Happy,Happy,Happy

Happy Good Friday ,Happy Earth Day!

Happy Easter! I am taking a few days off to get ready for Family and Friends coming to celebrate Easter with us!

Hope ya'll have a Great Day!

Blessins',Lib

Wishing You

A Blessed Sunday! Blessins',Lib

Pink Slime

Did anyone see Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution tonight? He showed how the U.S. is adding Pink Slime to meat. I had never heard of this. I googled in Pink slime meat filler. If you've never heard of this check it out. It is worth the research!!!!!!!! I had never watched Jamie's Food Revolution , not sure if this was his first one, if not how long its been on. I have seen him on Food network and The cooking Chanel. When I go to the grocery I will ask what goes into the ground beef ! Please take time to goggle and read up on this!!!!!!!!!!!! Have a great day! Blessins',Lib

Pioneer Living

Sometimes I think I was born 100 yr's. too late. lol I enjoy the older ways ,and I try to keep skills , I learned growing up . I Love iron skillets, thats all I use. I enjoy old recipes altho most pioneer type cooking I do I dont have recipes for , or if I do its an egg size of a walnut that sort of thing. If for some reason you were face with having to make do and live as the Pioneers did ,could you do it? When we have Pioneer day or wkend, It still amazes me how much water is wasted daily, and how sad it would be if for some reason one day we were force to live this way, all the folks who would not have the skills to make it. I had some request for the dandelion recipe, I dont have a recipe , go to my side bar to ~~~Feathered Spirits~~~ Joyce Ann has nice photos and recipe for frying dandelion blooms, her blog is loaded with wonderful ideas. Thanks Joyce Ann for all you share:o) Hope ya'll are having a Great wk. Blessins',Lib

Guess Who Come To Dinner and Fried Dandelion Blooms

Had our first Hummer to come to eat at the feeder today:o) A bit early for here.We enjoy watching birds and all wildlife here.

I fried some dandelion blooms today. I picked, washed, battered and fried them. Dh is not a big fan of wild food or veggies but he liked them .DS thought they tasted kinda like okra.

Hope everyone has a great week!

Blessins',Lib

It's the Simple Things.........

It's the Simple things in Life that brings us Great Joy.

To us the simple side of life is laid back ,worry free as possible.

Each day we take and make time to enjoy each moment to the fullest and be Very Thankful!

Hope you have a Simple Laid back wk.end! Filled with Beauty , the ones and things you Love.

Blessins',Lib

It's Dogwood Fest.

It's Dogwood Fest. time in our town. Lots of fun.There's trails you can drive in all parts of town.

Arts&Crafts , Food .Lots of fun for everyone.

I Love this time of year. So many Beautiful blooms .

Hope ya'll have a great day.

Blessins',Lib

Stockin' Up

Here in our neck of the woods the economy seems to be double dipping. I always try to keep a well stocked pantry. Even more so with this economy. We've always lived the Simple side of life, we don't have huge wants,and when the economy tanked I think it was easier for us than alot of Family and Friends.

I know our Lifestyle is not for everyone, its a Great feeling to be debt free and less worry free lives. Sure we have daily worries and trails like everyone.We have some Family and Friends who are in their late 60s and early 70s who is so upside down in their home mortg. they'll never get it paid off., and owes more than they could sell it for.

One of our Local stores has been having some great sales can fruit and Can veggies .24-.29 per can, you have to buy 10 cans to get this price. We buy - by the case. We have been stocking our pantry. I Love to cook , we don't eat out alot .We Love picnics and cook outs. We have found we have more fun having a pot luck with Family and Friends , in the past we would sometimes meet up at a rest. now we meet here or someones home, everyone seems more relaxed and have more time to enjoy each others company.

I enjoy gardening ,canning, freezing, and drying alot of our food.

One store had a big sale on zuc. and yellow squash , I bought several , I dried them for soups .

I try hard not to have food waste. I plan out menus , I use left overs up one day it will be mashed pits. the next pot. cakes or shepherd's pie.

What do you do towards stocking your pantry?

The storms were bad the other night ,no damage here put other parts of town did.

Hope ya'll have a great day!

Blessins',Lib

Headed our way

Bad storms are headed our way . One just went thru alot of hail, windy is terrible! Lost power. Hope ya'll have a great day. Stay safe. Blessins',Lib

May your Weekend Be..............

Filled with the simple things of life.

Filled with simple Beauty.

With the ones and things you Love! Have aGreat weekend!

Blessins',Lib

Happy...........

Hope you have a Great day!

Blessins',Lib

Rain,Rain.............

It's raining ,so nesting in today. Doing my 30 day cooking and freezing.

Yesterday was a Beautiful sunny day. I walked around the Homestead, I watched a bird gather nesting supplies.Nature is Amazing! I save onion bags or other net bags ,put dryer lint, embrodiery snippets of thread, yarn etc. in ,hang in a tree and the birds sometimes gather nesting supplies from it, fun to come upon a nest and see the supplies in the nest.

Great to have so much of my Spring cleaning behind me. Suppose to have rain the rest of the wk. so hoping to finish up . Then it will be time to mow again.

DH is suppose to pick Mother-N-law up today .Need to get more towels and embrodiery pieces made up ,to stitch while sitting with her.

