Farmer Boy

Greetings from Remember When Farm...well if I am going to brag on my grandchildren I have to include them all.
Ethan is my youngest grandchild, he is 20 months old. He is also my first grandson, I was blessed with two daughters and two granddaughters until my little farmer boy came along!!!
As some of you may know I watch my grandchildren during the day.....so helping raise this little boy is something new to me. But, with that said it is so much fun!!!! He loves to throw rocks, play in dirt, ride anything with wheels, pick up any animal, ride any animal, pick up sticks, climb anything if he thinks he needs to reach higher ground, and eat and eat !!!!! Ethan brings alot of laughter into this farmhouse.
Also, since my husband is now retired and can devote more time to his farm work Ethan is right there to ride the tractor. He usually wears a cap, like most farmers, which hides his white blond hair, that sticks up like, well.... a rooster.
My grandchildren are a big part of my life so I enjoy sharing them with you. But alas....this fall another addition to our family, grandchild number 4 ! ...blessings, from the farmer's wife

Remember When Farm

"Here is a picture of some Springville, Indiana farm girls, Kaitlyn (5 1/2) and Emily (3), with their miniature horse whose name is Special.....their mom (my daughter Susan) and dad raise miniatures.
The girls live behind us here at Remember When Farm....and my other daughter, her husband and son Ethan (1 1/2) live by us also.
I will share his picture next time. My family and all that that goes with them here at this "Special" place is what life is all about....I feel very blessed....Linda, (wife, mother, grandma, friend) at Remember When Farm

http://www.picturetrail.com/rememberwhenfarm

Celebrating One Year , Here are the Winners

The Primitive Gathering.com is one year

old this month. Our artist are giving away

creations to celebrate!

Henny Penny Prims woolen seed bag**
COOKIE, tis yours!!

Ghost IslandPrimitives doll,
congratss to Debbie Daily

SweetAnnee tiny mermaid box,
Tis yours Misselaineous!!

Thistlebrooms Primitives needle roll

& inside
Congrats to Diana

Primitive Stitchin pin keep,
Dani

Raven Hare's Cabin ornament,
Michelle

The Primitive Window painted tin cup,
congrats to Brenda

Olde Raggs USA huswife bag,
tis yours Scrappy Jessi

Pear Tree Primitives greeting cards
tis yours Teresa~~

Honeysuckle Lane greetings cards,
Carol C, they are yours!

Church soap & candles, congrats
Four Sisters in a Cottage

The Eclectic Company painting, congrats
Susan Minor

Yesterdayes game board measures 12x12 and is an historic reproduction original dated circa 1880. This board retails $135.00,
Gayle it is now yours!!

Bushel & Peck $25.00 gift certificate for her creations,

tis yours Linda

Netty LaCroix hanging wax heart
congrats to The Feathered Nest

To enter the drawing comment on this post. Each item will have a different winner, mailed to you by the creator

Be sure we can notify you ..Drawing held on May 5th & winners

posted. Come back to see if YOU were a winner

We'll have winners email us through our website

if we are not able to contact them directly.

the artist of The Primitive Gathering

winners posted here TODAY, May 4th, 2oo8
congrats to all

**Thanks to ALL of you**

An Open House

I'm happy being blue!
I've decided to have a Spring Open House on my website

http://www.rabbithillprimitives.com/

todayMonday, April 28th at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. I hope you'll have a chance to stop in (teaser picture above!) Last weekend my Mom and I went on a little trip and found some neat old things. I've been sewing lots of one of a kinds also. I have so many ideas but never enough time....is their anyone who knows anything about time management??? Also I'm going to add a sale tab ~ I've been cleaning house!
I've been working with lots of blues lately....my favorite color! It just makes me happy. I have it everywhere. My home is predominately in blues. My sewing room walls are even painted "atmosphere blue", a wonderful Restoration Hardware paint color. Someday I will show you pictures of that room but at the moment it is a mess. I even found this neat old wire gate last weekend which I have a new garden already planned out in my head for that!Speaking of gardening the wild violets are blooming here in PA.

Lydia and I love to sit in the yard and pick a large little bouquet. They smell heavenly when in a vase. She also loves to eat their sweet little petals.


Did you know that an ounce of violets has five times more vitamin C than a glass of orange juice and about three times more vitamin A than spinach. Hows that for a fact. I'm sure I'm know as the crazy plant lady here in the neighborhood ~ hee hee!
This morning I watched the robins gathering weeds and dried grass for a nest. I think they are amazing...little miracles really. Can you imagine making your "nest" with your mouth? We need our thumbs! I watched them yesterday to see where they are building but I think they were on to me. Such busy little things they are. This morning after Lydia went to school I came back and watched again from the window and found it. Soon it will be filled with pretty blue eggs. It will be fun to watch the little birds grow also. Now didn't I tie that all in nicely?? Have a BLUE sky sunny day today!

A Spring Snow?

The "locals" tell us that this sort of weather is normal for this time of year....but I think they are just as surprised by our indecisive weather as we are and don't want to admit it!

Our family lives in Boise, Idaho and last week we woke up to an inch of snow! Then last weekend, we had temps in the 60's (which was wonderful!) with spring-like weather.

Who knows what this weekend may hold?? Sleeting hail? Oh wait, we had that this morning.

Has Spring arrived in your area?

Suzanne ~Painter of the Past~

PS! Please don't forget to sign up on the post below this one to be entered in our give away!

Spring has finally sprung!

At least it has here on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. The weather has been wonderful lately! Today the sun was shining, a breeze was blowing, the birds were on my deck singing ~ I had the French doors open so we could watch one another, and I had a load of laundry on the line, flapping in the breeze. I pruned some bushes and vines, and totally cut some down that were killed last year after a late spring freeze. I left them last year hoping they would revive, but no such luck. We already have onions peeping out of the ground! We planted cabbage last week, and today, my husband plowed, tilled, and planted potatoes while I went grocery shopping ~ something that only reinforced the reason we are planting a larger garden this year ~ have you noticed the prices of food items lately? Now if we can only buy a milk cow, lol! In the meantime, just look what arrived early the first day of Spring! Gypsy, our Tennessee Walking horse, had a baby! His name is Smokey and mama is so proud of him! Please visit my personal blog to read more about him this weekend.

Don't forget to visit The Primitive Gathering. April is our birthday month and there'll be lots of prizes offered!

Thank you for visiting!

Lana

of

Honeysuckle Lane

~*~

The Primitive Gathering Celebrates Our First Birthday

The Primitive Gathering will be celebrating our First Year Birthday Party in April.

We'll have drawings for creations from our artist, some free vintage graphics for all & a chance to be a Featured Guest Artist for a month in 2008.

We'll have pictures of the items on our blog in April & graphics will be posted for all to use.

More information coming soon!!