What's Growin in My Garden?

My friend Jess asked me what was growing in my garden, I thought that ya'll might wanna know as well. I grabbed my sister's camera and went outside and took these pics of my garden and a few of the family pets that just "happened" to be in view of the camera lense.

Yarrow blooms



Applemint (it's taking over my garden) =)



Plantain (this is right along the edge of my garden and the cement)

Just some Pansies we planted in a pot next to my herb garden

Garlic

Echinacea

Lemon Balm

Lemon Thyme

Bee Balm

Lamb's Ear

Veregated Oregeno

Greek Oregeno (it's very tall and bush like)
A few Applemint sprigs are trying to form a
friendship with it I suppose (to the right)

Wild Lavender (it smells so divine)

Greek Oregeno
this was actually grown from seed the first year I started an herb garden

Chives

Mountain Mint

Furball: Hmmm, this yarrow looks like a good bed..

...when are you gonna leave so I can lay down in the nice comfy yarrow?



Braveheart LOVES to play very hard when we're not watching, and he hasn't noticed me yet




Uh oh, he caught me taking the picture




He's Camera shy




Furball definately isn't ;)




Aww Friends Forever (well, until Braveheart decides to "Play" with him again)

 I hope you enjoyed this post, I realize it was mostly pics but sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. If you would like to know more about the herbs that I have or need information or identification of your own plants just comment or email me ;)

Our Own Thanksgiving

The Dinner Table

Well all, I did it...well, we did it. We had Thanksgiving at our house and I realized that I REALLY am like my Grandmother (on my Dad's side). We have never really had Thanksgiving dinner at our house, we have always just gone over to my Grandmother's house and I would fix macaroni and cheese and maybe the ham if asked...but the ham is always a pre-cooked ham that has a pour on glaze... and Noel always makes sweet potato pies. Soooo this year my cousins fiance's parents asked my Grandparents to come to their house for Thanksgiving, so we were going to have her Thanksgiving dinner on Friday. Daddy still wanted us to do a dinner for Thanksgiving. Well we had just about everything we needed except the turkey and ham (our Thanksgiving dinner has to have a ham) and the supplies for the sweet potato pies (hey, I ryhmed) =) So we headed out to the stores to get the turkey and ham other stuff on wednesday, I even got a table clothe on sale to put on our table, I was so excited that I got to do a Thanksgiving dinner all by myself. I started the Macaroni & cheese, ham, turnip greens, green beans and soaked the black eyed peas that evening. We knew Brooke was going to have to work until 7pm so of course it was going to be for supper, but we started about mid morning preparing the turkey, finishing the macaroni & cheese etc. everything was ready by 8:30pm, but Thanksgiving day is a very busy day for Cracker Barrel do Brooke had to stay a little later (not her fault of course) she got to our house about 9:30 and we had supper. I am so thankful for my family and the fact that we can be flexible!!!! We had a wonderful evening talking and laughing and eating good food ;) Daddy wanted to watch the movie called The Christmas Card so Brooke brought it over and we watched it...ahhhh what a wonderful evening with the family. Here are some pics:

The Table Settings

Food & Preperation

The Dinner

The LORD really blessed us ;) We had such a wonderful time and I was so relieved that everything turned out perfectly!!! I was just going to expound on the pictures a little bit so here tis:

Table Settings

I used Hymn books to put the small candles on it matched perfectly and thought it help make a good center piece and a good way to have them on hand if we wanted to sing and worship the LORD. The Pumpkin in the middle I have had for a long time, I won it at fall festival drawing. The leaves...well God made those and I just went outside and picked the most colorful ones ;) The chargers were on sale at Walmart as well as the table cloth, which is really the only reason I made the whole table look so nice anyway...otherwise it would have just a been a plain ole table with no decorations ;)

Food & Preperation

It took us probably a whole day with all the hours we put into making all this stuff, but it was exciting for all three of us girls to get to do a Thanksgiving dinner ;) and it was great bonding time =)

The Dinner

 Well it was wonderful, God has blessed me so much with such a wonderful family. The dinner would have been wonderful even if I'd burnt the Turkey or if we had no turkey at all. God is SOOOO VERY Good to this daughter of his.

And for those wanting to know the bottled drink is not wine, it's organic Sparkling Berry Cider, it is oooohhhh so good too!!! and the stuff with the foam on the top is ginger ale mixed with sherbert ...thats YUMMY too!!!!

How did your Thanksgiving go?

A Friend, Herbs & Pictures of Both

"The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. "

~ Proverbs 27:25~







A Garden all ready for the next plant'in in the spring
Lord Will'in!

 As you can see I LOVE my herbs, I can't wait to get started making salves. I wanted to get busy doing the salves this weekend but my brother and his friend had to change their birthday football game to this weekend (Go FOSTER & ANDREW), because of complications. I also couldn't get any beeswax just yet, so I guess it all worked out anyway. I just hope and pray that I will be able to do it next weekend! I get giddy about it just sitting here typing this out...whew ;-)
I am hoping to one day own my own herb shop and be able to get the information out there about herbal & natural alternatives. I really love doing this and although I don't have formal training in the art, I am learning as fast as I can. I hope to one day be able to enroll in a class to become a certified herbalist, but in all reality the government doesn't recognise it as a profession, so it really is just a piece of paper. But, it would make me feel more qualified ;-)

I hope you enjoyed the pictures of my herb garden, if you have any questions just leave it in the comment section and I would love to answer them :-)

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 "A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."
~Proverbs 18:24~
"A friend loveth at all times..."
~Proverbs 17:17~

Jess & 'Lisha
~The Nuts~

Jess called me today and we had a great time, we talked about herbs, Christmas wish-lists (which mine has just about everything to do with herbs (-: ), and what our dreams for the future are (if it don't include a man in that near future) and what our spring gardens are going to have in them (yes, we are cRaZy like that), what God is doing in our lives, how He is training us and preparing us for a future that we aren't sure of,  but we know we can trust Him cause He's the one that's got it under control.
 I always love talking to Jess, it's almost like we could be silent and know what each other was think'in, I only know one other person like that to me and that's my sister Noel. I think we (Jess and I) are definitely two peas in a pod, or two nuts in a shell...cause we are NUTS!!! I think we were twins separated at birth, but that's just my theory ;-) I am just so so so glad we are sisters-in-Christ :-D
Well I LOVE you Jess and I am so glad that your mother told me that "I would be a great friend to her daughter Jess", even if I did think she was a little crazy at the time, now I know I was wrong...she's a LOT crazy, like her wonderful daughter ;-). Not to be selfish or anything, but I am so glad that the LORD spared your life over a year ago, just so we could be friends :-D LOVE YOU GIRL!!!!


What are your thoughts on Herbs and Natural Remedies?
Do you have a friend like Jess is to me?

Comment Below :-)
Talk to ya'll later!