of Sedom is starting to get it's pretty Fall color.                                                                                                                               

Deb,g-son and RL's other g-ma took g-son to the orthodontist today to have his first set of braces put on.  I could tell by the pictures she sent that his face looked like he was very nervous and she said he really was but all went well and he has the upper set on to wear for a while before they put the lower set on. He has very good teeth and has never had a cavity and only has one crooked tooth but he has a cross bite so they are trying to correct that.   He is still one handsome boy !!!                                                                                                      

Don't know why these pictures wouldn't load in the reverse order but oh well !!                                         While they were at the orthodontist RL came up to play with IR and they loved playing outside again on another Fall feeling sunny day.

After Memaw , Deb picked up RL hubbie and I took IR and CA inside for lunch. After we ate I rode into town with daughter to run an errand on her lunch break.                                                                      

After the girls left hubbie bush hogged the bottom pasture and I put in curbside pickup grocery orders. I went and picked up the Aldi order this evening.                                                                                         After I got things put away I got chores done and then cut okra and picked some cherry tomatoes since RL loves these.                                                                                                                                              Hubbie and I sat out in the covered patio and enjoyed the cool evening before I baked and  iced 6 caramel cakes and did weekly paperwork and paid bills for the week.                                                          Thankful for the blessings of this day.                                                                                                           God Bless and Good Night 

BACK TO SCHOOL VIRTUAL MONDAY

 Another foggy morning to begin this week.

Today is the first day of school for the 2020-2021 year and it certainly doesn't look like any other year has ever looked with all students at home and teachers engaging in virtual learning. This is a pic a friend of mine put on the web to show what this day looks like from her classroom.

Daughter is teaching from her home and g-son who is entering 8th grade is going there to do his school work .  D-in-love drops him and RL off here and then daughter comes to drop IR and CA off and picks him up to take him home with her and get him all set up online with his classes then she teaches her classes.                                                                                                                                                           As for our day it doesn't look much different that is has except RL and IR won't be going back to their pre-school this year.                                                                                                                                       I got chores done and had breakfast then the girls helped me get laundry started so we could go outside to play.

We played all morning letting CA get a good nap inside with hubbie. We came in at lunch time all the girls ate a good lunch. I continued with my laundry and then after a little rest time after we ate back outside we went. The weather is so nice today it is hard to stay inside. It almost feels like Fall is here with the nice sunshine and cool breeze with temps in the upper 70's.        

D-in-love went home with one of her co-workers to pick up a rooster she was giving me and he is a handsome fellow for sure. I needed a rooster that wasn't any relation to my pullets that I kept this season and this guy is an Isa Brown that was supposed to be a pullet and surprised her by being a rooster. He fits right in with my ladies and they welcomed him into their nighttime roosting quarters without any hesitation !!

Hubbie got on the lawn mower as soon as the girls left and I finished the laundry and then got chores done.

It has been such a nice day here but out west they are having a heat wave and yesterday in Death Valley California one of the earth's hottest temperatures was recorded.

Makes me surely glad for these cool mountains we live in.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and for my loving Savior Jesus Christ.

God Bless and Good Night

DAUGHTER HAS A CANNING DAY

 Thankfully we got to rest in some this morning as we were both tired form the late bedtime last night.        I got chores done and then we cleaned all the canning utensils from the kitchen and got started on family lunch makings. We had cooked stew beef all night in the crockpot and made gravy from the stock to create chipped beef to go over some Jasmine rice I cooked plus green beans, glazed carrots, corn, some canned collard greens that I was given and biscuits.                                                                                                      #1 son's family, daughter's family and Aa's family joined us for lunch and everyone had a nice visit and the kids had fun playing together. After a little playtime they all headed home. Daughter came back with the girls and her canning supplies to make her a batch of pasta sauce from some of the tomatoes left in the sunroom. After we weighed out 12 pounds for her recipe there was still so many tomatoes left.                    She has canned before so all I had to do was watch and hand her things so my back muscles got a rest today.                                          

She ended up with 14 pint jars of pasta sauce and some to take home to eat now.   After she and the girls went home I put away some laundry and then watched the news before heading out to get chores done.   After chores hubbie and I sat out in the covered patio and enjoyed the nice cool Fall feeling air that is here for this week.

