Howdy Sugar Pies! The old farmhouse has been bustling with lots of activity the past couple of weeks! Some delightful as you will soon see, and others called for lots of prayer. My dear hubby was bit by some kind of spider on his wrist. At 4:30 in the morning he woke me to pray for his arm, which I proceeded to do. We turned on the lights so I could see it. His arm had swelled up, was hot to the touch and there was also a red streak running up the length of his arm toward his shoulder. Not good. I insisted that we take him to the emergency room at the hospital. The Doctor said that hubby’s red streak was just inches away from a major medical problem. Thank the Lord we caught it in time (and for waking my hubby up in the wee hours in the morning!) Within 24 hours after taking a batch of anti-biotics his arm was back to normal. He is fine! God is good! Life has gone back to normal. Normal is a good thing and something to be thankful for!
Once all was well again I got back into the delightful routine of happy domesticity! With the Holidays just around the corner, I’ve been organizing the nooks and crannies of my home. One big project that I’m still working on is getting all of my books (my hubs says “too many books”…he may be right, but don’t tell him I said that) organized into catagories….library style. I’ve been weeding through my assortment, making piles to give away and piles according to subject matter.
Although they were somewhat organized a few years ago when we moved in, things have gotten a bit sloppy. When I tried to find a book that I knew I had, it would take me for-evah to find it! It was such a waste of precious time. Not anymore! Now they are in groupings of similar subjects and so much easier to find. I love the feeling of getting the old homestead back in order!
I’ve also been spending time with a certain adorable boy named Johnny!
My Oh HOnEy Johnny boy is my little dream-boat! He’s four months old and quite delicious! His mama…my daughter Ashley, is a wonderful devoted and happy mother! And everytime he comes to visit his Grammie is very very happy!
His beautiful blue eyes are always filled with wonder…all the world is facinating! Oh HoNey!
My Johnny-boy is a butterball of joy! Oh HoNeY!
We also had sweet Peggy come for a visit. Peg is my daughter-in-law Kimmy’s mama. I just love that Peggy travels with her favorite recipes!
She cooked a scrumptious meal for us and treated us to three pies for dessert…two kinds of chocolate pie and one blackberry…it was pie heaven! She lives in Austin, Texas and let me tell ya, that gal’s a real hoot ‘n’ holler as they say down here in the Ozarks! Everybody needs a friend like Peggy…so full of joy and the love of the Lord!
Since Fall is one of the best times to visit Silver Dollar City (an amusement park set in the theme of the 1800’s, just minutes from my home) I just had to get out there for their Harvest Festival!
I brought along my adorable, hilarious, ( did I say adorable?) friend Marla Jean, a sweet ‘n’ spunky Oklahoma girl . We decided it was a great day to go to the Silver Dollar City Culinary School to enjoy a fun cooking show presented in this darling farmhouse…
We got there a bit early so we sat on the rocking chairs and chatted like a couple of happy hens until it was time to go in…
Come take a peek inside!
The large kitchen has room for 35 students and the show is one hour.
The teacher is so friendly and perfectly chatty…she makes you feel like an old friend sittin’ at her kitchen table. Each day she prepares a different dish. On this day she made a mushroom sauce for steak and also sausage gravy for her amazing biscuits. Biscuits and gravy is a staple here in the Ozarks. You can find it at most restaurants in town. Back in Californy, where I’m from, we’ve never heard of it! West coast folks don’t know what they’re missin’!
After the show we strolled through the 1800’s park to enjoy the delightful harvest craftsmen and women. Miss Phyllis and her family came down from Kansas to demonstrate how to make Apple Butter. Oh my! It was the best I’ve ever tasted! Her secret is to add some “Red Hots” cinnamon candies to the mixture of apples and brown sugar! 
Here she is rolling dough for a crumb top apple pie that she’ll be baking in the wood stove behind her…the old fashioned way!
It was facinating to watch how she handled the dough and crimped the edges in her own quaint style!
Her daughter sat in the mellow warmth of a honeyed afternoon sunbeam with an enamel pan in her lap as she peeled and cored the crisp autumn apples. I can imagine that it was quiet moments like these that the brave and hard working prairie women would look forward to. A time to sit a while, catch their breath, pray and count their blessings… and even sing a hymn or two. With the aroma of fresh cut apples, a cool breeze and the gentle motion of peeling and slicing, I can see how such a simple task would bring a warm feeling thankfulness and well being. It fills a homemaker’s heart with tender joy doing those things that she knows will nurture and bless her family.
