Howdy Darlin’! Just a quick note to let you know that my Summer and Fall eBooks are available in the General Store now! Watermelon & Fireflies: 51 Farm Fresh Ideas For Celebrating The Good Ol’ Summertime and Pumpkin Pickin’ & Hayrides: A wagonload of harvest-time ideas to cozy-up your home, fun family traditions, yummy recipes, and nostalgic delights to warm and bless your heart.
If you’re a New-be-Sugar-Pie check them out! Or if you’d like to send one to a sweet gal-friend just ‘cuz you love ’em you can do that too! These eBooks are jammed packed with color images and tons of ideas (over 90 pages each book! )
Well, I’m fluffing up my home and getting ready to welcome several family members due to arrive in a week & 1/2. It will be so great to see them! We’ll be doing a lot of barbecuing, spending time down on Table Rock Lake, playing some miniature golf, a little shopping (a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!) and lots of time catching up on each other’s lives over some home-baked pie. This has been a busy summer so far and it’s bound to get a little busier! I can’t believe we’re already close to the middle of July! Slow down summer!
How about you? Are you enjoying this season of sunshine and flowers? Sweet tea & lemonade on the front porch? BBQ’s and s’mores over a campfire? Walks down at the lake or the beach? Harvesting fresh produce from your garden? I sure hope you take some time in the midst of your daily chores to stop and smell the fresh cut lawn… taste and savor that ripe red tomato warmed by the sun ( I did just that this morning!)…or feel the soothing warm breeze across your face as you drive to town with the windows down to get an ice cream cone after supper (we did that the other night!) Celebrate this season! Drink it all in! May these blessings from the Lord fill your heart with joy to overflowing!
I’d love to hear how you are savoring the Good Ol’ Summertime!
God Bless your darlin’ heart!
Aunt Ruthie
Always so glad to get updates from you! Love on those relatives and enjoy the blessings of summertime!!!!
Have fun with the family that is coming! Hugs and blessings, Cindy
Sounds like fun. Wish I could be there too!! Would love to see that area. Looks so pretty and green. Reminds me of growing up in NJ countryside.
Have a wonderful visit! I’m enjoying my Watermelons & Fireflies again this season~~~thank you for all the creativity & inspiration you share with us!
XOXO
I’m so glad you’re having a good summer! Blessings to you and your sweet relatives coming, have lots of laughs, I look forward to your fall decorating and e-mails about your blog updates! :)
I have to tell you, you are such an inspiration. A while back you said something about raising your standards. I was in kinda a mood around my home and just didn’t want to do anything. My daughters are 21 and 23 and are still home, not married yet. Well one will be before long. She has met the man has for her. But any way I had them make a list of things that go on around here, whether personal, the house,inside, outside, anything they see done around here that they would not want done in their own homes. I was open for anything. It was amazing their list just about lined up. We put a list on the refrigerator, and slowly working on these things. It is awesome to learn how to raise standards. Had been stuck so long with the way the things were. Talk about the peace coming into my house. Thank you and God bless you bunches.
Happy Summertime!
Love it when family comes to visit… but even more when I get to go visit (out of state) family….
Enjoy back porch sitting,,, shady tree relaxing & reading,,, gardens growing,, but most of all, the wonderful sounds of family laughing and hugging…
>^..^<
I love you’re books and I’m happy to be welcoming family home too. Spencer will be meeting Bruce and Dar for the first time!
And I’ll be chatting about you in the first 15 minutes of our next podcast due to upload Saturday sometime.
So glad to hear you are having a wonderful summer. I know your visit with your relatives will be wonderful! I’m sure they can’t wait to see you and enjoy your wonderful hospitality (I know I would!) Thank you for posting your positive, inspirational posts on this wonderful website :)
Thanks for the summertime update:) looking forward to reading pumpkin picking and hayrides! Hugs
Happy Summer! Enjoy every minute with friends and family. Sounds like you have a fun time planned. :) Our daughter got married June 29, so that was the highlight of the summer for sure! Fabulous time, very blessed that my Dad, who is a semi-retired pastor performed the ceremony. Hubby and I just got back from some time at our cottage, my parents and some other family joined us, great fun! Now I am gearing up for surgery, knee replacement on July 15.
Thank you Ruthie, for all of your inspiration and sharing so much joy!
God bless you! xo
I’m not sure what I’ll be doing for the rest of the summer…but I do have a goal of getting back into regular blogging and blogging about what I’m passionate about first :) :) I just made a batch of fresh homemade powdered laundry detergent from the same recipe that you saw on MaryJane’s Beehive Cottage blog :) :) So fun…and smells so good. I used the pink ZOTE soap. I took some photos and I”ll be blogging about that soon :) :) :)
Other than that, I’m going to try and improve my homemaking skills, even though I’m still single…a girl has to start somewhere. The rest…well, I just have to pray about that :) :)
I have your first eBook…but I’ll buy the second one when I get paid next Friday. I love your eBooks…so full of farmgirl vintage goodness :) :)
Love and hugs from the ocean shores of California, Heather ;) :) :)
So far I’ve been swimming up a storm, eating healthy and working out, and I just had a week long family vacation camping up in the mountains. Happy summer aunt Ruthie!
Hey! Love your site. Summertime is in full swing around here. The corn is tall, tomatoes are ripe, and the squash is overtaking the world! Thanks for your words of encouragement.
God bless you for creating this beautiful website!!
I am a professional artist and am used to making things with my hands. I so much appreciate your laundry soap recipe!.
It seems as though the America I know and love is slipping through our fingers. Your website brings me back to the good old days!!
Keep you the great work!
Hi dear Ruthie !
Can’t wait to heard about your memories’ summer ! we miss, miss, miss you and your sweet words…..
What about your schedule after your family’s fun ?
Big sweet hugs from France
Dear Aunt Ruthie, I know it’s probably unusual for a man to be writing to you. I’m actually not sure how I found it, but I do know one thing–God let me to it.
I’m going through a very hard time right now, and your Bible verses and positive, wonderful, loving attitude are helping me in ways you cannot imagine.
Please keep up this inspiring website–you are definitely a blessing.
Hope your having a great summer and will update again here soon. I love your posts.
God bless you and your family
Please come back and post something! I really could use some of your family wisdom!!
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