Sabbath school class: this week read the first 14 Psalms and memorize at least one verse of the 14 to share with the class. We read last week that people in Bible times memorized much more readily than we do now and we talked about how we need to memorize more because in the time before Jesus comes we might not have our Bibles any more and we will need to comfort ourselves and others with God's Word, and hence the only way we can do that is by memorizing.
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The nanking cherries (wild type cherries) did well this year and the ones that I planted 6 years ago when I first moved here, the ones God blessed and made live, did the best. I made 10 batches of jelly yesterday! It only took me 7 1/2 hours to do it and that was after all my morning jobs away from home! And there are still more to pick if I feel in the mood. I'm sort of thinking that the birds could enjoy the rest.
When we first moved here, Pat was gone helping his Dad back in Denver so I tried to dig holes to plant the trees that I'd lucked into because someone didn't want their order from the conservation agency. The ground was like concrete and I couldn't dig a deep enough hole to bury roots so I finally heeled them in and told God if they lived it would be because he made them live despite my pathetic efforts. And they did live and they always out bloom, give the most berries and it is because of God and God alone that they do well.
The others that we planted the next year do okay, though. The next year we planted wild plums and hackberry trees. All are doing good, if is continues as it looks I'll be making plenty of plum jelly later this summer. The hackberry are just a deciduous tree that forms a wind break.
Our asparagus plants are doing wonderful and our mouths are watering for that tiny crop we can eat next year and the big crop we can eat the year after that!
I had to replant the okra as the first crop didn't take and we are going to have to re-plant carrots, beets and parsnips as the first planting did so poorly. We have so much wind here! It dries the soil and since it rarely rains (high desert) we have to irrigate everything and we have had a late melt this year (hasn't happened yet!) our irrigation water has been cut to only 60% of what we usually get. But we are finding that sawdust is good to put on top of tiny seeds so it will hold in the moisture better and give it more of a chance to germinate. Our tomatoes are pathetic, too. We are trying to germinate some more in the shop to supplement but something, a mouse?, ate almost all the tiny first leaves off 2 nights ago!
Well, I'd better get back to cleaning my craft room, any excuse to play seems more fun! If I'd quit being such a pack rat and if I'd put things back when I was done; I'd be someone else! Kind of like telling someone today my weeds are growing...like weeds!
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