I'm DONE!!

I 'm just a little excited because I am done with school! I'm not a teacher, but a minuteman. My kindred spirit, is the head girls dean at the boarding school near me. Not content to have me just living nearby, she convinced the principal that I needed to step in any time they needed assistance. Well, that's what I did... for a whole year. I enjoyed the time with the students, but I missed my time at home baking bread, sewing, cleaning, and gardening. Yes, even cleaning. Now the school year is over and I almost don't know what to do with my time! Almost. Trust me, I'll find things to do. I'll keep you posted.

Wet and soggy, but we have our seeds!

Some friends and I took a girls road trip the first weekend in May. It was to to the Baker Creek Spring Seed Festival in Mansfield, Missouri. It was a soggy mess, but oh so much fun. In all, we traveled about 15 hours to get there, through washed out roads, rain storms and mud....lots of mud! We would do it all over again to get our seeds for our gardens. That's what I call determination!

A wonderful promise to remember...

Red barns along countryside, Vermont

"Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never permit the righteous to be moved" Psalms 55:22

I woke up very early this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. So I got up to do my Bible reading, and this was one of the verses. It was just what I needed to see. I hope it's just what you need too.

Blessings!

May God bless all of you mother's out there with wisdom, patience and grace. I hope you all have a wonderful day!

Never say never......

In April I went to a two day seminar by Mountain Media Ministries. Now, I have been to their seminars before, but this time, they had a mini-class on canning. It was everything you needed to know to get started, and where to get more information for continued learning. Very good.

I should have learned my lesson many years ago about saying "I'm never going to ....." I said that about living in the South, and here I am in Georgia. Well...I said that about canning too. Now I want to learn all I can about canning so I can put up my garden produce. One of these days I'm going to learn.....never say never!

What is it?

For the past couple of springs, we have had this fella visiting in our yard. We weren't sure what it was and always guessed it was a ground hog or something. We never took time to check it out, because we were too busy chasing it out of our yard. We didn't want it to become too comfortable since we do have a garden on the other side of the yard.

Finally, this spring, I took some pictures of it before we went to Texas. We got our answer! My wonderful nephew McGyver took out his animal tracking book and there, staring up from the page was a woodchuck(also known as a groundhog). Thanks McGyver!

Now, it says that you can use cayenne pepper around where they are entering to keep them away. I haven't tried it yet since it has been raining steady for days. If anyone else has ideas, I'd sure appreciate hearing them!