Food Blog

An interruption of regular posts to bring you this news flash!

We have to tell all our readers about this blog we found tonight!!!! We have not figured out all it will do yet but what we have seen has been awesome so far! Here is the link http://www.myfridgefood.com No they don't have any idea who we are but wanted to spread the word! All you have to do is tell this site what you have in your fridge and it will give you a list of all the recipes out there for those ingredients!!!!!! Now to get back to meal planning! (not that I ever get meals planned out. I'm not that organized!)

Garden 2012

Our garden this year was a lot of fun! We watered constantly due to the dry year we had but it made for the best gardening year so far. We had (starting at the top left) Green beans, banana peppers, onions, strawberries, kaleidoscope peppers, green beans, marigolds, full garden picture, cosmos, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers zucchini, okra, azaleas, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, okra and sweet meat squash. Other things not pictured are beets, carrots, tomatoes, garlic, yellow squash and peas.

Two things I will do different next year?
1. Don't plant okra next to tomatoes.
2. Try growing broccoli (request from Big Guy) and watermelon.

One thing we will do again: plant lettuce really close to something tall! Our lettuce lasted well into the summer. It was nearly hidden under the tomato plants and seemed to do really well there.

Baby #4

As many of our followers may already know we are expecting one more addition to our little Frontier! This one is supposed to be another girl due to arrive the last part of January *smile*

 We never could get a very good look at her face but did get these adorable pictures of her little legs crossed at the ankle!

Just this for now...there will be more to come! We have wrapped up the garden for the year and have pictures to post of that so stay tuned!

Here Kitty, Kitty...

 ...or rather...here kitties, kitties, kitties!!!

All of the Cat pictures that have been posted, are posted and will be posted on this blog were taken by the trail cam placed in one of the pastures we run cows.

Welcome Cowboy!

 We took a little trip to Welcome Cowboy C! Here is Little Lady loving her time with him!

 Proud Papa, Momma and Grandparents!

 I Love this picture!!!! Three generations and totally enthralled with the precious little bundle! He sure is a precious little baby!

 We got quite a few glimpses of his big blue eyes...

Checking out, and quite pleased with their new little cousin.

 The four Grand-kids for Papa and Momma Bear :)

Another highlight of the trip for the kids is playing at the park. You can walk here from Papa Bears house so we made a couple trips down there...

 

...the bridge is also another highlight. The kids like to throw sticks in on one side and watch them come floating down the river. Momma Bear had LOTS of sticks to throw in.

 Not a very good picture but it is the sticks floating away.

First time for...

 ...French braiding Little Lady's hair.

 ...little Britches using the dump truck for a stool...

 ...first time eating chocolate pudding...

 ...and corn on the cob!

June-July

Once again we are far behind with the posting. June for us, like many others, was a very busy month. We started out getting ready for conventions...then got sick. It kept us home and busy with the kiddos for two weeks. And we missed all but the weekend of our convention. We also finally got a bit of rain so Daddy planted sunflowers and millet. So...after 'our' convention the kids and mommy went up to Montana for convention. Auntie K was there along with Papa and Momma Bear and Uncle R. Was a very good trip and thankful for the company (some of Daddy's relatives) on the way home. We got home, unpacked, washed clothes and began work on the garden...then made a quick trip to York to be with friends there who lost their son.

Then home again to get caught up on the garden. 

There has been LOTS of wind this year it seems...and most of it from the south, not common around here, but it has done some damage. We woke up one morning to this large branch in our yard.

 Here are my little helpers moving the heaviest part of the branch. Big Guy has loved this trike-wagon set up and hauls stuff all around the yard for me! Little Lady pushes from behind whenever the going gets tough :)

 There have been many water/mud days due to weather that seems to want to stay in the 90's and occasionally makes a visit to the 100's.

 Daddy has had to fight a couple of fires this year. Both started by lightning and no rain. This one pictured was around 7 miles from our house. It burned a pasture that had soap weed in it and the flames were enormous! This picture (not a good one) was taken right out front of our house...the night before we left for York.

 This is what has occupied Most of our time since coming home. The garden no longer looks like this as the garlic was ready to be harvested, the beets and carrots were ready too. Green Beans have been picked once and need it again this week. Peas have been picked 3 times and are about finished for the summer. Spring started early this year and so did the garden. Most of it should be done by our harvest time!

 The kiddos helped pick beets (in the wheelbarrow behind them) and garlic.

 Kids holding up the garlic after it had been braided and ready for hanging to dry.

 AND Little Lady's birthday...she is now 3 years old. A tractor cake at Grandpa and Grandma's after Sunday meeting.

 Cousins having fun with a sleeping bag! :)

 Little Lady got a swimming pool for her birthday...they have all enjoyed splashing around.