Bits & Pieces Of Our Weekend

The great news is " My HERBS" are actually growing !!!!

The word Miracle comes to mind :)

No pics of my garden ....

That would be way too embarrassing ...

My girls were in the local parade with their basketball teams ....

Here they come now, Hal & Mag are walking beside the truck ...

Yep ~ those two burgandy dots ....

Miss. Maggey

Miss. Halley

Miss. Maggey again ...

Miss. Halley again ...

Cooper waiting for his big sisters to come down the parade route ....

Complete with grocery bag for all the candy he is hoping will be thrown ....

There was lots of swimming ....

My baby getting older, swimming with no help just the trusty lifejacket ...

Acting silly ...

Cooling off ....

The Longest Covered Bridge in the world at sunset http://www.town.hartland.nb.ca/html/bridge.htm

Playing until the fireworks begin ....

Fireworks over the water ... 

What better way to end a hot summer day :)

She's Home :)

We picked Maggey up tonight from her week at Camp Shiktehawk. She came home bearing tons of dirty Laundry !! She is sunburnt and exhausted but she had an Amazing ~ Fun week :)

After a much needed scrub down , she went to the sofa to recover ....

While she did that, Halley washed the van ....

Daddy and Cooper mowed ....

You might be wondering ....

Where am I during all this ? 

Remember the Laundry ?

So glad to have everyone back under the same roof again ...

This Mama will sleep soundly tonight ...

Jam ! Jam ! Jam !

Yesterday I made 4 batches of Strawberry Jam. I picked my strawberries a few weeks ago but I was way too cheap to pay full price for all that sugar so waited for it to go on sale :) It did! $1.49 per 2 kg! Got to be thrifty people !!!

To make 4 batches of jam, you need 16 cups of crushed strawberries, 28 cups of SUGAR ~  I know ~ so healthy ! You also need 4 packages of Liquid Pectin, 1 Cup of Lemon Juice and 2 tbsp of Butter .

First boil all of your lids ....

Then wash out your jars, fill them with boiling water, then put them in the oven on low while you are cooking the jam to sanitize them ...

Start with all those berries, throw them into a huge pot. I made a double batch at a time. They say not to make more than two batches at a time or your jam might not set. Can't risk that :)

Then dump in all that SUGAR and the Lemon Juice....

Stir it up nice and good ...

Bring it to a hard boil for 1 min. Keep stirring, then take it off the burner and add your pectin and I throw in a little butter, as it's supposed to help get rid of the foam. Then stir for 5 minutes to get all the foam out...

Put it in jars, let them set and listen for the popping :)

Heaven in a jar :)

More Of Campobello Island & St. Andrews By The Sea

The Lighthouse on Campobello Island ....

They say it is the most photographed lighthouse in the world ....

Here's a better picture of it I found online .....

and another one I found taken in the evening .... Beautiful ....

One more shot of the Roosevelt home ....

Picking up shells on the rocky beach ....

Wild Strawberries along the way .....

The kiddos posing on the porch at The Hubbard House ....

Little Man being made to hold a hand ....

He almost always escapes ....

Check out his feet !!

NO RUBBER BOOTS !!!

That all changed about 1/2 hour after this pic, he dug them out and put them back on ....

I tried ....

Finding beautiful Sea Cucumbers ...

Daddy being with his girls ....

This big boat pulled up while we were down on the dock at The Roosevelt Home ...

Our retirement boat perhaps .....

I personally believe there is nothing as peaceful to look at than the water ....

The kids at The Gables Restaurant ... that lobster actually has pretty scary looking eyes ...

Just noticed that ....

Boats docked ....

The sun going down over the water ....

The end of a great day :)

Maggey's Gone To Camp

Our Maggey went to church camp today ....

If your wondering why I didn't take a pic of the actual cabin. 

It's because it was raining ~ HARD ! 

Though it doesn't look like it in the pic....

Thunder, lightning, power outages, tree limbs everywhere ...

Tons of fun dropping kids off in that kind of weather ....

I won't see her for 112 more hours ....

She's having fun though with her cousin and her friends ....

She didn't show any signs of homesickness ....

It's her Mother I'm worried about ....

Good News though ....

Only 111 hours and 45 minutes before we pick up our girl ....