Pass it forward

Oh Girls I just can't get this done the way I wish I could but I did not want to neglect it either. All of you dear readers gift with the kindness of just knowing your out there. You all make a difference. I began this list and see I can never end it and need to do so to go to bed. :)

This award is given to those who LOVE blogging, and who also encourage friendships through blogging and who help others seek the reasons why we all love blogging.

Bren
Denise
Care' oh Lynn
Amrita
Peggy at The Simple Woman
Mrs Keeling
Iris at Grace alone Thankfulness is a wonderful
Lynn at Unequal Marriage
Denise at Samaritan Women
Organizing Junkie
Susie of Susie's homemade

The lives you live bring the lives of others together in a sense of affilication that inate need to belong. Community is established.
Your all heros in my heart for this. I will try to step out and tell you as soon as I can.
I must get to bed now.
Fondly
your friend...
For you and with you I stand.

12 bandana days...

Wow I started this post at 10 a.m.!


Hello
It has been a full week long /week end Landscaping Gardening
spending time with the kids before they are back to school kinda time.

Trimmings from the big tree out front re-cycle into perfect pea poles.
just need to defoliate them.

We moved the coop over into the shade of the play structure.
I could not stand them on this beautiful porch.

We worked hard Sunday cleaning it off and also doing a big project that has really left me inspired and thrilled!

Now you need to look with the eyes of completion.
The black fence once posted will be the only thing there along the line of the corner of the house.
The shed is now within better reach of the garden plots for ease of tool use.

The lab loves pool!

ya my porch is back

The front of the house got a little attention. The old spent plants taken up and the soil tilled. The folks gave us a cable dish and we were able to sell it mid morning. That was good too for the battery in the car died this morning. My Love he took to changing it out at lunch and then took the car back to his job site.
full day

We strung a new clothes line over the weekend

I did some beading

So this morning was a 12 bandannas on the line each time in the garden I use one on my hair and one around my neck to dry the sweat off my face. Oh yes it is hot!
I went on a free list run and came away empty then thought that the kids might like a choice about spending their allowance on a happy meal. Indeed they choose to do so so I took the kids for a happy meal drive through they came a way with >50 cents change. Then we came home and finished up the laundry and shut the house down for the heat of the day.
I gave them a huge treat and took them to the mall to spend the saved allowance they had on the toys they wanted and was so fortunate to fine one each for a low price. Bennie Baby 2.0. They knew a candy store that had them at $5. but when we got there...another store closing the doors...we found two at a book store.
We stopped at a Walgreen for the candy was real cheep compared and they are catching on...:) My kids were sorta stunned that a weeks earnings bought a happy meal with a lousy toy...oh such good lessons. Would that I could spare them now the difficulty but to spare them later is much more a gain to them. To see a small suffer of lesson that will give them skill...oh that is the gem.
Met Steve at the school to do the meet the teacher and had a really nice time. Oh so funny in a way...well I just have to laugh at myself...
I thought school began tomorrow...it is Wednesday it begins...could you just see me standing at the bus stop in the morning for the first day of school and the bus never coming.!
Well I had to just kid about myself and keep dignity.
I let the kids go with the daddy man and took off to go see a dear friend and to wish her happy birthday

Her now grown daughter was there and the three of us went out for a burger some good talk and then I stayed and hung out with my friend.
It was the first time I have been with her all summer our schedules just never met and it was to happen in Gods time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAYE!!!!!


Now ya know it is 10 p.m.


The kids are asleep after a long time conversing with each independently when I got home. Daddy man let them watch the Choice awards...It was really exciting evidently to them of course the fact that the JONAS BROTHERS were on was the thrill!

I best go rest ....another wonderful day awaits.
I missed out on a few posts I had to do but it is the living that is a priority at the moment.

Life is very full right now.

I do hope all of you are well.
I have had little to no time to come visit.
I care about you all and fondly say a prayer for your good hearts to sty soft and the peace to come overtake you and make you praise God for your life.