Some of the apples that have been prepared will be for the pie, but most of them will go into the old copper kettle to make several batches of farm fresh apple butter to spread on homemade biscuits and toast.
I could have chatted with Phyllis till the cows came home! She was so happy to answer all of my many questions. She told me that back in the olden days many farm folks in the midwest and south had a “Summer Kitchen”. It was open to the outdoors like this one here, because it was too hot to cook in the house during the heat of summer and early fall.
Canning jars, scrubbed clean and shiny, just waiting to be filled with apple goodness!
Phyllis’ hubby, John Dale, looking quite dapper in his straw farmer’s hat I might say, pitches right in preparing the apples to put into the steaming kettle.
If you would like a copy of Phyllis’s Favorite Recipes, send $5.00 to:
Phyllis Schrock
122 Kingsway Hesston, KS 67062
(the $5.00 includes postage)
Her little booklet has recipes for her family’s favorite meals, homemade noodles, cookies, pies, breads and of course apple butter. I have a bowl of apples waiting for me to simmer up a batch of apple butter later this week.
The old Wilderness Church is one of my favorite stops at Silver Dollar City. There is such a calming feeling when you walk inside.
Everyone is welcome to come and sit and gaze out at the view of the Ozark mountains.
At certain times during the day they have delightful, old timey sing-alongs! It is such a heartwarming experience!
There are of course lots of rides, activities and events going on throughout the park, but I always seem to veer off to the quaint little cabins and barns nestled snuggly in the woods.
Doesn’t this look like a vintage photo? It’s actually one that I took–turned it Sepia— of one of the cabins you can go in to see how life was lived in the 1800’s. Every day a full meal is cooked on the wood burning stove and the folks who work there (the fiddle players, story tellers and cooks) get to sit down and enjoy the homecooked supper together. Guests can walk right in an act like a fly on the wall and watch them eat their vittles.
Fresh sorghum canes are crushed, extracting the juice to make sorghum syrup.
Here’s granny cookin’ up a batch of sorghum. It’s like a light molasses. They use it in cookies, breads, baked beans, and it’s drizzled on pancakes, biscuits and rolls. Scrumptious!
It was so wonderful breathing in the delights of fall at Silver Dollar City that I had to bring sweet Summer Rose back with me! Our first stop was this darling bakery for a hot cinnamon roll, dripping with sugar-milk icing! We kept saying “OH MY GOODNeSs! This is soooooo yummy!” and then we got the giggles!
Instead of mama and daughter we look like two little kids in this giant rocking chair!
As we were leaving the park we were walking behind this cute little family and we overheard the conversation between the daddy and his son (who looked to be around 7 yrs. old)…the daddy was talking about all the fun things they still had left to do that day and the boy exclaimed “We’re gonna be wore out by nightfall pa!” Okay is that not the cutest thing Ev-AH! What little boy says “nightfall”?? That is so stinkin’ adorable! Summer and I kept saying that phrase the rest of the day! It sounded like a line right out of Little House On The Prairie!! Oh HoNeY!
I hope y’all are enjoying WoNdErFuL FaLL! Keep them home fires burnin’ Sugar Pies…get your home all comfy cozy before the chilly north wind starts to blow! (Brrrrrrrr! ) Fill your home with joyful music, yummy smells, and lots of love to bless your family!
“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.” Galations 6:9
Well, it’s apple butter makin’ days here at the farmhouse! I’ve got to get to peeling them apples! Y’all come back now ya hear?
May the good Lord bless you and keep you real good!
Hugs!
Aunt Ruthie
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Always love reading your new blogs,would love to know who your favorite authors are and what kind of a book list you would recommend as your favorites sometime!
Some day I hope to bring my family to Silver Dollar City and enjoy the National Harvest Festival – it would be neat for us Canadian farmers to see an American Harvest and Fall Fair.
Meredith
OH my oh my…what a sweet treat! Full of fall goodness! Ahhhh the Ozarks in fall how simply devine! I miss ya chick-a-dee!
Johnny boy is rooten’ tooten’ adorable!
Oh and i have that cookbook! God bless my darlin friend…blessings deary…oh and glad mr gary is ok!
So fun to see pictures of one of my favorite places ~ Silver Dollar City and the Ozarks in the fall. Your grandson is adorable, as of course you know! Blessings to you this autumn.
