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More From Our Garden!

Today, Matthew, Joe, Lydia, and I went out into the garden to pick some radishes, spinach, lettuce, and zucchini. (Sorry that the pictures are in the wrong order. Blogger isn't working too well.)

Our dinner! Everything in this salad is from our garden! (Except the carrots=)It's so much fun to live off the land!

Lydia and I washing the lettuce.

Our Garden!

I have to keep up with Krista, so here's a post about our garden.=)

Our crazily over grown tomatoes.


There's a mole in our garden!




Lettuce and radishes

Our first zucchini!

~Susi

That Ragged Old Flag

I walked through a county courthouse square
On a park bench an old man was sitting there
I said "Your old court house is kinda run down"
He said "naw it'll do for our little town"
I said "Your old flag pole is leaned a little bit,
And that's a ragged old flag you got hanging on it"
He said "Have a seat" and I sat down,
“Is this the first time you've been to our little town?”
I said I think it is
He said…
"I don't like to brag but we're kinda proud of that Ragged Old FlagYou see we got a little hole in that flag there when Washington took it across the Delaware
And it got a bad rip in New Orleans , with Packingham & Jackson tugging at the seams,
and it almost fell at the Alamo beside the Texas flag,
But she waved on though,
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville ,
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill,
There was Robert E. Lee & Beauregard and Bragg,
and the South wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag.On Flanders Fields in World War I,
She got a big hole from a Bertha Gun,
She turned blood red in World War II,
She hung limp & low a time or two,
She was in Korea , Vietnam…
She went where she was sent by her Uncle Sam.
She waved from our ships upon the briny foam
& now they've about quit waving back here at home
in her own good land here, She's been abused,
She's been burned, dishonored, denied, an' refused,
And the government for which she stands
has been scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting thread bare, and she's wearin' thin,
But she's in good shape, for the shape she's in.
Cause she's been though the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more.So we raise her up every morning
And we take her down every night,
We don't let her touch the ground,
And we fold her up right. ...
On second thought –
I *do* like to brag,
Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag ... "

-Johnny Cash

New Afghan Blog!

We finally got our afghan blog working. We'll be adding more, but here it is! Please send it on!

http://countrywarmthafghans.blogspot.com/

What do you think?

~Susi

Sarah brushing Reagan's teeth

The first produce of our garden!

My Little Angel, Reagan

I have a little puppy,

Well, maybe not so small.

She’s the cutest pup on earth.

Yes, cuter than them all.

My puppy’s name is Reagan.

And she is six months old.

She likes to give me hugs;

Although she’s much too big to hold.

She can shake hands, oh yes!

And she can sit, fetch, and heel.

But when I call “here”,

She’ll only come when I have a meal.

She has a chocolate coat.

And her eyes are so pleading.

She loves to meet new people

And gives them a big greeting.

Her home is the back yard.

And she loves to dig.

The yard is a total mess.

She lives like a little pig!

She’s got lots of nick names.

Imp, Old Goose, Pooch, Vicious Brute

She chews everything she sees.

Slippers, shoes and many a boot.

Although she’s very naughty,

And bites all too often;

She’ll always be my little angel,

My little Reegan, Reagan, Rawgan!

~Susanna R. Criss

Pendragon - Sword of His Father

A few weeks ago, Laura was looking at some blogs and found on Young Ladies Christian Fellowship website a drawing that you had to enter your families favorite movie and win the movie Pendragon. She entered Hansie’s and my email address and we won! We weren’t totally thrilled, as we had heard that it was a gory movie. We received it in the mail yesterday and decided to have a girls night and watch it. Sarah, Laura, Hannah, Rebekah and I walked to the grocery store, (which is a long walk from our house) and bought some ice cream bars, popsicles, candy bars, and pop. When we got back home it was nine forty-five. Rebekah quickly put Lydia to bed and Sarah made the guys’ lunches. Then we set up the laptop on a TV tray in Sarah’s and Laura’s room and then all five of us piled onto Laura’s bed. When we first started the movie, we were kinda skeptical, since we have watched several of the film festival movies that weren’t the greatest. But let me tell you that once I watched Pendragon, I rated it at the top of my list of favorite movies!


A.D. 411 - Roman Legions depart the Isle of Britain; the people are left to defend themselves. Artos Pendragon lives in a coastal village with his parents and sister. As they prepare for the coming storm, Artos’ father teaches him that God has a purpose for his life. But when Saxon raiders burn the village and murder his father, Artos discovers that following God’s calling to defend his people will cost him everything. This is a very dramatic movie and it doesn’t show any blood!