Hope ya'll have a Great Day!

Blessins',Lib

It's That Time Again.....................

You know that Favorite thing to do this time of year,"SPRING CLEANING"Lol

I did get one towel stitched, then the rain kept pouring ,turned cold, Little Shadow went to spent a few days with her other Great Grands ,and her other Grands, and mother-N-Law is Home. So I got busy cleaning and cleaning and still cleaning. I started with our room, cleaned my closet and both chest's out .This morning I did the l.r. and DH called a Junk (Thrift) store to come pick up a truck load. Went to a good cause a Recovery Thrift shop . I mean they had a truck full! I feel so much lighter. :o) The other bedrooms we cleaned good when we painted so nothing to get rid of there, just a good cleaning. So now to finish the kitchen and d.r.

I did go junkin' Sat. and I do try to remember bring something in take something out.

I have the porch Spring/summer ready ,so found some buys for it . I always dec. it with birdhouses & cages.This yr. I added sun. stars, moons .

Hope ya'll have a great wk. If your Spring Cleaning Happy cleaning!

Blessins',Lib

Stitchin'

Our weather is much cooler , and rain moving in for the wk.end. So Im stitchin'.

Have muslin and homespun fabric washed and ready to hem ,for more towels to stitch up this wk.end and wk. rain is suppose to stay with us for awhile.

Hope ya'll have a great wk.end!

Blessins',Lib

Happy Birthday Peggy

Happy Bithday to you,Happy Birthday to you,Happy Birthday DEAR Peggy,Happy Birthday to you!

A special Happy Birthday to Peggy from Hidden Haven (See sidebar)
Peggy is a very SPECIAL Lady. Go over and wish her a Happy day !
Hope you have a Great day peggy!
Blessins',Lib

Wild side of life

This morning we took Little shadow to Ijam's Nature Center. We Love going there.They teach children so much of nature ,recycling etc.

This owl was recycled from paper and cardboard boxes.

Theres so many things to explore and see inside and out.

Nature trails , picnic tables, green house .

Its a wonderul place to visit .Info :www. ijams.org

Hope you have a great day, take time to walk on the wild side.

Blessins',Lib

Fun On The Homestead

Mama Earth is wide awake from a Long winter's sleep.

We've had so much fun being outdoors. Discovering all the flowers popping up .

Outdoor work , Meals eaten on the porch, watching birds come to the feeders to eat, frogs, and birds,chickens, goats is about all we hear around here. Had aGreat day with Little shadow today:o)

Soon I hope we will be caught up with outdoor work and have time to play in fabric and sip a cup a....... on the porch.

Have a Great wk.

Blessins',Lib

A Fun and Busy week

It's been a busy last few days, but we have gotten alot of work behind us.Had to mow this week .

Did some cooking .I enjoy cooking!

This is where it all started 6 generations ago. We planted some cold crop veggies this week.

I've had a good week with Family and friends.

Hope ya'll have a great wk.end! Filled with Love and the ones you Love.

Blessins',Lib

Tea Time

I have a Wonderful, thoughtful Brother Ed. We have always been close.I know what a Treasure I have in him, and try hard to never take him For Granted.We're there for each other Happy times as well as sad times. We Love each other for each other, not gifts! We are always on the hunt for something we know the other one would like .

Yesterday before leaving Ed's going to Grady's funeral , Ed handed me this tea set . He knows I Love Tea time and Nature.

This is the last towel I emb. this week.

Today DH will pick his Mom up to stay with us 6 days. So I am cutting out towels from homespun and muslin fabric, Ginger gifted me with yesterday,I will hem them by machine, to have on hand to stitch while sitting with M-I-L. We're suppose to be in the 70's so hoping to rock on the porch, stitch, and watch the birds come to eat.

Thank You for your kind comments and visits here.Its always wonderful to come here and visit with my Bloggyland Friends! Your Friendship means so Much! May Your Day Bloom with Love and be filled with the ones You Love!

Blessins',Lib

Good Bye My Friend........ Until we meet Again

We said Good Bye to a Dear Friend Grady, today.
He was a Wonderful person! So kind to all! The type person you Love spending time with.
I got to spend the day with my Dear,Dear Brother Ed . We went to his house, and several of us left his home and went to the funeral together,and back to his house. Ed lives across town, sometime I feel he lives across country. lol I'm use to country living ,he lives in the city.

After we got back to Ed's we were talking and a friend was talking how Great Grady was , and how it makes you stop and think what has my life been, how will I be remembered.
It has made me stop and think , what has my life been like? Have I taken time to reach out and touch other lives like I should have? When someone is nasty to me, do I react in a kind way or go down to their level?

How Blessed I am to have so many WONDERFUL FRIENDS! When DH& I returned home a Dear Friend had been here left me a bag of fabric and alot of emb. thread , with a note ,I wanted you to have this ,to keep you busy when caretaking.
I called my Dear Friend in Fl. had a good visit via phone. We met Grady thru her Friendship.
When I am down all I have to do is call her and she lifts me up.

Hope ya'll have a Great day! Take time to reflect on your life, your Friendship, and Count your Blessings!
Blessins',Lib