Happy Hippie House Party. “Make New Real Friends.”

Yep... For real. :love:


EDIT: Kenny, I think she wanted the carriage house, actually

 

It's the same process, Kenny. You just give the ends of the paper a petal shape.

 

How very nice! I already loved her before we knew this!!!

 

I have put up 10 gallons of peas, 8 gallons of Squash, 2 gallons of red potatoes ( them little buggers are a pain in the ass to scrape) 3 gallons of assorted jelly,5 gallon bags of Sweet Corn ( it's just staring to ripen) 5 gallons of Salsa, 1 gallon Pickled Okra and 9 gallons of Dill Pickles.

We have also been eating fresh outta the gardens everyday and giving stuff away to friends and family. I send everyone home with squash and cucumbers, peas sometimes if I'm 'done' cooking for the day.

I'd say 5 gallons of cuks and maybe 7 gallons of squash and a 5 gallon bucket of peas whaled out the door and several jars of jelly.

When Nanny is 'cookin' the grandkids, nieces and nephews come jumpin' out of the woodwork

We eat at least a pint of peas a day, corn on the cob 2 ears each 3 times a week. We have squash 3 times a week as we do potatoes. We eat mostly deer meat and fish that we catch and wild hog when we can trap them.

If I have left over fruit I'll make pies and cobblers and freeze them. When the Watermelons get ripe we will eat as many as we can and I'll make Watermelon Rhine Pickles and save the seeds for next yrs planting.

We have greens too, we eat them fresh out of the garden, Turnip Greens and Collard Greens. I have to pick and can them in rhe next few days or they will be to tough to eat. We get a dozen or more eggs a day from the Chickens.

A friend of mine has a Butter Churn and I am going to try my hand at making butter/milk. I can get the raw milk from one of the local dairies and I may do some Goat Cheese. There are a lot of goats as well as cows in the area.

All in all, I'd estimate the food will last 3 to 4 months. The garden is still producing so I cant be sure how much more it will put out.

Our food cost is around 350.00 a month if we buy from the store. We have probably invested 180.00 in jars, sugar, pectin, pickling spices and freezer bags. This is my 3rd week of canning, everyday, about 6 to 8 hrs a day, even on Sundays lol.

I have no idea of how much prophane I use canning, it must be a lot bc the stove is on all day.

It's hard work. I am exhausted each evening when I get all the jars put on the canning shelf and the last bag zipped and placed in the freezer. When the last stainless steel bowl is dried and put in the cupboard and the canners are cooled and stored for the next day and the slop is taken out to the chickens and supper is cook and the dishes in the dishwasher... WoW.. It's been a long 3 weeks and more fun to come.

 

Bless You!!! I know your family appreciates the homegrown food and I'm sure their health benefits from it. Plus all the love that is magickally inserted must really give them a special boost.

 

Wow...I just saw Hub's aura and that usually doesn't happen just out of the blue. How fun! It gave me chill bumps.:sultan:

 

Yes, they do love canning season, the farm and Nanny and Papaw.. They love to sneek a plum or peach as they bat their eyes seductivly at me trying to charm me outta a pickle or some juicy tidbit I working on.

 

That's cute. I know you love it.

 

ahh.. so, you've seen the awsomeness that is my Hubilicious. He's quiet spactacular isnt he, 27 yrs and still going strong.

We are more in love today then when we first met, it has settle into a burning love and not just the burning lust we had when our eyes met in 73'. We were married in 85'

 

Well, it's past 10 here, I suppose I better drag my bones to bed.. see y'all in the morning

Nighty Night all have a good time while I'm sleeping

 

LOL, yes I've seen his photo but I was talking about my "Hubs"! :smilielol5:

 

Wow.... Got a phone call out of the blue tonight. Magick is afoot!

 

It certainly does seem to be~

:groupwave:

 

New moon, and tomorrow, the 20th, is Summer Solstice... She realized this at 11:11 this evening as we were speaking. Moderately close alignment.

 

:2thumbsup:

 

I LOVE this because it is Beautiful; but I love it even more because my name is in it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJia1TrzL8"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJia1TrzL8

 

Ah, Pardon me getting all Mayan Astrologer on you, But tomorrow is the 19th. LOL Not the 20th. (Please note the extremely advanced mathematics, here.)

Wishing you a Very Merry Solstice. and a Happy New Moon.

We wish you a Very Merry Solstice.
We wish you a Very Merry Solstice.
We wish you a Very Merry Solstice.
and a Happy New Moon.

Good tithings me bring to you and your kin
Good tithings for Solstice
and a Happy New Moon.

 

The day is almost done. Our educational topic for the day is Flower Child.

You all did a great job everyone. Thank you all for living it and for being there.

I myself will close for my part with a repeat of Wikidepia.org – "Flower Child".

"Flower Child"​

Very very interesting.
The first paragraph:

"Flower child originated as a synonym for the children of Billy Ray Williams and his then wife Hazel Payne Williams who made and sold paper flowers while living on Haight Street, starting in the early 1960's. The 2 older daughters, Charlotte and Victoria, wore flowers in their hair while selling the paper flowers to tourists visiting the Haight Ashbury neighborhood. It eventually became a synonym for the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and environs during the 1967 Summer of Love. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize altruistic ideals of universal brotherhood, peace and love. The mass media picked up on the term and used it to refer in a broad sense to any hippie. Flower children were also associated with the flower power political movement, which originated in ideas written by Allen Ginsberg in 1965."

All of the rest of it is very interesting as well.
:sunny:

 

I'll check it out soon. Currently, I am so tired that I can barely walk. I'll drag myself to the shower because they make me sleep all warm and sweet like a baby.

Good night. Peace and Love.

 

Have a good sweet baby sleep. Good night.


By the way.
This is where the paper flowers came from and the term Flower Child.