Blessing Hill

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Just wanted to share some of the bounty I saw while vacationing with my parents in Southern California.

Here is just one of my mom’s tomato plants.

My mom had several varieties of tomatos to pick from.  They were so delicious.  Nothing like a homegrown tomato!

One of my parents neighbors gave us some of their avocados from their tree.  I sure miss having my own avocado tree!

Thes were no tiny avocados like at the store – here is one I am holding.  It was huge!  And so delilicous too!

Here are some of my mom’s beautiful roses that grace her front yard.  They also are as fragrant as they are gorgeous.

One of the fragrances I miss most about living in California is the smell of Jasmine – what a heavenly fragrance it has!

Last, but not least, is their sweet cat.  Notice that she has an extra toe on each foot.  Hence her name, Mittens.

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It’s blueberry picking time!

My look at all those blueberries!

Don’t these look sumptous and tasty!

What a beautiful view!  You can see why the Smoky Mountains are called by that name.

We each got a bucket full!

Scenes along the trail.

We had a wonderful time with friends of ours who came up to go blueberry picking with us.  We were blessed with a beautiful day along with an abundance of God’s bounty in blueberries.  Wonder what all we’ll make with our harvest?

I love the seasons!  So many wonderful things to look forward to with each one.  It’s funny how a switch seems to have been gone off Monday, the first day of Autumn – all of a sudden, the mornings and evenings have a chill in the air.   I can’t wait for the beautiful display the trees have waiting for us in just a few weeks.  I love getting out my fall decorations of pumpkins, leaves, the scarecrow that I made and acorns galore.  Soon I’ll have my new fall template up to help celebrate the season.

Happy Fall!

Hello Blogging World!  Where have I been?  Well, after we got back from a month long vacation visiting my parents in California (had a great time!), we immediately closed on our new home (yeah!).  We then begin painting some of the rooms and basically did a few other things, all the while moving our stuff over bit by bit.  Then came the big moving day with the help of a friend.  The hardest part of the move was taking everything down from a third floor apartment (those stairs about killed me with my already bad knees!). 

During this whole process of painting and moving, I broke out with a massive case of hives – one big welt from my head to my knees.  Of course it started on a holiday weekend (Labor Day), and would really start to act up around 10:30 at night and progressively get worse by morning – no sleep for several nights, as I was to busy itching and being otherwise miserable.  Each day would get worse – I ended up in Urgent care 3 times in 4 days!   I was on quite a few medications, including Prednisone and they made me feel pretty weird too.  The hives have gone away now, thank the Lord!  We are still settling in, and now have two storage units of other furniture and stuff to move over here.  But luckily, we can take our time in doing that.  

We also got off to a late start with school, so I was stressing about that too.  Wouldn’t have been so bad if it wasn’t just starting out a new school year.  But, that’s the nice thing about homeschooling – the flexibility.

Hopefully, I can now get back more in the swing of things and back to my blogging.   I’ll be making my rounds soon to your blogging pages, so see you soon!

Hello Everyone!  Sorry I haven’t been blogging lately – I’m still having fun on my month long vaction visiting my parents in Southern California.  I also can’t put in my pictures from their computer, so will have to wait till I get back.  Hope everyone is having a great summer!