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THANKFUL THURSDAY.

TODAY IS THANKFUL THURSDAY.
I REALLY LIKE THIS MIME . IT MAKE ME THINK OF WHAT I AM THANKFUL FOR AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK.
BUT EVERY DAY I AM SO THANKFUL FOR MY ALL MY KIDS AND GRANDKIDS.
WHAT A WONDERFUL FAMILY I HAVE.




THIS IS MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER TESSA, SHE WAS JUST MARRIED THIS LAST AUGUST. SCOTT AND HER BOTH HAVE A SON EACH TO BRING TO THIS MARRIAGE.

IN THE NEXT PICTURES YOU CAN TELL BY ALL THE SMILES THEY KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN.
THIS WILL BE AMYS FAMILY, TIM AND HER BOTH HAVE A SON EACH AND THEY WILL HAVE A GIRL NAMED JOZILYN ROSE AROUND THE 10 TH OF JAN 09.

I MADE THIS PICTURE FOR AMY AND TIM AS A MYSPACE WEDDING COMMENT.
He is a country boy who loves his tractor

I am so thankful to have so many wonderful friends here on my blog.
Your comments bring joy to my heart
and a smile to my face. Thank you.
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Funny thought for today

My exciting life

The chickens are very happy now. I made the a perch on the back wall of the carport. They now have a fenced in yard and I caught them out there today. So now I know they are no longer to chicken to go out side and play. My daughter is still here. This is her dog Falcor. She is looking at my cat.

And this is Crash. He is not as happy to see the dog as she is to see him.

These are pictures of our road trip to go to Amy's.
The hillsides are right after Jefferson City Mo.
Where our state capitol of Mo is.

This is my favorite house on a hill side.

The fall colors are not quite right this year.

How would you like a house up there?
click on the picture for a better view.
You will see a number of big houses up there.
They are too close to the edge for me.

Want to trade seeds?

Gardening is one of my favorite things to do.

I am so thankful, to be able to work in my yard. I love to collect hostas. And Grow veggies. With the home I am in now. I have started adding annuals for color. And saving the seed for next year.

I am so going to miss all the blooms in the yard. As winter approaches.
I had an ideal we could trade seed this year and have even more blooms next year please leave me a comment to let me know if you would like to join in on a seed exchange this year. It can include Veggies herbs and flowers.

These are some of the blooms I still have and there seed will be in the trade.

This is Cinimon basil, I also have sweet basil to trade also.

Small Yellow & orange Marigolds

2 foot tall yellow & orange marigolds.

My green peppers were wonderful & prolific this year. And will be in the seed trade.
I do not have enough nasturtium
seed to trade this year. Maybe next year.
This is a must buy for your garden.
To keep harmful bugs out of garden and around fruit trees.
My corn was perfect this year thanks to this plant. I will buy allot more if my plant don't reseed.
I was only able to find 4 seeds to pull off my self.
This plant is said to repel aphids,cucumber beetles, white fies and squash bugs.
Acts as trap crop for aphids. Repels borers near fruit trees.

I have some of these free flower from mother nature
Bidens laevis

Common names: Joaquin Sunflower and Bur Marigold. Begger’s tick;
tolerates alkaline soil and no drainage. grows in marshy areas, along creeks, and pond edges in California and across to Virginia. A rather nice yellow daisy that works well in wetter sections of the garden. Plant it in a sunny 'drought tolerant' bed of typical garden plants or for a little california in you English garden.
Height: 2 to 6 feet
Comments: Floppy habit; prefers cool summers; keep moist; native
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Asteridae
Order Asterales
Family Asteraceae – Aster family
Genus Bidens L. – beggarticks

Species Bidens laevis (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. – smooth beggartick

I have some tomato seed also

Please leave a comment with what you may have to trade and email me your address at ehsherlock@gmail.com.
This will be like a chain letter . I will include a list of addresses along with seeds. The first one will take what they want and place in at least the same amount that was removed with there seed. Then mail on to the next person. and so on. It will end back at me. If enough people want to do this I will send one package to the east and one to the west then switch them so every one will get 2 chances at the seed.

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I am so thankful to have so many wonderful friends here on my blog.
Your comments bring joy to my heart and a smile to my face.

I am still here

Amy and I left to go to her home. And the car broke down. It is at a repair shop about an hour away. So we are back at my house for now.
Up date.
Amy's car is now toast. The water pump went out. With no over heating warning. The car was so hot steam was pouring out of the center spark plug. And over flow. So now the head in the motor is bad. She will have to junk it. Repairs exceed the value of the car.

Amy's baby shower

Amy's baby shower from Tim's family

This is Tim's Grandma to the right

You will need to click on this picture to see the diffrent gifts.

I hope every one has a great week I will be in St. Charles till
Nov 1, 2008.

Yea I finished it.

