Weekly Thankfulness & Growth Report #20

#20 - Weekly Thankfulness & Growth Report

If you were following this blog in 2015 then you will be familiar with my "365 Days of Being Thankful" challenge.  I have missed reporting on my thankfulness since I finished my challenge back in November so I decided to at least give a weekly Thankfulness Report & include a Growth Report also.  Growth in our Christian walk, growth in the garden & growth on this blog.  Finally, I am also including a "Posts From the Past" feature - ENJOY!


This week I have been so thankful for rain and cooler weather.  I am also thankful for my dentist.  Most importantly I am thankful for answered prayer.


"For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all and therefore all died.  And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.  So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view.  Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation;  the old has gone, the new has come!" 
2 Corinthians 5:14-17


This weekend is both "Canada Day" (on Friday) and "Independence Day" (on Monday) - join in the celebration by listening to this great old hymn:
Read: God Bless Our Native Land


We had a major issue with rabbits eating all of our bean plants this week - look what we had to do to take back our garden:

click Green Bean Fortress to read the entire post

- Here are my Follower stats:

GFC (Google Friends Connect) - 2,264

Bloglovin - 4,092
Twitter - 6,044
Pinterest - 5,451
Google+ - 2,277
Facebook - 4,428
Linky Followers - 108
Networked Blog - 1,201
Sverve - 574
That's a grand total of 26,439 followers in some form or another (that's up 20 from last week!).

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Five years ago I shared with you Canning Basics - Jar Sizes:
The Basics of Canning - Jar Sizes






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Homemade Sandwich Bread Variation: Oatmeal
~Taylor-Made Homestead~

Well y’all already know that I make an effort to supply my handsome RancherMan with his favorite Homemade Sandwich Bread, he loves it so much more than the commercial stuff and I feel good knowing that my bread is filled with only natural ingredients I recognize and can pronounce.  Plus DANG, the lazy-girl er, I mean efficient side of me loves that my *KitchenAid Mixer makes it so much easier!  But I find myself lately with an extra supply of oatmeal and although I’m using often with both hot, hearty Flavored Oatmeal as well as my own Homemade Pumpkin Granola for breakfasts,

Antique Chair Spindle Wooden Garden Caddy
The Interior Frugalista

It's time for the monthly Power Tool Challenge and the theme this month is Summer. In the March challenge, I shared how I turned an Antique Chair Back into a Bird Feeder. Well for this month's challenge I dug back into my bucket of chair parts to inspire me for this project. My project this month is an Antique Chair Spindle Wooden Garden Caddy.

Scriptures of Encouragement
Graceful Coffee

These are some scriptures that I find super encouraging and hopefully you will too! I know that by Wednesday the week can seem like it’s dragging on and on. So these verses hopefully will encourage you to get to the weekend.

Chocolate French Toast with Peanut Butter
Flavours & Frosting

Let´s face it guys, how can you go wrong with chocolate french toast smothered with peanut butter and chocolate spread..?

You just can´t! YUM Yum Yum!

Melting S'mores Pie
Lamberts Lately

I got the idea to try it last summer after s'mores became kind of the "in flavor" (it seems like every season has one of those lately).  When I get an idea for a blog post that isn't scheduled for a specific day yet, I just jot it down in a list on my to-do list app (that way, I have kind of a bank of ideas to look through when I need a post).

HOW TO MAKE A BIRDCAGE PLANTER

MS. TOODY GOO SHOES

Doesn't it feel great when you know you've inspired someone?

At the height of my career, I had a staff of 50 people.  

In the most basic terms, my job was to make sure the work got done.

But, really, the most important thing was to inspire them --

to do their best possible work...

Parenting Tip: 5 Mistakes You’re Making With Your Kid’s Sunscreen

Everyday Victories

Are you outside with your kids for about an hour before you realize you forgot sunscreen? Guilty! Or, perhaps, you are super attentive and put it on before heading out, but forget to reapply after a while. No matter your individual scenario, there is a giant likelihood you are making these 5 mistakes when applying sunscreen to your kids (and even yourself).

SILVER FOODIE

Cherry-O Cream Cheese Pie – Retro Recipe

Cherry-O Cream Cheese Pie is a luscious mixture of cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, lemon juice and vanilla extract poured into a graham cracker pie crust and topped with cherry pie filling. The recipe for Cherry-O Cream Cheese Pie is quick, easy to prepare, and there’s no cooking or baking required!

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