Talking about new chapters in life and such we just started yet another today.. My oldest child Jordin McKenzie just passed his drivers permit test.. YICKS.. He has driven around the farm forever, but now as long as he is with his grandparents or I he is legal on the highway....

I am proud of him.. Yesterday elected class president which he will be till he graduates and today his permit.. Oh my how time does fly....

Just wanted to share...

God Bless,

Mars

Can you feel it?  I step outside and yes, I can feel it.  The thermometer says 85, but the feel of the wind says harvest.  It stirs in me and I love it. 

I canned wild blueberry jam yesterday, and some beet pickles.  I sliced up a bunch of garlic and onions and have that in the dehydrator along with savory, marjarom and lovage.  Today I hope to dehydrate peas and beans, weed the tomatoes, mow the lawn, dust, laundry, sew a skirt and welcome my honey home.  He's been over the road again.  I love this weather.  I have energy. 

With all of the dehydrated vegies, I'm making a soup mix.  A bit of carrots, corn, peas, beans, garlic, onions, lovage, herbs.  Then when I want soup, just put some in a pot with some water and meat-viola!  soup.

Our two older daughters have been berry crazy this year.  They go out almost every day and pick.  With their help we have put up almost fifty pints of berries.  Our two youngers are out doing chores right now.  They get up, eat, get dressed, and out the door they go.  So nice to have all of the chores done when I get outside.  'Nuff bragging on my kids.

So how's your harvest coming?  What do you put up for winter?

Blessings from Glory Farm

Hi everyone!  how r u guys?  well, we went to Maine on the last week of July and we had a BLAST!  I have tons of photos!  here are some!:

this is Alyssa.

this is a bunch of my brothers guy friends and me and my friend with Susanna in the backround. 

we beought out dog Abbie with us and Susanna would build sand castles and then Abbie would nock them over.

This is Abbie.

Anyway,  i also did a horseshow is early july and here are a few pics.

this is me and my friend Sam-  she's on the paint horse and I'm on the appaloosa.  we had fun.

This is Royal and me in a command class.  we did really well- 2nd place,  oh yea! 

Casey and I have become pretty good friends.  he's such a good boy.  we've got it so he'll walk on the trailer like he owns the thing.:

this is me and Casey.

Casey

Casey and I

Casey

       well that's all I can write right now.G2G

Wow, I can't believe it's been over a month since I last wrote! Man, I need to catch up. :-)

Hmm. Let's see. Short synopsis (that word will get stuck in your head if you're not careful :) of this summer. We worked at camp for four weeks. This past week my sister and I went to a Communicators for Christ conference. It's a four day conference, two days of debate, two days of speech. You may remember me mentioning the last conference this past November. It was a blast! One of CFC's main goals is to get kids comfortable with speaking in front of others to be able to better share the gospel. So, along with all the different workshops and classes are activities that encourage you (and make you) to come out of your comfort zone. It's so much fun! In addition to learning a lot about public speaking, you get to meet a lot of great people.

For more information about Communicators for Christ, click HERE.