365 Pictures week 38-39; 16-29 September

Hi,
I am  noticing that weeks are going by faster as the end of the year nears.  I can believe two weeks have gone by since I last posted.  Time to catch up. . . .

Sunday 16 September 2012

We had the annual Gass Family today.  This is my mother-in-law's mother's (husband's grandma) side of the family.  My husband's grandma came from a large family, so his mom had a lot of first cousins.  The ones that are still living get together every year in September.  There are some of my husband's generation there too & what kids we can bring along.  On our way to Trenton, we saw this long horn cow & I had to get a picture.  Get a load of the size of those horns.  My husband said he would hate to try to load that cow up in a trailer, how would it fit, too wide.

 Monday 17 September 2012

Women on Mission meeting & this morning we put together shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.  If you don't know what this is, this is part of Samaritan's Purse which is own by Franklin Graham, Billy Graham's son.  You get these shoe boxes for free from them, fill them up with small toys, toothbrush, toothpaste, wash clothes, soap, books, etc. for kids then send them back with to Samaritan's Purse.  They ship they worldwide at Christmas to kids who would not get anything.  Some even stay in the US.  Our family has been doing this for years & when my boys were little they loved taking the shoe box to Walmart & see what all they could put into the box knowing it would bless a little boy who had nothing.  Great family project. 

 Tuesday - Wednesday 18-19 September 2012

No picture, major allergy attack these past two days didn't do anything but sneeze, blow my nose & stay indoors

Thursday 20 September 2012

Okay tried a new recipe - you are looking at fresh onions, chopped artichoke hearts, fresh mushrooms & shrimp being saute in Italian dressing.  This was then serve on top of linguine noodles. I liked it but my husband didn't.  One he doesn't like artichoke hearts or Italian dressing.  I have been able to cook with Italian dressing & he has like the food, but this time he could taste it.  I was hoping the other foods would cover up the artichoke flavor, but nope he tasted those too.  Oh well, after 23yrs & 9 months of cooking for him this is recipe #5 he didn't like in that time period.

Friday 21 September 2012

No pictures

Saturday 22 September 2012

The guys are not hunting, boys back at college & hubby working so we can put corn back in the feeder.  I love these two pictures from the deer cam because of the sunlight & rainbow.  By the way, this is one of the cute fawns with the spots, almost grown up.  You can just barely make out her spots on the front & back shoulders.  Also no momma anymore they have pulled off & are on their own.

Sunday 23 September, 2012

No picture, but our church voted in a new pastor YEAH!!!!

Monday 24 September 2012

Turkeys at the feeder.  This one has an itch.

Tuesday 25 September 2012

As I pulled into my driveway this little squirrel was sitting on a post eating what is left of an apple that had fallen from the tree.  As I reach to get my camera ready, he jumped down & started running towards my jeep with the apple in his mouth.  Then he realized that I was in the jeep snapping picture & he scurried up the tree by our driveway.

This is him, sneaking a peak at me & notice no apple, he dropped it while going up the tree.

Wednesday 26 September 2012

See You At The Pole (SYATP) was today.  This is a national event where public school kids can gather around the their school flag pole & pray for their school & community.  It must be student led, but adults can be in the audience.  For the past three years our church has helped encourage this & served donuts & juice at the event.  This year another church joined our to help with the serving of breakfast as the kids came off the bus

The is Cole Ellis a 6th grader at my church.  He was the leader this year at this event.  He talk to the kids about Christ & gave a simple understanding of the plan of salvation.  Then he asked if anyone wanted to pray

This little boy in the blue baseball hat; who was a 2nd or 3rd grader volunteered to pray, then Cole closed with prayer

 Thursday 27 September 2012

I went to get the mail & notice our small tree by the mailbox was putting out flowers, so I had to grab my camera & get a picture.  I have never seen this tree put out flowers in the fall.

Friday 28 September 2012

Fall is here.  The trees are starting to turn.  I love fall

Saturday 29 September 2012

My husband & I went to go sit on our new couch tonight to watch a little TV & this is what we found...

no room for mom & dad, the kids are taking up the couch for a bed.

