Shedding Notes

Hello to all our HSB friends and readers~

As well as going back to school we are homeschoolers and this causes my wife to have to teach on an earlybird schedule, we’re also winterizing our home and trying to finish up the last of repairs before the cold season (end of November) sets in entirely.  Here’s our list of repairs and if anyone wants to donate a Lowe’s/Home Depot gift card they are more than welcome to…LOL

• insulating partial upstairs and downstairs walls
• flooring upstairs and carpet for bedrooms to be built
• recover kitchen floors with luan and tile
• sand and refinish downstairs floors
• buy and install 3 baseboard heaters for bathroom and 2 bedrooms
• outdoor plumbing has to be dug up and buried further down
• some sort of storage, containers, shelving or adding closets in each room

So, that’s our plan to get things done!  The hard part for me is being physically limited because there are a lot of areas that I cannot get to.  Nancy has to do all the heavy work, which I hate because no woman should have to do all that heavy lifting.  She does it without complaining even though it makes her sore and very tired.  We need all your prayers to get through all this and maybe help from some of our neighbors that we’ve lent a helping hand to over the past two years that we’ve been here.  I wanted to share some pictures of our house.  This used to be a church originally built in 1891 and it is still all originial woodwork inside and outside.  We marvel at the beauty that we live in every time we sit down as a family in our home.

                   me ripping out the kitchen floor to replace plumbing lines and put new kitchen cabinets in
nails from the floorboards, probably 116 yrs. old

old plumbing we pullled out….NASTY!!!
C-R-I-N-G-EEEEE  we think that’s mold spores on the wall behind the old sink that we tore out…bleaching our hands was a daily activity back then…
floor underneath the old sink…now replaced with new flooring!
newly sanded and waxed floors!

Our outhouse, that I USE A LOT with three women in the house!  See the hummingbird!!

Those are the pictures I have available at the moment.  We do have some others of the outside of the house but I will post them later on.  Hope you enjoy reading about our repairs and sharing our pictures.

Have a blessed day!

Gerald

I hadn’t been counting only reading, reading, reading until today and I just finished reading the entire King James Version of the Bible!  I was participating in the 90-day challenge and knew I couldn’t take the full 90 days because when I return to the new semester in college it would be difficult for me to keep up.  My wife says I did it in less than 60 days…it was 54 days according to her tracking on the calendar!!! 

It’s been a great day thus far.  My wife, my daughter and I started out the door to go to church this morning and it was raining so hard, but not to worry, we needed the rain. Then we got to church and it was still raining then after church it had stopped raining. We had a very blessed meeting, of course it is always a blessed gathering when you come together with fellow Christians because God is always in the midst. All the rain is making the grass grow again. The flowers are getting prettier everyday, the tomatoes are blooming like crazy, Nancy gets excited every time she sees a new tomato on the vines. I suppose the next question is what to do with all of them, as for me, I like them green and fried. ah, I know what i can do i can share a family recipe for them.

 Clean your tomatoes real good then cut the ends off of them and slice the tomatoes into desired thickness. Next make a batter of flour, pepper, and a dash of salt and roll your tomato slices in the batter and fry them. you can also use the same recipe with pumpkin blooms. Yes i said pumpkin blooms, not many people seem to have heard doing that but try it sometime you might like it.
                                                                                                        
God bless you all!

This is a dual post by Gerald and Nancy~

This is purple cabbage
My wifes first tomato plants EVER!!!  This was last week, now there are three of them.
An accicental pumpkin plant from last fall, but we’re happy to have it.Some lavendar for infusing and using for cuts, burns, and sleep aidThis is a dusty millar plant with lavendar all around it.

There are just a few of the pictures that I have…we’ll have to post more as the veggies grow more.  Yes, they’re planted in tires that we found at the back of our farmland, many thanks to the previous owner for leaving all his junk tires!  We positioned the tires all around the side of the deck and house and used organic hummus to plant all our veggies and flowers inside of them.  When we decided to start a garden we looked at several stores for plants and seeds and found these.  You won’t believe the deal we got on them.  We got almost 200 flowers and vegetable plants for $2.00 because they were going to be thrown in the garbage!!!  We made a list the day after buying them but it must have gotten thrown away when I cleaned my desk off.  It just amazes me what God does for our family~

  Gerald and Nancy