Sunday Evening

Hello all
This is a nice evening here.
Coming in from the yard and gardens only a few moments ago and really need a shower.
I thought I should let you know "It's all good".
With the kids starting school and the gardens being planted time is a valued commodity and just been sorta enjoying some other avenues of interest.
I got the pumpkin and the acorn squash planted.
Cleaned the yard up adn the porch.
Saturday during the heat of the day I rested and beaded. Making a necklace and earring set and bracelet just for me to match the top I had on...how's that for taking it easy.
We went over to Steve's folks and I took stuff for a meal and a loaf of bread I had rising, made a supper for all of us.
Steve worked on MILoves computer for her.

We finished the porch adn the yard clean up and extended the Bee Bliss Garden into a really beautiful concept garden that will have a simple old school outdoor kitchen set up under the gazebo in time. This to can out doors at harvest.

Today Christmas gifts were on my mind and so I was able to accomplish a layout for a gift.
Im the shade of evening we went back out there to do a rearange on the garden and switched the shed out with the gazebo . We will be moving the gate to the edge of the house, there by increasing the gardens thrice.

It will not all be gardens but a secreate garden little oasis.
I am very happy about it.

So it's all good just sorta quiet and refeltive on life a bit.
Pleasantly so.
Yard work has created a marvel that I am so excited about

bread, gardening and the BLT

Good Day to you all...
After the kneading of a loaf of daily bread for the kids lunch I headed out to the garden.

Began I this morning..
Three hours later...

corn, spaghetti squash and cosmos in.
The soil ready for the rest and the compost added , soil feed and hoed ...
9a.m. hot tired and ready to go in the house.

peas, bean, butternut and pumpkin seed soaking for tomorrow....

This almost the last day that the kids and I are home together before school starts

called for a fancy family lunch of Bacon lettuce and tomato on fresh baked bread.
I added 1/3 c of rice protein to the loaf and it was very tender and light.

Got some laundry done and the kitchen...just tired out for the afternoon...It calls for a siesta. Hope everyone is having a great day!

Neno's Award from Charlotte

Good Evening...
A gift sent my way found a perch on my front page tonight




Charlotte's
She wrote...

This award is given to those who LOVE blogging, and who also encourage friendships through blogging and who help others seek the reasons why we all love blogging. These awards are so hard to choose because we all LOVE blogging and everyone is so encouraging! Since I couldn’t seem to decide who to pass the award on to, I decided to pass it to all those dear Arizona bloggers that I recently met and had lunch with. Here they are.

Debbie of Heart Choices

Mary at Piles of Smiles

Michele of Beelieve You Can

Sherry of Country Wings in Phoenix

Marty of A Stroll Thru Life

Charlotte of Charlotte's Weblog

If you are not familiar with these dear ladies and their blogs, I hope you will go and visit each one of them and say “hi” for me while you’re there.

Thank You Charlotte


WELL....I will need to ponder this so as to pass it on girls...

Thankful Thrusday~JOY

join us here

With a rake and hoe and a piece of fertile ground I am impressed that it is He who will bless the seeds I sew

See BEE BLISS GARDENS BLOG for posting of the process


After a two and a half hour morn of chore and prayer
The North bed is planted on time.

Even the stench of the dung has life within it.
That stench that is a fertile lesson.
We all have it .
We just gotta dig it in and loosed those hearts to it
:)

A light thunder took me out of my solitude to remind me of the presence even in the midst of the task
That He is there...
Waiting to bless this soil with the kindness that makes all things living flourish.

The thunder was a prelude to the most tender reminder that all ...
this that we set (I set) my hand to is blessed.
It is God who makes it (us) grow

All those hardened lumps to chop up and soften with the efforts set forth
it will till the tender soil that will bring forth all that good "fruit".
Now I speak poetically that of the heart and of the soil it differs little.

How wonderful it is to learn from our children that even the obstacles set up around us are but to strengthen us to stratagem

strat·a·gem (strt-jm)n.