365 Pictures week 37; 9-15 September

This has been a crazy week.  I can't believe I went from Sunday to Thursday & didn't take any pictures plus I didn't realize it until Friday UGH!!!!  Oh well, here is what I have to offer, enjoy & hope to do better next week.

Sunday - Thursday 9-13 September

No pictures :-(

Friday 14 September

When my son Josh graduated from high school, a friend's grandma asked for two of Josh's t-shirt that he liked a lot & willing to keep but not wear anymore.  She took those two t-shirts & made a pillow out of them.  Josh was cleaning out his closet & discovered he had a lot of t-shirts that he didn't wear but had sentimental value to him, so he asked Mrs. Mulnix if we could pay her to make a quilt out of those t-shirts & she did.  I delivered the t-shirts to her last Thursday, thinking we would get the quilt  back in time to surprise Josh for Christmas.  Well, she knew Josh was coming home this weekend to hunt to she sewed this wonderful quilt in a week for Josh to have when he came home & take back to college with him.

Saturday 15 September

A couple of pictures for today.  The first one some of you may not like, but it is life here for us.  My son Josh shot his first deer with a bow & arrow this morning.  It was a doe.  Thankful for the meat this will provide for our family this winter.

Later today we celebrated my grand niece Charleigh's 3rd birthday (actual day is tomorrow)  I had the honor of making a Tinkerbell cake for her.

This is my grand niece Charleigh, all excited about her birthday

And this is Carrigan my other grand niece & Charleigh's little sister.  She is 7 months old.

That is my week, short & sweet.  Have a great upcoming week & God bless

365 Pictures week 36; 2-8 September

Hello,

Sunday 2 September 2012

No pictures - allergies were giving me fits today, really should have taken a picture of my couch because that is where I spent the day fighting allergies

This will be the last week of deer cam pictures as we have to pull the corn to get ready for bow season.      We do not hunt where the feeders are, but we do hunt on the farm they are on, so we pull them a week before hunting seasons starts.

Monday 3 September 2012

Holiday baking has begun.  I try to start baking cookies & put them in the freezer for Thanksgiving & Christmas for company, family & college kids that come by. I had to make 6 dozen cookies for a church event, so I made extra to put in the freezer for the holidays.  This was the start.  The shallow container will go to church (when filled with 6 dozen of course) & the deeper/bigger one will go to the freezer.  These were chocolate chip oatmeal cookies.

Tuesday 4 September 2012

One from the deer cam - any want some coons???

Wednesday 5 September 2012

Tomorrow is trash day & recycle day.  I was tying into bundles the magazines, junk mail & newspapers we had to be recycled.  I took one stack out & came back for the other stacks & the cardboard.  This is what I found.

Fuzzy had been by the water bottles you see in the foreground playing with a piece of scrap string.  When I came back into the house she had claimed the cardboard (sitting on it) & one pile of magazines for herself.  Why???  I have no idea.  She made a fuss when I made her give up her treasure.

Thursday 6 September 2012

Deer cam #2 - the fawns are spending more time away from their moms, getting old enough to explore on their own, soon the spots will be gone.

Friday 7 September 2012

Made a new dish tonight call Saucy Pepper Steak served over white rice.  My husband thought it was one of the store bought mixes & was impressed I made it from scratch.  This one is a keeper.  The recipe is at my blog http://goodcooking-semperfi.blogspot.com/

Saturday 8 September 2012

Last one from the deer cam - the bucks have lost their velvet.  This one still has some velvet hanging on.  You can see it really good in the first picture but I didn't like the blurred doe, so had to add another.

Well that is my week.  Hope everyone had a good one.  See ya next week. God Bless!!

365 Pictures week 35; 26 August - 1 September

Yeah,
I'm home & only posting one week :-)  It was good to stay home, but I didn't do to well on taking pictures.  Oh, well, here is my week

Sunday 26 August

No Picture - I was too busy today catching up on the last three weeks

Monday 27 August

I was out & about early this morning.  We are down to one car this week & I needed it, so I had to take my husband to work at 6:30am so I could have the car.  It was foggy this morning & I love how the valley looked as I came down the hill on my morning drive.