Oh girl!!
I so enjoyed your post about Branson. That is like my most favorite place in the world… I love to visit there in the autumn time. It is absolutely gorgeous!! I haven’t been in about 4 years. I think it is time for a trip !! Thank You so much for sharing your day there.
Beautiful Blessings to you!!
~Kelly Maria
Oh, Aunt Ruthie, every one of your blog posts warms my heart and encourages me so much. Bless you for sharing your gift of writing, with all of us. Johnny is ADORABLE! :)
As always love your posts! My daughter and I visited Branson this spring and we loved it! I spent the entire day taking pictures of the wonderful old buildings and loved the fiddle players! I didnt know about the culinary school until the day we were there. I plan to go back one day and will take it then! Have a happy day.
Lorri
Hi Aunt Ruthie!
Your little Johnny is the cutest little guy. What a wonderful blessing for you to enjoy and love on. Thanks for sharing all the great photos of Silver Dollar City. It looks like such a fun place to go. You have me inspired to try making some apple butter this fall. Let us know how yours turns out. Autumn blessings to you and yours!
Little Johnny is SOOOOOO cute! So glad hubby is doing o.k. They should pay you to do thier P.R. at Silver Dollar City! Your pictures bring it all to life. I intend to visit before the fall show is over. You always make me want to whip my house into shape when I read your post!!
Blessings,Becky Ransom
I’ve always loved going to Silver Dollar City when I was a kid – you capture it so well. My fave stops were to the candy shop for salt water taffy, peanut brittle and funnel cakes!
It was truly like stepping back in time.
Little Johnny is adorable! Those fun hats! Glad your hubby is back to feeling better – nasty spiders! I’d be spraying and praying over that home.
Bless you!
Hi Aunt Ruthie, Oh! the power of a praying wife, and of how God is always faithful to us, I am so thankful that your dh is doing well. I was so blessed that the first thing your husband wanted to do was to ask for prayer of his wife, a great testimony of how you live your life before him.
My what a treat, to visit you today. Silver Dollar City is a must on my “to do list”.
Your little Johnny is so adorable,such a precious picture of mother and son.
I loved the picture of you and Summer Rose in the chair too. She is really becoming quit a young lady. May you continue to enjoy and cherish every moment
When I am cooking, or fluffing up my nest I often think about women who did not have the modern conveniences that I do, but put just as much love as I do. Enjoyed seeing how they did it.
Oh!! Sugar Pie “wore out by nightfall” is used around here all the time, and I am so glad that we are converting you. lol
Thanks for sharing,
Blessings,
Sue
Such good news your hub’s is doing well. Such a sweet grandbaby you have there. Thanks so much for sharing your fun times at the Harvest Fest.
I LOVE your blog! It makes me smile every time I read your posts. I love your home and the cozy feeling it must bring :) Thank you for such a special treat! Autumn blessings ~ Meg @ Life Together
it’s alway so much fun here, and now i feel
as if i just went ‘next door’ to silver dollar
city!
thank you for the wonderful trip!
blessings,
lea
G’morn, Ruthie ~ I love that little Johnny-boy! Obviously, the apple of your eye.
Had not heard of the Silver Dollar City but it looks like y’all had a warm & wonderful time.
Great news that hubby will be fine, those spiders can be naughty little creatures.
Delightful photos & sharing … TY.
Have a beautiful day ~
TTFN ~ Marydon
I was in Missouri this weekend. I had a book signing in Columbia then back in Springfield. As I was driving and enjoying the beautiful fall weather I was thinking how wonderful Silver Dollar City would be that day. And believe it or not I thought to myself, “Hmmm…wonder if Ruthie will go to the Craft Festival there this weekend.”
I swear my heart starts BEATING fast when a post of yours pops up on my screen! It is always such a delight! I am so glad that your hubby is fine, that was scary! Your little grandson is the cutest thing in the world! I am putting Silver Dollar City on ,y list of places to GO. Wish we could pack up and head there now to see FALL there! Thanks so much for your wondeful blog,I enjoy it SOOOOOOOOOO much!!! I am in the midst of Fall cleaning and organizing too so that the holiday will be stress free, or as stress free as possible:):) XO, Pinky
RuthAnn… Thank you so much for visiting my blog and your sweet kind words! I just LOVE you… your blog is a BLESSING to my soul! PRAISE GOD your hubby is OK now! That sounded scary! Love all your pics… I laughed at the rocking chair… we have one in Gatlinburg, TN that my hubby and two other friends sat in… so funny. I always love your tour of Silver Dollar City… Peggy’s pie looks scrumptious and your grandson is A-DOR-ABLE! Can’t wait for your next post!! Be blessed!
