JUST A QUICK COOKIE UPDATE

50 DOZEN COOKIES....64 POUNDS OF CHRISTMAS COOKIES WERE MAILED TO AFGHANISTAN TODAY.

BAKING COOKIES FOR AFGHANISTAN

Myself and 9 other women today baked around 50 dozen cookies for my son to share with his friends overseas. This was truly a labor of love. Thank you to the woman who allowed us to use her wonderful home.

PINE NEEDLE TEA

I had a great evening with my oldest grand son at Cubscouts. Now I am relaxing at home with a quart jar of pine needle tea steeping beside me, and a crunchy cold apple on the other side.





Did you know that the pilgrams were dieing of scurvy while they were trying to survive. Not the natives who lived there though. And they shared their secret with the pilgrams. Pine needle tea. God provides all of our needs. Sometimes all we need to do is go out to the back yard and pick a cold and flu preventative right off our tree.

ACORN BREAD RECIPE--I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS YET

THIS IS THE RECIPE I WILL USE THOUGH

http://www.yhwhswordoffaith.com/acornbread.html

Acorns: Gods gift to the world

For centuries, the simple acorn has fed hungry people.

I got 5 pounds of acorns from a friends tree. Cracked about half, leached in water, then roughly ground them and lay them out to dry on a cookie sheet.





From here I will let my oldest grand son grind it into flour. First in the blender and then in the grain grinder.




Then we will make acorn bread.

GETTING READY FOR HALLOWEEN

I have all 4 grand kids here and last night we carved pumpkins, cooked hotdogs over the fire and then after dark cooked smores.

GRANDBOYS AND FIRE ANTS

At least he is half listening in sunday school. I was taking my oldest (7) grand son home after he spent the night with me and he was talking about all kinds of things. Then he told me that one time a long time ago the world was covered with water. The plants in the ocean grew and died and grew and died and turned into dirt. Finally there was enough dirt that it was above the water and people could live on that dirt so God decided to make people. But he only made two and they didn't have any clothes on at all! Not even underwear.

Nanna: What were their names?
J: (after some thought) Josephy and Alexsis
Nanna: Wow really?
J: Yea but then they ate an apple and got kicked out

I really love my grand kids.

Also on that trip we decided to play a game and see if we could count all the fire ant hills between my house and his dad's house. Because of all the recent rain the ant hills are huge. We gave up at 200 and then passed two fields which had to have housed 200 each. We really have some problems here.

Hope you have many grand kids and no fire ants!