Let The Summer Fun Begin

Well, Arkansas was good to us. We didn't have many more days left. Our youngest son and our daughter in law came to visit us. They were going to a concert and we were close enough that they stayed with us one night. We had a double date night and took the to eat at our favorite place. Dallas remembers this place because we use to come visit dad when he was there working and we had some days out of school. We would take road trips. Dad had to go to work the next day  but they took me out to lunch for Mother's Day. They had to leave to get to their hotel. They had a good little vacation time for themselves. 

School was coming to a close and it was Awards Day. Our oldest granddaughter received two awards. She got a Reading Award because she is in the 1st grade and reading on a 3rd grade level. We are so proud of her. 
 

We had just a week left and I was going to make the best of it. I love to go to Lake Dardnelle and take a picnic lunch. There is a secluded spot I love to get and I also swim there. It was still a little chilly to be swimming. This particular day, I just took a lunch and had some little visitors. I felt like Snow White because all these little animals kept coming to say Hi to me. I had a little young squirrel, blue jay,  and wood pecker. The little squirrel climbed up in the tree behind me and sprawled out onto a branch and took himself a little nap. He got up, came down to see me, and literally ate out of my hand. Later, he brought some of his friends. I had a blue jay that kept landing on a branch above my head. I could tell he wanted some nuts out of my trail mix. He came and sat on the bench beside me. I saw mom geese and they brought their babies to the water to splash and drink. Then there was a snake that kept swimming back and forth. I kind of didn't want him coming to see me, he could stay right there in that water all he wanted. I swim in that water in that very spot. The wood pecker never got too close. But it reminded me of Woody Woodpecker that I grew up watching and my grandchildren love to watch it too. Then it was time for me to wrap up my work and head back. I had supper to prepare. 

The next night, dear hubby let me have the night off and we had a date night. One last time eating at our favorite place. If you ever visit Russellville, AR you have to eat at La'Villa Restaurant. It is awesome. Check out CJ's Burgers and Umami Japanese Restaurant.

Our time came to pack up and head home and we could not have been happier. I was ready to get home and check on my garden to see if it survived a few storms that passed through. I wasn't surprised because I had planted, prayed and left it in God's hands. It did just fine. 

I had been craving homemade bread and I wanted it right then. So I got out my bread machine. It turned out delicious. 

Dear hubby wanted homemade pizza one night. This is an older recipe I used to make when I started learning how to make homemade pizzas. This time I jazzed it up and stuffed the crust with mozzarella cheese. 

It was Memorial Weekend an our granddaughters got to spend a night with us. I had some cake mix and icing on hand so we made a cake. Just let them practice decorating with your cake decorating supplies. You never know what they will create. And it was delicious by the way.

First outdoor picnic of the season. 

We don't have scones with our tea parties, we have cake. 💜💜

It's a farm. There's going to be farm chores.

Pick a chore. Any chore. Do they change their minds 50 times? Yep. Do they get tired? Yep. But they are pretty good little farm hands and are learning.

Sometimes you just need to build a fort, grab snacky snacks and watch a movie.

This summer we are going to work on our sewing skills. Oh the possibilities. 

One day our oldest granddaughter who is 6 found some old homeschool curriculum that I had for her daddy and uncle. We had a stack of cursive writing formation flash cards. She literally took every card, looked at it, and drew it on paper with no assistance from me. She sat right there and taught herself. This was her results:

She then started writing her whole name. I was so impressed. My boys started learning how to write in cursive in Kindergarten.  You can teach a child to write this way. 

We had one last little tea party with some cake. 

Then it came time for them to go home and get ready to go on vacation. It is going to be really quiet around here. 

However, we can make the time go by with staying busy. We have alot of projects to do around here. 

Since we are downsized in the garden this year, we have got some flower bed projects and a deck railing to fix that got damaged in a storm while we were gone. Dear Hubby has plans to extend out back porch and possibly start a small front porch. Later we will put roofs above. Baby steps I guess. 

There are alot of things to be done here and get ready for summer. 

We have a pool to put back up and an outdoor area to set up. 

Looks like we need to get busy. Until the next post. 

Sincerely and God Bless,

Tracy

Keeper of the Home at 4D Farms

We Remember Memorial Day

 Today is the day we remember all who gave their all for the freedoms we have today. They paid the ultimate price. 

Let's Get Wiser

 I am a firm believer that God created everything for our substanance, but when mass production, commercial industries and long shelf life preservatives (chemicals) came on the scene, it depleted the nutrition and and added things our bodies don't need that makes us sick. 