(Hugs)
Kendra
Your grandson Johnnny is so adorable, Aunt Ruthie! Isn’t being a grandmother the best feeling in the world?
Spider bites can be so dangerous–I’m glad your husband got medical treatment in time!
Happy autumn to you and your family!
Oh Aunt Ruthie, Johnny is the cutest little boy! Next to my Charlie of course. ;)
You give us such eye candy to drool over with your lovely posts.
It encourages me to get out there and make some memories with the grandchildren.
We did the local corn maze here. It was wonderful. On the way there I told my grandson Levi, (he’s 3), when he asked where we were going that we were going to have an adventure. When we were in the maze he said, “Papa, is this an adventure?”
thanks for sharing.
hugs,
Denise
I loved reading your post! As always, it warmed my heart real good! Your grandson is so adorable, you must be thrilled to spend time with him – what a blessing from the Lord! How fun that just minutes from your home you have such an amazing place to visit! And thank the Lord your husband is fine! Many, many blessings. Thank you for sharing. Hugs, Victoria Lynn
Hi–
Wonderful post !! It is a great thing for those of us who might otherwise ever see the wonderful places you go to and photograph for us—-thank you.
My DH had the exact problem, and we thought he had blood poisoning. Come to find out he had been bitten by a brown recluse spider. He had major antibiotics and had to have an incision made and the venom/poison drained out to save his skin from deteriorating. Gross, I know ! I am glad your sweet hubby got his attended to in time.
Your grand is so VERY adorable. What did you ever decide to have him call you? I know you had a contest when you first found out you were going to be a Grandma. I entered my ideas.
Happy Fall and Autumn Blessings !
Cece
So glad your hubby is all better! That grandson of your is absolutely delicious! O my goodness; you just want to squeeze and smooch that little cutie face (I’m sure you do!) Makes me so anxious for our baby to be born. Boy, I wish Branson wasn’t so dang far from us. I’d LOVE it there- especially in the fall. Thanks for sharing the fun & beauty of the Ozarks. God provides us with so many blessings, doesn’t He? Thanks so much for all of your hard work and dedication to your blog – and to the Lord. Please don’t ever stop! I know your stories and photos will be even more fun as we close in on the holidays! :) Can’t wait. Hugs from the East Coast.
Your grandson is adorable and your daughter is a doll. I bet you had fun at Silver Dollar City we always do when we go. I just don’t care
for all the traffic getting there…lol
Have a wonderful week, I always enjoy your posts.
Grandbabies are just too much cuteness aren’t they! I love Old Sturbridge Village a couple towns over just like you love Silver Dollar. So muchfun being transported back in time for a bit:-)
So glad your man was alright! What a scary thing… I hate spiders. Loved the sweet photos, as we have a similar homestead type of place in our area too. My children really enjoyed seeing the way things used to be done.
Blessings,
Sasha
Beautiful~~~As always!!!!! Happy Fall!
Thanks RuthAnn, for the lovely visit to Silver Dollar City! We were making plans to go there this Fall when Life got in the way! It looks like you had a wonderful time….Blessings from Colorado
Aunt Ruthie, You are way too cute! I have to talk my hubby into a road trip out your way. I would love to see Silver Dollar City. That place looks totally up my alley. Love stuff like that. You should be an ambassador for the state of Missouri. I’m planning a visit. Just an FYI…I’m here in So Cal and I know where to find amazing biscuits and gravy!
P.S. So glad your hubby is good and kisses to your grandbaby.
That baby Johnny is adorable! I loved “going” to Silver Dollar City with you … maybe we can do this trip again. :) Thanks for taking us along. ;-)
We are moving in the next few days to Tennessee, to live near my younger daughter and her large family (10 children)… plus our FIRST great grandbaby is due in April, 2011. What a treat that will be and we will be so close. No more 9-hr drives from Oklahoma. We leave today to sign paperwork on our new home. I’ll be back with a new internet service (comcast) and a new email name. See you soon! Betty in Oklahoma (soon to be “in TN”)
So good to read a new post! It’s like Christmas when I see it in my e-mail!
