Welcome to my Summer post of 2012,
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That's me, doing one of my favorite things... shopping for books!!!
9 were bought this summer....
- Tout Sweet
- Tout Allure
- Every Day in Tuscany
- A Summer in Europe
- Tuscan Sun Cook Book
- Made in Italy Cookbook
- The Food of love
- Happily Ever After
- Heaven is for Real
Also a tin roosters is on the shopping list!
Seeing as how I can not have the real thing in the Village...
This summer there was a huge outdoor "flee" market...I went twice!
Mr.B also went and bought me this gorgeous bread box.
Cool thing is, its identical to the one my mom had, many years ago....
Mr.B also bought me this antique hand painted cup and saucer
from the flee market
Then....
A Fair Came To Town
Peek a Boo Bylla.
Went camping with the grand kids
see-
Family Time, Camping At St Malo
Went camping in a Yurt with my sister
Camping With The Girls...In A Yurt!!!
A great place for children to eat and have lots of out door fun....
Elijah turned 3 this summer....
Our Village flooded....
To take incriminating pictures....of my hubby, "pinching" the farmers corn!!!
A Parade in town
Elijah enjoying a mouthful of candy, he also cut his own hair this summer!
My son Jake and his girl Kayla and little Bradley
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Here at the Museum there is an old street of what the Stony Brook Village
would have looked like back in the 18oo's
Our cats appreciate the efforts as well
Below Ivy enjoying our short summer sun
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This post is for you, my beautiful daughter Heather...my best-est pal!
aka Shmoo.
and to my grandchildren
Gamma Tracy loves you.
Elijah turned 3 this summer....
"Italian" night at my house (above)
With my kids, enjoying Spaghetti Bolognese and Sangiovese wine.
French food also saw our table.
click: Coq Au Vin Blanc
"Chicken in White Wine"
This recipe is originally made with red wine, but it looks a wee bit nicer with white.....
Also this summer....
I got an I phone 4!!!!
I got an I phone 4!!!!
To take incriminating pictures....of my hubby, "pinching" the farmers corn!!!
Gotcha!!!!
What... he had lots to spare????
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Bought some proper corn on the cob at the farmers market,
and made a wonderful summer dinner, including fried chicken and herbed potatoes....
Also took pics of Mr.B. chasing wild Grouse off the highway!
He has a soft spot for animals...
(Mmmmm, grouse stew ; Thanks Miss Homemade!)
and made a wonderful summer dinner, including fried chicken and herbed potatoes....
Also took pics of Mr.B. chasing wild Grouse off the highway!
He has a soft spot for animals...
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| "grandpa and grandma" Stonybrook "old fashioned" Mennonite garb! |
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| and a princess! |
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| Oh Gamma!.... Did you see that? A princess!!!! Lu got glasses this summer... 
above- Lu eagerly awaits, the "throwing" of the sweets, with goody bag in hand. 
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| An old steam tractor... to gather the harvest.... That's what this land is all about! "Man can not live on bread alone" Gamma Tracy and Timmy  Apples... Back at my house, under the almost empty apple tree....  to make |
* I have my own recipe but I like this site it has allot of pictures!
Of course every summer has a trip to the Heritage Mennonite Museum
(see my side bar for the erecting of this beautiful windmill in our village)
would have looked like back in the 18oo's
Visitors can also purchase hand made items here as well
I bought
my favorite jam!
I purchased many flowers this summer to cheer up our back yard
Lilly Pad snooping about the pots
We rescued a starving kitten, that we named Cahrlie B hes playing with Missy.
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This post is for you, my beautiful daughter Heather...my best-est pal!
aka Shmoo.
and to my grandchildren
Wow,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to see what the corn looked like and she nailed me! What I do wrong?
You do such a good job making this blog, ever think of going pro?
Love You, Mr B.
Looks like a classic summer (but the corn looked a bit measly). We ate our first and (probably) last today; it's been a bad year in France for corn!
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DeleteThe corn looks measly, because turns out its for feed for live stock...lol!
My hubby was disappointed....
Bad brentt !!! lol
ReplyDeleteim pretty sure all the corn out here is for cows, it you cooked it, it would go mushy.
mom i love your blog. love the pics. its been a great summer. for me, new things are....
all the above, plus, year year since dad passed away, sibylla starting school, kids learned ti tie shoes, and ride bikes with no training wheels.
Ah Mr.B- my love...I did nail you...serves you right taking the farmers goods!!!
ReplyDeleteHey Cro- The corn is very measly, turns out its for feed for live stock...lol!
Hey Heather my girl- Ya its feed...he should have cooked it, and got that mushy surprise, lol...I had a great summer too my girl.
HI TRACY!!
ReplyDeleteWOW....what a BUSY summer for you!!!Ok....so I hope your daughter is all better now...WOW, surgery with 3 kiddos to take care of...good thing she has you!!!The grands are all growing too fast too....we need to slow them down!!!!They are beautiful...all of them!!!!we are so afraid of the hair cutting thing........YOUR new camera is awesome....great job!!!
Love your family meals......makes me want to start this up again.....also great looking food!!!
WOW...that was alot of rain....we have gotten rain twice this week..lots....but not that much....
and a PARADE....love the kids faces....are they the sweetest???
Have a great week\
hugs,
jamie
Hi Jamie dear
DeleteYes, Heather has made a full recovery, thank the Lord! She runs a very busy house with 4 children. Unfortunately has no more time for blogging....
Thanks for dropping by.
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