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Summertime Stories: Part 2

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On Flag Day, the boys made a Flag Cake for MomMom’s birthday:

And it just so happened that they were enrolled in the Macon County Arts Council Art in the Park, so they were able to make some homemade gifts for me in addition to the homemade cards they made:

Summertime harvests started coming in…  INCLUDING the daffodils wild onions I planted everywhere.

 

 

 

And we found North Dakota to add to our “state rock” collection.

We met a Cherokee Indian storyteller at the summer library program, which fit in nicely with the Native American studies we completed this summer.  After hearing the Cherokee story about “How the deer got its antlers,” Stephen kept raising his hand to ask him things like, “How did the frog get its legs?  How did the elephant get its ears?”

Then we enjoyed some Big Apple Adventures

And when Gary came home, we returned to the place that started it all, Burgess Falls.  It was right here (in 2009) that Gary and I decided to follow our dreams of owning a farm in Tennessee.

 

 

 

This place was what started our farm search and our lives here at Half-a-Hundred Acre Wood.  It is what helped me to walk away from a lucrative career as a corporate engineer/businesswoman and focus on the most important job I’ve ever had:  raising boys!
About six months after that first visit to Burgess Falls, we were preparing to leave Houston to come back to Tennessee.  Since then, it has been a great big adventure for us (including things like running COMPLETELY out of water, the battle of the bees, the wasp wars, a tough church search, and the great “good-griefs” of raising guineas)!  And looking back, I can see God’s hand in our lives guiding us every step of the way!  I wouldn’t trade it for anything!

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