Glad your hubby is doing well now. How scary! I am terrified of spiders! Up here in farm country of northern Indiana we get quite a few doozies! Before I sprayed for bugs we had at least 10 a day coming out of who knows where…big ones…some 3″ from leg to leg! *shudder*
That little grandboy is adorable!! I bet you are having sooo much fun with him!! Oh I love that new baby smell!
Thank you for sharing the Ozarks with us! I’d love to visit there some day! Especially all the cute little shops and buildings at Silver Dollar City! Love it!
Blessings,
Carmen @ Old House Kitchen
I absolutely love your blog. I am a KC girl now living in the mountains of Colorado. We are caretakers at a Christian camp in the Pike National Forrest. We had planned to be in Branson last weekend but due to severe back problems I am having couldn’t make the trip. Thank you for your pictures of my love SDC. It made me so happy. 38 years ago we spent out honeymoon there and since have spent many, many happy hours with our children there. Thank you for making this “homesick for the Ozarks” girl’s day! God bless. So glad your husband is ok. God is good.
Oh I do look forward to your posts!! So thankful your hubby is fine.
That Grandbaby is BEAUTIFUL, what a wonderful blessing! Being a Grandmama rocks!!! ;) RuthAnn, you are such a blessing. Oh, and now we are so going to Silver Dollar City for that class!
I only recently found your blog…not even sure how, but I am glad I did! I had to chuckle about your biscuits and gravy and Californian’s comment. I live in N. California and have for all but 18 months of my life (that was spent in New Mexico during high school). All the folks I met in NM that were from the south must have made a mark on me as I love biscuits and gravy! In fact my 16 year old son loves them even more than I; he asks for it nearly every week when I am planning my weekly dinner menu!
Thanks for your encouraging words. Have a beautiful and blessed week!
Hi Ruthie, I am so grateful for your website. Warms the cockles of my heart. At this stage of my life, I really need this. Gives me warmth and energy. So happy your hubbie is fine. I am terrified of spider bites. I found one in my blouse after cutting my hydrangeas so I could dry them and luckily it had not bitten me. Thank the Lord!Your grandbaby is gorgeous. I know the joy of a grandbaby boy. I would love to visit the Ozarks. We have to preserve the good things in this world. Thank God for Faith. It truly is a gift. I have to thank my longtime friend Chris for sending me your website. Stay well and happy.
I always love!!! the photos and places you take us..wish they had that sort of thing here..that silver dollar city is right up my alley..share your photos of your apple butter and with all that work..”you” ll be worn out come nightfall..;) have a wonderful week.:)
Oh I love visiting even when you’re visiting somewhere else…and what a charming somewhere else. So glad that your hubby is okay and loved seeing that grandson of your’n. He’s some cute and so engaged with all that’s going on. What a doll baby. Love that great big rocker that you and Summer sat in…I need one just like it. Until next time…
Ruthie, I am sorry to hear about your husband. Thank God he woke up when he did, and you took him to the ER! God is good!!
Little Johnny is certainly a sweet little fellow, too. You must be in heaven when your daughter visits!
I enjoyed the tour of Silver Dollar City. I have never been there but would love to visit sometime. The area looks so beautiful and seems like a great place to retire!
Hello Sweet Ruthann! What a grand old time you had and took wonderful pictures as always! I love the darling picture of you and Summer Rose in the rocking chair! You look like 2 little dolls sitting there waiting for a little girl to come back from getting a cookie from her mama! You need to frame that one! Thanks for getting me in the Fall mood! A very special time of year! Wishing you a Happy Fall! Love ya! Maryjane
Once again – what a pleasure to visit!
PRAISE GOD your hubby is doing better!
What sweetness in your little Johnny’s eyes. Somehow, Grammies get to see inside those eyes. I love looking into my ‘little man’s’ eyes.
And, Silver Dollar City brought back sweet memories of what used to be our Silver Dollar City here in Tennessee. You may have heard of DollyWood & it’s a lot of fun – but before Dolly bought it – it was the original Silver Dollar City.
We have an Apple Festival coming up here in town & you’ve inspired me to go ahead and buy those apples and make some pies and sauce!
Thank you for your upbeat, inspirational blog! May God continue to richly bless you, your family and your many friends!
