Saturday, May 19, 2012

This is what happens when I don't blog for a while ;)

I can't believe how little I do on here...But the truth is I have been busy. I don't do a whole lot online now that spring has come around. I did see that my blog got 35 views just this morning! Thank you guys for stopping by even though I am not consistent with my blogging.

Friday I picked a lot of mint. I have already "stripped" like over 16 cups and I have way more to strip, but I don't know if I will be able to manage stripping mint with all my other Saturday chores, but I will see!
I might just use the mint I already stripped. I am planning on filling a big pot full of water until it boils and then putting the mint in to steep for half an hour or so. Then I plan to save some of it for my family to drink now and the rest I hope to freeze.

I am doing Friendship Bread (more like cake) that I will have to bake on Tuesday. I hope to make four large loaves, keep one for ourselves and freeze the other three or I could keep one for ourselves, freeze two and give the other one to a couple of our neighbours, but I guess I will just have to wait and see.

Tabitha and I have started our garden. I always  look forward to spring because of this fact.  We, at the moment, have planted: lettuce, tomatoes, green beans, peas, kale, greens (bitter ones), beats, summer squash and winter squash. So excited for harvest time to come around! :D

Oh, for your information, Stink Bugs taste like Cilantro. Heehee.

I really want to start canning this year! I got  wax/regular green beans and pickling cucumbers from seeds to plant, for just this. I figured I must plan ahead, aye?

I was cutting onions while my sister asks me if I want a TV in my home when I get married; I answered with 'absolutely not!' I want to have time together as a family, not staring at a television for hours on end. Especially with today's culture of inappropriate things on the television I do not want to have one in my home to have my children exposed to it.
My family has had a TV on and off for years, we got one and then got ride of it and got one and got rid of it...Then finally in the beginning of 2009, I think it was, we got ride of our TV permanently and I don't regret it one little bit! I am so happy we got rid of it.

We then started discussing movies. I personally want educational movies, like; historical, creation and nature, and maybe movies based on real stories. Other than that I don't really want in my future home, but I would have to discuss that with my husband of course.  ;)

I then started talking about children books. I don't like books for children that have animals talking like humans...Animals DON'T talk!!!!! I don't want my children to read things like that. I really want to give my children books like science, history, and manner books that are also fun to read! It is amazing how children actually pick up, so why not give then some that will benefit them in the future. :) Maybe I am being to extreme, I don't know,  but it makes sense to me.

 Yesterday, Tabitha and I went shopping. We first stopped at a Farmer's Market, and then Walmart. It is always fun and a blessing to spend time with my sister.

Tabitha made some pasta salad and fruit salad today and last night, so she and I went to where we had our car collision earlier this year and brought the fruit salad, pasta salad, and some of our flowers to the woman who stayed by my side during that time.
She and her husband were very glad to see us and that we are doing well.

I am going to make bean salad today for the Lord's Day. Maybe I'll put the recipe on my Food Blog. I haven't put anything up there in ages...I have pictures ready, but I just haven't got around to putting up them and the recipes. Lord willing I will have more time next week.

Everyone have a blessed rest of Saturday and Lord's Day tomorrow! May you praise Him with your whole heart, soul, strength, and mind.

Here is a Psalm (from Scottish 1650 Psalter) for y'all.



~Blessings!

Psalm 144

with Notes by John Brown of Haddington

A Psalm of David.
This psalm was probably composed by David upon the occasion of his advancement to the throne, 1 Chron. 12, 2 Sam. 5, as Psalm 138, 75, etc. In it we have, (1.) Thankful acknowledgements of God's relation to him, and condescending kindness towards him, ver. 1-4. (2.) Supplication for divine deliverance from his enemies, who still threatened him, ver. 5-8; and for prosperity to his kingdom, ver. 11-14. (3.) Triumphant joy in God, as his and their deliverer and portion, ver. 9-10, 15.
While I sing, let me admire the relation, the kindness of God to me, who am so mean, so frail, so sinful! Let me rejoice in him, as my all in all; and commit my way to him, that he may bring it to pass. And let every external benefit lead up my heart to God himself.


1    O blessed ever be the Lord,
          who is my strength and might,
     Who doth instruct my hands to war,
          my fingers teach to fight.

2    My goodness, fortress, my high tow'r,
          deliverer, and shield,
     In whom I trust: who under me
          my people makes to yield.

3    Lord, what is man, that thou of him
          dost so much knowledge take?
     Or son of man, that thou of him
          so great account dost make?

4    Man is like vanity; his days,
          as shadows, pass away.
5    Lord, bow thy heav'ns, come down,
          touch thou the hills, and smoke shall they.

6    Cast forth thy lightning, scatter them;
          thine arrows shoot, them rout.
7    Thine hand send from above, me save;
          from great depths draw me out;

     And from the hand of children strange,
8         Whose mouth speaks vanity;
     And their right hand is a right hand
          that works deceitfully.

9    A new song I to thee will sing,
          Lord, on a psaltery;
     I on a ten-string'd instrument
          will praises sing to thee.

10   Ev'n he it is that unto kings
          salvation doth send;
     Who his own servant David doth
          from hurtful sword defend.

11   O free me from strange children's hand,
          whose mouth speaks vanity;
     And their right hand a right hand is
          that works deceitfully.

12   That, as the plants, our sons may be
          in youth grown up that are;
     Our daughters like to corner-stones,
          carv'd like a palace fair.

13   That to afford all kind of store
          our garners may be fill'd;
     That our sheep thousands, in our streets
          ten thousands they may yield.

14    That strong our oxen be for work,
          that no in-breaking be,
     Nor going out; and that our streets
          may from complaints be free.

15   Those people blessed are who be
          in such a case as this;
     Yea, blessed all those people are,
          whose God Jehovah is.



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