What are you getting from your garden?  We have harvested cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, onions,sunflowers, kale, pumpkins, apples and plums this fall.  With this harvest there are a number of things I make.

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Homemade spaghetti sauce-tomatoes, garlic, onions, basil, thyme, sage, oregano, majarom, cayenne, savory from the garden

Homemade salsa-tomatoes, onions, cayenne from the garden

Cream of carrot soup

Tomato soup

Kale soup

Meatball stew-using carrots, potatoes, onions and beans from the garden

Scalloped hotdish-carrots, onions, potatoes

Speedy boiled dinner-cabbage, potatoes and carrots

Cabbage rolls-cabbage, tomatoes

Runzas-Ask for the recipe on this one.  These are delicious,  cabbage and onions

French Fries

Onion Rings-love these

Coleslaw

Applesauce, apple pie, baked apples, fresh plums, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread, pumpkin pancakes

These are just a few ideas.  What do you make with your fresh harvest?

You know, even with stretching our grocery money, I'm still spending about $100 a week on groceries.  There are six of us, and I can't think of how to save any more than I am.  Any suggestions?

 

So the weather here has been so nice that we've been outside almost everyday for at least the last month.

Not really getting a lot of "book" schooling done but they are getting plenty of life studies. They have found a toad that sounded like a bird, a snake that moved really fast-wasn't able to get pictures because of that fact.

They also learned that if you twist the rope that you've made into a swing one to many times it will break and drop your brother to the ground.

They made bows and arrows from sticks and strings in the yard, they were surfing with cardboard boxes, they have the tent set up in the front yard where they have all been playing.

They are now running around collecting the pecans that have fallen off of the trees.

I am really enjoying living in the country.

Blessings,
Debi

This is my life line..... I want you to pick which ever one of these verses POPS out at you okay? you can pick more then one but only if you fell like something (GOD get the hint?) is tugging at you or telling you to okay? Good! then I want you to put a coment on telling me what you thought something (GOD get the hint people lol ) was telling you!

romans 8:31-32    1 John 4:16   1 john 3:1  Psalm 34:18  john 8:41-44   Revelation 21:3-4  psalm 139:17-18
Jeremiah 29:11 John 17:26 Jeremiah 31:3 Mathew 7:11  Jeremiah 33:3 John 1:12-13 1Timothy 1:16 Psalm 139:15-16 Deuteronemy 4:29 Romans 8:28-29

So tell me how you liked those verses okay? I hope you like them, they are all really good!
Love your sister,
Miss Beth Joy

Bethlehem missed their King, will you miss ours? its something thats tugging at me and I just thought I sould shear with you too.
Bethlehem Missed their King Our King! are you going to do the same? We are in TROBLE! Our Country has done wrong for too long, its sad but true, we are forgeting how we got here... its a sad thing that our contry has done, our contry could repent some of us have but still some are hard in heart we are missing GOD!  Why why dose our contry do this? I would love to talk to the leaders of our contry and just tell them tell them to repent! do you remimber when we had war with japan, God punished them! they did not listen to the people God sent to them, our contry is not listening.... oh I am afriad of the punishment we will get but yet deserve! our contry has Murderd thousands of babies! I dont cear if the whole world says its okay to kill the child when its not yet born ITS A LIFE a Gift from God and what did  you do to stop abortion? I know its whole Contry but your voice could make a change! it could dont be fooled!  our contry is in need of about just as meny missionarys as china! why have we let this happen?!? its not much to ask I can answer it myself we forgot God....why though is all I can say!

We now live a few blocks away from a cult, they hait our Contry they praise God for the  soilders that died its wrong why if they hait america do they live here? I dont know I have so meny things going into my mind at one time its imposible to say them all. I am sad and mad at the same time! our contry has done wrong killed so meny done so much wrong why has God let us stay this evil so long? some of you might be mad at me for saying all this but its true WE ARE MISSING HIM! why dont we cear any more? will we only repent once he has punished us? oh I cant say it all in one post but I hope you Tink about what I said! 
Love Your Sister,
Beth Joy!

I went to yard sales with my mom, dad and Emily yesterday morning and I found some great stuff!

I got 2 nice cookbooks for 25 cents each...

This book was free...

These werer also in a free bin--they are for mixing things like chocolate milk, gravy, etc.  I have one now, and my kids think it's cool!

I got this really cool cookie press for 25 cents!  I have never seen one like this!

Here is a picture of Cameron's gold stripe belt in tae kwon do.  I'm not sure why he looks so sad in the picture...

I picked the last of what will come out of my garden.  I got a zucchini, some more brussels sprouts, a couple of peppers and a LOT of tomatoes.  Most of the tomatoes are green, but they will ripen!

I am reading a book called " The Wind Is My Mother " By Bear Heart.

This book is a native American teaching and I just love it.   Bear Heart talks about God a lot.   But this saying about God caught my eye and thoughts going.

Bear is talking to a man and the man said I've been called to preach.  

Wonderful who called you bear asks??

God the man says.

Bear: , why that's even more wonderful if he called you.  So when are you going to start preaching?

Man: That's what I wanted to see you about.  I need some seminary training , at least 2 years.  But my daughter's graduating this year and next year my son graduates.  Meanwhile I'm working at a service station barely making ends meet.

Bear: Wait , wait, before you go any further , I know exactly what you can do.

Man :  What?

Bear:  Go back and tell God the one who called you all about these problems. Maybe he didn't know when He called you , so you tell him.

If we are genuinely called by God , there will be a way provided.

How many of these gifts, blessings did God send our way and we did not see or take it.  Did we put them on a back burner  for later.  Or did we take that leap of faith because we KNEW God called us to do it?

This page in this book got me thinking really deep, I could not sleep for hours.    They are many more teaching about God like this in this book.

God Bless, to you all , I hope this gets you thinking, mj

I found this, and I thought it was really neat.

 

There is a field, with two horses in it.

 

From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse.
But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing. Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind.
His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him.

This alone is amazing.

If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell.
Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field.

Attached to the horse's halter is a small bell.
It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.

As you stand and watch these two horses, you'll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is, trusting that he will not be led astray.

When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back, making sure that the blind friend isn't too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses, God does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges.

He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.

Sometimes we are the blind horse being guided by the little ringing bell of those who God places in our lives.

Other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way....

Good friends are like that... you may not always see them, but you know they are always there.

Please listen for my bell and I'll listen for yours.

Everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly....
Leave the rest to God

Fixed the fence yesterday, got all of the critters back in their respective pastures and what do you think I see out the kitchen window this morning??????Cows in the horse pasture?  Good guess and you'd be right.  I can't figure out why our fence isn't charging.  Lord give me patience.

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It may be time to start up the furnace.  We're having freezing temps at night and the house gets down to 60 at night.  No wonder everyone heads for a hot shower first thing in the morning.

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Well, the headcold is still in the house.  Ds and I both ate a bunch of garlic yesterday and I believe that's why we both feel so much better today.  (and why no one gets close to us.)It usually works very well.  Dd is still feeling poorly and is next for the bathtub.  She doesn't want the garlic unless I mix it in with chicken noodle soup.  That's doable.

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Time to get my wool socks on and get the chores done. 

Have a good and Godly day.

From Glory Farm