Week-End and what went on...

I have not written a post for five days! This is going to be a big long post with lots and LOTS of pics! Here are is what went on and below are the pics and descriptions!

FRIDAY: market, went on walk at market with Olivia, took lots of pictures,retrieved my lost purse,played "who?,what?,where?, when?,why?" with Priscilla, Emma,and Israel.

SATURDAY: cleaned house and got cabin and other stuff ready for Mr. Todd, Mrs. Becky, and Family,David scythed all the buckwheat,mama and Mrs. Becky went and got fruit and ginger from local farms,Me, Grace,Enoch,and Nathanael played indians with G,N,D,M and T,Men and Boys went to woods to get firewood,Girls made cookies while they were gone,Mr. Todd made chicken and rice in the dutch oven for dinner, Mrs. Becky made the dutch oven cobbler for desert with the cookies and icecream,Zach came for dinner.

SUNDAY: all the guys big and small left at 4:30 in the morning to go fishing with salmon fishing with Mr. Todd's friend Fred way out in lake MI, N and G helped do all the barn chores, N, me and Grace all made puff pancakes with peaches and pears for "ladies only" breakfast, all the gals big and small went on a walk down to the creek and had a great time, the guys went out to the woods when they got back to get more firewood(they caught 3 fish),Mr. Todd grilled the salmon(YUMMY STUFF!!!!!!!!), Mrs. Becky made spaghetti, Mama made dutch oven baked potatoes, and every one helped out with everything,Mr. Ron and Mrs. Barb came with their family for dinner,Zach came latter on too, all the children played kick the can,capture the flag, red rover- red rover,and other games, everyone sang around the campfire, and roasted, toasted, s'mores, Then at dark-thirty (late) the vehicles left our driveway as everyone headed towards their beds.

Monday: Rested from the wonderful week-end

Here is me and Olivia. It took us a while and some hard laughing to get the right picture! Even this one did not turn out quiet how we wanted it, but it is okay!

There is a really fun rope swing made for crossing the creek. It was so fun swinging across! Here Enoch is swinging. The pic is blurry (sorry).

And Me! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.......!!!!!!!!!!

My happy energetic brother Nathanael hanging from a crashed tree.

Olivia took this picture of me. Thanks Liv!

This is David scything the buckwheat.

M and T dancing while I play piano.

Hanging laundry on the line.

Me and T dressed up as Indians!

Making some food by mixing corn, peaches, sunflower seeds and banana together. Then we ate it in corn husks. Yummy? (actually it was not bad:)!

Daddy, Mr. Todd, and David cutting and chopping firewood.

Eating cookie dough!

M getting ready to put the cookies in the oven.

Licking the spoon.

The finished cookies filled, and dusted.

Taste- Testing. " Yum! The cookies are yummy!"

Mrs. Becky working on making the cobbler with...

...N! (tasting the batter for the picture:)

Here everyone is waiting for Mr. Todd to dish up the cobbler.

Here is me and T.

She would always come up to me and say: "Me, me wans som'un hol me"!

Gloria holding Daffy-Down Dilly (my kitten).

Reel it in Enoch!

All right! You got 'im!

L to R: Fred, Todd, Enoch, D,Nathanael,David, Daddy.

Daddy caught one, Enoch one, and David's busted the line. The 3rd one was found fresh in the water. So they netted it up and brought it home!

Just heading out to the creek.

Walking up the creek.

What do you see M?

Walking home.

Bread baking and other stuff

The last 4 loaves of bread are in the oven. I feel tired. It must be because I stayed up to midnight last night making the dough. Enoch, Nathanael and Daddy are working on getting more wood in.

Grace is trying to tackle the mountain of laundry.

A friend of mine who lives in AK called today to tell us about her new baby brother. It was nice to talk with her.

The pickle pickers across the road have their spanish music on loader than ever and it is getting very tiring to here the constant bass ba- boom, boom boom, ba ba-boom, boom, boom BOOM!!!!! I guess It keeps them pickin'. But does it have to be THAT loud?????

Here are several pictures from today...

My leavens L to R: Rye, Wheat, White

The bread on the rise. I made rye cracker bread out of the rye dough.

The finished bread. It does not look as good as Mama's but I think it will still taste good!

Enoch (on the ground) and Nathanael (on the wood:) hauling fire wood to the sugarhouse wood shed.

Grace made two pies from the...

...BLACKBERRIES!

Market Day

Today was another Market Day. R and the b's came again too. We had to go in a different booth this time because we were late. We were late because we stopped at a garage sale on the way. We normally would never do this, but when Daddy saw that that there was a set of tires (and he's been looking for new tires for the truck) he had to stop! Grace got a hat, I got a puzzle, David got a hunting coat, Enoch could not get anything because he was riding with Mama and R. (who were at Mijers), Nathanael dug thru a junk box and found two padlocks that were locked together he wanted to get them but he could not find the key that went with them, and Daddy got the tires set aside and told the man we would pick them up that evening.

This is Our Table

And The Farm Sign (we want to make a new one as soon as we can)

Okay, here is another story.

Before we left I could not find my shoes ANYWHERE! I do have some sandals (Teva's) but Enoch lost one of them when he wore them a couple weeks ago. The one sandal I have was in the van. I decided I would just go bare foot, why not?? So I did. When it came time to go home, I wanted to ride with R. Then I heard R saying that she needed to stop at Walgreens. So I asked Grace if I could borrow her sandals to go into Walgreens. She responded by tossing me my 1 sandal and saying: "Here's this, just hop on one foot".

R told me to go into the store with one shoe on and buy some flip-flops. Thankfully I had on a really long skirt that hid my shoeless foot.

I went into the store....I did not know where to start looking for flip- flops. Then I heard R say "Well Hannah, take your pick!"

This is what I saw. LOTS of sandals and LOTS of 75% off signs!!!!!!

This is what I chose. Normally $5.99 and I got them for $1.50!

I also bought a $10.00 snorkel for $2.50!

All the summer stuff was on sale! I guess I picked the right day to get sandals!