"He who gathers crops in Summer is a prudent son, but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son."  Proverbs 10:5


I  am off this week recovering from surgery.  I am doing well and I am thankful to the Lord for an easy recovery period and for my family who have been so good at taking care of me!  I went to the garden and picked some okra and a few tomatoes this morning.  It is extremely hot here in Arkansas and the poor garden is tapering off now.

Yesterday, I made two loaves of Zucchini bread from our zucchini, the recipe is from Paula Deen and it makes two loaves. It's delicious.

Lastly, I wanted to show off my cute little stepladder chair that I ordered from Amazon last week. I am not a very tall person and always need to get up in a chair for my top cabinets, my husband found this and it reminded me of my childhood when a dear neighbor had one in her kitchen and I loved to sit in it!

I hope everyone has a wonderful blessed day!  I am going to try to get  some sewing done now.

Days of Summer - canning time!

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. 
Genesis 8:22



We have a garden every year, my husband puts a lot of work into it.
The good Lord blessed us with a lot of rain early in the Spring and the heat did not turn on until a few weeks ago, so our beans have done great! I  help with picking , shelling and then canning the fruit of his labor.  We have been busy the last couple weeks canning green beans and pinto beans. I also made apple jelly and orange marmalade. It's nice to open a jar of home canned veggies in the middle of Winter and enjoy them!

Pinto beans

Apple jelly and orange marmalade

Fried zuchinni

                                                    Green Beans

It is very hot outside, so I worked inside today!  I put up 10 half pints of apple jelly!

And I finished a pillow for my youngest granddaughter's birthday in August.  She loves pillows, and she is a little girl with a big attitude!  I thought this saying on her pillow was perfect!

Our garden so far has been good this year.  The Lord blessed us with enough green beans to can 60 quarts. The squash and zucchini are coming off the vine now.  We have pinto beans just waiting to fill out and be picked and peas blooming. The tomatoes are coming along and we've picked some peppers too. It's a busy time of the year!

Our chickens have started laying!  We are really enjoying our fresh eggs.  The grandkids are all just enjoying the chickens.  It's beautiful here in Arkansas and I am counting my blessings the Lord has given me!

My husband and I have been working on this chicken coop most of the weekend!  Our chickens will arrive in October.  We are looking forward to our new hobby!

Back to school for grand blessings!

These are some of the shirts I embroidered for my granddaughters.  I found the patterns for the cutie shirts on Etsy.  The CMS shirt is for the oldest girl, she is going to the 6th grade and has decided she was too old for a cutie shirt!  They grow up way too fast, our youngest grandchild will start kindergarten next year.

Aprons!

I have been off a few days and today I made myself an apron!  I even monogramed it. Back to work tomorrow, but at least the weekend will be right around the corner.