1. A military maneuver designed to deceive or surprise an enemy.

2. A clever, often underhanded scheme for achieving an objective.

that we would be foresighted in those battles meant to harm us.
How wonderful a day began for me.

(after this) Dash got his hair cut at my hand and is very happy! YA!!!!!!!!!
not that he needed it hahah

~ JOY ~
As I stepped onto the patio it began to rain.
That was all the rain there was.
Just enough to give me hope and promise.
An encouragement to trust.

This is a good thing too for the soils that have yet to get planted
must not become saturated as of yet.

Word Filled Wednseday

Mr Linky is over here

"And as for you, take for yourself some of all food WHICH IS EDIBLE,
gather it to yourself; and it shall be for food for you and for them."
Genesis chapter 6, verse 21

A late lunch for the children and I with a focus on my commitment to better health.
The Black Cherey Concentrate is awesome for joint inflammation.
This is a day of rest for me for I had two days of hard physical labor in the garden.

Tackle it Tuesday

Tackle it Today I did!

After the early morning dentist appointment for Dash where...we were going in to have his molars sealed...we walked out with a silver crown...I was started when they led us back to the closed room for they only do procedures there but Dash being special needs and they knowing that did not think a lot of it until I looked over at the set up complete with injection...????/
Some misunderstanding...yes
So after clarifying it all decided to go with the flow. The baby tooth was going to stay until he is 10-12 we were awaiting news if the orthodontist would be pulling it or not for braces. Well it was his partner who had set up for us to come back and have the full scan x ray and the sealants. All else had not been set up or agreed too. And here I was dear in the headlights! So I listened to the calm within me only concerned of the possible betrayal that Dash might feel.
That dentist gave Dash shots and Dash did NOT EVEN KNOW IT!!!!!!!!!!!
It could not of really worked out any better!

At the end the front office a buzz with the dread and concern of an angry mom were startled to find that I was not angry with them. They were so relieved and approached with a
"well just have you pay for the nytrisoxside (laughing gas) and not bill you for the rest of the balance until after insurance covers it."
Dash was not angry with me either.
Gods way is higher than us. ?

Dash was calm and the procedure went off without a hitch.
Dove waited out front! She was calm and alright.
The front office was impressed with her.

Well on the way out they were a little upset and wanted for a treat a Mc Donalds...well I had two bucks in my purse and had to deposit a check for a necklace I had made ...I told them that I would get them a doughnut when I went to the bank (it was in the grocery store).
At the bank when I approached he was stunned to my reply when asked "how are you today"
My reply "happy"
Startled the teller ask "Well tell me what makes you so happy this morning that your this way?...."
So I told him and then change the slip to get a $5 cash back to get the kids doughnuts. He said to me..."your kids want a dough nut?...well we have way more of them than we could ever eat hold on..."
He came back with a plate for each kid and a Doughnut bigger than Dash's head! Dove chose the one with sprinkles.:)

We finished our transaction and he then paused me and asked me...
"would you like a dough nut too?"
Sheepishly I grinned and accepted my favorite maple glazed.
Dove wished for another for hers was small and was up set a little cuz Dash had a massive one. I gave Dove mine and she was so excited and thankful...

We then left to go get some free MULCH...saw it on craigslist
the elder came out and told me of how he needed some and had way too much delivered. He told me of how he had hoped to cover the area around the mound a few inches thick to stop the weeds. I filled the bed of the truck and the kids were in the running truck with the A/C on. Then I decided two shovels for the old mans area one shovel to the truck bed and covered his front. He came out to leave in his car....It was then I saw the handicap tag...

He told me "You don't have to do that"

I told him

"I do not do it because I have to, I choose too"
... and thanked him for the mulch.

We then drove up to a town north of us to get several bags of horse manure for free curb side. All bagged :) the bed of the truck is full and I am now beginning to cool.

I am just all tackled out!

It is 1:00 p.m.
time to chill and rest before supper preparations.