Thankful for a very blessed Sunday and to be blessed with a loving Heavenly Savior.

God Bless and Good Night

RAINY DAY TOMATO CANNING

 Saturday mornings lately are usually pretty calm and slow but today I have a cake delivery at 10am and the skies are very dark and looking like it will rain any minute so my steps are a bit quicker on this Saturday.                                                                                                                                                              I got chores done and grabbed a cup of coffee and a protein bar for breakfast before we headed out to meet the cake customer. After we met her hubbie and I dawned our face mask and headed into Ingles in a downpour of rain while there were not very many customers there to look for a couple things.  To my surprise we saw only 2 young women that weren't wearing facemask which is encouraging that most folks are now having enough respect for their fellow man to wear facemask to hopefully help to contain this virus.                                                                                                                                                                   We came home and in a break from the hard rains we headed up to the garden where we picked all these vegetables before all this rain manages to cause more rot and insect problems than we already have.         

  I went ahead and pulled all my spaghetti squash, well all but a couple that were obviously not ready because on the bottom of one of them I found where a snail had started eating into the hull. Maybe by harvesting them now I can save them. Daughter pulled one last week and said it was ready and very good.  I planted 2 different varieties this year to compare the taste and texture.                                         

       We picked half runner beans for tomorrow's lunch and I noticed all these blooms still on the vines meaning we will continue to have fresh beans for a while .                                  

    We also have some of our recently planted fall vegetables starting to come up in the garden and in the cattle feed bunk feeder.

    The rain started again so we headed inside to have lunch. After we ate hubbie went up to his shop and I got started making another run of pasta sauce out of the tomatoes that have been ripening on the sunroom table.

Seven more quarts to add to the winter supply.

 While I worked the rain continued heavy at times with thunder and lightening. It is a perfect day to be inside the warm kitchen.

Thankfully by choretime the rain had slacked off and the sun was trying to dry things out. 

After we had a light dinner and then watched the sunset with a hot cup of tea I headed back to the kitchen to make my first run of salsa for the year from all the Roma tomatoes we have picked.

   This salsa turned out so thick and good after adding a couple extra large bell peppers d-in-love picked up for me today when her and RL went to Brevard to the plant nursery / produce stand , she also brought me 4 pretty mums to add some color to my yard for the fall season. Thanks d-in-love !!

By the time I finished getting the salsa out of the canners it was almost midnight so I headed for bed to put a heating pad on my screaming back muscles.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and for the blessing of being able to grow our own food.

God Bless and Good Night                       

T. G. I. F.

 Up to RL and IR at my bedside staring at me !!!  Another foggy morning and another snow for this winter ???  There was 1 inch of rain in the gauge from last evenings rains.

I got chores done and then came inside to grab a cup of coffee and get cakes loaded for delivery this morning.

When I got home EL was here while her brother had his meet the teacher at the elementary school he will be virtually going to school next Monday.

They were all watching a movie while CA watched g-son play games on his phone. She loves him and crawl up in his lap and just sit.

She is always burry in my pics because she never sits still long enough for a pic.

After  Re picked up EL the girls went in the playroom and played until lunch time.

D-in-love sent me this pic of her desk in the receiving office at the elementary school surrounded with plexiglass , a sign of these times !!

As I fixed my lunch of some roasted okra , fresh green beans, tomatoes and boiled eggs IR was riding her tricycle around the kitchen table and as I turned away from the frig she ran into the back of my legs and knocked me down to the floor.  She was very upset and I couldn't get myself up so I called for help from g-son and hubbie. I bruised my bad knee and jarred my head into a nagging headache for the rest of the afternoon but thankful that was all. 

After we ate lunch I took RL and IR outside to have popsicles and swing.

Daughter came to pick up her girls and g-son left to go to the dentist so RL came back inside with us to watch the news.

Her dad came after her shortly and then hubbie and I both took short naps after a long busy week.

We got chores done and then finished the day resting in the covered patio in a nice cool evening.

Thankful for the blessings of this day and that God protected me in my fall from getting badly hurt.

God Bless and Good Night