Time is Slipping

Brandi, Punkin' & Bryan

Wow I cannot believe how long it has been since I have last blogged.
Time seems to be slipping away.
 I have almost finished my first year of homeschooling.
We went to KSGN 89.7 and met Brandi and Bryan, so much fun.

Also we had a small end of the year celebration with our small group from school and had a great day.

And I have been watching my vegetable garden flourish.

I have also, oh my I can't believe it, Sewn. Yes I did. I have sewn.
My daughter is going to a friends wedding and wanted a unique gift and with her creative mind she came up with the idea of taking the invitation and making a wall hanging out of it. So cute. So she cut all the pieces out and I, yes me, moi, sewed it together. I love that kind of thing too.
It is getting me excited about my sewing/ quilting retreat that I will be going on soon. Yippee!!!
Any way, I have been busy helping making bags for Hope'nmotiom because we need to have them ready to send to Georgia for sale at a World Race training camp.
I started a summer bible study again and have been so blessed already. Oh I am excited to see what the good Lord is going to do this summer. He is already speaking LOUDLY to me.
Today His message was to 'get out of the way, and let Him do the work' and trust that He will. Okay..
I want to be pleasing Him , that's all I want to do, walking worthy of the calling...
We have picked produce almost every day for the last week and enjoying it.
But now my chickens have slowed way down on giving us eggs. It's like two a day, and I am all about, "what's up?
Oh and my husband has joined the mission field in our church and will be going to Joplin to help for a few days. I just can't believe it. I am so proud of him. This is all new and out side his box. Can not wait, but have to, see what the Lord is going to do with him in this summer as well. I must say, 'The Lord is doing a mighty work here in our camp."

ninja & hula girl applique(20"square)

How's your home camp doing? Are you redeeming the time or is it slipping away?

Memorial Day Weekend

patriotic apron will be for sale 

retired today

So today was my husbands last day to clock in at the post-office. That is where I met him twenty years ago. And eighteen years ago this weekend is when we began to date. Wow how time flies.

As  for time flying, my garden is coming along nicely.

The beginning of this month I had trouble with pests. They were eating everything that was green.

My daughter and her boyfriend bought me a variety of new plants. I was trying to grow everything from seed, and was getting discouraged. So they pampered me with lasting gifts. I think I mentioned that already in an earlier post.

Anyway, the time this month has been flying by and my garden is doing so good. The plants almost all have some fruit on them.

I have already picked some for omelets and salads and salsa.

Today, was great weather as all month has been. It has allowed the plants to gain ground with roots, without devastating heat.I was shocked as I was looking over my onions and the last of the

 lettuce. When I came across this guy.

 It really freaked me out at first. But I asked the Lord to help me catch it before it got away, and well as you can see, He did. Can you tell me what it is?

Anyway, times are flying ands we need to redeem them before to much gets behind us.












I hope you all have a blessed Memorial Day weekend and remember to pray for out Troops and those who have fallen for is it because of them that we can be free.
So what are doing these days?

Choices

graduation 

I hope all is well with everyone.
I have been so blessed to have the ability to choose what it is I am doing these days.
 My son graduated from Boise State last weekend and my husband is retiring this weekend. Wow.
It was nine years ago in July that I left the post office and now my husband has decided it is time for him to get out.
Big changes are in store for us that really only the Creator fully knows all about.
This does not scare me completely, just causes me to wonder what is ahead. We are really blessed and have not been hit by tornados or any major natural disasters. We are able to read our bibles and speak of the Lord and Savior as King.
We can still try to grow what we can eat and eat what we can grow.

another Monday

I can and have chosen to homeschool my grand-daughter and we have 17 days to go for this year and are already preparing for next. I will say it is not a picnic everyday, but I can seen positive results for the future.
I haven't been sewing quilts this year, but I have been sewing. I will continue also.
I am blessed, because, I know my redeemer lives and by my own choice I have received the gift of eternal life.
I am blessed that I have a best friend who loves me and now will be here daily to take off the burden of all the work. He is already doing the dishes, YES...

caught napping at school

Anyway, I have not always made good choices and yet I pray to continue to homeschool for another year is a positive choice.




By the way I have finished a couple more books. Check out the books tab to see.
 What books of choice are you reading now?

Punkin's Birthday

Time has flown by and I don't know where it has gone.

One of the things that I heard said some time ago, now. Time cannot be replaced or saved. It comes only once and when it is gone thats it, it is gone. 

We need to redeem the time while we have the chance. 

I am amazed at how fast it is moving. 

Daddy said to me years ago, when I mentioned that the time seemed to go fast every summer. His response was , "Wait till you get older, It even goes faster". He was so right. I don't know really where the last eight years have gone. It seems like just a few months ago, we were trying to  potty train and then kindergarten. Now we are preparing for the third grade and possibly college. 

