Life...

Fresh lemons make fresh lemonade!


Our lemons are abundant this season

A staple this time of year...we are so thankful for fresh picked citrus!

It does get cold in Florida! (especially in our old house) We love to use our fireplace

Little Miss Emma

Cousins...

"The Father" at Speechbuilders, our speech club we have joined with other believers. "Let the Boys be Men..." was the title

After speechbuilders..."What? The great buck hunter has turned domestic? What hath wrought this change?"

Kitty practices her whip popping. The competition is coming up soon!

Uncle Hans' Christmas gift to Sarah -- a movable chicken coop!

AN OLD TIME CANE SQUEEZIN'

Every year one of Grandaddy Frodge's contractor friends has an old time cane syrup making event. They pick the sugar cane, grind it with an "iron mule", to squeeze the juice out of it, then they boil it down to syrup, which takes about 6 hours.

This year they asked the Frodge clan (and friends) to come and asked the children to play some bluegrass...so we did! It was a great experience!

Markie and Andrew stand in front of the grinder

Boiling down the juice into syrup

Our host and hostess cooked up sausage and biscuits over an open fire... just like in the old days!

Sisters

"Let the Boys be Men"

Grandaddy Frodge...a godly Patriarch

Discussion?

Afterwards we took a picnic to a local state park

"FROM SAND TO SOD"!!!
For Christmas Uncle Hans gave our family the gift of sod...installed! What a blessing it has been! In Florida sand tends to be abundant and well... it was...in the house...in the yard...in the tub....you get the picture.

Now we have sod!!! What a transformation! THANK YOU UNCLE HANS!!!

Preparing the ground...Uncle Hans spent days hoeing and raking. The children helped also, but Uncle Hans was incredible!

All ready!

Peter laying sod

Uncle Hans and Peter sorting through the sod

Sarah makes a border



It is doing great! (the patio project is next)