Memorial Day

My family has a long list of service men- HH "Tip" Dow

Ladowick Underhill

Emmet Underhill

Capt. Edward Bump

and probably many I have not yet found in my genealogical research.

The two most recent are my husband and my brother. My husband is not well documented in photos but I did find one of my brother that my Mom had put in the local paper. It was taken in 1966.

To all men and women who have served I thank you.

I Made Soap Today!

Today I tried my hand at making handmade soap!
I am not sure how well it turned out at it is still in the mold.
Hope fully I did things right!
I will keep you updated and take pics if it turns out!

Free Mulch and the first green onions

My neighrbor brought over his grass clippings today- I was delighted! Very kind of him!
I spread one batch this morning and will spread the rest after supper tonight.
Hubby had the first green onions from the garden at lunch today- 35 days after planting! Amazing!

Plants in the Pilgrim Garden

The garden is making progress!

There are about 45 green beans plants through and 6 pea plants, 9 baby stalks of sweet corn , four zuchini plants, four sunflowers and, 2 scarlet runner beans. There are approximatley 2 dozen radishes through and the green onions have all sprouted tops.

As of today no lima beans through yet and the garden has lost two cucumber plants and a cantaloupe plant.

A Fact About Old Time Soap Making

I have been considering making soap.

I often wondered since there wasn't any lye back in those times how the ash made soap. I found this online- so now I know!

I've never found that salt does squat for hardness (unless I'm making a salt bar where the salt is in huge quantities). Salt was used way back when sodium hydroxide wasn't available and people made their own caustic out of ashes - but that was potassium based caustic. Then salt was boiled with the soap to convert the potassium salts of fatty acids (soft soap) to sodium salts.

The Pilgrim Garden Continues to Grow!

Yesterday was a big planting day.

The garden got three cherry tomato plants, three yellow heirloom tomato plants, 4 muskmelon plants, a row of lima beans, chives, thyme , more basil, and garlic chives, more beets and Swiss Chard.

Today it got 4 Basil plants for a jump start and 2 mint plants. I wanted watermelon plants but a woman bought the last three right in front of me! So I bought a packet of seed and will start them in little pots. I have started mulching and just as I did the raim came!

Woo Hoo- no dragging water to the garden today!

The photo is last years watermelon plants.

Progress In a Pilgrim Garden!!

Yesterday and today were very planting productive.

The garden now has 175 onion sets, 12 big onion plants, beets, Swiss chard, radishes, lettuce, basil, peas, green beans. sweet corn, 4 types of bell peppers, 5 types of tomatoes, cauliflower, zucchini, eggplant.

Tomorrow I will plant Indian corn, pumpkins, okra and I am not sure what else- my space is big but i t is getting full although I can fit in a little more.

Hopefiully it does as good as it did last year!

What a nice RAK!

This what my kind friend did for me this morning- tilled my garden spot! I will be forever greatful!

Westward Ho!!

Youu too can ride the old wagon trails just like the pioneers.
Go here for details

http://www.americanprofile.com/articles/wagon-trains-pioneer-history-oregon-trail/

Spring Blooms!

Even though it is still pretty cool here my Spring Flowers are starting to bloom.
I have two types of bleeding hearts.
The flowering crab tree will soon be loaded with blooms.
The strawberry plants were one plant last year- I hope they continue to spread.
I wonder if my great grandmothers had bleeding hearts?

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Two Sarah's Revisited

Not so long ago I posted pictures of my ggg grandmother Anna's two Sarah's. One of her daughter Sarah and one of her half sister Sarah. In the original photo of her half sister there were two adult women and two children. I assumed that the woman sitting in the front of the photo was her half sister. N ow I am not so sure. It may be the woman standing shown here. I have contacte the owner of the photo but have not gotten a response. If I ever do I will put the right names with the right photos.

Holy Cow and how you can help

A few days ago I reead an article about a venture called Holy Cow. A teacher in the U.S. asked his students to bring donations of money to help purchase a cow- no donation was too small. The cow would be a female who was going to give birth to another female cow. The cow would be sent to a family in an impoverished country for them to use for milk to drink and to make cheese and butter with. These items can be eaten by the family and also sold to improve the families income. When the cow has it's calf it in turn will be purchased to help another family. If they can not raise a cow they will instead be given a dozen chickens. This is a great program and got me thinking. There are so many poor people right here in America that could benefit from this program- but many of them would not live in an area where they could raise a cow. Many of them are forced to frequent food pantries for food. Food pantry are a good thing except they rarely give out dairy items. Many times they give the recipents food boxes that contain macaroni and cheese mixes or boxes of pudding mix. That is all well and good but if the people recieving the food do not have milk or butter or the money to by these items. What good is the macaroni and cheese or the pudding mix? or a cake mix with out eggs? Eating dry macaroni would not be such a good thing. When doing your weekly shopping why not pick up an extra gallon of milk, a dozen eggs or, a pack of margarine quarters and drop it off at a food pantry to help a family have at least one or two good meals and be able to use the food they have recieved from the food pantry. Hunger in America is a bigger problem than you may be aware of as is the number of homeless in America. I recentky read that the homeless population in America now is in the high double digit millions. If you feel that you do not have enough time to make a drop off at the food pantry simlpy use the donation button on the right for homeless prevention as they are both good causes. Help a fellow American- it is priceless.

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