Had a nice visit tonight with Rachel. Parked her truck at the truck stop and Tim and I took her home for supper. We then walked up the hill to check out our new blacktop, visited some then took her back to the truck for a treck on home to E-Town. Sent her home with some frozen corn, blueberries and ripe plums.

Been Busy.

Hope I can get through this before I fall of the chair. Canned Mom 20 quarts of tomatoes last night till 3:15 AM then slept till 7:15. Got up and fixed breakfast for hubby and wanting so much to go back to bed, even told Hubby not to get Tim up yet 'cause I's goin back to bed for a bit. He left and I started looking through cookbooks for a recipe to put in the crock pot 'cause I didn't want to spend 3 hours cooking supper. Remembered I had a half bushel of fresh green beans in the frig that needed worked up, also a half bushel of apples and 2 pecks of plums. Also Tim's lesson takes all day of hard pushing, so I told myself to just suck it up and wake up, didn't have time for the bed. Fixed oats with maple syrup, brown sugar and cinnamon for breakfast then started in on lesson #19's paper work. Worked awhile and mom called, said the apples were screaming for attention, the deer, bees and birds were helping themselves and we needed to get some worked up. Loaded up Tim and his lesson and headed for Shady Creek Farm, East of English. Saw daddy in the barn, digging? Walked in the house expecting Mom to be busy, busy. She's sitting at the table, relaxed, with a book? I ask what was up? She says they had a disaster just after she talked to me. Said daddy was backing the tractor in the barn with a load of water in the trailer and clipped the water hydrant with the bucket. Busted the pipe off under ground and had a major water leak. Had to shut off the water at the pump house, had no water in the house to do apples so Mom was taking it easy. I took over the digging in the heavy sticky mud till we found the problem. It was broke in a good spot, thank the Lord. Daddy went to the hardware and got a piece to fix it, so I did. A person don't know how blessed they are with running water, till they don't have it anymore. Screwed the new end cap on the pipe and WOW! We had water again! Just capped it off and left the hole open for now, can fix it back later. Covered it over with plywood and set an old wash tub on it for decoration, how's that for 'Getten'er Done?' We tied in to the apples and cut like crazy. Washed and peeled them and the applesauce was white and pretty. We finally left around dark and headed home. Dear ol Hubby had a Blizzard from Dairy Queen waiting for us. Yum, Yum good.
Also froze 6 1/2 five gal. buckets of corn, which translates to 70 bags for the freezer.
Gotta get up and fix orange juice for breakfast. So Long.

Good Time, Girls?

Well, did anyone of you ladies have a good time on Mom's birthday? Glad you put it all together girls, it was a wonderful idea, and we actually pulled it off without a hitch. For cousin Jeanie, this is what we did. Had someone fill in for mom at Bea's, girls met at Mom and Dads then drove on over to my house. We all piled in our chiriot [Dad and Tim also] and we drove to Jeffersonville to Derby Dinner Playhouse for Moms birthday surprise. Rachel met us there also. We had a nice buffet, all we cared to eat, and all the coffee we could drink. Desert was extra, way extra. The Hummingbird cake looked devine, [looks are deceiving though] so we ordered two generous slices to share amoung us. We were stuffed so didn't want a whole piece. It wasen't what it looked like. I'm a sweet eater and I didn't like it either. Daddy had mounds of strawberry shortcake, or more like mounds of whipped topping, and Sharon ordered a Brownie Supreme, a moist chocolate brownie, piled high with creamy vanilla icecream, pour on gobs of ooey-gooey hot fudge and a mountain of whipped cream and there you have it. Anyway, tables were cleared and a cast of seven very good actors performed the play "Smoke On The Mountain Homecoming." It was very nice and we all enjoyed it emencly. It was nice that we could all manage to get together again, especially for moms birthday. Here's a little something I wrote afterwards to send to Rachel on her birthday the following week.

SO GLAD YOU CAME TO VISIT,
TO GRACE OUR FAMILY TIES.
HOW NICE TO SAY HELLO,
HOW HARD TO SAY GOODBYES.

WE'LL HAVE TO MEET AGAIN,
SOMEHOW, REAL SOON
TO SHARE AND LAUGH AND TALK AND EAT,
BEFORE THE NEXT 'BLUE MOON'

TILL THEN WE'LL HAVE TO KEEP IN TOUCH,
BY PHONE, OR NOTE OR LETTER,
BUT MEETING FACE TO FACE AGAIN,
WOULD BE EVEN BETTER.

That goes out to all of you who drove the distance to 'Keep in Touch.' LOVE TO ALL

Yes, believe it or not, I'm still here. Think I've messed my page up, somehow, I have to go through a setup that I've not had to go through before today. I installed 'Realplayer' to go to a kids program, didn't like what I saw so I've sat here a couple hours trying to get it out. Finally uninstalled it and also lost my direct way to the bloggs. Just hope I didn't mess up hubby's page. He don't like me installing things and messin up the computer. Any way, took Little Britches to the last day of CARES program at the school, stopped at 2 yardsales, visited a neighbor, made orange goatmilk icecream [with orange Koolaid and orange Jello] and waisted the rest of my day trying to outsmart this computer. I had plans for 'My Day' but they didn't pan out.
Little Britches has completed 5 lessons in his second grade program. We started a little early on purpose. Would have been three weeks ahead but had a couple little boys staying the last two weeks to go to Bible school with him. It was their first time inside a church and they really likes it. They are 7 and 8 years old and Tim had a blast with them here. I was ready to run away.
I thank God for the rain we had, a tad less then 1 inch, but still a much needed rain. Hubby planted soybeans over at the farm, about 15 acers, and the rain was a Godsend. He planted 'no till' on a hilly old cow pasture so now we are waiting for a guy to go spray to kill all the pasture grass. I ask the Lord to send rain, bless the crop abundently and make it prosper. So, that rain was just what I ask for and I'm believing for a good harvest. PTL!
Oh how I need to get up and dust, sweep, gussy up my hair, fix supper, go pick up Tim, prepare the papers for the rest of his lesson tonight, stir the icecream in the making, .............. there's no end to it...............................So Long.