Friday, June 25, 2010

A GLIMPSE OF VACATION

We left at 6 a.m. from home and met up with some friends in Milbank SD who were going to travel along with us, This is the first time our daughters had been through Mobridge SD, so took a photo of the bridge and the Missouri river for their books.
Our first stop was in Lemmon SD,we stopped at the petrified forest
Another spot in the petrified forest. back when I was a kid it did not look anything like this. but certainly gorgeous now!
After we left Lemmon, we went up what they call the enchanted Hwy, a local artist in the area did some metal sculptures. I only posted a few to give you an idea....I thought they were so cool
Grasshopper metal sculpture
As soon as we hit the interstate this was the final one and my favorite one!
Part of the ND badlands near Medora
We drove the Medora Badlands south loop hoping to see some wild horses. but this was the extent of the wild life we saw LOL>
Back in Medora, we stayed here the first night and took in what was called the pitch fork Fondu. Steaks, baked spuds and baked beans were the supper, It rained some so they served hot beverages and bars for desert. Well worth going to if you pass this area in Medora ND
This is one of the scenes from the musical
Another scene at the musical
Towards the end of the show, again if you have not ever taken in the musical in Medora. it is worth the trip and time. This is my 4th time there in 20 yrs and I love it every time I go.
Photo of the Yellostone River. Picnic grounds where we stopped to take a stretch,
Not very often you see us as a family of 4. but here we are in Redlodge MT
Bear tooth pass
Still a lot of snow up there,
I always told my husband he could never deny that youngest daughter...a random shot while we are waiting for our food in Cooke City
Lower falls in the background in yellowstone...we did take the hike, was a good walk but the air in the mtns really made me burn in the lungs
We saw many buffalo on the trip
One of the bears we saw in early hours.
This little black one was coming right at us. Great shot and made my day!!
Fathers Day so of course I had to do this!
Earth Quake Lake,
Paint Pots
Old Faithful put on a great show!
heading towards the Grand Tetons.
I love the Tetons, my favorite area. We took a picnic near the mtns and got some good shots.
Tetons again
Leaving the park we were in the Big Horn Mtns heading for Gillette and was a storm brewing
I love the colors!
hubby said naaa just s alight rain Im like Oh no it s not!! We got hit in Gillette with hail and 60 mph winds, was not a comfortable night at all,
The girls were small when we last had them to the black hills in SD so we went home that way.....this is Mount Rushmore near Custer SD....I used to live in Custer before Moving to MN
My girls at Mt Rushmore.

I took over 350 photos on the trip but this was a small glimpse of it that I wanted to share with all of you. Hope you enjoy............so now we are back home and it is back to reality time, laundry. garden...housework... yuck...but I am glad I am able to do it so back to reality and wishing all of you in blog land a great weekend!! Im back to work tomorrow so will post again next week some time!


Reba~




Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Looking better

I just happened to go outside and came around the corner and thought to myself these two are up to no good! I wonder what my little dog seems to think he sees down in the holes of the bricks, He certainly facinated by them
We are still trying to dig this stump out,. 3 years now we have been at this so my husband decided to burn it some to see if we can manage to get this to split. Was a huge tree and of course our favorite that came down a few years ago when we had some severe weather, the same yr we lost our grain bins. The yard was a huge mess then....so this is till some remnants to clean up.
Well got a good start now in the garden..spuds to the left...closest in the middle I am trying to raise a few broccoli for a friend this yr....and up the row a bit of course are onions.


I decided to create a garden of flowers. WHY I am not sure...so this is a bran new area dug up by hand and I planted a few things in it that hopefully will spread and grow further in years to come!! *cross your fingers* I can raise one heck of a veggie garden but I am not so sure about flowers and plants!
This is an annual plant and looks like mini candy corn.....kind of neat supposed to vine up ..so we shall see!
Isnt this red fabulous! I fell in love with the color ...every garden and home should have a splash of red!
and pink
Looking at it from a distance.....kind of bare yet but it will get better!!

Have a good week!!

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Happy Hump Day

Well as usual we get busy and I work over time hours and get lost in the track of time and then get a day off and want to play catch up in all the things I love to do and one of those for what ever reason is blog land!! I love coming online and reading what everyone is up to and looking at your photos hobbies and views and muse!! I just don't want any one thinking I do not read them as I do that more often than I post.......so following along you will now see what we have been busy in....

The photo above is a before photo of a project that I decided I needed to tackle and now I am wondering WHY I wanted to do this...what a mess!!
It is an old milking parlor that is no longer really used other than a tossing room to get clutter off the yard..... hmmmmm....Oh the possibilities I can do here
Here is one of the walls completed in dark brown..... Got a few tools hanging up and organized now
Mothers day weekend we were busy in Marshall moving our college daughter into her first apartment, she has the cutest 1 bedroom apt. perfect for her.....the 2 girls took off and came back with these gorgeous gerber daisies and baloon for me for mothers day and we all went out to eat! Was a great day
Happening on the farm..well where do I begin...Its a mess isn't it! LOL
But the crew is working hard on it and our border collie Felix makes sure it is done right!
Pouring cement
Final inspector of the farm Chance, he was not too sure what to think of all the commotion!! But they did a lot of brick layed
Getting ready to create an additional parking or patio area, I plan to use it for both
I came home from work to this yesterday.....cement poured and drying I love it!!
We are still tore up but it is looking a little better than last week
Well as you all know I love to garden and have a great start this year!! things are slowly peeking through the ground..Yummmy!

