Backyard Bounty Today...Yummy Blackberry Jelly Soon!

Beautiful Backyard Bounty.

Hubby showing me the beautiful blackberries.

Hubby multi-tasking. Picking berries and talking about rebuilding motors with his brother.

Big Bowl of Berries that Gary picked for me. Thank You dear friend Frannie for the nice big bowl, I use it a lot!

Shall We Gather At the River--Old Fashion Baptizing

Nephew Troy.

Troy and his friend from church and Brother Mann. Both boys were baptized July 19th.
I am so happy for both of you. Nephew Troy we love you.

Our Daughter (Dr. Ange) and Her Husband's Family

This picture is featured in the Southeast Holstein News Magazine. Steven's family has raised and showed dairy cattle for many years.
on bale of hay: Dr. Ange (our daughter) - Ange's mother-in-law, Ann
back row: Ange's Sister-in-law, Amy-Ange's husband Steven (my son-in-law), Ange's father-in-law, Bob-Amy's long time friend Jay (to them he is family)
Taken at Rocky Run one of the family farms. Summer 2009

Back Where I Come From

I love to watch, listen and smell cedar burn, dont you?

The beauty of Southern Wayne County

Visiting an Old Family Cemetery in the Mountains

My great grandma Matilda Stephens Edwards has a new stone with her name on it! Thank you cousin David.

My great Grandpa John Wesley Edwards now has a stone! Thank you cousin David.

I got to visit my great great grandparents grave in the Mountains of WC KY. It was wonderful to decorate a stone with their name on it, instead of a small field stone. Thanks to a distant cousin that I have never met. Thank you Dianna. Someday we will visit the cemetery together.

Perserving An Old Homeplace!

Work has began! This old orig. homeplace in the mountains is being restored!

The house has a new roof and new porches!

The old home place has 2 sections. A huge fireplace divides the house. I have never seen a house built like this. You have to go outside to get to the other room in the house.

We Found Wild Red Raspberries to Make Yummy Jelly

Gary picked me some beautiful wild raspberries while we were in the mountains over the holiday. I prayed he would not get copperhead or rattlesnake bit. Thank God he only got ticks! I will make some yummy raspberry jelly.

We Enjoyed a Peaceful, Quite 4th of July Holiday!

We enjoyed our long holiday weekend so much.


Rolling fields of Wayne County.


Fresh cut hay.


Sleeping in this big ole comfy bed was GREAT! It rained most of the night Saturday night and I really enjoyed hearing the rain hit the tin roof...I slept until 7:00 a.m.!! That is LATE for me.


When I was a little girl our farm had an ole corn crib like this one!

The girls (our dogs) loved playing in this Ice Cold Spring.


I remember my Grandma hanging clothes across an old pickett fence like this one.


We had a wonderful weekend. The mountains are beautiful. It was just so relaxing we had the whole hollow to ourselve. It was so quite at night and the bed in the loft slept so good. The weather was WONDERFUL! We took long walks during the day and enjoyed God's Creation. At night we sat by the fire and talked.