365 Pictures 30 October - 5 November

Hello,
It has been a great week.  A little busy but still good.  I did better on getting a picture a day.  Goal for next week is to get at least one picture a day.  Here is my week.

Sunday 30 October
no picture

Monday 31 October
no picture

Tuesday 1 November
Okay, I decided to try a gluten free recipe since I have friends/adoptive family that need to eat gluten free.  The recipe was gluten free chocolate chip muffins. I followed the directions very carefully & this is what I got

They still taste good - a little gritty tasting but my husband liked them, but look terrible.  About 3 hours later while working on my computer it dawned on me that maybe my cornstarch was too old & that was the problem.  I went to get the container I used that I thought was my cornstarch & found out it was baking powder instead.  So instead of adding 1/4 cup of corn starch, I added a 1/4 cup of baking powder.  So I will retry the recipe this week & let you know how it turned out

Wednesday 2 November

This is where I spent my day being a substitute secretary at my church.  Our church secretary had to be gone for the day, so I filled in answering the phone & taking messages.  A very relaxing day.

Thursday 3 November

Thursday afternoon was spent taking family pictures for friends.  They were suppose to be taken outside on their farm but with temps in the 50's & wind blowing 20 to 30mph, we decided to take them inside.  This is one of my favorites, unedited.  I will post the edited ones next week.

Maria & I found a large mirror & had some fun with it trying different poses & trying to find a room with a good background to reflect back in the mirror.  This was the best one.  Next time I take her pictures, we are going to take the mirror outside & see what we can do.

Friday 4 November

Of course I had to include one from the deer cam.  This was taken Thursday but I didn't have a picture for today.  I picked this one because of the wild turkeys.  

5 minutes later deer is gone & something has made the turkeys fly/run

Saturday 5 November
My house is over 100 years old.  The original parts (5 rooms) all had 10 ft ceilings.  I'm glad to say, 3 of the rooms now have 8ft ceilings, but the kitchen & dining room still have 10ft ceilings.  In my kitchen I have 2ft of space between the top of my cabinets & ceiling, so I decided to make something to go up their to decorate it.  I made a picket fence out of white, thick poster board & put it a the green, floral, foam rectangle.  Then I decorate the fence & bottom for the season.  I have 4 of these two for each side of my kitchen.  I finally was able to decorate my fences for fall/Thanksgiving

I think I need to get some more leaves for this one

This is the two fences on top of my cabinets.  Everything is what I bought on sale two years ago except the big scarecrow on the right.  I got his this year to add to my scene.  He was 50% of f at Hobby Lobby.

Okay, those are my pictures for the week.  I can't wait to see the rest of the groups.  Have a blessed week.

Kimmie

365 Pictures 23-29 October

Hi,
Yeah, posting only one week this time.  It has been a great week.  Fall weather, getting to do some canning & just enjoying the beautiful weather. I didn't get too many pictures taken.  I really thought I took one everyday but oh well. Here is my week :-)

Sunday 23 October

These pictures were taken Saturday night.  I had made some wordless books about 3 months ago & left them in a bag on my sewing table.  Last night Grouchy decided she was bored with her play mice, got up on my sewing table & came running out of the guest/sewing room with my wordless books in her mouth.  She brought them into the living room & proceeded to play with the bag of books in front of us.  Little Miss Ornery.

Shaking the bag, trying to get into it.

Determined that she has killed her prey, Grouchy goes to sleep, but ears listening for any sound that the pack of wordless books my come back to life.

Monday 24 October

No picture

Tuesday 25 October

Today I started making crockpot apple butter from a bushel of apples I bought from the Amish that live 20 minutes south east of us.  This is a picture of my first batch. By the end of  the week I had 22 pints canned.

Wednesday 26 October

No picture

Thursday 27 October

These are two wonderful boys I get to spend Tuesday, Thursday & Friday mornings with.  I help a home school mom by tutoring/teaching her two sons, so she can spend some extra time teaching her daughter.  Anderson is 10 & Parker is 2.  They are wonderful blessings in my life each week.

Anderson

Parker

Friday 28 October

I didn't take any picture today but had to share some from the deer came from this week.  The bucks are no longer getting along.  It is time to mark their territory with a little fighting

I'm the boss, no I'm the boss, no I'm the boss

Time to fight over which buck controls the corn feeder.  Notice the one buck on the left gets poked in the eye by the antlers of the other.

"Oh, I'm sorry.  I poked you in the eye, are you alright?"

Yeah, I think so, can still see.

Good, then. . . . . . . 

Fight time - I'm the boss, no I'm the boss, no it's my corn, no it's my corn. . . . . . . . 

Saturday 29 October

Back to canning.  My youngest son request I make Grandma's home made tomato soup for him to get when he comes home for thanksgiving, so he can take it back to college with him.  Usually I would use tomatoes from my garden but since I don't have a garden, I made it from tomato juice. When I'm done I should have about 18 quarts of tomato soup canned.  YUMMMMMMMM!!!

