Another Saturday Night...

Hey there everyone.. 

So glad you dropped by the Blessed Hearth on this another Saturday night.. 

It is a cool and clear out there this evening.. 

First of all I want to thank you all for your lovely best wishes for our anniversary that you all sent either here, Face Book or email.. 

We really appreciate it..  

On Thursday Terry and I met Shonda for a lovely visit in Sussex.. 

Terry dropped me off and Shonda and I did a little shopping.. 

She gifted us with this beautiful double bouquet.. 

Yellow roses (my fave), tulips and two Hyacinths .. 

So beautiful.. 

I looked up the spelling of the word Hyacinths and found this little quote... 

"If, of thy mortal goods, thou art bereft, 

And from thy slender store two loaves 
alone to thee are left, 
Sell one & from the dole, 
Buy Hyacinths to feed the soul" 
- Muslihuddin Sadi, 
13th Century Persian Poet 

Sweet, eh?  

Terry and I took a little trip to St. Martins to celebrate our anniversary last weekend.. 

It was lovely to visit the Bay of Fundy.. 

Lots of ice around the caves.. 

We travelled a little further and went to the spring for a few bottles of water.. 

A little snow in the woods..

He is a good man!  smile.. 

Yesterday, we had Mom and Gerald over for lunch.. 

Mom loves tomato soup so I opened a quart of soup that I had canned last Fall... 

Just had to add a bit of milk and a cube of frozen Basil Pesto.. 

Along with a few homemade garlic croutons and she was a happy woman.. 

Don't tell her I told you but she had 3 bowls.. 

But she did not have dessert.. grin

Shonda and I went to Taste and See for lunch and it was simply delicious!  

Shonda had a serving of coleslaw with her's and she gave me a taste so I could see if I liked it.. grin.. 

I loved it as it was flavoured with cumin! 

So for lunch with Mom I made a bowl of coleslaw and made a stab at making Cumin dressing... 

It was a hit.. 

I am not saying that it was as good as their's but I will certainly be making it again.. 

In the morning I made another Chocolate Banana Bread that I posted about a bit ago and tried a new recipe for Apple Cake.. 

I was not thrilled with it so I will not link to the recipe.. 

Nonetheless it still was eaten... smile.. 

Another pic of my fave view here at home.. 

When I say here at home I mean our area.. A couple of miles away!  Not in front of my house, sorry to say!  

I was trying to differentiate that it was not at the farm or cottage but here where we actually call home...  

Isn't it lovely? 

I would love to live right on top of this hill, though..smile.. 

Making a bit of bread.. 

Made croutons with the last bit of it.. 

I was wondering if any of you sweet girls would know the name of this plant.. 

I bought it last year at a yard sale and just love it.. 

I need to get a few hanging plant holders and put them up... 

My fennel is up that we planted but no peppers yet, Kathy... smile.. 

They take a bit, I guess and I am still waiting for my Celeriac... 

All in due time, I guess.. 

One of our meals last week..  

Shrimp and Pasta .. 

A meal I made for Terry to celebrate here at home.. 

We always pick this menu for some reason.. 

This is a little something I am working on for Spring decor.. 

Will take a few pics when it is finished.. 

I visited Michaels  to buy some tulips and started discussing decor with a perfect stranger and ended up exchanging phone numbers.. 

So amazing when you meet a kindred spirit and know right off the top that you will be friends.. smile.. 

Well, dear hearts this is it for another Saturday.. 

The Lord's Day tomorrow.... 

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your sweet notes.. 

I will leave you with one of my go to verses... 

Philippeans 4:7

And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus..

xo

Thank you...

Thank you dear hearts for your lovely anniversary wishes... 

Love and Prayers, 

Terry and Faye.. 

xo

Forty-Seven Years....

Hello there everyone.. 

Terry and I are celebrating our 47th anniversary today!  

Well, actually we celebrated on Friday with a little day trip to St. Martins and dinner out and such.. 

A lovely day!  

The photo above seems like a lifetime ago in some ways but yet I can almost feel myself standing there holding onto his hand as he guided the knife in the cutting of our cake.. 

I doubt if we could have imagined this day on that night so long ago.. 

It would have seemed like aeons away and we probably would picture ourselves as terribly old and feeble.. smile..