Between the garden and remodel project and getting oldest established and working and trying to stay on top of the Reiki business and school events I feel like sometimes I do not have time to come up for air! This week I am cleaning out a few closets and going to place some items on E-bay!! Its just got to be done!! Time to down size....How and WHY do we manage to collect so much stuff!!

Well until next time...... Have a great week!


Reba~

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Happy Mothers Day

I hope each of you out in blog land have a wonderful Mothers Day and do something special for you!

Friday, April 23, 2010

Happy Spring

OH we have waited so long for this weather!! I managed to get some of the garden in...spuds, onions and spinach and sweet radish

Oldest daughter is soon done with college yr 2, and in 2 weeks we will be moving her to an apartment, it has been a fun process getting her items together and shopping for fun new things to get her started/

Work has kept me busy as well as all the stuff here at home...I hope to get some blocks created for the cancer comfort quilt this weekend and will share some photos!

Hope all in blog land are doing great!!

Reba

Monday, April 5, 2010

Healing Foods

I came across a site long ago while surfing the net and I did not book mark it of course but had taken some good notes and as I was cleaning out this past weekend in my sewing areas I came across this and wanted to share it.

I am always on the lookout for Holistic ways of healing and I really should put this into my practice....would most likely be healthier




Healing Foods of the Bible
The Scripture and your diet

Apples

Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

Barley

Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Beans

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side."

2 Samuel 17:28-29
brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Bread

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Dairy

Isaiah 7:15, 22
He will eat curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. 22) And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Proverbs 27:27
You will have plenty of goats' milk to feed you and your family and to nourish your servant girls.

Figs

1 Samuel 30:11-12
They found an Egyptian in a field and brought him to David. They gave him water to drink and food to eat-- 12) part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights.

Fish

Leviticus 11:9-12
"`Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. 10) But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest. 11) And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. 12) Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you.

Deuteronomy 14:9
Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.

Luke 24:42-43
They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43) and he took it and ate it in their presence.

Fruit

Ezekiel 47:12
Fruit trees of all kinds will grow on both banks of the river. Their leaves will not wither, nor will their fruit fail. Every month they will bear, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will serve for food and their leaves for healing."

Deuteronomy 8:7
For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land--a land with streams and pools of water, with springs flowing in the valleys and hills; 8) a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; 9) a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing; a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.

Song of Solomon 2:5
Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.

Garlic

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Grains

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Grapes

Numbers 13:23
When they reached the Valley of Eshcol,[1] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

Genesis 9:20
Noah, a man of the soil, proceeded to plant a vineyard.

1 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.

1 Kings 21:2
Ahab said to Naboth, "Let me have your vineyard to use for a vegetable garden, since it is close to my palace. In exchange I will give you a better vineyard or, if you prefer, I will pay you whatever it is worth."

Herbs

Numbers 11:7 -9
The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin. 8) The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a handmill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil. 9) When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.

Psalm 51:7
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

John 19:29-30
A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus' lips. 30) When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Honey

1 Samuel 14:27
But Jonathan had not heard that his father had bound the people with the oath, so he reached out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it into the honeycomb. He raised his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.

2 Samuel 17:29
honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Meat

Genesis 9:3
Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.

Leviticus 72:227
The LORD said to Moses, 23) "Say to the Israelites: `Do not eat any of the fat of cattle, sheep or goats. 24) The fat of an animal found dead or torn by wild animals may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it. 25) Anyone who eats the fat of an animal from which an offering by fire may be[1] made to the LORD must be cut off from his people. 26) And wherever you live, you must not eat the blood of any bird or animal. 27) If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.'"

Leviticus 317
"`This is a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live: You must not eat any fat or any blood.'"

Melon

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Isaiah 1:8
The Daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a city under siege.

Milk

Exodus 3:8
So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Isaiah 7:22
And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

2 Samuel 17:29
honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."

Nuts

Genesis 43:11
Then their father Israel said to them, "If it must be, then do this: Put some of the best products of the land in your bags and take them down to the man as a gift--a little balm and a little honey, some spices and myrrh, some pistachio nuts and almonds.

Olives

James 5:14
Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord.

2 Kings 18:32
until I come and take you to a land like your own, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey. Choose life and not death! "Do not listen to Hezekiah, for he is misleading you when he says, `The LORD will deliver us.'

Onions

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Pomegranates

Deuteronomy 8:8
a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

Spices

Matthew 23:23
"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices--mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law--justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

Luke 11:42
"Woe to you Pharisees, because you give God a tenth of your mint, rue and all other kinds of garden herbs, but you neglect justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without leaving the former undone.

Vegetables

Daniel 1:12-17
"Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13) Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food, and treat your servants in accordance with what you see." 14 ) So he agreed to this and tested them for ten days. 15) At the end of the ten days they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. 16) So the guard took away their choice food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables instead. 17) To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost--also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.

Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Wheat

Jeremiah 41:8
But ten of them said to Ishmael, "Don't kill us! We have wheat and barley, oil and honey, hidden in a field." So he let them alone and did not kill them with the others.

Ezekiel 4:9
"Take wheat and barley, beans and lentils, millet and spelt; put them in a storage jar and use them to make bread for yourself. You are to eat it during the 390 days you lie on your side.

Yogurt (curds)

2 Samuel 17:28-29
brought bedding and bowls and articles of pottery. They also brought wheat and barley, flour and roasted grain, beans and lentils, 29) honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from cows' milk for David and his people to eat. For they said, "The people have become hungry and tired and thirsty in the desert."