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My favorite ice cream shop is out of Cherry Garcia. I was looking forward to a nice dish of cold delightful ice cream with chunks of chocolate with bits of cherrys in it. Oh well, just think of the calories I won’t have to worry about.

The wonderful thing about chickens is that at the end of the day, you can go out and pick hen fruit out of the straw nest and have your breakfast all ready for in the morning. They were funny tonight, I gathered eggs and they looked at me like I was really strange. Richard has been doing the chores and gathering eggs in the evening. He was leaving for work so I went out and one of the black hens even moved to another perch and just stared at me. They have wonderful little personalities.
I got my printer set up and ran a few photos through it. I am impressed with the speed and output this Epson has. I guess I am already an Epson fan as I have bought five of them lately. This one will print a 13″ X 19″ photo. I don’t know what I might do with a print that large but I am sure I can figure it out. I printed a few photos of Jenny, her sister Stephanie and the girls and I thought they looked really good. Jenny is one of those incredibly beautiful young women with or without makeup.
Sunday is Biker’s Sunday so we will venture over to Arapahoe and see some of our friends. I guess I better decide what to take for the dinner.
I just got finished with apple butter. 8 pints and six half pints. Richard already called and said the sample he took to work was very good on toast with peanut butter. We are so immeasurably blessed.
Tomorrow I will tackle the pickle relish after I get the church bulletin done.
May God Bless you and keep you!
Sherry

My goodness, it was a strange day yesterday. It snowed about an inch or so which is kind of unusual for this time of year. First snow is sometimes near the end of October.
I canned 14 quarts of potatoes yesterday, we were blessed to have 40 pounds of potatoes given to us.
I got a huge shipment, really heavy anyway. It was my heat press for the t-shirts, and mugs, etc that I am going to produce for my business. I already have an engraver but the Tshirts will be a new line. I found a Epson 1400 printer for $228.00 at Tigerdirect.com and the sublimation ink online on ebay for about $400.00. I am bidding on the supply system too but the ink is pricey.
We got the liner in for our chimney project and the wood burning stove will be here this weekend. Richard is supporting the floor downstairs and getting the walls ready for the cement board. We are fortunate to be able to use the old chimney which goes up the center of the house and will be using the liner in the inside of it. Lots of work, but it will be cozy this winter!
We are in a book study called Love and Respect which is written by Dr. Emerson and Sarah Eggerichs. I like how they present the idea that women see things through pink glasses and men through blue glasses and we hear with pink hearing aids and blue hearing aids. I thought men just needed to be loved and everything would go smoothly. I am hearing that men need respect from their spouses and women need to be loved and feel love. It makes a little more sense to me as I am learning about the crazy cycles we go through. There is a DVD, book and workbook for this program.

14 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters. 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:14-17 (KJV)
I have yet to understand the trials we are being put through since buying this house two years ago. I think this verse I will have to read often. I do not see how survey lines and the upcoming trip to the attorney is glorifying God. Both of us pray for our neighbors to find peace and joy. Also the upcoming ordinance changes do not glorify God, it just makes one person try to control and dominate the other. I cannot see how forcing me to get rid of our hens and not be able to keep bees will glorify God. Pray for the animals and us!
May God Bless and keep you!
Sherry

This afternoon we spent traveling to Burlington and enjoying Chinese food at the local restraurant. Richard worked nights last night so he slept most of the day. We shopped a few bargains at Safeway and came home.
I have 40 poounds of potatoes to can and also two five gallon buckets of apples to make applesauce or something with. A friend gave us a huge package of frozen blueberries. We are so blessed! Later in the afternoon we let the hens out in the yard and they are eating their way through the left over of the garden. I picked a bucket full of green tomatoes, so will make green tomatoe relish tomorrow. We dug up a heirloom tomato plant to see if it would grow in the house… it is so huge and heavy we put it in a plastic container and then on a dolly so I can move it to clean around it. lol.
I am excited because I finally ordered my heat press for Tshirts and it was shipped yesterday. I want to make a few extra dollars so this will help. I have an engraver and now the heat press.
We were blessed tonight to have had a neighbor to sit by the fire with us. We sent the big, really big marshmallows home with him to show his wife. I told him that we let them grow too long before we harvested them from the marshmallow tree.
Talking about trees, we discovered our strange little tree in the middle of the yard is a Black Walnut tree. There are about 8 walnuts on it. Yeah!
Have a peace filled night, sweet dreams!
Sherry

I stated that the duet was Red Tail Hawks and it is Red Tail Chasing Hawks. You can find their CD on ebay or contact me and I will get you one. Sherry

(Photo borrowed from Trade Winds Fruit, P.O. Box 1102, Windsor, CA 95492 seeds are available there)
The Garden Huckleberry – I wonder how many people have overlooked this purple berry which is in the family of nightshades. It is related to the tomato, potato and eggplant. We had the little thing just come up wild in our garden, which is not what the plan will be next year. I wanted to rename it prairie grape. Do not eat it when it is green because it is classified as poisionous, but when it turns purple and is cooked, it becomes edible.
I made a beautiful purple jelly with them today (7 half pints). A month ago I had made a recipe called Kuga Bread or Kuchen (koo can). It is a Russian recipe of sweet bread with the berries on top of a sour cream filling. It is quite good! We surprised Richard’s Dad as George had talked about eating it at home. Richard gave me the best compliment when he tasted it and said, Oh yeah, it made me remember Grandma recipe! You can grow them indoors all winter too and I am wondering if it would be worth the fuss. My neighbor eats them on cereal but I haven’t tried it yet.
I just finshed a great book by Max Lucado called “Fearless”. It addresses fear and why we are afraid.
I found some hope in this book because as Max stated, page 5, “Fear heards us into a prison and slams the doors.”