Tuesday 28 August

Deer Cam to the rescue - love how cautiously this little fawn is approaching the deer feeder

Wednesday 29 August

This was taken on the 30th, but I love how the deer hear a noise & three look but the fawn on the end, doesn't care, need to keep eating before we get chased away.  The bucks are getting aggressive & starting to chase other deer away from the feeder so it is just them eating, especially other bucks.

Thursday 30 August

Except one day this week I have driven my husband to work & see gorgeous sunrises but forget my camera.  NOT TODAY!!!!  I remember to grabbed it & took this at the intersection we come to every morning.

Friday 31 August

Can you believe it is the last day of August????  During Labor Day weekend, Lamoni, Iowa always has a Civil War Day where you can come see what life was like in those days, learn about both sides that fought & see the reenactment of a battle.  The Christian school I use to work for took a field trip today & asked me along as a chaperon & school photographer.  I said yes.  Here is one of the many pictures I took that day.  It was a lot of fun & I learned a lot.

Saturday 1 September

Really????  It is September already???? 

RAIN BEAUTIFUL RAIN!!!!!

I know Isaac was not a blessing down south but to drought stricken Missouri it was a HUGE blessing.    It started raining around 4:00pm here yesterday & hasn't stopped.  It is a light rain, a ground soaking rain & it has rained alllllllll day.  I hope it keeps raining like this for the next couple of days.  We need it that bad. 

Well, that is my week.  I can't wait to see everyone else's.  Have a safe & wonderful Labor Day!!!

365 Pictures week 32-34; 5 - 25 August

Hi everyone,
I starting working on this on our family vacation & was hoping to post from Chattanooga, Tennessee!!!  But things got busy & didn't have time or internet access last Saturday so had to wait.  Then I worked & had two weeks worth, but then was never home enough to get it posted in time for last week soooooooooooo now here is three weeks worth of my life.  Vacations are done, boys are back/moved to college & I think we will be staying home for awhile.  So sit back, grab a cup of coffee or tea or whatever you drink when you read a book & enjoy.

We went on a family vacation to North Carolina & Tennessee to see family & attend the annual Edgmon/Edgemon family reunion of the descendants of my great, great, great, great, great (5th great) grandfather.  So here is a glimpsed into my past two weeks.

Sunday 5 August, 2012

We left Sunday afternoon & drove to Fairview, Illinois.  I did all the driving, so my son Josh took this picture of the St. Louis Arch for me.

Monday 6 August 2012

Today we drove to our first stop - Big Creek Tubing & Camping near Bryson City, NC.  This is the cabin we stayed in for the next 3 days & two nights.  It was very nice, peaceful & relaxing.  The web page said it had cable tv, but forgot to mention that you needed to bring your own tv which we didn't. Also had wifi for the internet & three towers on the campground, but our cabin was far enough away from the towers, we had no internet either.  It was nice to get away from everything & just enjoy each other & nature.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

We went creek/river tubing today in the Smokey National Park.  This creek goes right by our camp site.  It was a 5 min drive, then a 1 mile walk to the starting spot.  It took us 2 to 2 1/2 hours to tube down the river to our camp site.  A lot of fun, but boy were my husband & I sore the next morning.  My tube flipped over twice & I went a little ways without the tube thus I became the tube & those rocks were not soft.  We had a blast & I would do it again in a heartbeat.  I had a digital waterproof camera with me, so I got some interesting shots.

My son Josh going down the rapids

The rapids I'm about to go in.

This is what happens when you go down some rapids & hit some rocks which started me spinning as I was trying to take a picture.  So I went spinning down the creek a little ways, just like an amusement park ride.

Wednesday 8 August 2012

One of the highlights of this trip was we got to meet my nephew Gavin for the first time.  It has been 10 years since I have seen his mother - my sister & she was pregnant with him.  Since this may not happen for a while I was determined to get some family pictures done.  My two boys & Gavin are the only grandkids on my side of the family.

My nephew Gavin Scott

The grandsons together - Wood, Josh & Gavin

Thursday 9 August 2012

We are on the move again, driving to Chattanooga, Tennesse for a family reunion.  I'm driving (yes I do most of the driving) so my son Josh took this picture in the Smokey mountains for me.