With only 14 hours left till My daughters baby shower.
I have not used a sewing machine since 1979
My hubby bought me a K brand of sewing machine And I like the S brand.
It is like Chevy verses Ford.
But I kept it and he wanted his jeans sewed so I tried. The needle broke and almost his me in the eye.
So now, I have a almost 30 year old machine that was used 1 time. And still has a broken needle. ha ha,
I thought , I could make this blanket in 20 minutes. But them I would have to drive over 39 miles to get a needle . rrrr, So I did this by hand. At first it was like very hard I was ready to give up. It should be easy. My brain is not working. rrrr But after I remembered a stitch I did in the past it looked OK. I started out pinning rrr. But then it got easier. It took me 3 days to do this blanket. I am now proud that I was able to meet the dead line. As Amy is coming here tonight. So I can not let her see it.



Here is the finished gift. I am normally frugal. I could have bought 2 bags of diapers for the price of the decor. But I want to try making it extra special. So here is the end result. I found a craft bag for only $4.99
It had so many pockets I love it. And turns out every thing she need to carry will fit in this small bag.
Yea! I went to Dollar general and found more reasonable items. And went over board a bit. But that is what happens. If I were still in St. Louis. There would be a baby bed in this picture too. We still have to find one.
But Where I live now, You have 2 choices the W store or this one.
I also added a bag of honey roasted nuts for the mom.

I am so excited now.
How I made this is in the next post if any one wants to know more.
I will post showed pictures this week end. Then I will be gone for a week.

How to make an inexpensive diaper cake.

I saw a diaper cake that Suzanne made on her site.
Thank you Suzanne for making me creative again.

I thought what a great Ideal. {My daughter} Amy's baby shower is Saturday. So I went shopping and had sticker shock. Baby's are not cheap.
I told Hubby , Wow Shes going to have to take the baby back and get a refund. LOL Just kidding. But There was only 1 baby item for .99c in the whole store. And passafierss were $3.99. I am not going to list any other prices other than what I spent.
I bought
1 bag of diapers abt $7.00 for 56 size 8-14 lbs
1 pack of bow barrette's. abt $2.00
3 yards pink ribbon at 1.39 yard = $4.17
crape paper $1.50
1 blue teething ring . 99c
1 roll paper towels .99c
Stick pins $2.00
Rubber cement $ 1.00
So this cost less than $20.00
to achieve this cake so far. I will look for a few other toys. But the original cake called for a blanket in the middle of cake .
I could have bought lots of other expensive items.To where I could have spent $50-150.00 or more if I wanted to go all out. But I am making a baby blanket and I bought a few other things. That will go with this gift.
I made a crotched top on my cake it will be used for a baby hat when it is finished.

Here are pictures of the steps I used to make the cake. I put rubber bands together to hold the diapers together around the paper towels. Each diaper is held together with a rubber band. The ribbon is held on with a stick pin. The crepe paper is glued with rubber cement.

See simple can be beautiful and inexpedience.

The blanket in the back ground is another project I am working on for her.
Go visit Kelli for more show and tell.

The most special person in the world.

This is part of my journey to find my family.

Of all the people in the world My Aunt in Wv is my most special friend.
I am very thankful she has been apart of my life the last 10 Years.
From day one some time back in the 1980's.
She treated me like family from the moment we met, and showed me what true kindness was.
She like Mrs D. are from the old world. My Aunt will do any thing in her power to help any one, . She is the best country cook in the world. In this picture you will see Her to the right and me and 2 of her 8 kids.
The baby is my youngest grandson, Cullen he is now 3 years old.

This picture is missing her head but it shows her with her fathers bible

One day she showed it to me and told me about my grandparents. How when I was born they wanted to adopt me. But it did not work out. His bible was full of treasures. Like this old check from the bank of heaven.

He was a coal miner and had to pay for his own supplies like Dynamite Etc. There are records of his cost and letters to and from his kids and this old pay check from 1948. I just noticed he has no income tax state or federal, I wonder if they had to pay it then?

She showed me a hamper full of her moms cloths and told me all about the family I never knew.
She gave me old pictures to make copy's of as I was doing the family tree research at the time. And she also gave me a glass bead necklace that was her moms. I was not there to get any thing material from her. I was there because I love her and want to spend any amount of time I can get with her. She has showed me unconditional love, as I to her. She told me story's of Her life and how dearly she loves her kids. She gave birth to all of them at home except the last 2.

You may wonder why I feel so much for her. I was raised an unwanted child. In a house with my real Mom who did not want me. My Step dad was the reason I am in Mo. He told me in the year 2001. That when he married my Mom in 1964. That he said to her it was not right to leave me in Wv with my Grandma. Who loved me dearly. He only this year has seen a bit of how I am treated. Sorry. This is to be a good post. Forgive me.

But you kinda get the ideal why she is so important & wonderful for me to have family who love me back.

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BLOOMING TUESDAY

Its Bloomin Tue at Jeans

I still have a few blooms

My nasturtiums are still blooming

Nasturtiums tend to attract aphids. but can be treated with insecticidal soap. The flower & leaves are edible they have a slightly pepper like taste. They are better when young as older leaves can be bitter.
Their peppery leaves ward off insects like the cucumber beetles and squash vine borers and several caterpillars.. I very much enjoyed them in my Veggie garden.

I still Have marigolds in bloom

Look what was knocking on my kitchen window
I heard a boom and knock knock.
It is a small red headed wood pecker.

His Mom did not teach him what a tree is.

Have a great week my friends.