Taco Soup

This recipe was given to me when we lived in Texas

So Good!

Brown 1# lean hamburger meat with 1 cup chopped onion.
Add undrained can of pinto beans and can of whole kernel corn.

 1 can Italian stewed tomatoes 

and 1 can whole tomatoes and 1 small can tomato sauce.
Add 1 pkg Taco seasoning.
Cook uncovered until thickens.
Serve over rice.

The Bennie likes his with cheese

I like mine with Jalapno slices

Eat to stay warm!

Bonnet Ive Girl Had A Pet

This is cat Ive

And he is growing well 

This wreath was made from thyme a herb of mint family that grew in my garden.
This was all in  1995 to 2005. Loved my garden and also worked a full time job.
This kept  me sane, playing in the dirt. My job at times was very stressful.

More Garden In Tennessee

Bonnet Ivy girl was not the only one in the garden. We had Sally the hose girl, she had a small link of
hose in her hand and would water the garden.  On the left there is a fairy. Sorry to say hose girl didn't work to well but she was cute. The Bennie made the trellis.

This is the side yard. 

A standing fairy and lots of Bee Balm

They Are Sharing With Us

As I  have  the man that loves to feed anything that comes to the yard door.

He has been buying apples from the sale table for the birds and squirrels.

So as I fix a plate of toasted old bread, apples and the peel for them, I

said could they share some apples with us?

I picked three good apples two green and a red and made

Waldorf  Salad

2 firm ripe green apples

1  firm ripe red apple

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1 cup sliced celery

1/2 cup  walnuts or pecans chopped couarsely

1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing

1 1/2 teaspoons honey

1/2 cup raisins

put on lettuce leaves

Enjoy!

Next Few Days Will Go

down memory lane to our past gardens.

I didn't know when taking all of these photo's I would get a chance to 

bring them back live for my family and blog friends to see.

These are from our home in Tennessee 

We went to  Alabama to see the Bellingrath 65 acre garden

You can see what impressed me (It was all beautiful).

So I came home and 

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 made my on garden girl. Now it takes a long time to grow that Ivy to cover the wire frame.

My girls said it was spooky.

Any way I liked doing it. Be fore we moved it had grown to her head and with the hat it looked good to me.

Antique Mayonnaise Dish

This is my dad and  Julio She was born  Nov. 15 1888.

The photo was taken in 1987 at the time she was 98 years old. She gave this Mayonnaise Dish to him

Said it was a wedding gift. I have it now, from what I find it is

1920's depression glass, ligh pink and gold.

I went on to find three others at estate sales

Pink

Blue

Purple and gold.

Nations

Why do nations conspire and people plot in vain?

The kings of the earth take their stand and rulers

gather together against the Lord and His Anointed One.

Let us break their chains they say and throw off their fetters.

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

Psalms 2: 1---4

Come, Spring, Come

I say phooey on Winter time,

With all its snow and ice,

With cold winds from everywhere

It don't make me feel so nice.

Willis l. Tackette

Snow and Now Rain

Help I have fallen and can't get up.

Not my snow man but so cute wanted to share with you.

We got sleet and snow this morning , this afternoon we are to get rain and all night.
We may look like this in the morning.

This was from a few  years ago.
Take care it will be spring soon!!!!!

Sunshine

 but very cold 

The Bennie puts cracked corn and some sunflower seeds on the ground

for the squuirrels.  We found out they like apple peel.

Not Much New Here

just very cold like all blog land, be happy and stay warm.

Not Snow

but ice, we have joined the February winter and they say the snow is coming. 

 It is very cold today

so I think I will just stay in and sew. 

Not Peace But Division

I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!

But I have a baptism to undergo, and how disrtressed I am until it is completed!

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No I tell you, but division.

Luke 12:49,50,52

All the nations will be gathered be fore Him, and He will separate the people one from another as
a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on His right and the goats on His left.

Matthew 25 :32,33

Our Nicolas

 at school party

Oh no! a kiss
Happy Valentine's Day

A Butter Dish, Flowers and A Quilt

 The Bennie wants soft butter for his toast.

(Store butter for an extended period of time

without refrigeration.)

 Flowers for the table

 and a lap quilt I made so he can stay nice and warm

when he naps in his chair.

Wishing all a very happy day.

I Think This Is Larkpur

 I planted the seeds in the fall and they are all coming up now

it is warm when the sun shines next to the brick. Any way this is where they were last year.

The brown spot in the center is the Stella do Oro daylily

 that I moved from under the rose bush in the fall and it is sprouting up

green shoots now. I don't think when we get more very cold weather

it will  bother them they are both hardy plants.

No Sun No Rain No Snow

so I did a little work in the garden today.

The roses grew this tall in the summer.

Now after they were cut back

 The roses were buding out ,we always cut them back in Feb.

It is not spring but it has been to warm for Jan & Feb this year.

That looks better.

Guide

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."

Psalm 32:8

Lord, I am unworthy of all the kindnesses you have showered upon me

in the past. I thank you for your great love to me. Help me to trust you 

for what I need.

Can You Stand One More

Sky Photo?

I have a new App Moon Phase on my Ipad 

Beautiful Photo's of the moon, in real time

This is the 88% waning Gibbous Moon

Back In The Kitchen

The Bennie bakes a pie

Can you guess what kind it is???

So good! He put walnuts, raisins and it even had cream cheese in it.

His very own recipe

They Said

we were to get snow, we didn't.

Today the sun is shining but very cold.

This is What I Saw

last evening

I went out to feed the birds. It was hanging low in the west ,bright and yellow.