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Let's Go For A Ride

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Every time we come to this place in the road I think about you all and wish you could see it with me. The patch of woods up ahead is really thick, lots of undergrowth. I always think about  some big animal  being in there and how Mark will have to be my hero and save me. He doesn't know this of course because he is to busy looking at the beans and corn. This was the sunset last night. Sometimes a picture just can't show the real beauty, well not one of my pictures anyway. This is an old barn along the road that the Amish stack their loose hay in. As you can tell they have really piled it in there. It's stuffed full and coming out the front.. We stopped on the bridge to get this picture. You can see where a lot of rock was washed up in a pile with all the heavy rains we've had. Okay, so this wasn't last night. I threw it in for a surprise ending, you know sort of like the movies. This was actually taken out the living room window last wint

Fair Food

Since it's fair week I thought we would talk  fair food. Who doesn't love fair food? Mark is crazy about the Ribeye sandwiches the Cattleman's Association grill. He talks about them all year long. He even tries to recreate it at home, but somehow they aren't the same. Personally I think when you sit down at the kitchen table to eat it instead of on a bleacher in a hot show barn watching a livestock show something is bound to be lost. Even if it's just sweat and flies, something is lost. The girls went to the fair last night to watch the queen contest. One of the girls who was running asked Jess to fix her hair. She won!!!! Congratulations to the new Miss Washington County Chelsi Casey. The girls got Elephant Ears and came home telling me how they should have never done it but they just had to have one they looked so good. We've done the Bloomin Onion thing too. One of the county churches has a booth and they cook and sell homemade meals every nig

It's County Fair Week

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Our county fair started today. Olivia and her hogs It's earlier than it's ever been and while I no longer have kids in 4-H I would think this early date will effect some of the garden and crop entries. If you have ever had kids in 4-H you know it is the best and worst of weeks. Every year when February came every project sounded great. You just knew they could handle all of them and they would learn so much. The months passed by and suddenly as if you didn't know it was coming it was here, the day to enter the projects. The kids took flowers, gardening, photography, hogs, electric, rockets baking and cake decorating. The garden and flowers were never a problem, they were life it was the cake decorating and the rockets that got us every year. Now had I been a together mother who was about the business of training together children the rocket would have been completed long before the day it had to be entered. But as you guessed, I was not that mother. Th

The kids said, "What did you do run around and take pictures after the rain?" I said, "Yes"

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Mark trying to beat the storm. The flowers reminded me of a mom. She gets all wilting during the struggle of the day but after a cool shower she perks up and goes again. Everything is fresher after the rain. My herbs are there by the door just calling for me to go in and cook something. I have no idea what this is but I love it. I was trying to do one of those water droplet pictures here. It didn't work. This is the north kitchen window. The storm came from the north and the screen was covered in water droplets. I wanted to show you. It didn't work here either. So much for water droplet photos. Water standing at the end of the driveway. I'm sure I heard the corn making popping sounds it shot up after the rain or so it seemed. More mud on the vehicles but maybe that's better than dust, but then again I guess mud is just wet dust so maybe it's really six of one and half a dozen of the other. It's a mess no matter

Easy Like Sunday Morning...Not

Our oldest Heidi told me she heard this song and thought of me and that the person who wrote it must have never got four kids ready for church before. I laughed when she told me that. Truer words were never spoken. I so remember those mornings. I always knew if I woke up and it was daylight outside  I had overslept. Now, I know a together mom would have  their childrens clothes ready the night before and therefore may have had an easy Sunday morning, but by now you all know me and know  I never claimed to be together. I always ironed and starched their clothes on Sunday morning. I  ironed on the back porch and they would stand in a line each holding their clothes waiting for me to get to them. I started with Heidi and ended with little bity Liv standing back there. They hated the starch but no one complained more than Jessica. Mark was always out taking care of the animals on Sunday mornings so he came in just in time to have ten minute to shower, dress and go. He sti

Snapshots From an Everyday Day

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So many times through the day I think of all of you. I'll just be doing something or I'll see something or hear something and I'll think, "oh I wish you could see it too." Nothing big really, just the everydayness, ( I know, not a word) of life. I love life. I love all the little things I experience.  Things like cornfields. Buggies along the road.         Homemade Pies       The blooms of spring.     The colors of the day. Homemade pies. Oh, wait I already said that.   I love the swings. Just walking by them makes me smile. This is the little house. It used to be the Grandparents House when the Amish had it. Now Tim, Olivia's boyfriend rents it. I love the deck of the little house, you can see a long way across the field.     Here's Liv mowing.       Oops.   Mark. Kitchen door flower bed.        That's home, up ahead on the left. Just ra