July came in hot and heavy, with some of the highest temperatures on record here in Canada. And I have cleaned a huge amount of my backyard gardens!! Not so much weeding, but digging out the clay that was sold as topsoil a few years ago. The best part of being able to garden again is working with the flowers that I brought from Mom's garden and thanking her, albeit spiritually, for teaching me everything that she knew about gardening and life and how to be a great Mom. Though at the time we didn't realize it was life lessons, it was just part of life.

     And now we are at the halfway mark of August, the weather has changed to tell us Fall is around the corner and I am not done with summer yet. How rude! 

     Another good "thing" that happened is this summer is that our son, Jacob, got a job about 7 minutes from our home on a garlic farm. We live in the country about 20 minutes from the nearest city. This is his first job, and his employer's are very happy with him. He is very different in employee mode than high school teenager!! Which is very reassuring, to me. I do pray every morning to God, for all of us with teenagers in our lives that we are given extra patience and the right words to help them through what can be very emotional and frustrating times.

     So I will end this post and be back another day, hopefully not too far in the future to add some pictures of the crafts I have been doing.

     Prayerful hugs to all,

Germaine