Saturday Night Catch Up....

Hello dear hearts... 

Welcome to the Blessed Hearth on another Saturday evening.. 

This seems to be the night that I post this Winter.. 

Just doing a run down of our week and what we have been up to.. 

Come on in and sit a bit... 

I will tell you all I know so we know you won't be here long.. grin.. 

We started the week on Monday with our town day... 

We went across town to my favourite little apple market.. 

Sterlings.. 

Bought a big bag of Honey Crisp for seven dollars.. 

A ten pound bag, I think.. 

We had a good day.. 

Perhaps some time I will do a little shopping day post with you.. 

Probably be a bit boring as I am not your normal mall shopper.. 

Thrift and book stores are where I always shop.. 

Anyway.. 

Made some soup again this week.. 

I don't make soup daily (although, I could if Terry liked it as much as I) but I do make it a few times a week.. 

I was trying to remember which one this was then remembered it is a Rabbit Stew.. 

Dear son brought me a rabbit and it was delicious!  

See the bit of yellow peppers and tomatoes at the top ... 

That is half a pint of the soup base that I canned last Fall..

We bought some seeds to get in when we were in town the other day... 

The Celeric and Parsley Root is for a different soup base Carman is going to show us.. 

Getting excited about the garden!

Kathy, I told Terry to get them peppers in.. grin.. xo

Terry saw this idea on the web and told me about it.. 

Save the covers off of your Parm cheese and use on a mason jar.. 

Great for flour when making pastry, etc.... 

Or for flouring your bread board when you are making bread.. 

This is the no knead bread and I made a small loaf and pizzas for lunch... 

One day I made a few Chocolate Banana Breads as we had a surplus and they were getting pretty ripe.. 

The recipe is excellent and they went over very well.. 

The link for the recipe is HERE

I doubled the recipe and it made these three breads...

Trying to find a place to put my bottle of dolls.. 

Here.. 

Or here.. 

Or here... 

Or even here.. 

Well, I am leaving it here as I am not sure yet... 

Made some of these this week, too.. 

Love them.. 

I hope to do a post on them next week... 

Do you know what they are? 

While I was pottering around in the living room I could smell a lovely smell... 

I finally tracked it down.. 

My box of Hippie Wild Flower Potpourri that I made at the farm last summer.. 

A whole lot more of this in the plan of things to make this summer.. 

Sandalwood and Patchouli .... 

I wanted to welcome the new followers that have come along lately.. 

I had not read my stats for ages and did so tonight and I thought I would like to say welcome to the dear ones who come on from Five Islands, Nova Scotia and St. Johns, Newfoundland... 

Elgin, New Brunswick..

Perhaps every once in awhile I will mention an area.. 

I don't know who you are.. 

Only that you visited from the place I mention... 

Most of the visitors are from our neighbours in the U. S. A. 

So whoever you are from Middle River, Maryland thanks for dropping by.. 

Thank you each and every one of you where ever you are from.. 

So happy to have you.. 

Well sweeties, this is once again all for tonight.. 

Just a little Saturday catch up for you all.. 

Enjoy the Lord's Day tomorrow.. 

We have such a faithful God .. 

Just keep a holding onto His hand... 

Hugs.. 

Back to the Cottage...

Hello everyone.. 

Hope you all missed me.. smile.. 

We have been at the cottage getting everything back to normal for a couple of months stay.. 

The weather was fine when we left with the truck loaded on Tuesday but by the time we arrived it was getting ready to rain.. 

And rain it did!!

It is almost always the welcome we receive each Summer and as you know I love it.. 

The wind is awesome and the waves are huge.. 

I made up the beds and opened the window wide and when we went to bed it was lovely.. 

Nice flannel sheets and a duvet.. 

We are sleeping in a different room this year as we can't have the wind blowing on our heads anymore.. 

Old age and the old arthritis is being such a pain this year.. 

But this room has more advantages, though as it does not have the sun until the afternoon .. 

The other room is so bright in the mornings.. 

A little funny story for you.. 

The second night I was very tired when we went to bed.. 

About five in the morning I thought I heard the radio on.. 

I woke Terry (although, I don't think I opened my eyes) and asked him what the noise was.. 

He just sort of mumbled something.. 

I asked why the radio was on and he didn't say anything.. 

I laid there half asleep for bit until I realized it was a chorus of birds singing out back in the lilac bushes.. 

You would think I had never heard birds sing before.. 

That\s when I decided I needed a few more hours of sleep.. grin..

The next day was still rainy and very windy.. 

Terry worked at the shop and I worked at the cottage.. 

We went and got some lovely spring water.. 

Terry got ours hooked up but it takes a day or so to clear..

Then yesterday was lovely..

I even got a bit of garden work done.. 

Terry picked me some white lilacs .. 

Don't you love the smell through the house?

And we had a bit of company.. smile..

Now we are home for the weekend and as soon as we arrived I phoned to get our Internet and phone hooked up.. 

Oh Brother.. 

What a time..

 The Internet in St. Martins is almost all taken but thank the Lord we managed to get a spot and will have it in a week.. 

 I guess my blog will suffer a bit but I really do have lots to do so that is for the best I am thinking..  

At least the cottage is basically ready but the shop will take at least another week.. or two.... 

Well, dear hearts.. 

I am going to crawl into our water bed and have a good nights sleep.. 

I will get back to you once more, I hope, before we go back ... 

Thanks so much for stopping by and look so forward to hearing from you all.. 

God bless..