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Americas Birthday!

{ Posted by countryheart }
{ 07:51, Saturday, July 4, 2009 } { 1 comments } { Link }

Happy July 4th to everyone. What a blessing to live in a country like ours. Take time to enjoy all the wonderful and beautiful treasures all around this great land!
We are going to my Aunts for a cook-out. I am bringing baked beans with all the yummy added things in them My brother will say "Why can't anyone make just plain good ole' beans? So I guess I will take a plain batch for him. He's worth it . He's just about the most unselfish person I know. I am also making a peanut butter pie. Yummy! My hubby is working today. I wish he were here. I am going to miss him .I will have to take him home some good stuff when he gets off. After 21 years I still can't wait to see him at the end of each day!
I better go feed and all that good stuff. Morning is my favorite time of the day. When I get on the computer I often wish I was enjoying it outside instead. I need to blog at a different time of the day. But when is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LOL
Everyone have a blessed day!
Love, Tina

Awwww

{ Posted by Mama Hen }
{ 07:49 AM, Saturday, July 4, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Awwww!

Wook at the wittle babies!

Aren't they CUUUUTE?

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July 4th

{ Posted by Kitty }
{ 7:36 AM, Saturday, July 4, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

I do hope each and every one of you out there have a safe and happy 4th of July. Remember to thank God for the freedom that we share and the ability to do what we like, go where we'd like, and to live and love like we want. Sometimes we take these things for granted, I know I tend to. Have a great day!

On this Day

{ Posted by Mama Hen }
{ 07:04 AM, Saturday, July 4, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

On this day of barbecues and celebrations.

Fireworks, hotdogs and burgers.

Sparklers and soda pop.

Let us remember what it really is.

It is not the 4th of July. That's just the date.

This is INDEPENDENCE DAY.

Take some time to remember the sacrifices that have been made for us. Remember what our founding fathers went through for this day.

And say a prayer for this nation.

IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

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Happy 4th of July to all!

{ Posted by terrylee }
{ 06:28, Saturday, July 4, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Good Morning! I just wanted to take a few minutes to wish all of you a Happy Fourth of July! I believe it is important to recognize that this country was founded and based upon God believing and God fearing men. In my opinion it is important that our children understand this. So we make sure we recognize this in our day of celebration.

I also want to thank all of you who have served, or have husbands, sons and other relatives who have served this United States of America. Thank you for all your sacrifices and for the freedom that you allow all of us to have. From my family to yours thank you and may God Bless all of you.

God Bless,

Terry

Today's Projects

{ Posted by Mama Hen }
{ 09:25 PM, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Here is what I built today...

The first raised bed for the new house. This one is going to get filled soon, so I can do a late summer/fall garden.

My youngest has wanted some of these old-fashioned, fun stilts since he tried some at a farm festival a couple years ago. This was his first attempt to walk with them.

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Fourth of July Plans & Menu

{ Posted by blessed mom }
{ 06:23, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 2 comments } { Link }

I have been planning our weekend. Tomorrow we will enjoy a quiet day at home.. just family ( all 12 of us!). We always enjoy a special meal on America's B-day.. so this year I will be making grilled steaks ( a rare treat) , baked potatoes, homemade baked beans, watermelon & homemade apple pie! It's not the fourth w/ out homemade apple pie!

Sunday our Church is holding an evening meeting and then a potluck meal. I'll be brining watermelon, lemon meringue pies and spinach salad. The girls are making cookies & cupcakes. We are also going to bring a pinata & water balloons! It should be a fun evening!

Fourth of July is one of our favorite holidays! We sure enjoy celebrating and taking time to remember how blessed we are in this land of the brave and home of the free! I am also thankful for the freedom and perfect law of liberty thru Christ our Lord ! Jesus died so ALL men could be set free! How grateful I am for that! We are no longer under the bondage of the law -- but are free thru the grace and liberty in Christ! Thank you Jesus for your precious blood shed on calvary so all men can be free!

Hope you all enjoy a blessed Holiday!

Gloria

Cute Children and pets pictures

{ Posted by m j }
{ 05:56, 2009-Jul-3 } { 2 comments } { Link }

My Mom sends me some cute e-mails. I love these one and had to share with you all.

Who is walking who?

I look like you or is it you look like me?

Ah, can I keep him? (the dog is asking):

Um mom, why am I wearing clothes and his is not??

Look Mom at what I learned :

Just one little bite that's all:

Are you sure they taste like chicken??

Are you sure they are in here???

That's all for now, Blessings,Mj

FISHING WARS PART 1

{ Posted by CatfishJoe1 }
{ 03:15, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

I just want to say that there is a 4 day long fishing tournament going on down here, and dad and I are in it. Boy I've been wanting to this for years, and now we can. But any way, day #1 was a blast. We caught 1 flounder, 2 spade fish, and a uncountable number of croaker's. But the best part was that my name was put on the tournament letter board. ( I think I was the only one taking pictures of the board).

Below are some pictures of that days fish.

Well thats all for me,bye.

A song stuck in my head & new school books

{ Posted by Vickie }
{ 09:25, 2009-Jul-3 } { 1 comments } { Link }

There's greenbeans in the garden,

Clean clothes on the line,

There's little ole' barefoot children playing beneath the grapvine.

The sun is shining bright

And the creeks a' bubblin' too

We've got alot to be thankful for

And Lord I want to thank you.

Today is another hot one here on the little bitty homestead. I do have my dryer running but it's just to dry the undergarmets. The towels & the rest are out on the clothesline.

My husband & son are gone fishing and Abigail is still sleeping. So even though it's a little after 9:00 it is very quiet here.

I got my package from Rainbow Resource in the mail yesterday. It feels like a holiday when those crisp, clean schoolbooks arrive....To me anyway. Abigail came running in from outside yesterday evening with the package the UPS just delivered. Here was our conversation:

A- "Mama, mama, we got a package & it's got your name on it."

M- "Oh great it's from Rainbow Resource."

A- "What is that? Is there anything for me in there?"

M- "Yes a few things & a couple for your brother."

A opens package up and pulls out a couple of books.

A-" Are these school books?"

M- "Yes aren't they neat. Come look at this one for you all about animals."

A- looks at cover & looks back up at me not too happy.

A-"Next time can you please order something useful."

M-

Hope everyone has a good 4th of July.

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