We had a wedding shower here...

We had a wedding shower here for Stacey Brosenne. She is getting married at the church on October 24. She won a reception at a beautiful reception hall in Fells Piont (Baltimore)! She was so lucky and surprised! I'm excited to go and see this place. Will tell you about it after the reception! Here are a couple of pictures from the shower.Kayla and Jennifer and Stacey's fiance's mother.
Sister Stephen's with her prize :o)Stacey with the winner of the 'dress the bride'!



Stacey with one of her gifts.The table by the front door. I love Halloween decorations!

9/12

It's official....I am an extremist....at least that is what some of the news media are calling those of us who attended the 9/12 rally or demonstration or whatever you want to call it. My sister, Vicki, flew into town to attend it and I went with her along with Heather who was living with us at the time. ( A wonderful young woman who moved here from Phoenix for a job and we rented out a room to her for a month. She moved out yesterday and I miss her already!)

Anywho ( as my friend would say :p) We went to Washington DC to show our support to the constitution of the United States and to say that we are not pleased or happy with the way things are going at the moment with our government. I really enjoyed it! I have been feeling like I could never speak up and that I had no voice....but this gave me a voice and a place to share my feelings with other people of like minds. It was very powerful and enlightening.

Here are some pictures:

Vicki with her poster

Here is Heather...she had a good time too :o)

I liked this sign...
We had all kinds of patriots marching with us :o)
Vicki and me. My sign read: 'A Patriot must Always be Ready to Defend His Country Against His Government.' -Edward Abbey

There were all kinds there !

I love this Tea Party float!!
This poster was one of my favorties!!


Yeah - this family look like extremists don't they??!!
Vicki is wearing a bumper sticker - yes...it says Poop, but what you can't see is "Prisioner of Obama's Politics!"

I liked this mother's poster...

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There were just so many great posters!
Walking by this building where the Constitution is held was very humbling. I loved the sign at the bottom of the picture.
Yep - that's me in all my patriotic glory :o)
You can see the Capitol down at the end of the street down thru the crowd.
More of the crowd around the reflective pool.
This sign made me giggle....Look at that crowd!! Thousands of people. It was GREAT!
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Some signs just speak for themselves.
I really, really liked this quote...
This made me shake my head....
I wish you could have been there. Maybe next year!

Jamberry good time!

Hello!

It's that time of the year of berries! Gotta love those berries....raspberries, blackberries, and razamataz berries (okay - so there are no such things as razamataz berries, but don't they sound good?).

To celebrate the berry season - we will make anyone who comes for a visit a raspberry/blackberry milkshake! We also have on hand raspberry and blackberry freezer jam, and blackberry syrup for those yummy pancakes, waffles, and pieces of french toast :o) Any takers?We'll have a Jamberry good time!!

Gordon's new toy!

Gordon got a new toy to help him with the honey harvest! It holds 20 frames of comb and honey. The one he borrowed last year only held 6 frames....so you can see what a huge improvement this one is....PLUS he doesn't have to hand crank this one :o) He has bottled 114 pounds of honey so far and about another 150 in buckets. He still has quite a few frames of honey to spin and harvest. A lot of local beekeepers lost half their hives this year. So Gordon did extremely well.
We already have people putting in their requests to buy his honey!

Visit from the Fiskaroonies!

Bryan, Melissa and girls came for the weekend and what a weekend we had! They got here late Thursday night and left Sunday about 3pm. We went down to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore (I'll post some camera pictures later of Baltimore) on Friday, got rained on, went home made ribbon skirts and wands for the girls, and had Smokey's for dinner! Saturday, we went to the ribbon outlet where us girls had a blast picking out cheap ribbon, had lunch at Wendy's, went to Antietam battleground, picked up a couple of babysitters, went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner with friends, and then went to see the new Harry Potter movie! Boy did we have fun! I think we were all pretty tuckered out after a couple full days of fun.

We went to church today, came home, fixed dinner and then they had to leave :o( The house if way too quiet now. sigh.......

Making a necklace


Little wild woman!

Grandpa Gordon giving rides

I love this one of Amber....look at those sweet eyes!I think the next 3 pictures could be used on a corn commercial to attest to the goodness of corn on the cob!
How Sweet It Is!