We Now Have Prairie Bonnet Kits!

We are now offering kits with precut fabic pieces to make your bonnet making easier- all you need is thread and a sewing machine- we have taken a lot of the work out of making a bonnet. Comes with sewing instructions and a coffee dying recipe to age your bonnet.
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Pioneer Candle Dipping Video

A Thyme to Harvest From the Earth

Today I worked at harvesting some vegetables from my garden.

Cucumbers, green beans, cherry tomatoes, yellow tomatoes and various kinds of red tomatoes.

The cucumbers have been made into refridgerator pickles amd the green beans will be dried tonight. Tomorrow I will pick the green beans at my son's house and ry them tomorrow night along with some of the tomatoes.

It will be so nice to enjoy these vegetables in December and January when the wind and snow is blowing.

With all of the preserving I have been doing I feel connected to all of my great grandmother's both Pilgrim and Pioneer's!

Plimoth Plantation- A pictorial.

My dream is still to visit this plantation and see how my ancestors live- in the mean time I content my self by looking at photos of the plantation.

I would love to live a more simpler life drying vegetables on string on my hearth, or sit in front of my fireplace while doing some needlework. Seeing the ocean when ever I wanted to would be great. For awhille I wouild even love the ambience of the candleight and the glow of lanterns. But could I really live up to all the hardwork Pilgrim woman had to do, or endure being out in the stocks if I committed a minor infraction they meted out stiff punishment for? I think perhaps not but my hat is off to my 10th great grandparents for doing so!

Wild Turkeys Again!

The turkeys have been back again for the past two days and this time I did get pics- not as close as I wanted to though- but these turkeys can move fast! The bigger turkey is a male and the smaller ones females. I am n ot sure what lind of food they think they are going to find in out yard but I do enjoy having them come!! click on the pics to enlarge them.

Little Things Make Me Happy!

I have wanted a food dehydrator for several years now.

Being as frugal as I am I looked at resale shops and never found one.

This year my garden is producing so well that I decided to go ahead and buy a new one.

The price has come down in the past few years and I think I got a good deal- no shipping charges- I ordered it on Tuesday and it came this afternoon by Fed Ex. Here it is on my counter getting it's first use. I am dehydrating, cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, Hubbard Squash, and Zucchini- I will know in the morning how they turn out! I am excited!!

Who Was Mariah Benson?

She was my 6th great grand mother. I think her name is both beautiful and fascinating.
Unfortunately I can not find much information about her.
I know that she married Edward Bumpus on Nov. 24, 1748 and that two sons were born Edward (my 5th great )grandfather and James and that she passed away before 1758. My 6th great grandfather then married a woman by the name of Sussana Dean and they had more children.
I will continue to research Mariah Menson- she is my new challenge!

Wild Turkeys in My Yard!

About on half hour ago I looked out my kitchen windo and saw the head of what appearred to be a wild turkey- I ran out the door and there was a flock of 6-8 of them in my yard. I ran back in to get the camera but I startled them and they went down behind the barn and flew off. I did find this pic on the net so you can see what I saw! Never had them around here before!

First the foxes and now wild turkeys! I hope these turkeys are nit the foxes dinner tonight!