Bee~ Journal of then...

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Pics of my place, upon special request:

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Your mom is inspirational, Bee! And your garden and place looks so nice… Gosh, I wish I could go visit and get a proper tour of everything.

I wish you could too, Sumi! And I'd love to do the same at your beautiful country and home...just stunningly beautiful where you live!


I am thankful for this beautiful day! I'm thankful for a growing garden, one having beautiful flowers to gaze upon as well as food...the flowers are just stunning this year! I am thankful for hard work that gives satisfaction and yields something positive. I'm thankful for this good home, set back in a peaceful forest, and the ability to groom it and care for it properly.

I am thankful for a work partner and a companion in my good, good mother. What a blessing she is to me and to others!

I am thankful for the people on this forum, such good and sweet people who support one another and don't find a reason for contention.

I am thankful for my family, for the little innocent girls God gave us and the one on the way, may He also bless this one with a sweet nature. I pray protection over them, that they may live their little lives without harm from others.

I am thankful for these good animals God has given me...all of them dear and sweet natured, hard working and productive. What a blessing to have them on the land, moving about in their lives and God letting me be a part of it all!

 

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I better dust this old book off....might want to write in it again.

 

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She is that...and I'm a fairly objective grandma. Even my mother, who had 9 of her own and helped raise 27 grandchildren and now has many great grandchildren keeps commenting on Aliza's singularity as a child. She just has an other worldly intuitiveness and intelligence far beyond her age and that started showing up really early....kind of freaky and uncanny but also wondrous to behold.

You know that old Black Crow song about drug addiction called "She Talks to Angels"? When she was just a baby she would smile suddenly towards the ceiling and start jabbering away at nothing, smiling this beautiful smile of such sunny joy that we would often wonder if she was able to see and talk to her guardian angel. As she has aged, we still notice how different she is from other children...she notices things a kid that age shouldn't notice and then acts on it, her vocabulary is not childlike at all, nor are her thought processes.

It all has the effect of leaving us in wonderment most of the time and also feeling much honored to know her and be loved by her. Can't say I've ever felt that way about a child, even my own, whom I loved~and still love~ dearly and more than my own life.

She's a strange and wonderful experience, for sure.

 

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She sounds like a lovely child. I think she and my daughter would get along. My daughter acts and speaks much older than her age and says the most wonderfully intuitive things. She has a hard time with kids her age because she's so different. No time for a lot of nonsense either!

 

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This year has been so very tough but that's when God show his best. So many miracles and things that we thought were curses turned out to be blessings in disguise. Only God can turn bad into good. Just today a member of our church called and said they had firewood for us. They have brought about 3 cords and have a lot more they are planning to bring later this week. We will have to pay very little for firewood if anything next winter. What a blessing!

 

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Word of mouth garners more jars than any other method I've used. Just let people know you intend to can and folks will be dropping off Mom's or Grandma's old jars just to get rid of them.

I've had full pick up truckloads of jars given to me in this manner...so much that I could never have used them all and ended up giving many of those away to other people intending to can.

 

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The other grandma moved here to be with the granddaughters...at least, that's what she said, but she doesn't spend much time with them. I think she spends all the time with them that she wants to spend but, not being a very motherly type person, it's not as much as she could. She's busy dating.

 

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I counted ten different butterflies on the flowers this evening, especially on the butterfly bush, which seems like crack cocaine for butterflies. Even saw that zebra swallowtail one, but didn't get a pic before it went away. Even saw the tiniest of blue butterflies, which are dear to me...such tiny perfection and the perfect shade of blue!

Mind you, these blooms just came out yesterday and today and this isn't even a fraction of how many blooms this thing has coming on. This bush will bloom until hard frost. This is the one that barely bloomed and was only 4 ft tall until I transplanted it, fed it and pruned it. Now it's nearly to the eaves on the cabin!

Molly sizes up a flutterby as a meal...

 

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Pics I took today of random things happening on the homestead. This top one shows the new/older looking gate(made from old picket fencing out of my son's yard) I finally got up to replace the CP gate at the back of the garden. Finally got a topper on those gate posts too...only took me 3 yrs to do it! Will put a CP strip up around that gate so I can have an arbor of honeysuckle there too. Right now I have a cherry tomato planted by that gate that will be using the trellis, but I'll also start some honeysuckle there as well so it can take over that trellis by next season.

My 82 yr old Ma, aka the Ol' Bat, sweeping off the new outhouse roof, getting ready to put up the roofing tin on there. She's the go to person for roofing around these parts.

Miss Molly still feeding her big ol' kits...is it my imagination or is that nearest white cat giving me the stink eye? They are wild, wild, wild kittens and need to be caught and tamed down before going to new homes.

Molly gets to a high point so she can take a break from her ever hungry brood.

Playing around with the panoramic feature on the camera so I could get the whole garden in one shot. I know it looks like there's a lot of bare spots in there, but the tomatoes are still young and the peppers are still in trays, while the squash and pumpkins had to be replanted. I also removed a couple of the lettuce low tunnels so I could build some frames for those.