More Meanderings

The views of the countryside were breathtaking. We went to an Amish store and than an Amish bakery for some Shoo-fly pie. I was able to get this picture of an Amish buggy, from the car. Amish don't wish to have their faces photographed. I got a back shot. I just had to get a shot of the parking lot of the Amish store.

Saturday Meanderings

We always said that we were going to see the sites of the next place we lived. Today was one of those days. We went out for breakfast and than took off down the road. Serpent Mound is about 19 miles from us and Terry has always wanted to see it.







For those of you that read your history textbooks this is a famous Indian mound in the form of a Serpent. I guess that's why it's called Serpents Mound.










It was all I could do not to move the seating into a good conversation area, and add a wreath on the door.

Just checking you out

Hello can you read me?

Apples Apples everywhere

There has been alot of talk about people having to live off the land soon. I have already been preparing myself. Someone at church had several apple trees and the apples needed a home. I bought four boxes home. Hundreds of them in their boxes looking at me as if to say what now.
What now indeed. I had no idea what to do with them. I had already eaten enough apples while picking them to take care of any apple fix for the next five years.

I got on the trusty net and found out how to take care of these little beauties. It was all so confusing. There are so many ways to put these apple away. I choose the easy way. I put them all in the garage. The next morning they were all crying out fix me fix me.

My mother in law had a great little gadget that peeled them really fast. I sat and watched as apple after apple peeled itself. After some of them were out of thier skins, I proceeded to make sure they were cut up and ready for the freezer.





The freezer got kind of full and I got to thinking if the electricity goes out again I will have to eat a lot of apple pie so maybe I had better can them. I made several mistakes but hey you learn from your mistakes. Hopefully no one dies from any of them.

One quart, seven pints ,and nine freezer bags later I quit. I will never touch another apple tree for another year. There are still two boxes left. I need some pigs.

Pray for the King Family

They are preparing to leave for Equador in March. Here is a link to their ministry and also a link to their blog. Pray for them as they follow God's voice and go where he tells them to go. If God leads you to support them you can do that by praying and by giving financially. The sidebar on Becca's blog will tell you how to send the support.

If you know of any churches or groups that would like to hear about their work please let them know.

Pray for the grandparents who will be sharing their lambs with others.

Pray that the financial need will be meet and that their house sells.

Can't talk now

Between the power outage the last two days and boxes and boxes of apples I can't talk. Any help with canning recipes for the apples would be welcome.

TrimTime

The walls are done. Now its trim time. I decided on white, so far it looks great. It gives the house a crisp look.

Painting fun NOT

I have had problems with colors ever since grade school. I just never could make the colors go together. I tend to go with what others tell me or let them pick them out. That's how I got the wonderful yellow in my kitchen. Devonae picked it out for our house in Galesburg. So I chose it for the kitchen here.




I had no one to help me out on the rest of the walls. I was on my own. Not good. Off to Lowes and I picked a camel color thinking it would go well with the yellow. Got the paint home and found it was way to dark. Went back to lowes and they told me to add a quart of white to it.
So I added a quart of white to it. It made what I thought was a pretty color so I used it on the side wall next to kitchen and dining wall.








It doesn't quit go with it, but hey I got a custom color. I should have bought several gallons of the stuff because I had planned on doing all the walls with the tan color.
I didn't want to buy a gallon of paint and than have to mix a quart of white in it. I thought I could take in to Lowes and have them match it.








It would of worked except I took them the paint stick that had the original color I bought first. I told them that's the color I wanted only a little lighter. Got home and opened it and put it on wall. Its was really dark, so off to Lowes again. The paint lady hates me. She was nice, but I could tell she wanted to put me in the mixing machine and shake me up a bit.

Got home and put the paint on the wall. As I was applying it the paint was the exact color of the other wall. Something happened in the drying process. It got darker. I was afraid the lady at lowes really would put me in the mixer, so I just painted with the color I had. Now I have three colors on my walls. I need some help here people. I had planned on doing the hall the same color but its way to dark. But I hate to add another color to the picture.

What would be a good solution to this problem. Paint the hall a lighter color making four colors or stick with the same color and add more lighting in the hall. Would it be bad to go with another color. Should I just let the little lambs do their artwork in the hall?

This is the side wall on the other side of living room that goes into the hallway. I plan on using white for the trim.

Its been a Busy Week

Pray for Devonae's mommy. One of the little lambs lost Renees drivers license and now she has to take the test here in Ohio. She took it last week and passed all but going thru cones backwards. I told her if she had just had all the kids in the car he would of passed her. But than again she had all the kids in the car a couple of weeks ago when she got her first ticket.

I think she was trying to create a memory for the lambs. All the kids got quiet when the police man came up to the car. Devonae said she had never seen a policeman up close and personal before.


So far I have three walls painted. My goal of one a day isn't working. Its more like one every two days. It seems the walls have never seen a coat of primer or maybe that's what is on them now. Any how each wall is drinking almost a half gallon of primer. The last wall I did without primer and it ate a whole gallon of paint and it was blotchy. Thank goodness for a husband who fixes my messes. Only 19 more walls to go.

It's been a busy week here. Nolan or Terry started his new job at the college. We are also going to a mission of our church on Sundays to help them out. The Pastors wife has colon cancer and the pastors son who is preaching for his dad has a wife with a 11 month old daughter and twins on the way. She has been ordered to stay on bed rest. Pray for this small mission. The Sunday before we went, they only had five in attendance. They were happy to see us the next Sunday. We made attendance go up to 12 the next week. This last week there were 20.