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The photo is my son and myself. Now days you can get a photo made to look old like this one. This photo was taken when this was the new look.

Harry S Truman was president when I was born and world war II had ended. I grew up in a time when lunch was put in a brown paper bag and a sandwich was wrapped with wax paper. There was no such thing as pantyhose, we wore stockings that attached to the rubbery clippy things that attached to the girdle. Convenience stores were not common and when we took a trip we packed a picnic basket because many places did not have fast food. Highways had places to pull over and stop, some with picnic tables. Read more ....
 

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2010 Around Our House

January 11, 2013
SPRING / SUMMER 2010
Welcome to around our house 2010, browse around our photos and help yourself to take a look around our past entries posted in left hand side of this website page.
 
Our vegetables are coming in slowly but just enough for us to eat something fresh daily.
We are growing some vegetables vertical using arbors.
 
 
 
Eggplant
 
Cucumber on Arbor
 
Eggplant blooms
 
Our tomatoes are late this year we have a few cherry tomatoes
 
Small squash patch, we have been getting just enough squash to eat some every couple of days.
 
Guara plants also called swirrling butterflies
 
Blueberries
 
 
Every couple of days we can expect this much
 
Bee Balm
 
Bee Balm
 
Purple Coneflower
 
Blackeyed susans
 
Vegetables and herbs mixed
 
Sugar
 
Cookie
 
Cookie eating carrot tops
 
Sugar on her favorite shelf
 
Cookie always likes a rub
 
Outside the bunny house looking toward the vegetable garden
 
Daisies
 
New baby coneflower
 
Fig, Blackeyed susans, daisies, and more
 
 
 
 
We had quite a few strawberries this year, we actually put some in the freezer.
 
Pretty bug, some kind of dragonfly?
 
 
I make fresh bread now, never buy store bought anymore.  I went on a baking spree.
 
It was hard to knead bread and take a photo
 
Pre- Pita Bread
 
Ready for the oven
 
Ummmm, sourdough pita bread
 
Had to taste the cinnamon rolls :)
 
Fresh bread rolls, wish you could smell it
 
 
I went to the local rescue mission store and found this old dresser
 
Sanded it down reall good
 
Then I painted it
 
I am soooo excited we found out that we have a local organic milk farm called Working Cows Dairy outside of our small city. So we went on a short trip out in the country and drove out to the farm.
 
 
This is the farm
 
Oh it is sooo pretty
 
A Real Dairy Farm, I am so excited
 
 
We are driving up to the place we purchase the milk
 
My husband walking up to the cooler that holds the milk.  You simply put the money in a honor box and take your milk home.
 
 
The small building that has the milk
 
Leaving the dairy
 
I know these people must work very hard at this farm
 
This is just lovely
 
 
More photos to come, see you later.................................

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