Bringing In The Harvest

 Proverbs 17:22 NIV

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Today is Thursday and that means The Sunshine Project!! Summer is not putting the link up, it is her friend Kimberly from Kimberly's Korner who is helping her out by hosting it. If you have some sunshine that you want to share, why don't you link up with Kimberly and hopefully Summer will read it and be filled with some joy.

Garden 2012

As most of you know this spring my kids and I planted a garden. Now, the end of August, the garden is really producing. We have peas, beans, cucumbers, onions, swish chard, carrots, zucchini and tomatoes (green still) coming out of our ears!! Corn will be ready in a couple of weeks and the birds will be feasting on the sunflowers. The mint, catnip, chives, sage and oregano seem to be doing fine but I may just have to move them next year as I think the soil is not the best where they are.

Corn

Next year, I will have to reconsider what we plant and just how much we plant as I have zucchini coming out of my ears! I mean there is only so much of this vegetable that one can eat even if processed, froze and saved to put into banana bread and fritters. I do believe I will be giving it away to some of the people at my church. ;P

Stuffed Zucchini

Herbs

Tomatoes! There are SO many green tomatoes and not a red one yet. I sure do hope they start changing soon because here in the north our growing season is short and I am expecting some frost during the night time very soon.

Tomatoes

Stew with fresh garden veggies!

I'm linking up with Kimberly, Kimberly's Korner for Summer's The Sunshine Project. 

Psalm 65:9-13 NIV

You care for the land and water it;
    you enrich it abundantly.
The streams of God are filled with water
    to provide the people with grain,
    for so you have ordained it.

You drench its furrows
    and level its ridges;
you soften it with showers
    and bless its crops.

You crown the year with your bounty,
    and your carts overflow with abundance.

The grasslands of the desert overflow;
    the hills are clothed with gladness.

The meadows are covered with flocks
    and the valleys are mantled with grain;
    they shout for joy and sing.

God Bless!

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Lucy Sunshine

Hello all!!!

I have some super Sunshine for this week and it all has to do with Lucy. Below is taken directly from Lucy's blog, 2 3 Kids, a Mini Van and a Mortgage.  

Lucy had a weigh in.  Drum roll......... 17 kilos!!!!!  That's 37.4lbs, baby!  38 lbs is what Lucy weighed the day she was diagnosed.  February 23, 2011.  She is almost there.  With the way she has been eating lately I bet she hits it by next week.  I am going to buy stock in Eggo's waffles and syrup. 

The best news of the day is that her most recent pathology and cytology reports came back and there was NO sign of cancer or infection in her brain.  When the holes were drilled in her skull the fluid that was expelled was a little questionable.  I haven't really mentioned it to anyone because honestly, it was just easier to not talk about.  There was a collective sigh of relief in the room once Dr. B told us the news.  Thank you God!  We still don't have an answer as to why she retained the fluid in the first place, which unfortunately means that we don't have a definitive way of preventing it from ever happening again.  We will be standing vigil though.  Always looking for changes.

This is totally God's hand here. If you recall, Lucy had quite the scare only in June as she was deathly ill and her mom thought she was going to die. Lucy was blind, having seizures and the doctors thought the cancer had returned. They even did a scan that showed the cancer had returned and they had given her no hope. Only later did they look again at the scan and started questioning their judgement. With many, many people praying all over the world, Lucy's eyesight returned and the doctors saw that there was NO cancer in her brain. Since then she and her family have been on quite the ride as they have had to deal with seizures but the most amazing news is this new post from her mom. There is NO sign of cancer!! PRAISE GOD! You can read it all here in The Post That's Needs To Be Read If you are interested in reading the whole story, please visit Lucy's blog and read the posts put up in June and the last post from May.

I'm linking up with Summer for The Sunshine Project. 

Exodus 15:1-3 NIV

“I will sing to the Lord,

    for he is highly exalted.

The horse and its rider 

    he has hurled into the sea. 

The Lord is my strength and my song;

    he has become my salvation. 

He is my God, and I will praise him,

    my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

The Lord is a warrior; 

    the Lord is his name. 

Praising and praising GOD!

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