Memory Lane Mondays

Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Smith


In the year 1988 we began Our Future
the Future of the Smith Gang.
We decided it would be fun to share our Memories with the Creation of our Blog so Our SmithGang could take a look back in time with Daddy and Moma ,so we have started 

Memory Lane Monday
on Mondays we will share an
old Photo of Our Gang
and some of Our Memories on it
Hope you Enjoy

So for this Wedding Day Picture ...
We were wed in Central Hatchee ,Georgia
in 1988
We met 1986 in Hogansville,Georgia while we were both working at Uniroyal Textile Company.
My Smitty asked me to marry him on Christmas Eve 1987,
I said Yes,Yes, Yes!!
From that Day forward we have been together.
We Married in October 1988

A Marriage brings Unity

Father,Keep them in Your NAME,
the name that You have given Me,
that they may be one even as We are.
John 17:11


to have and to hold,
 from that day forward,
for Better or for Worse ,
For Richer or Poorer
In sickness and in Health ,
to LOVE and to Cherish
till Death do US Part
We are One

23 years has alot of Memories , Memories to Share
We  continue with Our Hopes, Joys and Dreams for
Our  Future SmithGangs

May You all have a wonderful Monday and take a Stroll Down Your Memory Lane,
Love from Our SmithGang

Nature Photos from Around the Farm

                                  Yesterday my Hubby and I walked around the yard for
                                                                  2 Awesome reasons 
                                             1. To Get My Own Physical Therapy going 
                 2. We wanted to look around the Farm and find some nice Nature pics to link
                                                        up with his Sweet Sisters Blog .
                                                   A Family of Looneys
                                                    She is doing her very first Linky Party :)
                                                                
                         I am always late lol. gotta a few excuses I could claim this week :)
you can find her Link to the Nature Photos here http://afamilyoflooneys.blogspot.com/2012/04/nature-photo-tuesday.html

This was the First Day we saw these , Woohoo!!

I always think these are totally KOOL!

These tiny little Purples may be weeds but I think they deserve a shot they look so Peaceful Blowing in the Wind

Had to share this Veggie Shot , How  Neat are the Criss Crosses on these Leeks we are growing :)

Now a Beautiful Deep Red Surprize for Tim and I
This is a lone Lettuce Plant that we found straggling of to the old Garden Patch waiting to be tilled.
Made a Great addition to Our Salad at Lunch
That Deep Red is Amazing!!

The Don Juans are coming In

Every Thing is Coming up Roses lol 



Thanks to My sweet sisnlaw Rochelle
Tim and I
had a Beautiful Afternoon
around the Farm
Hope You all get a Chance to Be Outside today to Enjoy and find Nature Life
Love from Our Smith Gang

A Health Screening Date

                             For Valentines Day I gave my Husband a
                                      Gift of a Health Screening

His appt. was last week ,we spent Our Date day together and he took part of  The Life Line Screening

He signed in ,filled out a few questions and off he went

I am one that fully believes in Preventive Health Screens
My husband and I have been to several and it seems each time we have found out a health issue with a few basic easy health test.
I had started running Marathons and was so Blessed to attend one called
The Never Quit Never,
where they do Blood Pressure checks on the beach . I insisted MySmitty get his checked it was a little high! I was in this Marathon in Honor of my younger brother who had a stroke before age 40 so the Alarm bells went off when they told my husband his Blood Pressure was up, we had no idea. He went to the doctor as soon as we got back and had it checked and placed on meds, so I am very thankful for that Health Screen.

I received a coupon in the mail for this Screening and it just kept being placed on my Heart to sign Hubby up. So for Valentines Day I called and made him an Appt.
Thought alittle
LOVE to the Body was the
Best CHOCOLATE I could give him.

The Screen was  easily explained

After a Quick Weigh In he began
He said everyone was very nice and explained every step

                                Here is a Few of the Screenings
                                      On the Cards you can see what the Screenings where about
                                              and actually what they do for that Screening

Bone Density

AAA Screening

CA Screening

AF Screening

PAD Screening

                 The Testing was very Easy he said and we where given some other test results such as Blood Pressure ,a Glucose Screening that he Fasted for ,A Cholesterol Check ( still need more Fish in our diet n supplements for him, we are working on that  )and a few more .
 
                    After his Screening we had a Picnic in the Truck at the Health Fair , Ham Sandwiches ,Sweet Tea and MySmitty's Favorite My Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies. He Said A Sweet Blessing  and WE Enjoyed our Picnic:)

        Last week was definately a week for Doctor visits MySmitty also had a followup and on his Colonoscopy that was recently done our doctor said Welcome to being 50 lol, everything came back non-cancerous but he did receive news he will have to repeat every 3 years not 5. Then I had another RFA done on my Lower Back last Friday still so sore but I can stand now and have made it outside a couple times:) Just going to Rest this week.

