Buy American

While we celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend... make a resolution to try to buy American. When we buy American, we keep our dollars here, we help American business and the foreign countries can't mess with our dollar.

For the most part, we in American have everything we need or access to it. There is so much cheap stuff flooding our markets. It is a waste of money to buy junk. Plan your purchases and ask or check and see if it is American made.

Check out the following site on buying American. It has many links and with research companies that are American. Not everything is manufactured out of the country. I'm sure that when we demand American made, we can usually get American made. Let's do our part to strengthen our dollar, our businesses and our country. http://www.howamericanscanbuyamerican.com/

This is a fun site to look at, lots of information, sites to check out and an and insist that we drill here, drill now, pay less... to get our freedom back from foreign oil. It is ridiculous to purchase foreign oil when we have access to our own and more.Web site for drill here, drill now, pay less: http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions/?Guid=54ec6e43-75a8-445b-aa7b-346a1e096659

"There have been over one million, two hundred thousand signers. Americans are getting serious about our fuel needs, our economy and our freedom from foreign oil. Yeah, go for it!"

In closing, enjoy your holiday, thank God for your freedom to worship and live in a free America. We have the best country on earth. Don't let others do your thinking for you. Stand up and do your part to make America great. I'm not saying that you can never buy other countries goods, no, we need to buy good quality goods. But, I am saying especially for now, buy American. Don't spend your hard earned cash on junk and lets try to get our country stable again. Little by little, bit by bit, we can do it!

God Bless America

God Bless America,

Land that I love.

Stand beside her, and guide her

Thru the night with a light from above.

From the mountains, to the prairies,

To the oceans, white with foam

God bless America, My home sweet home.

Blogging, Oh My...

Surprise, I'm blogging again. It has been a real challenge to blog this month. I have been so busy with working, vacationing, camping and so on...

The garden is coming along. The rains are just perfect and so is the weather. I just love it. I'm not a fan of real hot weather. I like it on the cooler side.

Saturday, I worked at the Master Gardeners Miami County Garden Tour. I wasn't able to see all the gardens because I had so much to do at the beginning of last week after I got back from camp. But, the garden that I worked at and a couple others that I saw by just driving by, were very nice.

We just had our Phillips Family Reunion and I got to see some of my family from other states as well as those in Oh. It is so nice to talk about old times and find out how they are doing now.

Well, That's about it for today!

Back From Camp...

We got back from camp Sun. night. Of course, we spent yesterday cleaning out the camper. I still have things to get put away since I've had gardening, yard work and other jobs to do. So, we are back in the groove of things.

Beth and I picked cherries this morning. Isaiah ate cherries this morning sooo... he had the time of his life running around the tree, playing in the grass and eating cherries. :)

We came back to my house and hoed in the garden. The last beans that I planted came up great! It is starting to get exciting. We have 3 really nice cabbage heads and the potatoes are looking great too. The garlic is coming through, the later tomatoes are looking good, and the corn is getting big. The corn that I started inside (my experiment) is tasseling. It is early sun glow and it is a small corn, so we'll see how it does. Anyway, that was a fun project.

Isaiah picked the first two red tomatoes. Yeah! Our goal is by the fourth of July and we beat it by well over a week. The funny thing is the green one he picked, I didn't get fried and it turned red while I was at camp.

I'll try to get some garden pictures later. Right, now there are a few more things to get in and then I can get a breather. The real harvesting shouldn't start until August and that is nice because we start getting cooler evenings. Beth's baby is due in November so I know that she is anxious to get things put away by September.

It has been a great June. Nice rains and cool weather. What more can you ask for. It was just, one nice spring! In fact, our time at camp was great. It was very comfortable in the services. That was a blessing!

"Oh, remember this, there is never a time when we may not hope in God."

-George Mueller

Still More Gardening...

I knew that it was going to rain so I hurried out this morning and planted another row of green beans. The last green beans that I planted didn't come up real good...to cold and wet, so some rotted. Hopefully, these will come up good. I'll plant some more after our church camp if I need to. I also, put in some more tomato plants and some garlic sets. I planted some zinnia seed too. These were some that I saved from last year and I just wanted to cover an area with flowers. I got a little roto-tilling and weed work done and then it ... rained. Yeah...I was needing it. It saved me from getting out the watering can for my plants.

The picture is of the peony by our mail box. It was really pretty this year. It is a pink one that Merrill's Grandmother Lavy had so it is very old. I divided it and put it by the mail box.

Now, I'm thinking about taking a little rest. Merrill came home and is getting a little siesta now.

Sounds like a good idea to me. :)

Garden Almost In...

Beth, Isaiah and I worked in the garden this morning. It is quite fun gardening with a two year old. Now, he wants to be in and a part of it, but from experience, we may have a little struggle in a few years. Anyway, we got quite a bit done with the weeding and planting.

This is a picture of a tomato that Isaiah thought needed to be off the plant. I guess I'll make lemonade out of lemons, so to speak, and make fried green tomatoes.

Sad note, Paul and Candy got their car stolen. I got an early call from Ryan. He said, "someone stole our car!." (I thought he'd called so early to tell me of something exciting that they were going to do.) Candy's purse was in the car, but they only took her credit and debit cards. They threw the rest of her purse and contents in the bushes. They stole Paul's GPS and some other things too. They stole a neighbor mans billfold out of his car.

They were able to get finger prints off the neighbors kids Bible. I don't think that the finger prints in Paul's car weren't real clear. Maybe, just maybe, they should have tried reading it and forgot the whole theft thing, but that didn't happen.

To make a long story short, Sherlock Holmes,as I call Paul, or Magnum PI, as Paul calls himself, got on the investigation. He talked to the neighbors, and got some important information which he handed over to the police and the robber has been apprehended. A sad day that ends a little better. I'm not sure they'll get everything back, but at least they have a car and they got the credit cards stopped.

Well, that is a little of today's news. We just never know what a day holds!