November ~2011~

Beautiful Alabama Color.

Trip to Alabama to the Annual knife sale at

Bear and Son Cutlery factory.

http://www.bearandsoncutlery.com/

While there we met the owner of Alabama Damascus Steel

(One of only three places in the U.S. that makes Damascus Steel.), and he invited us to

visit the shop and see how it's made.

It was amazing how much work goes into making this steel.

It really shows you why it's so strong (and expensive).

It's a very long and extensive process!!

It's worth a visit if you're ever in the area!!
http://www.alabamadamascussteel.com/servlet/Page?template=about

We had two camera's the entire trip,

but nobody seemed to turn it on the first couple days!!

These are some of what we did get :)


Picnic Time


(Picnics on the road = happiness)

My favorite restaurant,

the back of a truck!

After taking 20 pics, trying to get this girl to smile,

this is what we end up with, times 20.

:/

(Notice Ariana's cardboard spoon.)

Like Gabriel always says,

Improvise, Adapt and Overcome :)

:)

Looking for the brown gold.

Not sure what's so funny......... Could be Anything!!

Nope, I STILL don't like McDonalds..........

but I like McDonald's bags filled with delicious pecans!!!

You can't eat just one :)

The taste tester and tester and tester....

(It was hard to get her to stop!)

Wonderful family.

Now comes the fun part.

We ended up with about 5 quarts.

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Garden Goods

What a blessing to be able to pick peas in November.

Thank you, Lord, for your many blessings.

Time to pickle some okra.

This is about 12:30 A.M. and a nice hot cup of java is in store

for the long night ahead.

Ariana is so looking forward to her first sip of delicious java.

(Something is sure funny in the background.)

YUK!!

(This coffee is horrible!!)

What is this floating in my cup!?!

Still laughing........

I've been sabatoged!!

Lemmy put garlic in my coffee........and.....I'm so sad, so so sad...

Okay, the emotional sad time is over, time to get to work.

Okra has been producing the entire month of November

and is still producing into December.

I sure hope the December post does not include Okra.

Gloves for the heat....

as in, HOT peppers.

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Odds and Ends

Making Etsy shop items,

Gifts,

Costumes and Clothes.

Fun times with chalk.

Christiana's next vacation (Dream).

Making our annual Samaritan's Purse boxes with Liv.

And this concludes some of the goings on in November.

May we all, this Christmas,

with it's bright and special pleasure,

remember all year long,

that Jesus is,

our greatest treasure.

Merry Christmas