It's Blueberry Time!

Guess what?!  It's Blueberry Picking time here where we live! Looky looky!! Mommie and Daddy turned into "Blueberry Run" street and we went to get some fresh blueberries!

I said, "Mommie, The sign says U-Pick Here Blueberries!  Does that mean we are going to pick our own blueberries?"

Mommie said that she thinks they also sell them by the pound, already picked, and if so, that is what we will do today.

We met this nice lady there, and yes, she sold us some blueberries already picked so we didn't have to go out in the hot fields and pick them ourselves. And guess what else?

They also sell blueberry plants here with blueberries already growing on them!

Mommie was so excited she bought 5 plants!! Mommie said they are only $5.00 per plant, and they even already have blueberries on them, so that is quite a good deal!

This blueberry farm is not too far from where we live, just down the road a ways.

I was really excited to be able to see the blueberries and the people who were going to go pick their own blueberries.  

I think it would be fun to pick your own berries.

When we got home, Daddy went and got the shovel out of the shed, and he started digging holes to plant the blueberry plants right away.

Then Mommie went to the lumber store down the road and got some stakes to stick in the ground to help hold them up nice and straight.

Looky here! These are the blueberries we bought at the farm, already picked. They are so sweet and BIG and juicy! Mommie said they are much bigger than the ones you can buy at the grocery store, and oh, so fresh and sweet and good!

So Mommie asked Daddy and my brother Scott what they would like for her to bake with them.

They both said they would like a blueberry pie.

So Mommie got out her very old cookbook that she has had ever since they got married almost 52 years ago.

Here is the recipe for Blueberry Pie that she used:

Of course I helped her get it ready to put in the oven:

And 35 minutes later, here it is! It just came out of the oven while I was telling you this story! 

It smells SO good!!

I want to eat some right now, but Mommie says we have to wait for it to cool. That juice is still bubbling hot and it would burn us if we tried to eat it now.

And so that was my big adventure for today!! That was a lot of fun!

And now we will be able to grow our own blueberries, and maybe next year we will have enough to bake a pie or two!!

(and Mommie said she might go back and buy some more blueberries now so we have some more for blueberry muffins and just to eat on our cheerios and stuff!)

(Did you see those Cheerios are shaped like little hearts? I thought that was really cute!)

Mommie said to remember our Bible Verse:

"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, 

nothing will be impossible for you."

Matthew 17:20

And also did you see that pretty Easter Lily up above? It's still blooming since Easter!

And it reminds us again that Jesus is alive!

By the way...we found a street here in our neighborhood that has MY name!! Isn't that exciting?

 

Okay friends, that's my adventure for today.

I hope you are having some fun adventures too!

Bye Bye!

Love,

Lily Grace

(I have to go eat a piece of pie now if it has cooled down enough...

Wish you were here to have a piece too!)

 

Mustard Seed Faith

Good Morning all my wonderful friends in Blogland!

Happy Wednesday!  Mommie said some people call this "Hump Day", because it is the middle of the week and once we get over this "hump" it is downhill to the weekend! 

I don't know much about that...every day seems the same to me, but I like to find something good to enjoy about every day, don't you?

Jesus said that "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed nothing will be impossible for you."

And I am just a very little girl with a tiny bit of faith, but God is making lots of wonderful things possible for me!

Look at this tiny little sunflower! Do you know that it grew up here in our yard right under our bird feeder? It was just a tiny little seed that fell out of the bird feeder, and now it is a flower!!

And if you look really really close, you will see some tiny little baby wild plums starting to grow on this wild plum tree above.

Mommie said sometimes there are bad things that grow from seeds too, so we have to be careful what kind of seeds we plant in life.  Thankfully she stopped me before I tried to pick this little white flower above.  She said it is a stinging nettle, and if you grab the stem or leaves to try and pick it you will get all kinds of little stinging prickers in your hand, and it will hurt really bad. So she taught me that we need to always be aware of whether or not we are planting good seeds or bad seeds that could hurt people...sometimes that applies to things we say and do, not just in the garden...

Speaking of "in the garden", Mommie and I finally planted the Rose of Sharon bush in the Secret (Memorial) Garden. It had been in a pot ever since they moved to this house, and it needed to get planted. It has new leaves on it and hopefully it will get some pretty flowers this summer.

And also we planted the rose bush that was also in a pot.  We hope it will start blooming again now that it is planted in the ground.

Mommie put up this new garden flag in the back yard too. It has pretty flowers and birdies on it, just like the birdies we see in our yard!

Speaking of birdies in our yard, we saw the two Canada Geese getting their breakfast in Still Waters Pond, and the Goldfinches were also getting their breakfast from the feeder. Mommie had to change the sock feeder for the finches, because some big old raccoon came one night and tore it down and spilled all the seeds on the ground.  So this one is a little bit higher from the ground, and hopefully the raccoon will leave it alone. We were happy the goldfinches came back!

Mr. and Mrs. Canada Goose are very busy eating every day.  Must be something good on the bottom of the pond...

Back to our walk in the woods...we saw a wild turkey yesterday afternoon!! Can you see him there in the trees?  He ran away after we took his picture. It was exciting to see him!

We also saw where some people might be getting ready to build a house or something in the woods. There were these orange surveyor markers staking out a lot. That will be interesting to see what kind of house they will build.  

We walked around a bit on their lot to see what kind of view they would have, and found this big old dead tree on the ground. I said it looked like a big dinosaur skeleton.

And then we found a REAL skeleton!!! Not sure what it was, but we think maybe a deer. That made me sad to see it.  Mommie said sometimes animals die in the woods and the buzzards come and pick their bones clean. It still made me very sad to see it. But that is all a part of nature and life. 

John 10:10 

The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Mommie said she already shared this verse on her post the other day,   but this was still a good reminder to us that Jesus is the One who gives us life everlasting, and a good and full and abundant life comes only through faith in Him...even a little bit of faith like that tiny mustard seed gives us life everlasting!  That's a good thing to remember!

So, I guess I'd better say good-bye for now! But remember to plant those tiny little seeds of faith and also plant those good seeds that help make people smile and be happy today!

Bye-Bye!

Love,

Lily Grace

xoxoxoxo