Blue

There is alot of color all around you if you look for it. . .or if you don't!

Today I wanted to find four different things in nature that were blue.

I thought it might be hard, and it was little at the start.

I found the first little blue flower and knew that would be a good blue shot.

Then when I was taking a picture of some leeks, I looked down and saw the feather!

My brother told me there were some blue cohosh berries out in the woods while I was walking out there I saw the bluish colored pine sap dripping down the tree trunk!

Green

Spring has sprung and I am happy.

Tomorrow up until Sunday the temperatures are supposed to be in the 70's. Who ever heard of such craziness? I like it though for a change!

Pictures From Saturday

As you know, on saturday we went to the

Market:

While there, Grace and I went on a little walk. We started out on a little cement trail that twisted around the building. After finding the window that looks in at our stand (the market is in a basement) and waving hi to our brothers we continued on our merry way.

It was hard to find the window as there are SO many and it looks totally different on the outside. So, we walk along and suddenly the path stops. Where it stops there is a little creek. So we

Jump over it:

Hanging from a log on the creek was an

Icicle:

Why, do curious lookin gates and fences have

Signs like these on them?

or padlocks?

at least there are some pretty curlicues them!

The pealing paint is more than likely lead paint!

back in the Marcato. . .

Nathanael peeks around a corner into the sweet shop

where his sister Grace is being treated to mint chocolate cookie icecream by an elderly lady.

While go through the drive thru book return at the library we spotted a Mourning Dove

on her nest!

We stopped by my favorite grocery store and bought organic triple cream brie, brie with chives, fresh organic olives and a few other things. There was also brie cheese on sample so we all tasted a little bit of crackers under a slather of brie!

After shopping, we drive to the countryside where we used to live to buy some barley for our sheep. Daddy and David were talking so long with the farmer that Grace and got out of the truck and started waking down the road. Our destination was our friend's house who live about six miles from the farmer's place. We only made it past the two german shepherds who threatened us with bared teeth and barks before the rest of our family picked us up. A little over a mile.

At our friends we had some dinner and then jumped on their trampoline.

We also took pictures

of friends. . .

. . .best friends!

10 Fast Fingers Test

Okay, I was doing a typing speed test and it got me curious as to which of my readers can type the fastest! So, I would like all my readers to go to this link: www.speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com and then give me your score.

This is what I want you to give me:

-How many points you got

-How many characters you type per minute

-How many words you got correct

-How many words you got wrong

After you do the test, all this info will be written down for you and all you just have to copy it and paste it in a comment to me!

I hope you do this test if you are a reader of my blog (you are reading this, this is my blog :).

Since I have put the traffic feed widget on my blog I have noticed that alot of people do visit my blog! And I thought only a few people did now and then? I was happy to see that I have so many visitors! I'd love to hear from you, please leave me a comment!

I'm not the fastest typer, so don't worry if your score is really low :)

In a week from now, I will post everyone's score and see who is the fastest!

A Full Day

Today was a full day filled with sunshine, Love, fun and Joy!

But you know what, I'm tired. It seems like I'm always tired when blogging, because I always post at night :)

Anyway, I'll try to write more latter. I do want to tell you this though. On the way home from the market, we stopped by our friends house. The ones who came last night :).

Their daughter, my dear friend Olivia gave me a big bag of books. I think it is a series of 48 and then one other book that is not in the series. They are the American Adventure Series and I am looking forward to reading them :)

Not tonight though, I'm going to bed! Mama just told me, "Hannah only read 20 tonight, I don't want you staying up too late :)!" I'd rather have 20 dreams. . .(no silly ones, right Cora :)

Guess What We Had For Dinner!

Taco Salad :) I really like taco salad.

Mama went to the little grocery store a bought (yes she did :-) the things to build a taco salad.

Well, not everything, the wild leeks, the wild venison, the homegrown pork sausage, and Grace's homemade spicy (really HOT) salsa!

So, we had a little bit of summer for dinner! Tomato, lettuce, and those things you ONLY eat in summer but those things that we ate today :)!

Tomorrow again is market day. I don't know if I will be going to the library or not to check out books because I am not done with the ones I got last week. Surprised? I am reading a book that is not catching my interest very much but I want to see what happens at the end of the book. I naturally never (because I am a very interesting bookworm ;P) look at the end of a book until I read through it!! I might have looked at the back of a book once or twice but I don't make a habit of it! One of my friends is not much of a reader and she said to me,

"I figured out this great way to read books without having to read the whole thing! Just read at the front of the book, then in the middle and then read the ending and you pretty much get the whole story!"

