Monday, May 7, 2018

Let's Smile Awhile

  “My, so what—what we got to worry about? Why are you walking along with a long face, like you eat oats, or the bottom of a churn. Why, my, smile. We’re happy. We’re Christians, and God has ordained us so and has given Christ for us.
   53-1205 -  Bro. Branham  


Here are some pictures from the past couple of months
 that have made us 'smile awhile'!

Faith is happy that she got a job at Ace Hardware!

 I found this old recipe in a box in my attic.
It's from my mom.
What made me smile was the directions..
Bake 350 til done. haha

Laurisa always smiles when she's with her chickens.

Faith always has a smile!

Did you ever see a chicken smile?
I imagine the farmer didn't smile when he sat on his tractor seat!




My mom fried us up some catfish, corncakes, mashed potatoes, and peas.....boy did we ever smile!

I didn't even notice that the paper towel said smile! ;o)

I put this here 4 and 1/2 years ago....the bark is starting to grow over it.....


 Even the rocks are smiling....

 We had a green heron in our backyard the other evening!

 Last fall I transplanted this sassafras tree from Kentucky and planted it in my yard.  
I was smiling this spring when I seen it had survived!
 

What can you do with a sassafras tree?
Make tea of course!

We hosted a Kentucky Kitchen class for the PA Creations  and David and Benjamin were
smiling big when I presented them with real coon skins!

These two eagles were in a big tree behind our property one evening.  We were so happy to see them!
(sorry the lighting was bad)



In another PA creations class, we did the everlasting peaks project. We had cherry pie to celebrate
Bro. Branham's birthday.


My very first bed when I was born.

Another visit to Granny Smith's. 
 That brought a big smile to her face!

See the old water dippers hanging there?
Grandma used to have them at the water bucket to get a drink. 

This is her door latch that's on the door to her living room.

SMILE!

An old abandoned house in KY.

 This is a woodstove that we had in our kitchen when I was young.
It brought lots of smiles as we got warm
and when mom would pop popcorn on it.


Dad smiling big in this huge field of daffodils.


He likes to plant his hotbed early in the spring
 so he can have plants for the garden.

I had to smile when I seen this little ruby throated hummingbird
sneaking in my azalea bush for a quick drink.

This red bellied woodpecker has his home in our front yard.
The female is in there on the nest.


 Faith had a big smile on her face when she spotted this
big pileated woodpecker in our backyard yesterday.



Smile!  It's an indigo bunting!
On our patio!


I was smiling as I thought of all the wood to keep me warm this winter as Karl was sawing.
He wasn't smiling.......

Grandma's backyard brings smiles to lots of us!
It's filled with Virginia Bluebells!


 This brought a smile to my friend's face (who lives in Kentucky) when I gave her this lamp.
I had engraved the Bible verse on the oil lamp globe:
 "Let your light so shine"

I engraved an owl on this one.
The oil lamp is actually from my 
great grandma Smith so it's really old.  

 Sorry for such a long post.....
hopefully it helped to put a smile on your face today!
















Monday, February 26, 2018

Is It Spring Yet?

I've been hearing a Robin sing and the Redwing blackbirds.....
to me that's a sure sign that Spring is springing forth.
What a relief!
Anybody else tired of Winter yet?
Here are a few winter pictures of some of the things that we did to speed the winter  blues away........


I had to take a trip west to see my babies....
but first this giant snow plow
 had to clean off the runway at the airport.




There's another attraction in Arizona....
PECANS

Kyle's showing Meme where to gather the pecans.



There is a price to pay for these pecans.....
goatheads!  ouch!


Went on some walks with Hannah and the boys....

Got to watch the 'flying farmers'


Here comes Jaylon over the pecan trees......




Now they're heading over to Kaitlyn's house.....

I got to play in a wedding with Hannah.....
it was so nice to play music with her again.

The cranes were coming in by the hundreds...or thousands..or millions......it sure was a lot of them!


Posing by the tumbleweed.....

Flying his kite with the cranes.....




Dreaming of flying like daddy some day........


Back at Eagles Nest.......
we went hiking and on the road to the trails 
we spotted an eagle.
He was only a couple of miles from our Eagles Nest.


Which way to go?



An old abandoned road.......





What's this?   
A survey marker.

Time to head home.



Somebody's gonna be eatin squirrel......
it was an eye shot!

Exploring an antique store.....

HELLO
Can you hear me?!
Can you hear me now?!
Hello?!


Trying to make it safely through the snow storms.....

Remembering warmer days with butterflies and birds....




"As I was coming down the road just a few moments ago, and I was thinking, as the birds were singing, what a springtime it is today! After…How appropriate Easter is! After the great dark and cold winter is passed, and all of its blizzards and so forth, then break forth the sunshine. And the coming of the sun brings new life, new hope, new seasons, new crops, new flowers. Everything comes to life. How that a man, even that did not have the Bible to read, could yet know that there is a God. When he could just watch nature, how it goes and comes; the fall of the year is the crucifixion; spring of the year is the resurrection; and it just see God in everything."
   58-0406S - Bro Branham