Summer....

So a big chunk of summer has come and gone.  Had a wildly successful VBS at church thanks to the efforts of sooo many.  I used my God given talent of bossiness (its my spiritual gift!) to lead the masses!  Halleluiah!!!

Through that and for much of the spring/summer we have been preparing for the Beasley Family Reunion which we hosted here last weekend.  What fun!  What joy!  Had a wonderful time reconnecting with our family.  The highlight for me was Church on the Farm on Sunday morning.  Wporshipping, Praising, Praying, Crying together as a family-the Beasley family and the family of God.  Truly a special time!

Now I am looking forward to my annual trek/get away to Arsenic City-to regroup/rest/prepare for the coming year...school, church, sports, etc....

God is good.  all the time!

So baby brother and I took a quick trip back to our hometown to go, sadly, to the funeral home and pay our respects to an old neighbor friend.  He was always "old" to us so I suspected that he was 127 when he died but he was 85 and now that I am on the home stretch to 50, that doesn't seem that old.....anyways he is one of the last of the original neighbors-most having died or moved away.  What I remember most about him  was that he was always the guy who came and collected money from the neighbors for flowers when someone passed away.  His dear wife was there and some other neighbors but not many others that we knew.   The sweetest thing there was a framed picture with wonderful, dear words from the "kids" that had been their neighbors on both sides of them.  All about what wonderful character he had and how, just by being an upstanding Christian man who dearly loved his wife and was just simply a good neighbor, they had learned how to live a good life.  Quite a testament to a life well lived.   Well done thou good and faithful servant.  RIP Lee.  Attica is better because of you.  

Soooo....the downside was my  truck had to spend the day at the Ford Garage with his F150 friends getting a windshield repaired....the upside was I had no truck so I got to be outside and weed to my hearts content....got loads done and hated to have to leave it at the end of the day!  And my own Mr. Greenjeans or honey do hubby as I fondly call him, came and weed wacked which I don't really like to do because it is too loud and it makes my arm tired!  But the best part was when my sweet, dear friend (honey do hubby's dad) called to tell me he is going to be  baptized (hooray!) and wants Jim and I to stand up with him-praise God-a perfectly wonderful ending to a perfectly wonderful day!  Oh and p.s.-you want to know what the best way to be a Christian and witness is?????  Love like Christ.

Spent most of the afternoon in my garden tending to my currant bushes.  I love currants.  They are the nectar of the Gods in my opinion.  Plus they take me right back to my childhood so that is an added bonus.  Here is a currant factoid for you>>>>


Currants are a type of berry used to make jellies and jams. Currants were once a common agricultural item in the United States. Cornell University points out that in the 1920s, the U.S. cultivated approximately 2,700 acres of currants. However, a disease outbreak led to a federal ban on the planting of currants. While the ban lifted in 1966, currants have never bounced back as a widely-grown crop.

Read more: Facts on Currant Fruit | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/facts_7242498_currant-fruit.html#ixzz1tU5eTEMz

Anyways, mine were looking very unruly and had a lot of weeds around their feet but now they are pruned of all of their dead stuff and all the weeds have been pulled and they have a comfy, tasty layer of composted manure around their feet and they are very happy-and so am I.  

Getting ready to repaint the living room before new carpet comes....just cleaned the baseboards....GROSS...until you get down on your hands and knees you don't realize what a pigsty you live in.....kids and dogs and dirt and dust....life is messy sometimes.....my mother would say live with the dirt (to a point) and enjoy life-the people you love are gone far too soon.

OH-and I just realised that my brothers are, at this very moment, at arsenic city and i am insanely jealous.

Soooo....I feel like I have accomplished not much this week on the yard front.  Spent time testing kids on recorders at the local elementary, working on the HS musical set and running the dog to the vet.  I told hubby o mine that I get nothing done between kids and dogs.  He reminded me that I am loved.  I guess he is right but I can't help wondering if that little 4th grader will mention me in her album notes when she one day becomes a famous saxaphonist.....hmmmmmm