Summer Garden

This is our garden...12- 4x4 raised beds with trellises.

 

 

                                                     Tomatoes...                                                     

 

Flowers...

 

 

Pumpkins...

 

More flowers...

 

I don't have much of a green thumb. Some of our crop gets set upon by blight or wilt or bugs, but I do manage to get some fresh veggies out of our garden each year. I may even try a bit of canning this year! I usually freeze some beans and tomatoes.

 

What's in YOUR garden???

 

Seventeen!

My sweet eldest daughter turned Seventeen this year. It is a bittersweet time for me, I often miss the giggly little tree climber of years gone by. But I do enjoy sharing fun "grown up" times with her now...shopping, reading books in common, movies and girl chats. Still, time is going way too fast for me. God bless you Always, Sweetie!

Almost Wordless Wednesday...Lovely Rain!

Hummingbird

Right at my Living Room window...

Sorry they are sideways...I don't know why they did that. I rotated them correctly before I added them to the blog.
Hmmmmf!

Do You Have a Home Altar?

A central part of our Living room is our family's Home Altar. We have religious art, statues, prayer books, candles, holy cards, rosaries, and our family's certificate stating we are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on display. We also have a photo, holy card, and hand-print of our precious son, who passed from this life on February 25th, 2011. I often place my hand over Lego Boy's hand print and ask for his special intercession, and tell him how much we all miss him!

 This is the room where we gather for prayer, and it makes it a little easier to keep our thoughts on God and Heaven. It is a peaceful spot, if a bit cluttered at times!

This is a photo of our Home Altar

It is in our Living room place between two bookcases...

             This is a photo of Lego Boy at Eucharistic Crusade.

This is Lego Boy's Hand print from the Hospital (2nd class relic?) holding a

rosary made by a little boy in our Catholic Home School group.

 No Home Altar is complete without Holy Water!

 Our Sacred Heart of Jesus Statue.

             We also keep rosaries on our altar...This particular is one was used by Hubby's Great Aunt!

Does your family have a Home Altar? Please join the link up so we can share pictures of  our Home Altars...I am looking forward to sharing our prayer spaces!

PS Can anyone tutor me in how to host a link up to this post? I haven't a clue! LOL...

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Independence Day!

We celebrated the Independence of the United States of America...how much longer will we be the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Our traditional Flag Cake was made this year by Recipe Boy and Drama Queen...with some help from Grandma! Yum!

Our good friends came over to spend the day and the children put on a "Circus" for the entertainment of all...

We all gathered at our usual spot for the Fireworks Display.

Enjoying the second largest Fireworks Display in the state!

...Happy 4th of July!