It was a sweet wedding with all of our family and friends and then I put on my going away outfit (as it was called then.) and had this sweet pic taken with our precious parents.. 

Doesn't Terry look like his Mom?  

My mother is only 36 year old.. Imagine!  

Now she is 82 and my darling Dad has gone to be with the Lord as has both of Terry's parents.. 

We were so blessed to have all of our parents in our lives for many years.. 

They gave us encouragement, advice and love .. Then covered us in prayer everyday... 

So thankful for all of the blessings that our marriage brought.. 

Our precious family.. 

Children and grandsons... 

And dear friends... 
And a love that has endured ....

God has been so good to us.. 

So, my dears I am happy you dropped by... 

Hope you have a great week and God bless... 

Here is a little something to think about.. eh? 

Hugs...

Homemade Cling Wrap, sort of and soup...

Good Evening my dears.. 

Welcome to the Blessed Hearth on this cold day.. 

At least here in Eastern Canada! 

It was beautiful this morning looking out the window, though.. 

Terry is keeping our Sun Room a bit warm as we have a bunch of seed pots in there so the window was a bit frosted.. 

But so beautiful looking through.. 

I think the temperature was -21 degrees C. but there was a fresh snowfall and a beautiful sun early this morning.. 

On my last post I mentioned that I had done a little project.. 

I had visited one of my favourite health food stores called the Sequoia in Moncton and was entranced with a product they had there.. 

You can find it HERE..

They had a little bowl on the shelf with the organic type cling wrap covering it.. 

They call it Beeswrap.. 

I couldn't wait to get home and see if there was a homemade version that would be simple and cheap to make.. 

And yes there are many DIY versions out there on the web.. 

So... 

I gathered up some fabric.. 

The ones on the web are square and flat and reusable.. 

I liked the one that I had seen at Sequoia so I made mine round.. 

This is the shelf of bowls that I use mainly for left overs.. 

Small, medium and large.. 

 I found a tinfoil rectangle shape container that you can buy at the dollar store with covers.. 

Fill a pot with several inches of water and bring to a boil.. 

Place the foil tin over the top or an old foil bowl..

Whatever... 

Add a bit of  the wax and let it melt.. 

Now I am going to be truthful here.. smile.. 

The Sequoia covers were made from beeswax.. 

I decided to use Preserving or Paraffin Wax.. 

It is cheaper and I wanted to see if it would work..

I used it for years over my jams and such so it was worth a try..  

Put in a block at a time until when melted, it is just halfway up the container.. 

Spread out a sheet of foil or parchment near the pot and with a pair of tongs put the edge of the fabric in and slowly pull through the wax.. 

Be careful as wax is hot and will flame up ... 

Let it drip for a minute and then just place it on the size bowl you want to cover and with your fingers press around the edges.. 

And then set aside until you make as many as you like.. 

I just put the bowls in the dishwasher and any wax that had collected on the bowl just washed off.. 

Use different size circles to fit whatever bowl you intend to use.. 

You kind of have to guess how big a circle to cut.. 

There was a cover for the little tinfoil container so I just covered it until I need it again for candles or whatever.. 

I forgot to take a pic but I use an old flour canister to store them in... 

Next time I will do square ones with beeswax and see how it goes.. 

I think we will make these at our Keepers Meeting next time.. 

If you have any questions you can leave it in the comment section..

This morning I was chatting on the phone with my friend and she was making a big vegetable soup and it inspired me to do the same...  

Since it was such a cold day and I did have extra veggies that could be used up... 

Bear broth, canned tomatoes, leeks, carrots, cabbage, grated turnip, peppers, zuke, celery and parsnip... I think that is all.. 

You can use chicken broth, though!  grin.. 

I am trying to save my Soup Base as I only have a few bottles left that I canned last Fall.. 

Salt, pepper, chili flakes, ground lovage, frozen pesto cube, bay leaf and lots of chopped parsley.. 

Simmer... simmer... simmer.. 

This is for my sweet friend Cheryl S. from Rothesay... 

I guess this is all for today, lovies.. 

Not too much happening on the home front... 

The first day of Spring is here, though!  Yeah!!  

Hope all is well in your world and may you keep the Lord close... 

He is just so precious!!  

xox

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..