Batch number one. 6 quarts all sealed & ready to be store in the pantry, just need to wipe down the jars from canning.

recipe for this soup is at my blog Good Cooking click here http://goodcooking-semperfi.blogspot.com/

That is my week.  I will be canning two more batches of tomato soup & 3 more batches of apple butter this week.  I hope to remember to take time to take a picture.

God Bless everyone.

365 Pictures 9-22 October

Hello,
Well I was gone last weekend to Texas & had a wonderful time seeing family I hadn't seen in 6 years.  This week was getting caught on things from being gone.  Hoping for some normal weeks to come.  Here are my two weeks:

Sunday 9 October

I didn't get a picture taken today, to busy getting ready for my trip so wanted to share this one from the deer came.  Two beautiful bucks at our corn feeder

Monday 10 October

Again no picture taken but this is my other favorite picture from the deer cam this week.  By the way this is the mother deer & her two twins I have shown earlier in this blog.  The twins are all grown up.  I like the symmetry - 3 deer & 3 turkeys

Tuesday 11 October

Oldest son is home for fall break.  He saw a squirrel in the front yard early this morning & had to grab his cat so she could watch it.  She was very focused, tail swishing back & forth & if she could have, she would have jump through the window to get the squirrel.

Wednesday 12 October

Tuesday night I took pictures of the family. I worked on them this afternoon & this is my favorite so far.

Thursday 13 October

I got up at 6:30am & on the road by 7:15am on a 9 hour drive to Texas, by myself.  I had not seen my two uncles on my dad's side of the family in 6 years & needed to visit.  My husband couldn't get off work, so road trip for me.  This is the sun coming up on the interstate as I head south.  It was a beautiful morning & easy drive down.

Friday 14 October

This is my Uncle Danny & Aunt Libby Edgmon.  I stayed with them from Thursday night until Sunday morning.  My Aunt was the perfect hosted & even spoiled me a little with home made fudge candy.  She only make that for Thanksgiving, Christmas & special occasions.  I guest I was a special occasion.

Saturday 15 October

Chase & Cindy

Kim, Cassidy & Coulson

I spent the whole morning & afternoon with my cousin Cindy & her precious babies, my 1st cousins 1x removed.  Cassidy & Coulson are twins who will be 2yrs old in November. & Chase is 3 months old.  It was a lot of fun helping take care of them & playing with them.  In the evening my cousin Cindy took me to Sundance Square in downtown Fort Worth for supper just us two girls for a girls night out.

Sunday 16 October

Sunday morning I went to church with my Uncle Jimmy & Aunt Connie Edgmon & spent the afternoon visiting with them.  These are Cindy's parents.

Monday 17 October

I spent Sunday evening/night with my cousin Michaela.  We had to get up early for her to go to work & for me to drive back home.  There was no one home to take our picture, so Michaela held the camera & snapped this one.  It was a wonderful 5 days in Fort Worth & hope to make the trip again but sooner than another 6 years.

Tuesday- Friday 18 - 21 October

I didn't take any pictures these days.  I was too busy unpacking from my trip, laundry, housework & catching up on being gone.

Saturday 22 October

Another beautiful morning here in Missouri.  I took this picture in the driveway of my brother-in-law's place.  I was picking up two of my nieces to go shopping with in the Amish community in Jamesport.

This was the DEAL of the day.  These were beautiful mums were suppose to be $8.50 each.  My nieces took a picture & sent it to their brother because he wanted some nice flowers to line his sidewalk to his house.  Elisha told us to get 6 of them!!  I wanted two of them.  The Amish gentleman selling them said if you buy 10 plants I will mark them down to $8.00.  My nieces each bought one.  It was fun getting the 10 plants in my Jeep along with the groceries we had already bought but we managed to fit 8 in & each niece held one in her lap for the last two.

That is my past two weeks.  Hope everyone had a great week.  Looking forward to the up coming week.

God Bless!!!

365 Pictures 11 September - 8 October

Hi,
I'm back.!!!  I think it has been close to three weeks since I was able to post.  It seems the last couple of weekends I have been gone & once I had time the week was half way through.  It has been a great time but didn't get a picture taken everyday.  Here is what I have to show for my time spent.  Looking forward to see what I have missed with the rest of the groups pictures.  Have a great week!!!.

Sunday 11 September 2011

Sunday after church I went on my 2nd mission trip to Joplin, Missouri with my church to help with more clean up.  There was about 18 to 20 people in our group.  Sunday evening we drove around to show damage for team members for time & to see what had been done in restoration for returning team members.

This is the high school.  It was a blessing that the graduation ceremony was being held at a nearby college; if not this is where the graduation ceremony would have been.

These eagles were carved out of damaged trees from the tornado.  The other neat thing is this sign use to say Joplin High School, now with the help of duck tape is says HopE High school.  The high school is being built in a new location.

 Monday 12 September 2011

My group of four ladies spent the morning fixing up the inside of a house.  I learned how to mud sheet rock.  We were located in the middle of the destruction zone & what was really freaky was all 4 tornado sirens went off while we were working.  Just a test but it made us quickly drop what we were doing & look outside.