Such a wonderful post Aunt Ruthie! I enjoyed the day with you in person and online! Can’t wait for your next post and inspiration to all of us sugar pies!
Hugs to you my friend,
Marla Jean
Don’t you just love SDC? You can take the greatest photos there. Yours make me want to pack up the van and visit the city.
Have a wonderful fall!
Laura
I absolutely LOVE hearing about your sweet family….and am so thankful that your hubby is doing well. You are truly blessed!
Glad to hear your husband is ok. That must have been scary. Your Grandson is adorable! I would LOVE to visit Silver Dollar City. It looks amazing and right up my alley!
Johnny is super cute…glad you are getting to enjoy him! It was fun to look at all your pictures, that one of you and Summer in the BIG rocking chair is awesome!
~Tamie
I look forward to these little vignettes so much. You are just like having your neighbor from next door sharing. I feel like I know you and your family and get to share everything. Love it Ruthie! You can make a day turn from rain to sunshine so quickly….Thanks GF!
I’m in Austin, so you can tell your friend if she has a pie too many, I have seven hungry kids who would appreciate every morsel. Or I could make one, but it’s just easier this way.
What a lovely post! Love the rocking chair picture how cute! :-) Your new grandbaby is so adorable! Wishing you all the best! Have a great week!
Blessings,
Jill
The farmhouse at the culinary school is just too cute for words! Thanks for sharing the great autumn pictures. So glad your hubby is okay…..I’ve been to the emergency room twice for spider bites, and it can be quite scary!
Beautiful pictures and story. I always love your posts.
Hi Ruth!
Really enjoyed looking at your pictures! I live in Kansas and have yet to visit Silver Dollar City, but have been to Branson. I can see I am missing out!
Just wanted to share with you my neighbor next door invited me over to pick pears from her tree and I made “pear butter” using the apple butter recipe. Let me tell you there is NOTHING better than a good cracker, brie cheese, toppped with some pear butter to make your world right! I added a little ginger into my last batch and it was a nice compliemnt to the already delicious spices. Give it a try sometime, I’m sure you love it!
Warmly, Nancy
Hi Aunt Ruthie,
I just love reading your blog!! Thank you for pointing us to the Lord and encouraging me to have a heart for my family and home!! I was wondering if you could tell me where you got your purse (pic with Marla Jean – your purse is next to you on the ground..can kind of see it in the pic). I am on the hunt for a fall purse and can’t seem to find one! Thank you…God Bless, Nancy
So good to hear from you Ruthie, I am so glad to hear that your husband is ok. Its good to know that Father God watches over us. I have looked everyday for a new post. I know you are a busy woman But we wouldn’t look so forward to your new post if we all didn’t Love ya so good :)) God bless you, I really appreciated all the inspiration Ruthie. Have a great weekend.
Lisa
Ruthie- Thanks for the travel back in time to my gradma’s home:)
What a great post!! I just recently moved from the middle of a big city out to the woods to capture a little slice of that feeling for my own family and they all love it. What a great idea, to have a summer kitchen! We all still need pie in the summer, but this saves us from getting up at the crack of dawn to bake it! :D Looooove your blog!
Merci !
Yes , thank you , because your posts are always wonderful ;
The little boy is lovely !
Bisou . eowiin
Oh Aunt Ruthie, words can’t even express how much I love stopping by your blog for a visit. You make me want to run out to visit this park, and make apple butter, and polish up some punkins, and just plain get wore out before nightfall, bein’ a homemaker. Thanks for the beauty and inspiration that I always find here. :)
Oh how I enjoyed your post, I love to make applebutter, my grandchildern loves it on hot biscuits, keep up the good work and God Bless you and yours, the Lord is so good to us. Thanks again, and have a wonderful day, Kay
Ruthie, thank you for another wonderful post. That little grandbaby is a cutie pie for sure. Enjoy hearing/seeing about all you outings; taking note of all these wonderful places you visit , just in case , someday, one never knows….might get the opportunity! We are enjoying autumn here in eastern Canada; just had our Thanksgiving weekend and went on our yearly apple picking outing; love getting pics of the grandkids at the orchard…soon they’ll be too old for that. Your Summer” is starting to look more like her older sister…They grow and change so quickly. Have a wonderful fall and I am looking forward to the Christmas season at Warm Pie, Happy Home.