You want better food and healthier bodies? Start reading labels and research. The food pyramid is still good for us, yes, even the carbs and starches. You have to use them wisely and know the resources where you get it from. God never intended harm to pur bodies only good.

New Videos On Our Channel

 Check out our newest videos on my YouTube channel and there is more to come 

There is a video for every niche. There are Homemaking, Gardening, Cooking and Canning. Hope you enjoy 😉 

Start Your Christmas Shopping Early

 I know it's just May, but here is a Christmas tip:

Look for sales coming up from all your favorite places you love to shop. Pick up gifts here and there from now until December. You will have your Christmas shopping done and here is another fact because I worked in retail for 5 yrs. Most of the sales they run through the year are some of the same ones they run for Black Friday specials. Sometimes they are even better.

You can also checkout my videos on how to get an early start and have stress free holidays. I promise, you will thank me later in the year.

You're welcome.

#christmas #christmasshopping #nostressholidays #getreadyforchristmas

Happy Mothers Day

 Happy Mothers Day to you from all of us here at 4D Farms. Be sure to catch my Homemakikg Series if you are looking for ideas to make your home and schedule run smoother. We wear many hats in our families and hold down the fort being Keepers of our homes. But it does not have to be hard or complicated. I have a whole playlist on Homemaking and more videos to come. See you in the next video. #newvideos #comingsoon #youtube

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Weekend Fun

 Well, I got up on this morning and started for home. 

You better believe while I was driving over that, that my sunroof was open and low and behold a barge was coming. Not today Satan.

I made it just in time to get in the car rider line at school to pick up one granddaughter. Then picked up the other one. Got home and unloaded. Changed clothes and got straight to work in the garden. We didn't have much time because the clouds were coming. We got it tilled and got one thing planted. We were exhausted. 

These girls work harder than some grown ups. Sweat and all. G-Maws little farm girls. 🚜 👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

The youngest wanted to learn how to run the tiller to like big sissy. So, I let her with super vision of course. I have a self propelled tiller that dear hubby got me because he loves making my life so much easier. 

Of course I had to bring some goodies home. Because that's how I roll. ❤️❤️

Since it rained all night, we couldn't get back in the garden the next day so it was a lazy, cozy, playing day. 

They loved the dresses I made. I guess I will be making more. I may make one for myself. You can read about it and see the dresses in previous posts. I need to finish one and I've got one more to make and will be doing a video on it as a tutorial. 

We had tea parties and hair dressing parties. 

The next day, it was still wet so we got to play more. They didn't get to get out in the garden with me before they had to go to Mommy's house. More rain was coming. 

The next day, I prayed for God to hold off the rain just long enough for me to get my tomato and pepper plants out. 

I left my Aerogardens with my momma back in February. She started some tomatoes and peppers in them for us. This is the result of her handy work. 👏

She did a very good job. They came to visit one day while the girls were here and brought them with them. More on that in a bit. 

I got them all in the ground and just as I got my behind in the back door, it started raining. 

We are downsizing the garden this year and only growing what we need to restock. We are only doing tomatoes,  peppers, okra and zucchini. The zucchini is only for Pickling. We have gone through just about every jar I canned last summer and same goes for the okra. 

The tomatoes will be for multiple things. We are out of peppers for cooking and canning roasted peppers. 

Our oldest son came and helped me section off the garden and put my solar electric fence back up for the new perimeter.  

If you want to know how we plant things in our garden, you can check out our Gardening Page here on our blog in the titles in the subheading. Or you can check out our videos on our Gardening Playlist on our YouTube channel. 

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As I said earlier, my Momma and Daddy came to visit. We used this as our Mothers Day visit because I would be going back to AR and wouldn't be here for Mothers day. 

We had a great visit. Our youngest son came and cooked us brunch and visited with us. 

After all was complete in the garden, I had to get ready to head out for AR again the next morning. 

I arrived back to dear hubby and all is well in his world again. Now that we have been at each other's side and me traveling with him the past few years, he had grown accustom to it and he hates when I'm not there. 

We only have a week left here on this job and we will be packing up and heading home. He is so excited to get back to doing all his things he loves and spending time with family. 

I've got to get in this kitchen and prep him some breakfast meals for work every morning. Before I left, I had him fixed up with breakfasts, lunches and suppers to last him until I got back. They are all gone and need to get him covered for this week. 

I will see you all in the next post. I might even do a post on make ahead freezer breakfasts for you that I'm going to go prep right now. Until then, enjoy this weather and your day. 

God Bless. 

Welcome May

 Bring on the month of May.