Herbs and Veggies

Well, for the last couple of weeks, we've been pretty busy cleaning up limbs, ordering new product materials, relabeling and we've had a rash of sickness run through our house. During all that, the little boys and I have managed to get some plating done and now have wonderful green, pretty things to show for it.

These are (will be) lettuce that we planted last Saturday.

These are okra and pole beans.

Here's a close up of our little okras that we planted on Saturday. Aren't they cute?!

These are the leaves of our Lemon Balm plant.

Here's the whole pot. We currently have 2 of these. We're just starting to trim the leaves and dry and sell them, so if you want some lemon balm leaves, feel free to ask!

These are our squash and zucchini we planted several weeks ago. Can't wait to eat 'em!

Here's a close up of the leaves.

Here are some more pictures of the squash and zucchini.

These are honey suckle! I'm going to take them out of tub and break them up. Then I'm going to replant them all along a fence I'm going to build! NO, I'm not too ambitious, I'm just a glutton for disappointment. :) (Note: Along this future fence will also be roses to make rose perfume and Kiwi to sell.)

These are the leaves of the honey suckle. They're so rich and pretty. The Lord has done these things and they are marvellous in our eyes!

I told Elijah to look at me and smile, he smiled, but never did look at me. We were having some dead trees cut down and they were WAY more interesting than mom.

These are the plants recently planted or that always be in buckets.

This is lavender, which will also be drying and selling. I am actually fixing to cut it back.

These are future peppers.

This is my Mom's victory rose, not really an herb or anything, but we allow it hang out with the cool kids. :)

These 2 little pots contain seeds for bell pepper and tomatoes. I just planted these this afternoon, so there's not really anything to show, but we'll keep you posted.

These are future Serrano peppers.

This a rosemary plant. We'll also be drying and selling this.

This is the Red Ginger I bought for my sister on her birthday. It will bloom with big, red flowers!

This is our little aloe, actually, he's kinna big.

And this is the peppermint or basil. I can't remember which on. I think it's the basil though.

All by it's lonesome is the rose bush my Uncle Jimmy cut and gave to me. It'll stay in this white pitcher. Once it's roots reach the bottom, I'll set it on the ground to root permanently. There are very good size holes on the bottom for the roots to get through.

I plan to build a greenhouse and plant more herbs and potable veggies in the next month or so. Then through out the winter, I can grow, dry, sell and use herbs and veggies! If any one has any advice or expertise in building and would like to give me pointers, I'm more then willingly to listen! We're very excited about using the materials the Lord has provided us with to support ourselves. God has been so very gracious and faithful to our family. We certainly look forward to the day when we'll be able to support others as we've been supported. God Bless.

A Brief Update

Greetings All,

Just a short note to let everyone know the comings and goings around here. Sorry I haven't posted in such a long time, it's been rather busy, but seems to be settling out. During Fay we had a busted windshield, animal evacuations, ruined products and a lot of good old rain. It was such a blessing from the Lord about the windshield and the whole situation. Some land behind our home was developed (read holding pond), and during the rain it over flowed and we had to evacuate our goats and some of the chickens! It was quite a sight, my mom, my sister and myself out there in the rain setting up tarps, herding animals, spreading hay. It really was a lot of fun in retrospect. And then worst part, I normally leave my products in the back of my car, well I decided to move them on a covered porch and cover them with a tarp. Some how the rain got under the tarp and ruined a lot stuff. But I know God is gracious and will restore and replenish all.

Because I'm a bonehead, I don't have any pictures of the windshield, the displaced animals or anything. I'll be getting back to the normal, picture full blog in the next couple of days.

God Bless,
Aubry

Jebidiah, Beulah's Pet

We would like to proudly introduce everyone to the newest member of our "farm", Jebidiah. Jebi is a Nigerian Dwarf goat from Whiddon Family Farms up in Leesburg, Georgia. You can check out all the animals and other items they have for sale at www.whiddonfamilyfarms.com . We would really like to thank them for Little Jebi. He's fit right in and is doing very well. My Mom and Beulah are having a hard time sharing, but such is life...

Better pictures will be coming! When you a let a 10 year old do things, you never know what you're going to get.

After a few days, Beulah started stepping on the fencing, which allowed Jebi to jump over. At one point, he got his ear caught on the edge of the fencing and ripped it open.

As you can see, it was pretty bad. I sprayed it down with Hiney Helper, and placed a bandage smeared with Samaritan's Salve on his ear.

40 hours later...

The ear is almost completely healed! Praise the Lord for all the wonderful herbs, oils and wisdom He has given to us, His creation!

Chicken Hospital

Thank God for all the rain that He has blessed us with in the last few days! It's been so wonderful to hear it fall on the roof, to see it "green up" the plants and to catch it for our rain water shampoo and conditioner we're working on. Alas, it has caused some problems for us also.

Our snap straps on the little chicken run broke and we had to move the biddies.

I made an unwise decision and put the biddies in the chicken yard with big chickens.

The next morning, I had 4 dead biddies!!! Or so I thought...

We rescued the 2 blue bantams, Harry and Georgia, first.

Then we saved the 2 others. It was such a sad sight.

I really thought we were going to lose the one on the right.

We stuck them in front of a little space heater to get them dried off. After we got their temps up, I fed them warm, wet mash. I mixed in cayenne pepper, frankincense and rosemary oil. It seemed to work very well.

As of right now, all 7 biddies are back outside, in the repaired chicken area. They all are eating and seem to be doing very well. Praise the Lord!

Staying Awake at the Wheel

The other week as I was driving back from the Ray Roberts' home in Axson, I was having an especially hard time staying awake. Having just heard the testimony of another family in the church about sleeping and driving, I was praying and asking God to keep me awake. The Lord gave me the urge to take pictures of the beautiful storm clouds that were over us the entire way home! They were so pretty and as I looked for pictures to take of the impending storm, it was hard to fall asleep.

This trick didn't work for Elijah.

Simon Plows the Field

Last week we went to our Uncle Jimmy and Aunt Drexell's home. Uncle Jimmy let us have the leftover ears of corn for our goat and chickens. After we got through picking them and loading them into the car, Uncle Jimmy let Simon ride on the tractor while he turned the stalks over to replant.

Elijah ate dirty corn while he watched his brother.