Summer Time Fun

We've had a wonderful summer to this point.  The garden has given us more than we had ever imagined in food to put up for the winter.  This year we've canned tomato juice, potatoes, stewed tomatoes and put up corn, zucchini and my hubby is taking care of his hot peppers.  I know this doesn't seem like much, but this is the 4th year we've had a garden here in this home, but in years past the garden has not produced well at all.  We've not had enough to put up, so we've had to buy at farmer's markets and stands.  This year, we've had the abundance and we praise God for that! 

Here are our potatoes, onions and a few tomatoes and zucchini that we began with this year.  We canned 18 quarts of potatoes for the first time ever!  What a blessing that was! 

The onions we tried to sell as many as we could with signs on the side of the road.  We sold about 20 of them and one of my Black-Eyed Susan plants.  We're continually amazed at God's goodness toward us. 

During a rainy day after dinner, we tried a new game out.  We looked up "edifying" words for the letters in each of our names that describes that person.  This is what we'd come up with.  It was a lot of fun! 

We've recently found that we needed to do some water proofing in our basement due to some black mold we found in the carpeting.  After getting all of it out of the house, my hubby dry locked the walls and we turned our attention to the outside front of the house.  Here in PA you have to call before you start digging, so we called and called and called.  Every one of the companies came, but the telephone.  They drove by and marked on the PA1 call that they were "all clear" when they really were not.  We were at a stand still for at least 2 weeeks.  Once they did come, we were clear to begin digging.

We had a gentleman from church come and help us with that part since we didn't have such large equipment.  Everything is dug out now, including the sidewalk.  My hubby has done the pressure washing on the outside and now we'll need to go buy the foundation sealer, more piping and gravel to make the french drains.  Slowly and steadily we're working on making our house better.  We're not really doing much by way of "improvements", but just replacing the old things with just a little better for energy savings and so forth.  We must take care of what the Lord has blessed us with and be good stewards of those things or they may be taken from us. 

Well, it's time for me to sign off.  My computer time is done for now. 

Have a blessed day!