Midsummer ...

Hello everyone.. 

Hope you all had a great weekend.. 

Just sharing some pics of the last few days.. 

So hard to believe that August is here and Summer is half over.. 

It seems such a short season here in Maritime Canada.. 

I love this one and always try to hold onto it by the shirt tail.. grin.. 

I have made a few more batches of jams.. 

Raspberry and more strawberry ones.. 

Also some banana breads and a recipe I concocted for Mango Coconut muffins... 

I will try and give you the recipe next time as tonight it is late and I just wanted to check in with you all.. 

So blessed to go home this past weekend... 

I had not been home for six weeks although Terry gets there quite often.. 

It felt so good to be there and sleep in our water bed...smile. 

And attend our own church.. 

Our grandsons were quite surprised when we walked in .. 

We are enjoying going to church with our daughter's family, of course but there is no place like home, eh?

Terry picked me a bunch of Queen Anne's Lace in Moncton when we went in after church for dinner.. 

Another batch of jelly coming up tomorrow, hopefully.. 

We arrived back here in St. Martins about noon and I opened the shop.. About an hour later we had a huge rain storm.. 

My... did it ever rain and then the sun came out.. 

The weather is so different this year, eh? 

Well, dear hearts this is all for tonight.. 

So glad to meet those of you who have stopped by the shop.. 

Just think ... 

In about five or six weeks we will be going home.. 

I always start looking forward to that about this time of year;

when the Poor Man's Orchid comes in bloom..

They are the ones around the bird feeder.. 

You can only find them here in St. Martins area but I took some home a few years ago and they just pop up everywhere.. smile. 

Take care and thanks so much for stopping by.. 

God bless... 

Such a sweet place...

Good Evening my dears... 

Hope you are all doing well... 

Here we are... HOME Again... 

Is there any place so sweet?  smile.. 

We were blessed with a wonderful Summer but I am so glad to be back .. 

There is so much to do.. (I am not complaining)... smile.. 

Unpacking and cleaning...

Oh my...

 I had only been back two or three times in three months.. 

And Terry (the dear man) was the one who came home and did whatever... lawns, laundry, garden and such.. 

Please note that I did not mention housework... 

That he does not do.. grin...

Oh well...

 It stayed around  is all here and waiting for me.. 

I kind of feel like I will never catch up but all in  due time, I guess.. 

We arrived home late Monday evening but our internet order was misplaced and we did not get hooked up until late today..

But here are a few pics of things that have been keeping us busy...

Making some chocolate chip cookies.. 

So nice to have a working oven after 3 months of doing without.. 

A bit of decorating.. 

Putting my lovely present that my cousin Val made for me on my kitchen table... 

I just love it and the color is perfect.. 

Thank you, Val.. 

Also, Karen from My Colonial Home made my lovely candle cozy... I love it, too... 

I do need to get a bit of Fall decorating done.. 

Later.... 

We also made a quick trip up to the old farm today...

Checked on our friends.. 

All seems well... smile.. 

Then gathered up some wonderful Spring water to bring back home.. 

So much has changed since my last visit in June.. 

The grass is dying and the leaves are changing colors.. 

It was a simply beautiful day there, though we only stayed for a couple of hours.. 

Next week we hope to go for the day and have dinner there.. 

My.. it is cold out there tonight.. 

I had to bring in some of my plants that I leave on the patio for the Summer ...

Full moon I think..

There has been a lovely breeze every day which dried many lines full of laundry.. 

We made a visit yesterday to the market in the city and visited our youngest son... 

It felt like I had not seen him for ages.. 

The dear lad...

Hence, the chocolate chip cookies.. smile.. 

There is one happy camper around here.. 

Sammi...

He has a hard time at the cottage.. 

When he is there he needs to be tied and is not allowed to bark much and the fireworks drives him nuts.. 

Here at home he has freedom... 

We just hope that the therapy is not too expensive.. grin... 

Just kidding.. 

Anyway.. I am sorry I have not been a good blogger the last few months.. 

I would go to the shop and then come home and need to make stuff and then I was too tired to post or check your lovely blogs.. 

But now... 

I will try and do better... 

Just not tonight.. grin.. 

Thanks so much for dropping by and welcome to the new followers.. 

So glad to have you ... 

But now before I go, may I ask you to pray for a sweet Keeper of the Home who is also a dear mama.. 

She and her sweet family need your prayers this day.. 

Please pray that God will bless them with healing and strength and  that He will comfort them and give them peace even through the night time hours..

We know that He is able to do more than we could ask or think.. 

Thank you so much sweet ladies... 

Sending love and blessing to you all... 

Home Sweet Home...

Well, hello there dear hearts.. 

I am back!!

Thank the Lord, I am home safe and sound.. 

As you know I visited the lovely Lancaster County in Pa. for 8 days... 

Many lovely experiences and a few very scary ones... 

I thought I would share a few pics with you tonight and then I will not go on about it.. 

The first of my photos were lost on my camera card by mistake so here are a few of the ones that I took after we arrived there last Thursday after 2 days of travelling... 

A few of the ones that I took of the dear Amish folks...

We visited several of the farms who were selling such things as quilts and fabrics, root beer and antiques, pickles and crafts.. 

That was one of my favorite things that we did.. 

We would pull into the farm yard and sweet little Amish children would come running to sell their wares.. 

They had names such as Jacob and Rachel... 

All Bible names and they would come with the little brothers or sisters in wagons.. 

They would sometimes be weeding a garden or one told us they were picking over tobacco plants.. 

Their sweet smiles were so dear... smile.. 

All along the way we noticed the plants growing in the ditches.. 

Aren't these lovely?

They are not clover but a wild pea... I think.. 

Probably my friends from Pa. know what they are.. 

We loved them anyway.. 

We were blessed to meet up with friends from Toronto who took a tour bus and we drove around with them for a day...

We attended the wonderful Sight and Sound production of

JONAH... 

It was my third production.. 

We had already seen IN THE BEGINNING and JOSEPH.. 

This one was awesome, also ...

We did a lot of shopping, of course.. 

I was blessed to find some lovely prims for my shop.. 

So much lavender growing.....

So beautiful.. 

Then, of course, the wonderful Amish farms on every side..

Every farm is in perfect order.. 

I could drive around for days just looking at them.. 

Then it was time to head for home..

We had a bit of sun but mostly cloudy or downright torrential rains.. 

We headed for the very foot of Mass. so that we could visit a former pastor's church.. 

It was so precious to visit with them and their church family. 

Then we headed for Maine and last minute shopping.. smile..

The Lord was so gracious and protected us even during a flash flood that scared me half out of my wits... Seriously...

And there were even tornado warnings.. Yikes.. 

Thank you, Lord for your divine protection.. 

It is so good to be HOME.. 

There is no place on earth quite like it.. 

Beautiful places to be sure but dear old New Brunswick is the place for this old girl.. grin.. 

I hope you enjoyed my little visit with you all. 

I missed you guys, too... 

We will be busy getting moved down to the cottage during the next week.. 

Terry is going to cut wood tomorrow but we plan on starting the move this weekend and hoping to get the shop opened by the next weekend.. 

Thank you, my dears for your sweet visit.. 

I hope you leave me a note.. I love hearing from you all.. 

God bless...