Friday 10 August 2012

This morning we went to Lookout Mountain to Point Lookout battlefield from the Civil War.  This is a view from one of the places on that mountain where the battles took place

Saturday 11 August 2012

First I need to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA CALEB!!!!  Today is my youngest son's 20th birthday.  Here he is a day old

And now today

Okay today we went to the Chickamauga National Battlefield.  This was an important stop for our family because my 3rd great grandfather fought here along with his oldest son James; he was wounded here & both he & his son were capture & put in a prison camp.  My 3rd great grandfather died in the camp but James survived & made it home back to his mother & 11 siblings

We are sitting in front of a monument in honor of all the Tennessee units that fought in Chickamauga on the side that has my 3rd great grandfather 's unit listed.

Sunday 12 August 2012

Our last day of vacation ended in Ten Mile, Tenn.  My family help colonize New York when it was New Amsterdam.  When that area became to crowded they moved to North Carolina.  After the revolutionary war they moved to the place you see in the picture, well on of the homesteads. The family was very, very large & they named this place Ten Mile because you could stand on this homestead, turn in a circle & in a Ten Mile radius the Edgmons owned everything.

Monday 13 August 2012

We drove straight home from Tennessee & arrived around 12:30am.  After sleeping for a while my boys went to our farm to fill the deer feeder, change cards in the camera & Josh wanted to find a log to mount his bobcat on.  This is what he found.  We took a picture to see how it will look.  Or course it will be cut shorter & the wood treated before it is completely finished & ready to be placed in the house

Tuesday 14 August 2012

I bought a new slicer/chopper from pamper chef & decided to try it out today.  It cuts potatoes (also squash & zucchini) in to wedges like french fries.  Of course you are to bake them to make them healthier, but I didn't want to turn on my oven, too hot.  So I pan fried them & they turned out great!!!

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Okay no pic today, spent the day unpacking & washing a week worth of traveling clothes for 4 people.  So here is a deer cam picture from last week.  Love how this little fawn is posing for the camera.

Thursday 16 2012

Our cats sleep in the weirdest places in the weirdest way.  I guess Motor wanted to pretend he was in jail & went to sleep with his head between the bars.  Silly kitty.

Friday 17 August 2012

Time to celebrate another birthday!!!  Today this little serious baby was born 22 years ago. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUGUST WOOD II!!!

Wood today, so proud of both of my boys & the wonderful, godly men they have become.

Saturday 18 August 2012

Okay I didn't take a picture today, so one from the deer cam.  This is one of my favorites, the raccoon is challenging the buck on food territory & the buck looks a little surprised.

Sunday 19 August 2012

My son Josh gave his mission trip presentation tonight.

Monday 20 August 2012

Since my son Josh has been home from his mission trip, every morning he goes into our guest room & has his personal devotions.  His cat Fuzzy has to join him every morning too, so I had to get a picture this morning of the two of them doing devos together.

Tuesday 21 August 2012

Filled the hummingbird feeder & they came instantly.  Because of the drought the hummingbirds are eating at the feeder more often, no flowers to drink from

Wednesday 22 August 2012

No picture today, so one from the deer cam.  The twins are getting big but still cute with their spots

Thursday 23 August 2012

Josh finally found a piece of wood to put his bobcat on.  He treated it & mounted the bobcat & off to college it went with him.  His school mascot is the bobcat

Friday 24 August 2012

We took our son Josh back to college this weekend.  We have a time share that my father-in-law has had since 1967, when no one knew where Branson was & the time share was for camping & campers.  Now they have put condos on some of the property.  The condo's we rent were built in the around 1990.  When we pulled in around 9:00pm all the rooms in our condo unit were not cleaned (the desk thought they were) so they put us in the newer condo's & this was the studio condo we stayed in.

Saturday 25 August 2012

We went out with our son Josh & some friends to an Imax movie.  We came back & I loved how the outside of the condo building looked all lit up, so I had to take a picture.

Well, that is three week come & gone.  The house is back to empty nest & a little too quiet for now, but I will get use to it.  Have a great week & God Bless.