Harvesting for winter

Joyce has zucchini plants to end all Zucchini plants the leaves are more than a foot wide and they have Zucchini's by the bunch. We are picking and storing, now we will make that wonderful relish, with green  peppers and  red  peppers, just for color  I think.  We  have been to town gathering various spices and we are going for the grinding soon as we get done helping the neighbors and wall papering a friend's just acquired trailer he lives in it so it should be nice we think. Then there is the winter wood, we have two cords split and stacked, but there is more, from the National Forest and then a blow down in our woods we need to harvest plus a couple of trees our son Tim had fell for us before he passed away. The harvest also include the flowers. I like the lilies and they are all finished blooming now but the wild flowers are in their glory and soon the marigolds will bloom and it will be football season, since I am not a football fan the flowers let me know from high school days marigolds recall the memories of the fall football games. That does not seem to make any sense as I read it back but sometimes I don't make much sense, but I enjoy life and the blessing of the Lord every day. The Lord works in wondrous ways and continues to bless us each day. I think we will done with phase one of the wood harvest in a couple of days. We do want to go on  vacation one of these days and so must have the har vest finished before we leave. Our friend is watching our house this year as we have our vacation, she says "it will be like camping in the woods" and it is in the woods. I must be off on today's project helping Joyce wall paper a trailer. then there is church tomorrow. Bless all of you. Jack and Joyce 

Joyce's 80th Birthday

Last Saturday we had a birthday party for Joyce. I have said over and over you only get to be 80 once in your life and we need to celebrate Joyce's birthday, also she has said "I never had a party before, so I believed it was time, and we did it. Some comments were you only have each year once in your life, my answer is "But we all don't make it for 80 years so let's celebrate"A party we did have. With the help of many friends, Beverly Hobbs, Patti Smith, Hazel fixed food. Rob Odom and John Hobbs plus Paul East supplied music during the entire time, more than four hours we celebrated. We borrowed chairs and tables from churches and also American River Inn furnished some chairs. We are grateful for all of the help and support we received from the friends neighbors and acquaintances. The estimates of attendance are somewhere between 175 and 200 people wished Joyce a happy birthday at that celebration. Our thanks to all who came and all who worked to accomplish such a wonderful time for Joyce. As a complete surprise Joyce's two younger sisters came from Oregon and Washington state and really surprised her. Our house was so full of fun and sister to sister visiting I had to leave the house a couple of times to collect my wits. But it was wonderful