I’m so glad your hubby is doing better, all praises to the Lord! That grandson is as cute as a button, no wonder you can’t get enough of him! Thank you for taking me back to a simpler time! It’s so very refreshing to escape into your website and get away for awhile, from the this ugly sinful town I live in! When I’m finished taking care of my elderly Mother, I’ve got to think about where I want to live… maybe the Ozarks, perhaps Vermont… I just long for a simpler life and you’ve given me a craving for it! God Bless you and your precious family!
I just found (at the best yard sale) some glass milk jars, almost like yours pictured in the display case. I know that you posted about what you put in the milk jars, to make them stand out, but I can’t remember. So if you would be so kind and write me alittle note to tell me what it is…I would be so thankful. My milk jars need that little something to stand out, too. I love your blog and all that you share, thanks!
I loved seeing the pix of Silver Dollar City! My husband and I went there on our honeymoon, 29 years ago this month! I know Branson has changed so much in that time, but we loved the Harvest Festival at Silver Dollary City. Makes me all happy/sad at the same time.
girl, haven’t been to SDC in a loooonggg time. *got my fill* of it takin’ all our city relatives there every summer….even though then it wasn’t more than one main street, a swinging bridge and the church! LOL. i recognized a lot of it though & it brought back sweet memories of friends and family.
great post!
What a blessing you are to all of us here at the farmhouse! I just love reading you blog. Little Johnny cakes just melts your heart. He is too cute for words. We just got back from Branson and had the best time. Autumn in the Ozarks, it just doesn’t get any better than that. So good to know that your sweet hubby is doing better. God bless you and yours always, Gretchen
I love love LOVE that picture of you and Summer Rose in that huge rocking chair! You do look like two little kids :)
My uncle lives right in the Ozarks in Arkansas and he has a summer kitchen. His cabin doesn’t have AC so cooking in the summer heat would be positively sweltering!
I love reading your blog and hearing all about your family and adventures. I also love your opinion on being a blessing to your family; I try hard to emulate you when I can.
Thank you for all your wonderful posts!
Heather
Aunt Ruthie-
I love your site! You inspire me! Right now I have a cinnamon/pumpkin room scent wafting through my house. Later this afternoon, it will be a chili/cinnamon roll scent coming from the kitchen. I love to have your playlist music in the background. My all time favorite is ” Anne of Green Gables”. (also my favorite DVD). Thanks for sharing with us.
What a great post!!! You are such a blessing Aunt Ruthie! Love all the pics and your little grandbaby is so adorable!
Have a lovely weekend.
~blessings
Hi Ruthie…Just want to let you know that I love all that you share! It was so fun meeting you and your sister~in~law at the Fall Creek Flea Market in Branson! Bill and I had such a wonderful time and enjoyed the fall colors! I would love for you to stop by sometime and visit my “little space!” Sweet and simple blessings! Hugs ♥ Teri
This looks like a wonderful place to visit. It’s exactly a place I would just be “lost” in.
My family and I picked 60lbs of apples a few weeks back and I made about 30 pints of apple butter. We used a crock pot recipe that was just wonderful and so easy. I hope yours in wonderful..
We just visited friends in North Carolina and helped them make apple butter, stirring it all day in a copper pot over a fire. We canned 119 pints that day. They add Red Hot cinnamon candies to theirs also and it is wonderful. God is so good in watching over our families and protecting us. Glad your hubby received treatment for the spider bite when he did and is doing well. Thank you for the encouragement from God’s Word to not being weary in well doing,
Hey there! Little Johnny sure is a sweet lookin’ boy. I hope Ashley has adjusted well to being a new Mama.
The cooking class looks really neat! We have a Southern theme park called Stone Mountain Park nearby. It seems a lot like Silver Dollar, however, I have been waiting for them to have some of the same activities.
Miss Summer Rose is growing up into a lovely young lady. She looks so mature in these photos with her purse and all. These 12 year olds of ours need to stop growing up!
I hope you have an enchanted rest of the fall season. I’m glad Mr. Gary is doing better.
~Farrah
Your grandson Johnny is adorable…what a little angel! Love those blue eyes! We just found out that our daughter and husband are expecting their first child (and our first grandchild)! We are so excited! :)
Silver Dollar City looks like a fun place to visit! I wish we had something similar in our area. I love biscuits and gravy…I grew up with my parents fixing it. My Dad will still fixes it sometimes.
Thank you for sharing! Enjoy the lovely fall days! :)
So happy that your hub is OK. Your baby grandson is….so……..adorable!! Though of you made my…..ur…your plum jam!