Click here http://burnsfamilystudios.com/movies/pendragon/ to learn more about and buy Pendragon

~Susi

25 Random Things About Me ~ Hanna

1- I love music, especially Baroque and colonial America music.

2- I love to read, especially history. My favorite time period in history is colonial America. I also enjoy reading about resistance in occupied countries during World War II. I also have been reading more inspirational. One of my favorite books that I just finished reading is “A Woman After God’s Own Heart” by Elizabeth George.

3- I love being and choosing to be feminine at every opportunity.

4- I love using the words Pathetic and Dramatic.

5- I like to wear blue, as it brings out my eyes.

6- I love to dress up in period costumes!

7- I enjoy crocheting and am learning to knit. I also want to do more sewing, embroidery, and cross-stitching.

8- I want to (Lord willing) get married and have lots of children.

9- I enjoy gardening.

10-I think writing is essential. I would trade all of my music talent to know how to write.

12- I do not like cold weather. I think hot weather is very dramatic. (If you don’t know what I mean ask me.)

13- I want marry a farmer and do Joel Salatin style farming.

14- I do not enjoy cooking, but I need to learn to like it.

15- I absolutely love to eat!J

16- I’m very lazy, but I am working on it.

17- My favorite Bible character is David.

18- I do not like eating off dessert forks. When I have soup, I have to have a big spoon and when I have ice cream, I have to have a small spoon or it will irritate me.

19- My favorite flower is lavender. I love the scent.

20- I don’t really like animals, but because Reagan stole my heart, I love dogs. And I’ve always loved cats.

21- I love dramatic movies (i.e. Pendragon, Iron Will, and The Young Pioneers)

22- I love the smells of coffee, hay, and books

23- I like the taste of coffee, but I don’t drink it.

24- I’m learning to be patriotic even when our country’s backward.

25- My heart's desire is to be a woman after God’s own heart.

~Hanna Krist

25 Random Things About Me ~ Susi

1- I am a Christian.

2- I love Music! Especially baroque and folk music.

3- I am a fruit fly! I absolutely love fruit! My favorites are berries and melons.

4- I don NOT like to dress up. Only unless it’s a historical costume.

5- I am very lazy. But I have been working on that.=)

6- I enjoy writing. I’m writing a book right now and I love writing letters!

7- I love reading. My favorite books are “Before You Meet Prince Charming” and “Stepping Heavenward”.

8- I crochet and knit. I don’t like to sew, but I want to learn so I can sew my own clothes someday.

9- I love horses, cats and dogs! Especially my little angel, Reagan!

10- I used to be a tomboy. I didn’t want anything to do with a girl. I really have had to work in that area.

11- I do not like anything to do with hospitals, blood, and any other medical things.

12- I am terrified of snakes, spiders, bugs, frogs, toads, lizards, and any other creeping creatures.

13- I do not like having long finger nails. I’ve tried to grow them out to be more lady-like, but they irritate me so much that I have to clip them.

14- I am a pack rat. I keep piles of junk under my bed.

15- I don’t like shopping.

16- I do not like to get new shoes. Isn’t four pairs enough? And I don’t like to get new purses or clothes. Doesn’t it say in Proverbs “Let us all have one purse”? =)

17- I prefer winter over summer. Mostly because there’s no bugs and spiders. And I don’t like hot weather. And it’s my birthday and Christmas!

18- I don’t like to garden, although I want to be a farmers wife someday, Lord Willing, and grown all my food in a garden. I guess I’ll have to work on that.

18- I like to bake, but I don’t really enjoy cooking. I prefer the cleanup.

19- My favorite people in history are George Washington, George Washington Carver, Adoniram and Ann Judson, Abraham Lincoln, and Benjamin Franklin.

20- My favorite subjects in school are reading, writing, and history.

21- I don not like math or science.

22- I do not like peas or cooked mushrooms. I got over not liking red peppers and spinach.

23- I am very absent minded.

24- I absolutely love children and babies.

25- I hope to be a wife and mother someday, Lord Willing.

~Susi Krist

New Blog!

Hello and welcome to our new blog! We finally decided to start a personal blog. We hope to post at least once a week. We'll let you guess what country our names came from.=) We would love to hear your comments! Please let us know what you think!

~Hanna and Susi