over-the-garden-fence friends

When your neighbor is a Master Gardener and you ask her what certain flowers are and she shares them with you over the garden fence :)

My favorites are the purple orbs...some sort of thistle plant. Since I am fighting the ugly-thistle variety it is insane that I would like any form of thistle ha!

to the beach

My amazing daughter Tessa said we should make a visit to the beach as a family after church last week. At first I thought it would be too much work, but am so glad we went. I packed snack foods like cheese cubes, pickle spears, sandwich fixins and crackers in the picnic basket along with a blanket and pillows and off we went.

Tessa, Elijah and Fiona look absolutely adorable as a young family. This was Fiona's first time walking in the sand. Oh those baby toes...

Aliss, Hannah and Sophie spent quite some time climbing all over the rock jetty. And when they came back Sophie and I walked in the surf. We started out barely in the water on our walk away from the picnic area and by the time we got back Sophie was hip high in the water. She is in the photo above almost out to where the surfers were...she could have high fived them!

Great family day for some down time while the nice weather is here. I have felt a small shift in the mornings and evenings...Fall is coming closer.

babies, window seats and Hoohoos

my sweet little grandbaby Fiona LOVES baths in grammies sink. her momma keeps little boats here for her to play with. there isn't much sweeter than a baby straight  from a bath.

window seats that over look a chicken yard, plum trees and a pasture....sigh. peaceful.

i have been adding to my lissilulu shop over at etsy. the added hours my family needed for our budget didnt come through so i am returning to my indie business lissilulu. head on over and take a peek...i would love to chat about something special you would like made. :)   lissilulu.etsy.com

hello and apple sauce

I hear crickets here....seriously, sorry friends.

I have missed this place  and will try to be more diligent in making this blog a part of my life again. I have loved having this as a part of my extension of life on here and on my old blog, lissilulu for the past 10 years or so...sharing life with others and vice versa. :)

I feel so happy to have come to the place that I recognize that I miss being here and part of something bigger.

Another thing that I have come to realize is that I really want to be more diligent. I have several great examples of diligent women in my life...one being my own mom. She hunts, butchers, fishes and cans, picks and cans. I know I am not a hunter, but I have 7 apple trees and about the same of plums on my farm.

 
I say less Facebooking and more preserving. It's prime time right now for one of our trees. Although, this tree is the transparent apple tree so we mostly like to eat the apples fresh off of it.

I have been told by Tessa though that I am becoming more and more like Lewie and Carol (the previous home owners) in the way that I want to make sure that the apples that fall from the tree get used properly before anyone picks from the tree. lol!

I have to say that I am more of a protector of that tree than any of the other 6...those transparent apples are soooo tasty!

The apples in the fruit tower are for eating and the ones in the casserole dish, along with others that I will cull that have fallen will be a batch of apple sauce. I might even get adventurous enough to can them instead of freezing it! Livin large! ;)

I think I will pit the plums, cut and freeze them. That's if any of them make it past me eating them. They are sooooo good! The chickens are enjoying them too as they fall in their coop. 

spring in the PNW

 

:: blossoms ::

plum

daffodils

rhodies

lilacs

primroses

-so far and now-

apples

cherries

bluebells 

corn and tomato seedlings are sprouting in the diningroom window and beside them on the floor are 4 chicks growing from down to feathers. i have been digging a strawberry run, but not getting very far. i have high hopes of having 3 runs 2.5x15 ft long...either illness or weather has slowed the progress down to having only dug about 7 ft into one run.

the daylillies and peonies that i transplanted after thinning cramped plants are doing well. i LOVE the idea of more peonies on the property. thinking of planting some daylillies between the neighbor and our mailboxes along the road.

Monday...say it isn't so.

 Yawwwwwwn.....is it Friday yet?

Hope you have a wonderful week friends!

just because

sometimes a momma needs to make cheesy biscuits and homemade chicken noodle soup.

 and sometimes that same momma needs to deliver it especially to her college student daughter's bedroom unasked for on an especially hard day....

just because. xoxo