Um no, not really for me!!

Talk to you all latter now, my readers! Some dear friends of ours stopped by and are here now. Their children did not come this time so I am missing them but they don't live too far away and so I hope we will see them soon!

Mystery Picture!

My brother Enoch, has a really interesting mystery picture on his blog.

Please go over there and leave him a comment with a guess!

Here is the link to his blog:

http://thepigfarmersjournal.blogspot.com

It is cold out and the house is kind of chilly. There is not very much to do. I am heading upstairs to huddle under blankets with my younger brothers and listen to an book on audio about a jewish girl.

And The Mystery Picture Is...

A close up of our cow Lilac's nose!

Great guesses everybody!

Cora, the little lines are actually the fine hairs on her nose :)

Pictures and a MYSTERY PICTURE!!!!

Last night, Nathanael made some meringue "batter" (I guess that's what it's called :) we stuck them in the clay oven to bake overnight like the recipe says. Well, when I checked them before I went to bed, poor meringues and poor Nathanael, his cookies burned. So, this morning, he mixed up more "batter" and stuck them in the clay oven. Even though we fired it up yesterday morning, it was still warm/hot because we kept the door closed all night. Although the secound batch of meringues did not have those picture perfect golden squiggles draining down the sides, as the oven was a little too cool, they still tasted "picture perfect"!

This is the first batch before their doom,

Here is me dancing in the sunshine singing,

"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine
You make me happy when skies are gray..."

I don't like or know the rest of the words but I like singing that part, and playing the song the best I know it on the piano as it is a fun tune!

Now, here is a mystery picture for you! Daddy said no one will ever be able to guess it as it was very hard for al my family members to guess and I had to give them many clues before they finally did.

So, here are some clues for you:

- You have one of these, in fact everyone does, at least everyone I know!

-Your's is smaller than this one. Some people have big ones, others have small ones, others have medium ones.

-Where ever and when ever you go somewhere your's comes with you no matter if you want it to or not!

-this is a very important thing to everybody and everything that has one.

Enough clues for now. I give you until tomorrow night to leave me a comment with a guess. If no one has got it right by then, I will give you a few more clues and then wait another day before I publish all comment containing guesses and post the correct answer.

This mystery picture as always, is open to everyone. I sure hope I hear from each and every one of my readers, my blog friends, my personal friends, and my family members. If you are one of the above (and you are because you are reading this :) I hope to get a comment from all of you!!

Go wild on your guesses, give me as many as you can think of!!!

A Page From My Journal,

A couple days ago I wrote down every thing I did in my day and gave it to Gretchen at Fashionably Modest Patterns for her "Page from my journal" post that she does on Tuesdays. You can go here: http://fashionablymodestpatterns.blogspot.com/2010/03/page-from-my-journal-chronicling-day-in_22.html to read it. You also can do it too! All you have to do is email her and she'll tell you what week is available. Her email is on her blog. I would love to read a page from your journal!

More Pictures.

This is our wheat. This is what, if all goes well, we will use to make bread in our bakery!!!

And here are a few other pictures I took today,

green shoots,

honey bee on crocus,

A nail. :)

I went on a little walk today. I took my camera with me and a book. . .

just for the record, I have read 4 books in 2 days. I think I've beat my record. I feel like reading in my bed tonight but I can't get myself to start another book :) I am tired!

My destination was a maple tree on the edge of our pasture. The sun was shining right on it and it looked very warm. I took this picture on the way out there,

it won't be long before there are little birdies in there!

And then, just as I was sitting down under the tree to read, this little tiny critter caught my eye.

a spider mite. I put him on my sleeve because I thought his red suit would show up the best on there. Spider mites are very tiny, only less than 1 mm big. I always find them fascinating though!

Good Night to all of you!

I am thankful for, SUNSHINE!!!

Spring Pictures~

Trees. . .

mushroom . . .

red ants. . .

wild leeks beginning to sprout. . .

crocuses! this is what the mystery flower was.

Daddy even found a little dandelion!

Moss. This is what the green mystery picture was!

Noodle making. . .

this is the newest thing going on in the bakery. . .

critters. . .

I don't know why I forgot to tell you, but Daddy bought me a battery charger and batteries!! That is how I am now able to be crazy camera happy!