My New Profile Picture

Don't you just love this beautiful shot? We were in a canoe ~~ and I can't remember the name of the lake ~~ and we were blessed to see this scenery every day!!! So much of Canada looks like this. It is peaceful and lovely, Heavenly Father has created so much beauty for our enjoyment.

I Can Can, and I'm Not Talking Dancing

After about five years, I decided to do some canning this year. Calvin brought home five bags of apples (my apologies to the person who may have put two bags aside, but that Calvin took also)
from work, so I got busy! I tried a new recipe and method to make apple butter, which involved using a crockpot. It took alot longer than my usual oven method, but it still made the house smell good and netted 9 pints of apple butter.
And here are the 18 quarts of applesauce that I also canned! I even got a great deal on the jars and lids at a little secondhand shop here in town. Instead of paying almost $10 for new jars, I paid $3.60 for a dozen. Woohoo! Can't wait to get my canning supplies moved up here from PA.

Elder Moss

I would love to put a picture of my son on here, but I am having some difficulty with finding my pictures in my computer.

So, I will just say that my youngest son, Taylor (Elder Moss, I should say) entered the Provo MTC today, where he will receive training for three weeks and then travel to the Idaho Boise Mission for the other 101 weeks of his mission!!

He has come a long way in the past year, resulting in a greater understanding of the Atonement, repentance and forgiveness, and what it means to have a change of heart. His whole demeanor and countenance reflect the light of the gospel now.

If any of you who know him would like to keep in touch, his address in the MTC is:

Elder Taylor R. Moss
Idaho Boise Mission
Provo MTC
2005 N. 900 E.
Provo, UT 84604

After September 9th, send mail to:

Elder Taylor R. Moss
Idaho Boise Mission
1111 S. Cole Road
Boise, ID 83709-1869 I'm sure he would love to hear from you!!

WANDERING AROUND NORTH AMERICA

For the past five-plus weeks, I have been busy. I traveled back to Pennsylvania with my mother and spent almost four weeks there, helping her get settled in a retirement home, Country Meadows. I also visited with family and friends, doing numerous things which will be a few of my upcoming blogs.

I flew back to Canada and spent another week driving hither and yon to meet a few more of Calvin's sisters and see even more of the beautiful scenery that is Canada. Posts and pictures to follow.

THE MISSION CALL COMETH

After much waiting ~~and then receiving his call on Friday while he was on his way with the Single Adults to Palmyra, NY and having to wait until Saturday night to open ~~ Taylor, youngest of my four sons, will be serving a two-year mission in the Idaho Boise Mission!! He reports to the MTC on August 19th to begin this chapter of his life. OK, so there were plenty of
spud, potato and the RM movie jokes to go around..... I'm proud of him and he will serve the Lord and the people of Idaho wonderfully.

My Garden One Week Later!

Here is my garden, one week later. Strawberries on the left (see the ONE red berry), followed by two rows of carrots, not up yet. Four rows of green beans, tomatoes, lettuce (not up), a cute row of radishes, ending with onions. It's time to add the Miracle Gro!

Frost Warning -- Blessing Under Cover

These are pictures of my garden a week ago when we had frost warnings -- on June 7th and 8th!! And on June 5th we had two inches of snow overnight!! So we had to protect our little strawberries, beans and tomatoes with garbage bags and overturned pots. I had been wondering why my seeds had not yet popped through the earth, and then we got the frost warnings. A day or two later, everything started to come up and then I understood why my garden had remained dormant.... to protect it from freezing. When Heavenly Father says to pray over your fields and crops, He will truly bless you if you do it.