I have not much to post. I have been trying to deal with the heat and the busy part of summer. I noticed my garden is slowing down but not stopping. The green beans have began the second round of blossoms.I am glad I did not pull them up when they looked so scraggly. I probably need to give them a light fertilizing.Then plenty of water. I had a disaster with my sweet pickles. I tried to use a pressure canner on a couple small batches because I was reusing a 2 quart pickle jar. Well the jar I opened had soft pickles. Not bad just overcooked. So lesson learned. Too high of a processing temperature is not good. I am thankful I have many more jars to eat besides those. I just hate that I wasted two weeks and so much sugar.
My dad became deathly ill. I did not find out until days later. It seems that my family did not have the new number. I must have missed giving it to them. He almost died and still has a long way to go to get where he can get around again. I sure hope we can get him back into his home. It is almost impossible to find a decent rest home that takes Medicare and military insurance. I hate the way our government treats our elderly. Those who have helped make our nation great are treated with no respect.I am thankful my big brother is up there to care for him.
I worked in the garden pulling up spent corn stalks today. Hard work but it needed done. I really want to plant a fall garden of collard greens, maybe some beets and a couple other things. Not as large as the spring/summer one but a little more to help fill the pantry.I just have to wait for the stalks to dry and we will have a burn for them. I am so ready for fall and all of the cooler weather.I do not handle heat well anymore.
That is all worth mentioning right now. One last thought. Our former church sanctuary that burned is down and the lot is cleared. So we can move forward to looking and planning a new building. Our current pastor resigned and is moving back to his home state of Tennessee. I wish him and his family great success and happy times. I will miss them fiercely.He may not be my pastor anymore but he will always be my friend and brother in Christ. I hope you will pray with me for the Lord to bring us a pastor who will not be afraid to tell it like it is and to step on toes if he needs to in love. I pray for one who will reach the hearts with God's help of the stony hearted ones who seemed to have run the last pastor off. I will not go into details because I know not all of them.It might be biased.
May God bless you and keep you. Diana