We stayed at the First Christian Church in Carthage.  Monday evening we went for a walk around town.  This is the courthouse in Carthage, Missouri.

  Tuesday 13 September 2011

The next day we work on helping restore the inside & outside of a house.  Here I'm racking up debris, glass, parts of trees, Christmas ornaments, etc.  We also did weeding on the outside & put up sheet rock inside the entire downstairs of the house in the picture below.

Our mission team after two hard days of work.  Hope to be going back in March for some more clean up.

 Friday 16 September 2011

This is my sweet niece Charleigh Danielle Ford.  Today was here 2nd birthday. This picture was taken yesterday but wanted to posted it on her birthday.

Saturday 17 September 2011

This is my nephew Jared, his wife Sarah & their daughter Charleigh.  They had a big family/friend birthday party tonight to celebrate her 2nd birthday.  Also Charleigh will be getting a brother or sister in February 2012.

Monday 19 September 2011

One from the deer cam.  This buck was so nice to give us a profile shot.  Because the oak trees are dropping acorns - the deer are coming less & less to the corn feeder.

Wednesday 21 September 2011

Getting a nap in before going to Awana tonight.  Hubby took this one of me & Grouchy being cuddle buddies.  Once in awhile she will sleep between our pillows, but very rare will she get up close, she must have been cold.

Thursday 22 September 2011

I took school pictures for the New Hampton Christian School, where I use to work.  This is a very small school 20 students between grade 3rd - 12th, that is on its 6th year of operation.  Here is one of the collages I worked on today for one of the families to order.

Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September 2011

My two sons & I took a road trip to Arkansas for the 14th annual Edgmon Family reunion.  My husband had to work so he couldn't go with us.  My 3rd great grandfather  William T. Edgmon was born & raised in Tennessee.  At the time of the Civil War he had 12 children ages 20 to about 6 months old.  He & his oldest son James fought & were captured.  William died & James survived.  James came home, packed up his mother & siblings & moved them the Ozark Mountains to a little place call Mossville.  James & half of his siblings stayed in the mountains & still have family there.  The other half of James siblings moved to Oklahoma & Texas, one of them being my 2nd great grand father Daniel Sellers Edgmon.  I'm the first of Dainel's decedents to make it back to the family homestead for the reunion.  It was a lot of fun & we look forward to going next year.

This is the family church built in 1925 in Mossville, Arkansas.  It was built at a circuit rider church & is still a circuit rider church today.  The pastor comes on the 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month.  Behind the church is the Edgmon family cemetery & my 2nd great grand Uncle James B Edgmon is buried there.

Wild Elk herd in the valley below the family church.  These are all cows (females).  The bull (male ) was close by.  It is mating season, so he was rounding up his herd.

About a mile down the road the cow elk was by herself eating

My son could have stuck his arm out the front passenger window & touched her.

Monday 26 September 2011

This morning our Women on Mission group folder 100 boxes for Samaritan Purse's shoebox collection. Our family fill 4 of these shoe boxes every year.  We had a blast taking our boys shopping for the items.  Last year was my first year not having my boys home to shop with me so I borrowed two kids from a friend at church.  Can't wait to fill the boxes this year.  It is a lot of fun.  If you wonder what I'm talking about message me & I will explain.

Thursday 29 September 2011

It is harvest time.  This is our soy bean field about 1/4 harvested.  When my husband had mornings off, he would go help his dad harvest the crops.  Our beans were done by Saturday.

Our combine with the bean head on it.

Saturday 1 Oct 2011

One more deer shot, another buck

Sunday 2 Oct 2011

This picture was taken 38 years ago when my little sister Jennifer Louise came into our family.  I was 5 1/2 years old.  Happy Birthday Jenny

Wednesday 5 Oct 2011

I use to draw when I was 9 & 10yr olds.  If I have something to look at & it is not a person, I can usually draw it.  I'm have found some time to draw at my morning tutor job, basically while the 4th grader does his work & doesn't need my help.  So I drew this turtle from a nature magazine with a "You Can Draw" section this week & finished it today.  First time I have drawn in 33 years.

Thursday 6 Oct 2011

This was taken a week ago but today is my niece Esther Ruth's 20th b-day.  Tomorrow we are going shopping in the city.

Friday 7 Oct 2011

I was able to draw another picture.  The turtle is being mailed to a little boy we sponsor in India.  This one will be going to a little girl we sponsor in Cambodia.  I'm really enjoying my drawing time

Saturday 8 Oct 2011

Today my husband & I went to the 90th birthday party of his Grand Aunt Kathryn Urton on his mother's side of the family.  She is sitting on the right.  This is a picture of her with her six children.  It was a nice party with a lot of family in attendance.

Well, that is my three weeks.  I'm going to Texas this up coming weekend to see family, so I hope to be able to post on Tuesday when I get back if not see ya in two weeks.