The Green Beans Are Ripe!

This week we picked 4 bushels of green beans on Wednesday and 4 bushels on Friday! Some children from our church were spending the day with us, so we had lots of help snapping them.

Will (5) is a very fast snapper!Amanda and Bethany (17 months)Bethany enjoyed eating the beans. :)This is what the kitchen counter looked like after we were finished snapping the beans. Some of the beans were in jars already.Here's what the cabinet looks like after just 2 pickings of beans. Rebekah canned 125 quarts!

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease. ~Genesis 8:22

Our Garden Is Growing!

Blackberries!

Look at this big berry!Here is some of our corn (and cucumbers to the right).This is early corn, so it tassels when it is still very short. One of our fields of peas - the bags are to frighten the deer.Tilling the beans

We love having this tiller! It really cuts down on the time it takes to get our fields clean.TomatoesCantaloupesWatermelons

A mocking bird sitting in the wild plum trees

This field is behind our house; we lease it to someone else. I love the look of freshly plowed soil!

Behold, a sower went forth to sow; and when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side...and some fell upon stony places... and some fell among thorns...but other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold. ~From Matthew 13:3-8

Eagles

Our friends, the Corbetts, took this video of the eagles at Shiloh a few weeks ago when they visited us.

Cousins

We almost always have the camera nearby, but when our darling little cousins come over someone is sure to be holding it. :)Noelle is laughing at Will.Will's funny face......and his happy face"This is fun!""If I concentrate really hard I might be able to play this piece"Noelle gets her toes tickled by her cousins......big brother Tyler comes to the rescue!

Misc. Pictures From This Week

David's geese are growing up so quickly. They still like to follow us. :) Going for a walk Lilies A baby sparrow "Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows. " Luke 12:6-7

Happy 40th Anniversary!

Today Daddy and Mama have been married 40 years!

Here is a slideshow that we put together of pictures from the past 40 years.

Graduation

After church services on Sunday we had a graduation celebration for Luke Poole and Jonathan.Jonathan and Luke Mrs. Poole cutting the cakeBethany enjoys her ice cream!Shawn

AnnaThe graduates and their fathersSarah and Laura BethAnna and AnnaDeborah and Bethany