                       May You all have a Beautiful Week ,
               If you get a chance sign up for a Health Screen
                             It just may save YOUR Life!
                       Love From Our Smith Gang 






                

The Faithful Beautiful Mustard Seed

After all the mustard plants were harvested  I saved this sprig of one of our Mustard Plants . I watched my daddy save some Mustard seeds  last year (2010) and actually this Mustard was grown from his saved seed from that year.

I stripped the plant

Then crumbled the dried pods till the seeds fell out.

Did the Best I could,will continue to blow off the dried pods, 
I managed this amount for next years planting :)

I kept looking at the Beautiful dried plant , Grabbed a Bow and made this little Arrangement.
Everytime I look at it I am reminded
"If I have Faith even as small as a Mustard Seed All Things are Possible"
O how much that Prayer means to Me these Days!!

As a grain of mustard-seed - See the notes at Matthew 13:31-32. The mustard-seed was the smallest of all seeds. It has been supposed by some, therefore, that JESUS meant to say, If you have the smallest or feeblest faith that is genuine, you can do all things. The mustard-seed produced the largest of all herbs. It has been supposed by others, therefore, to mean, If you have increasing, expanding, enlarged faith, growing and strengthening from small beginnings, you can perform the most difficult undertaking. There is a principle of vitality in the grain of seed stretching forward to great results, which illustrates the nature of faith. Your faith should be like that. This is probably the true meaning.
Ye shall say unto this mountain ... - Probably he pointed to a mountain near, to assure them that if they had such faith they might accomplish the most difficult undertakings - things that at first would appear impossible.     You can find this info here at this link for more Study.    http://bible.cc/matthew/17-20.htm





                           May You have a Blessed Sunday
                       and Blessings of Faith to Your Family,
                                    From Our Smith Gang

Happenings On the Farm

       With the ending of our English Pea season we just pulled up the whole vine brought it to the Porch and picked the peas right off!! Now that beats back bending :D !!

We are just so thrilled how they filled out

I think they have the cutest little flowers

I shelled and shelled, this is hard for me because just like crocheting ,it puts me to
 SLEEP:)
So RELAXING !
Our 2012 English Pea total for  the freezer was 12 quarts , not bad for our first time and only .35cents worth of seed:)

Sophia and I have been picking Clover to feed the Rabbits.They love it .Sophias  walking has taken off.She definately goes where she wants now. lol

Just loving the moment.

Watching MySmitty cut the Pasture

He was making a path so we could walk the pasture and see snakes if we walked up on one. Rattlesnacks seems to be our pastures choice of snakes:/

Love how all the trees are now so full and Green

One of our tiny Corn Patches this year we decided to scatter corn all over the different garden patches.

Heres another several weeks behind the other.
This one is not grown on the plastic wanted to see how it does.

Just loving this beautiful Potatoe Patch I sure fretted over it for several days . Why ? look at picture below!

My goodness those Potatoe Bugs moved in  and were eating the patch so quick. We really didn't want to use a chemical but we had to put seven dust on them.

These bugs are not your friends !

The dusting helped the next day thewhole patch was bug free.We usually never add anything but manure on our plants so this kinda concerned me.The newpaper mulch has really helped keep the weeds out I have been just amazed!

Tiny little Potatoe Blooms are popping up everywhere. We must be doing something right.This is our first Potatoe Patch.

Tim signed me up last year for a Birthday Package to receive seeds monthy for a year. It has been so exciting each month to see what I will get from them each month.

This month I received 2 kinds I have never seen this ought to be a fun challenge, the Cress and Borage I have never heard of. Hope they grow well here.

This is a nice pot of my homemade Washing Liquid simmering , I really LOVE making my own Laundry detergent now.So easy and so much cheaper.You can find the recipe here http://www.ehow.com/how_2054303_homemade-laundry-detergent.html , my sisnlaw made us all some one year for christmas been hooked every since .

While the laundry detergent simmered I made an egg custard for the first time ,been making Pies lately. the guys were like umm mom this is alittle to gooey for us. Funny thing tho they loved the Buttermilk Pie think I'll just stick to making that:)

I was so excited Friday while Tim and I were on our Lunch date Friday, I found him this grapevine to add to the Farm, we had been talking about working on adding fruits to the Farm .we have planted 2 fig trees and the Banana tree  , well sprig lol , it came back up  , so this is a nice addition.

Here is the variety its a Sunbelt Grapevine .I like the name seeing how we do have The Sunbelt Ag EXPO here in our town in Georgia . I thought nicely Priced, Wally World had some for $10, so Lowes was a blessing:)

Now to pick a perfect spot:)Oh yeah found the Sweet Potatoe Vines ,geez these were hard to find , the store has constantly sold out each shipment. I have never planted them so I had no eyes to plant.O another First for us, see the little tomatoe plant its a Black Cherry Tomatoe kinda excited to see if these will grow here it is a Beautiful Plant. 


Hope you enjoyed some of the happenings around the
Smith Gangs Farm,
Love from Our Gang