I just wanted to thank you for posting these beautiful photos of Silver Dollar City. I’m a Southeast Kansas girl, and we used to go there every fall while I was growing up. We haven’t gotten to go for a while because of finances, so seeing your photos was like a little trip there for me! Just beautiful!
HELLO AUNT RUTHIE
JUST LOVE YOUR WEB SITE, I FOUND MYSELF WANTING
TO JUMP INTO THE SCREEN, IT WAS DELICIOUS AND HOMEY
AND I COULD EVEN SMELL THE AROMA OF PIES COOKING
IN MY HOUSE.
GOD BLESS YOU FOR ALL YOUR DOING
PRAISE THE LORD
DARLENE
I loved the mom and daughter shot in the giant rocker! And your little Johnny is so so cute! Looks like a real fun place to visit too! :D
Oh, I just LOVE you Aunt Ruthie…what a great post! :)
Thanks for telling us about the little boy too…that is the cutest!!!
Hello from germany,
you´ve got one of the most wonderful blogs I know. Love every blog-post of you, you´ve such a beautiful home and I cannot wait to see all the lovely christmas decoration pictures. Have a nice weekend!
Many many greetings
Gisela
Hey Aunt Ruthie..
I live in Arkansas…i love the Ozarks…they are so beautiful! My husband and I drive up there all the time! Your house looks gorgeous! I aspire one day to live out in the country with a wonderful view…right now we live in city limits.
I am a huge decorator too! so no gripes from me!
and can you believe..i have lived here all my life..and never been to Silver Dollar City!
your post makes me want to go now!!
so glad i found your blog!!
I just love your blog. It has become my absolute favorite. What’s not to love, from your inspirational words, to your home and to die for pantry. The cutest pantry I think I have ever seen. I too have 3 older kids, 19, 16 and twelve and at 40 found myself pregnant by surprise. Now I watch my little 2 1/2 yr old run around with my teens and love getting to do all the little kid things again. I say it was God’s gift to me for my 40th but my hubby says it was his gift to me. Thanks for your lovely blog. Happy fall!
i look forward to EVERY post you make! Glad to hear you were able to take care of hubbys arm before it got worse, that is so scary! i am so looking forward to your holiday posts…i always know if i need some motivation all i need to do is visit your blog! :-)
Looks like so much fun! I can almost smell the apple pie bakin’ & the woodsmoke of home fires burnin’! Enjoying wonderfully chilly weather here in the coastal south today!
We arrived home November 1 from Silver Dollar City. We had sold out of recipe books by the time we got your order. However, I’m printing more books. It may take a couple weeks. But they are on their way. Thanks for the orders and thanks, Ruthie, for the wonderful story!
Phyllis Schrock
Thanks for such a sweet website and for your beautiful photography. I very much enjoy and love what you’ve done with it over the last year or so. As a wildlife biologist I am of course dying to know what kind of spider it was your hubby got bit by! I am sure you all were a lot less enthused about it, and I am glad he is okay :)
Phyllis,s favotite recipe cook books are being printed. I expect them any day now. The publisher said 5-10 working days, and that time frame is up. I will mail them the very day they arrive. so sorry it is taking so long.
Phyllis Schrock
It’s always nice when family, relatives come to visit. Reminiscing the good old days … generally just spending time with them and catching up on what has been going on in there lives.
Phyllis Favorite Recipes cookbook orders are in the mail.
There was a error made at the publisher which was beyond my control. This caused a one week delay.
I now have plenty books for sale, so send your orders if interested.
Thanks for your patience.
Phyllis Schrock
Hello Aunt Ruthie,
I am continuing to read your blog from beginning up to the present. I live just over in Carthage, a hop skip and jump from you. My husband worked in Branson for a few Autumns, and I enjoyed the atmosphere of fall in Branson and at Silver Dollar City. I haven’t been there in a few years. Maybe this is the year to return.
I have a feeling we may be moving nearer to Branson one day, perhaps Ozark or somewhere in the country between the two towns. I remember going to Silver Dollar City way back in the early seventies when I was young. There were a lot of winding back roads that lead to it, but no highways. It was a joy then and it still is.
May God bless you and keep you. May He make his face to shine upon you and give you peace.
Now, I’m gonna go and make my house peaceful….
Laura Lane
Carthage, Missouri