Okay so maybe not that far ahead just yet but we had better because before we know it the time will be here. 

carrot cake we made together for her

We let her have the day off from school so she could go to her fathers place early and then to get her back today to go to church and the Angel baseball game.

chocolate cake from a friend

gifts given early

Glad she had a great weekend birthday.

Heaven Crystals

Here is a quilt that I made a couple of years ago for a quilt guild challenge. I took a pattern that I found from Coffee Time Quilts, by Cathy Wierzbicki  and tweaked it just a tad.
I learned a bit about EQ5 at that time and how not to stretch the bias.
This is one of my grand-daughters favorite quilts that I have made and it will be hers when she is older.

It has won two places in two different quilt guilds.


This is the QUILT FESTIVAL requirements that you may want to check out for yourself.

http://amyscreativeside.com/2011/05/13/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2011/

Mother's Day

 This is a message that was written by Cathe Laurie , and I liked it and wanted to share it with others..

Mother’s Day is Sunday, and all the good restaurants will be filled with reservations for every table. Florists will be busy filling and delivering orders. And hopefully every mother out there is going to receive the honor and love that she deserves. Although Valentine’s Day is a huge event on many calendars, not everyone has a sweetheart. But when you count up all the mothers, mothers-in-law, and grandmothers out there, most everyone will have someone to honor.

Having said that, if your plans don’t include a meal in a fancy restaurant, a bottle of favorite perfume, or an extravagant flower arrangement, that doesn’t mean you’ll have failed in honoring her the way she deserves. It is sad to realize that, for many, this day is more about overpriced gifts, or cards that drip with excessive sentimentality, than it is about genuine honor and love. Children who ignore and dishonor their mothers by what they say and do the rest of the year sometimes try to band-aid their guilt by making a hollow celebration of this day.

I can tell you from a mother’s heart that what we really treasure is the unexpected phone call when it isn’t a special occasion, the sweet expression of a hug and kiss that delightfully interrupts an ordinary day, or the moment when a child, out of honest concern, asks, “Mom, what can I do for you? How can I help?”

Mother’s Day is practically impossible to miss with all the commercialism and pressure to spend more than necessary. But mothers everywhere know when they are appreciated . . .

It isn’t the size and of the card, the cost of the flowers, or the meal out that we treasure. It is those special tokens of love throughout the year that tell us the hard work of our mothering and grandmothering is appreciated. My advice to those who want to honor their moms is to tell them on Mother’s Day, but don’t forget to tell them all year long.

crookneck squash 

I really did think that this was good and this is not really how my day went. But I really did have a great day. 

new plants added

I really had a productive weekend in all. My garden is growing and producing and I think I have saved what plants I did have and I was given more to replace what was lost. I was able to plant them all this weekend and get them going before it is to late to try. My husband helped me put in zucchini, watermelon and a couple of squash. we will call this the 'Melon Patch'. Then I was able to replace some bell peppers in the 'U'bed where I lost a couple of tomatoes. Also I worked the 'Ole raised bed (really not old)that had some lettuce and broccoli and garlic growing in.                      

melon patch

That is where the carrots are growing now. Anyway, I added two tomatoes, four bell peppers, one which is golden yellow, and three purple. Plus a chile and of course another another basil. I put the basil under a butterfly net so that the bugs may stay away. Got to try.

basil under net

carrots that earwigs didn't eat

I got some sun rays and had a really good time relaxing in one of my favorite places in all the world. My backyard.


 How was your mother's day? Where did you spend it?

1st Quilt done this Year...

I can not believe that I have not been sewing quilts this year due to the load I have put on my table.
I have been on a journey with my grand-daughter in homeschooling. This is a whole knew thing for me, as is this blogging. But anyway, I was on Easter break/ spring vacation and I was inspired with some of my stash. So I pulled out an old favorite pattern, "Yellow Brick Road" by Adkinson Designs and away I went cutting up the little pieces of fabrics that I have saved, for a someday project. This is the day that I have been looking for all year. I finished the quilt top and used up stash and am pleased with the results. As well as having it done with in a two week period and still teaching. An Amen to that.
The year is almost over and I am able to go on a retreat this summer with some friends who have been doing this now for a few years. but is has been made possible by a friend. God Bless her, Lois Thank you.
So with that said, I need to get with the work load that has a awaited me all afternoon. More gardening.

How many quilts have you completed this year so far?

Garden Blahhhs...

was basil

I feel like I am spinning my wheels and getting no where fast. Last week we had super strong winds for three days followed by  Hot heat. Now my plants have something eating them to nothings and if that isn't the pits, the ones that have survived have some terrible fungus. Blah blah blah, and more.
I cannot give up. I know it is trial and error, but can I get a break here. My garden is worse than the one in Eden. Sure it looks all nice until you have to work it. Then all the uglies come to the surface.
No, we didn't get hit with a Tsunami or floods or tornados, but by golly I have been hit with the garden blahs, and they are bad.

It has grown

Maybe things will look brighter in the morning.

this is gotten worse

corn has silks 

How is you garden so far?