Heritage Hill Homestead

A Few More Garden Pics For Your Viewing Pleasure

{ Posted by LaVonne }
{ 09:38, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Yellow and white with purple splashes!

I really like this one! Only one bloom and it didn't last long. I am glad I got the picture.

Feverfew and Peonies

Happy 4th of July 2009!

{ Posted by Cynthia Robin }
{ 9:30 PM, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Tomorrow will be a busy day here at my home. Lots of folks are coming by for my annual Independence Day Cookout. Here is this year's menu:

Deviled Eggs

Grilled Burgers and Hot Dogs

Potato Salad

Spaghetti Salad

Pea Salad

Baked Beans

Cole Slaw & Hot Dog Sauce

Relish/Toppings Plate

5-cup Fruit Salad

Cream Pies

Patriotic Cupcakes (red, white, & blue!)

Watermelon

Sweet Tea

Actually, its just like most of you will be having tomorrow--an All-American Cookout with all the fixin's! However, first and foremost in the day will be prayers of thanksgiving to God for the freedoms we are given each and every day. Many lives were lost, many others dedicated to insuring our freedom, and I am ever so thankful for this. Our God is faithful, and we must be also.

May you and your family and loved ones have a most blessed and safe Independence Day this year!

Hugs,

Cynthia Robin

my sister

{ Posted by Brenda }
{ 9:26 PM, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

I have decided to do a blog entry on my sister. If you ever follow the comments of Carrie you will be entertained at her bargaining to get rid of her kittens by taking my rabid raccoon, or perhaps laughing at me hysterically as she reads a blog entry that isn't as clear as it should be and calling me....still laughing hysterically...We are 5 1/2 years apart and have never been closer than we are now. We both moved to Texas...I thank God!...because I couldn't have done it without her. She is my best friend. We share all of our disappointments, celebrations, stupid moments (like the time my kids were distracting me while I was talking to a parent of one of the kids we babysit...and instead of saying to my daughter who was tapping my arm, "I am talking one minute." I said, "I am on the phone. BE QUIET!" which I wasn't on the phone just completely out of my mind for that moment) and everything in between. I don't tell her nearly enough, though I suspect she knows. Thanks Carrie for helping get through this life, laughing.

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.

http://www.MrsMamaHen.com

Friday, July 3rd

{ Posted by Genevieve }
{ 08:06, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Greetings! We've had a productive day, doing various tasks around the house. My dishwasher was installed today; what a blessing that I certainly don't take for granted after 3 years of washing dishes by hand. I'm very thankful to the LORD and Hubby!

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At the store this morning, I found a black & white houndstooth fabric to make a skirt for $1.50/yd. It's a washable/dryable polyester, 60" wide. Now I'm looking for a pattern for a simple A-line skirt. I also bought some blue and white gingham to make some new kitchen curtains, also for $1.50/yd.

Wal-mart has started marking down their flowers, and I got a pack of six begonias for .50! They are a bright fuschia pink, and will add a nice touch of color in my third raised bed garden along with the marigolds I planted last week.

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DD#2 made oatmeal raisin cookies tonight, while I made iced tea in my West Bend Iced Tea machine. I've also browned ground beef for a big crock pot full of chili we'll make tomorrow. It's been cool enough that chili sounds good again! We like chili on baked potatoes or cooked pasta, and sometimes we add some taco seasoning and use any leftovers in taco salad.

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Have a fun and safe 4th of July! My family is planning on grilling hot dogs, and watching the fireworks in the nearby town. I am thankful to the LORD for the freedoms He has granted to America, our great country!

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Blessings from my home to yours!
~Jennie

Facebook

{ Posted by Tanya }
{ 07:24, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Wow facebook as totally taken over and I forgot about my blog here. Not to mention moving! I've listed some stuff on etsy tonight and added this painting to my heading. I'm thinking of maybe notecards or something with this one.

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

Summer Vacation is on.

{ Posted by Schatzi }
{ 06:08, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 0 comments } { Link }

Well, our summer is underway and I'm already tired. It might just be the heat. Today it's 33 degrees Celsius. Thankful the pool is warm as I've been swimming a bit. I'm not complaining that's for sure because we get enough rain and cold in the winter so this is awesome weather we are having right now.

My favourite fruit is in season right now and we are enjoying an abundance of "raspberries". Yum. I have made raspberry cheesecake...raspberry viniagrette...raspberries and cream...just plain raspberries...raspberry shortcake...you get the picture. Plus, I put 40 pounds in the freezer to make raspberry jelly later. I am not doing much this summer...I am still working on this "tennis elbow" thing and so any amount of work causes pain...and trying to use my left hand for everything is also difficult....so I am taking it easy this summer and just sitting around doing only what absolutely needs doing...and with five kids still home, that's busy enough.

We took the kids to the ocean and for ice-cream...and now Anika says she has touched her feet in the North Atlantic Ocan and now the Pacific Ocean..it was exciting, not to mention we all had our favourite ice-cream...mine is "tiger"...delicious! The tide was out so we were able to walk quite a ways out.

Dh and I also made our first "beer can chicken"...or others call it, "beer up the butt" chicken. It turned out amazing. Next time though we will leave in on the barbeque 1/2 hour longer..but the flavour was unbelievable. I went on the internet to look up recipes and there were hundreds of them, so dh and I just came up with our own rub and everyone loved it.

The boys got the go-kart out from the garage and pumped up the tires washed it and even got it started on their own. Last year they couldn't really touch the peddles very easily but this year well.....my boys are growing up too quickly for "this mama"....but it was fun watching them tearing around the grapes and through the long grass. They had a blast....so did dad!!!!

We are reading Daniel Boone right now...and because the weather was so great today we took our blankets and I read to the kids under the big tree in the back yard...I sat in our wonderful Muskoka chair and the kids laid on the blankets...it was fun. I finally got a sore throat from reading so we all laid on the blankets while the kids talked about all kinds of things...we all told story after story until I got a whopper of a headache...so Anika decided to massage my head so I wouldn't go inside...she loves listening to my stories...she even braided my hair. It was a fun afternoon. Of course every once in a while the wind would blow a certain way and it was "chicken poo smell" everywhere....then thankfully the wind would shift and it was beautiful trees and grass smell. Oh the joys of living in the country. God is so good!

Our cherry tree is producing lots of fruit this year...but unfortunately the birds are getting more than we are. Any ideas how to keep the crows away?

Well, that about sums up our past week....looking forward to the weekend.

Happy "4th of July to all my US blogging friends

and

Happy Birthday to my sister!

Asking for a few prayers, its been along week

{ Posted by Nurseforlife }
{ 06:15, Friday, July 3, 2009 } { 1 comments } { Link }

Good Evening, it’s been another long week here and I for one am glad to see the week draw to a close and the holiday to be upon us. We have spent the last few days getting the hay baled, it is done but we only had the two of us my husband and I to do it all. Usually our son in law helps us but his father passed away on Monday night very suddenly and most unexpectedly. He was on 57 years old had a heart attack as he was sitting down to dinner. My daughter and son in law have been busy helping his mother get through the arrangements and all so my husband and I have been taking care of little Noah and trying to support all of them, while trying to beat the rain and get the hay done. They say god never gives us more than we can handle at one time, I guess that is true but I hope our family has time to catch our breath collectively after this past week before the next thing comes along.

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. -- Spencer W. Kimball, 1976