Here we are on the mountain looking out over Pasadena and Los Angeles with the Dervaes family. We are very grateful for the hospitality they have shown us these last few days! Thank you, Dervaes family!! Saturday morning pancake breakfast with fresh blueberries from the garden!
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Here we are, in beautiful sunny California visiting with our friends the Dervaes family of Urban Homestead here in Pasadena. They have been kind enough to host an event here for us, so any of you wonderful friends and fans of Homestead Blessings and Urban Homestead who live out in this area, please come on over this Saturday evening and visit with us. We'd love to meet y'all! We just had a wonderful weekend in Bodcaw, Arkansas, with the Daniels family and their wonderful community. A morning sunrise over the cow pasture and pond. The three little Daniels children singing with their daddy. All the ladies came together and made these beautiful gifts for us! We were so very blessed!! Singing at the Bodcaw Country Store after a supper of Southern fried catfish and hamburgers. A morning walk down the dirt road to the Daniels house for breakfast. {with rollers still in the hair} Preparing for the day's workshops. Sharing about gardening, herbs, soap making and quilting. All the lovely ladies who hosted the Homestead Blessings workshop. Thank you, ladies, y'all did a good job! Here we are with the Daniels family on their front porch, saying goodbye and thanks for a wonderful blessed time together.
Howdy Friends! We are happily celebrating a beautiful fall here in Tennessee, thankful for the new season of harvest. Back in September we released our new cd, "Farmers Daughter" just in time for the Mountaineer Folk Festival we were singing at in Pikeville. Wow, those last few weeks were a mad rush and seemed to fly by so fast! The weekend after we had a cd release party hosted at our farm for close friends and family, and everyone had a blast and it was a great success, thanks to the Lord. We had friends bring their music, songs and instruments and there was loads of food too! Here are a few pictures we'd liked to share with y'all from those super fun events! Our new cd, "Farmers Daughter", is now available to order online! You can find it exclusively on our website www.homestead-blessings.com This new Homestead Blessings product is a perfect gift for the holiday season, or to have for any day on the farm! Jasmine greeting folks behind our Homestead Blessings booth at the Mountaineer Fest. Making mountain music! A dear friend displaying her beautiful quilt on our clothesline Lots of food and fellowship Barefoot children playing at the sandbox as a mother watches with a careful eye. Click Here to see our new cd "Farmers Daughter" !
Also coming very soon the new Homestead Blessings Cookbook!!! Howdy Y'all from Homestead Blessings!
As you can see, we are covered in snow and it is so much fun! We love snow! We have been very busy and productive on the homestead these past few months and due to that {and a cranky camera} we have not been so productive on blogging. What is that they say? Oh, "you can't have your cake and eat it too". I reckon we could change that saying to "you can't have your homestead and blog too". :) Back in the fall we helped our dear friends in Alabama harvest their first sorghum crop. It was lots of fun and a load of work too! Here, where we live, our neighbors make sorghum every year and we usually help out in the fields- so it was a new adventure when we were blessed with the opportunity to help out our friends. In September, we got to attend an Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social and Dance at a church fellowship not too far from here. We had a lovely time and met some wonderful new friends which is always a blessing. Most everyone who attended the dance came arrayed in period clothing with the Civil War being the main theme and we learned new dances like "The Tennessee Traveler" and "The Grand March". Thanksgiving was quiet at home and another family came to share our bountiful meal with us and in the late afternoon we had a huge rain storm which then brought cooler weather. We really had a good time decorating {in any creative manner we could} for the holiday of thankfulness. Jasmine and I found these beautiful green tinted wine goblets for only fifty cents each and we bought all of them {there were only 8}. Then I made name tags cut out in the fall leaf shapes with scripture on the back and we tied them to the goblets to complete our table setting decor. The meal was delightful with the usual dishes including our own homegrown turkey, weighing out to be 19 pounds dressed! We were pretty excited I must say. And now, here of late we have been painting the house, room by room. It has been such a blessing to "build our house" as the woman in Proverbs 31 does. Coming up next is maple syrup {yeah!} and seed planting and chicken butchering and spring plowing.... Well! I better go and get busy! :) Y'all take care and many blessings to your homesteads! Cecilia for the West Ladies |
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