I’ve been thinking about when I want to get my fall things out but it was so darn hot today and then tomorrow it is supposed to be 107 degrees! I just can’t possibly think fall right now. I sure hope it gets a little cooler soon. I am so done with the extreme hot!
Mindy
My mom sent me the following this morning…
We have really been invaded by spiders this summer. Each day when you go into the yard you walk right into a web. This morning when we opened the patio door, this is what greeted us. This busy little spider made this web overnight, This time we wouldn’t have even made it to the yard without running in to a web. It’s just amazing what they can accomplish in just a few hours.....and so perfect. I think there’s a lot for science to learned from spiders and their webs....amazing.
I think there is an over abundance of them this year because I have walked into several when I leave the house in the morning. They’re fast workers!
Mindy
Thank you everyone for the nice comments on my front door post. I had some requests to see my front sun porch so here are some pictures I had taken in the past. You can click on images to enlarge.
The door you see in the corner came out of my great grandmother’s house.
I made the potting shed sign a long time ago.
I like to sit out there in the spring and the fall as there is no heat or air out there, so come on over when it gets cooler!
Mindy
Well it’s kind of hard to see the basket on the door, you will have to click on the images and enlarge them. Anyway, I’ve been wanting to hang a basket on my door instead of a wreath. Just was getting tired of a wreath and wanted something different.
This was my big project for the day. Oh and let’s not forget I swept off the steps and got rid of the never ending cobwebs!
Mindy
First of all I would like to thank you for the sweet comments on my nieces, Grace and Lily. They are quite the cuties!
Now, I have a question for all you wool penny rug makers out there. How do you display your bigger pieces? The runners are easy, you just put them on a table but sometimes It’s hard for me to decide where to put the bigger ones. I would love to hear how you have displayed some of your pieces! Maybe you could even post pictures on your blog! Looking forward to hearing from you! Have a nice evening!
Mindy
Grace wanted to tell you something very important….
but she decided she would smell the flowers instead…
She has a new baby sister, Lillian Jane.
She was going to answer some questions for me but decided instead to feed her new baby sister!
I just love the picture above!
I also wanted to share this beautiful planter Gracie’s mother made. I thought it was so neat!
Congratulations Robin, Jake and Grace on your newest addition!
Mindy
It appears from my perspective that we’re the forgotten disaster of the summer of 2011. Rural America small towns and cities face a variety of challenges each and every year but compounded for Percival, Hamburg, Watson and many others is the water of the Missouri River which seems to be a perpetual sight that is not going away any time soon. In fact if the “so called experts” are correct it could be six months to two years before some people are able to inspect their homes.
For the communities along the Missouri River basin and the corn and soybeans once growing in the fields on the bottom; it’s probably a “blip” on the markets, so who cares? Well I for one do, having lived in Hamburg for 15 years and now pasturing the Percival Community Church for the past 2 and one half years Yes, I have developed a fondness for the area and its people. They are hard working, honest, caring good hearted with a love for family, friends and the land God created.
It’s worth saving, but where are the movie stars, activists’ and others who have given time and resources to some of the neediest places of the world, but are silent to the cries and hurts of people in rural America?
My faith tells me, God hears their pain, frustration and day to day struggles to remain positive and to believe that tomorrow will be better and brighter.
Please don’t forget us: pray for us, encourage us, remember us, we’re America too and people of faith, trusting that God’s love, grace and mercy is sufficient.
Pastor Blaine
Our church came up with this idea for a money raiser for area flood victims. Please click on the letter below to enlarge. If you feel you would like to donate $1.00 to this cause, there will be so many appreciative people! Please share this information as you see fit. Thank you so much!
Above all else, remember us in prayer…. Thank you.
Mindy
Mom and I went to my aunts yesterday. It was such a beautiful day! We just love love love her patio. It is so inviting! You must click on photos to enlarge!
One of the reasons I like it so much is because it is so private. You feel like you are in your own secluded sanctuary!
She has the most beautiful gazing ball I think I’ve ever seen!
We had a nice visit!
Mindy
We had quite the wind storm Saturday night. Drove around town Sunday morning and took some pictures. You can click to enlarge.
It flattened some corn.
I just hate to see big mature trees ruined. It takes so long to replace them.
Mindy
I was looking through some pictures and came across the Zucchini Dude! My brother made this one year. Handsome little guy!
Mindy
Just curious if anyone has done these Maggie Bonanomi patterns?
Garden Table Top Basket
Autumn Blooms
Two Birds
They are such pretty colors for fall!
Mindy
