BATTLE OF THE BLOGG"S

Are you ready for the battle of the blogs? When we were in ND for my Dad's 90th Birthday, We took a little walk down in the coulee.

Now how is this for a unique shot? I bet you don't have one of these in your scrap book?

I think you have quite the battle on your hands!

This is just on our way down the hill, into the beautiful, colorful trees that adorn this old coulee that I have walked in for years. My brother is the one posing for the picture. Cute, isn't he?
OH LOOK, LOOK AND SEE! It's the big oak tree where we left our Donald duck pop cans some 50 years ago as we were children. We used to see some of these old rusty cans but even though we still look every year, we never find a remnant of them.

Hey, what's that you say? You want to do the battle of the blog? OK, if it involves a camera, I'm game. Here we go!

Well, would you look at that. now where did she go with her camera, if only she was here we know she could win the battle of the blog with what we are looking at right now!

It's too bad she wasn't there.

Wow, I bet she hasn't found anything this neat!
OH MY! look at this crawly thing?



And what are these unique things growing from the tree?

OH< you know I love flowers! How nice to find some down in the coulee.

WHAT? There are actually bums in this coulee? I thought that was a thing of years gone by.
Looks like pretty good quality pans to me!

Now why did you have to push that tree over? We all know how strong you are!

I wonder if these are eatable? I guess I will leave them for the bum's!
Hey, I bet you didn't get a picture of these?

And moss! This must be North!

Hey we are way over here! How did you get lost?

WOW it is getting harder and harder to climb these river banks and hills!

HIKE, HIKE, HIKE

AND HIKE SOME MORE!

and you thought I looked funny!

Looking back at the colorful trees after a fun walk in the coulee!

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Back on the farm! Aren't they cute?

Below are several pictures of my grandson having fun on the straw bales.

Run, Run and JUMP!

Not only is he strong, he is a good aim!


SEE! what did I tell you? He hit his target just where he wanted to. Plastic bags are plentifully and work just fine for a target. AS LONG AS IT"S NOT TOO WINDY!

God's creation is wonderful, all we have to do is take care of it and enjoy it!

Precious hands and feet

This is two precious hands, The larger one belonging to my 3yr old grandson
and of course his newborn baby sister.

How wonderfully we are created. When I think of these tiny little hands and feet and how perfectly they were formed, I am confident of Gods love and Almighty power! What a blessing to know God loves babies even from the time of conception His hand is on them. I was severely disappointed after our election thinking that people in this state would vote down the protection of the unborn baby. The new bill would have abolished all abortions except that of rape, incest or to save the life of a mother. That would have cut out over 800 abortions in our state. Only 3% are done for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother. I believe even those abortions are wrong!

This is my new granddaughters hands when she was only 1 day old. How sweet and perfectly created! Look at those tiny little fingernails!

This is her dads big loving hands with hers .

You can see his fingers are as large as her little arm.

This is dads hand with moms hand and baby, I lightened this picture for a different affect.

Moms hands holding her tiny feet.

This is one of the first pictures of her little feet. Only 1 day old.

I pray that God would always guide those feet to walk in His way.

My older hands holding those tiny sweet feet.

Baptism feet and moms hands. These are the 35yr old leather moccasins that belong and worn by her dad. All five of the children have worn them. The cute little socks were new and special for her Baptism.

Blizzard but it could have been worse!

Here are a few more pictures of the first blizzard of the season. Nov 6, 2008.

It is a lot of work to clear sidewalks and driveways. I am glad my husband has this snow blower and it still takes a lot of work. He has been out for over 2 hours.

These two humps of snow are my neighbors two cars. Yes they are small sports cars but still, where are they?

It warmed up enough for some beautiful icicles to form from our garage roof. Every time I see these I can't help but think of our youngest daughter who loves eating icicles or at least she always did love to eat them.

This drift is about 3 ft high' maybe a little higher. In the hills they have over 42" snow and can you imagine the high drifts with this high 60 to 75 MPH wind. There are reports of thousands without power. Many are in the Northern Hills and many East and South. We have been fine and actually protected from the heaviest wind too.

There was a lot of ice too, you can see the ice covered garage.
Below is the front of our house. It looks like someone actually shoveled snow up against it to help insulate it from the cold like we used to do in ND when I was a kid.

Its always fun to bake on these cold, windy snow days. I made oatmeal cookies, without the raisins. My husband doesn't like the raisins!

UM UM! fresh baked bread. It was a loaf of roads frozen bread but still makes the house smell so-o-o good. I love fresh baked warm bread.

Since I had the oven on, I thought it might be nice to make a squash. I cube up the squash and put lots of brown sugar and real butter on it. Bake it for about 1 hour and it is scrumptious.

I hope you are all safe and warm and enjoying whatever life brings your way.

Whatever you do, do it all to the Glory of God!

Early Blizzard

Towards the SW.
Towards the N.

These pictures are all out of a window. It's been storming since last evening about 7PM.

They say we have from 6" to 8" but with all the wind it's hard to tell. There has been gusts up to 75 mph and a lot of 50 mph. The drifts are high. The weather said the hills have 32" and still snowing. I will have to call our Pastor to check how snowed under they are.

This is one of our windows to the East. It reminds me of the ND snow storms we had when I was a kid. There isn't a clear window in the house. I just finished washing them inside and out.

Just over the weekend and last Thur and Fri. it was 79 degrees and we were trying to get leaves up from the yard. I will try to update latter when the storm lets up. They say at 5 pm but then there is another circling down from the North.

The Lost Art!

What is this? It is home canning! Not very many people do canning anymore. At least none of my friends or even I do home canning.

My SISTER-IN-LAW still cans. She dose an excellent job of it too. This jar of canned stuffed peppers was given to us this summer when we were visiting her in WV. She has previously given us home canned breakfast sausage. UM-M-M GOOD!
You can see she used a wide top Ball jar. The lids have been used many times and show a little age but certainly do a good job keeping food fresh and sealed.

Thanks to my sister-in-law, we had one easy, tasty supper. I just dumped in a pan and heated them up. I love the contrast colors of red and green peppers.

I added a scoop of mashed potatoes with butter and a home made biscuit.

My sister-in-law also taught me how to make these fluffy biscuits with real buttermilk and self rising flour. She sure can cook!

You can see how nice these stuffed peppers look on the plate. The well seasoned meat shows at the opening of each pepper. Thank You for sharing your hard work and good food.