Here's All the Beautiful Signs of Spring!

Here's a peek of the bulbs I planted last fall, what a surprise they render in the Spring! Who says you can't make a Blue Spruce and Egg Tree:-)

Here's A Freebie For you! Award Winning Chili Recipe

Aunt Kathie's
Award Winning Chili

Ingredients:

1 lb.Extra-Lean Ground Round
1/2 Pkg. McCormick's Mild Chili Seasoning Mix.
2 or 3 handfuls of Ditalini Macaroni (Uncooked).
1 14oz. Can of Beef Broth (College Inn or Gia Russa).
1 reg. size can of Pinto Beans (use juice).
1 reg. size can of whole Potatoes (cut in little pieces & rinsed, discard water in can).
1 reg. size can of Dark Red Kidney Beans.
1 6oz. can Contadina Tomato Past (with Roasted Garlic listed on the label).
1 28oz. Can (Progresso or Giant Eagle) Crushed Tomatoes in Puree.
1 reg. size can Lima beans, or large flat Italian Green Beans (Select Brand or DelMonte).
2-3 T. Extra Light Olive Oil (Bertolli).
2 flat round Cipolline onions, chopped up fine.
(optional: fresh Green pepper, tastes great without it!)
2 T. brown sugar
1 or 2 pats of real butter
Parsley Flakes, Onion Powder, Basil, Garlic-Pepper & water as needed.

Directions: In a large deep soup pan, brown hamburg in olive oil, onions, (green pepper cut up small if you like it) & add seasonings. (Cook well.) Add McCormick's Chile Mix, Tomato Paste, Crushed Tomato Sause, Beef Broth, Brown Sugar, stir well. Then add all beans, potatoes, butter & Macaroni, cover,then after coming to a boil,simmer on your lowest burner setting for 45 minutes. I like it to kinda' forment covered, for 15-20 minutes before serving. Yum! Serve with bagels, or cornbread, shredded cheddar, or sour cream. Depends how the diet goes. (I like it just with stone ground whole wheat flour bread, toasted!) Sorry, No awards were won with this Chile recipe :-), but it does not last long at home!

February 12, Lincoln's Birthday.

Easter is coming and with it all the beautiful Spring flowers!

Spring is on it's way!

Time to start thinking aboutSpring. It is coming, and all this snow will be great for the spring flowers!

See Our New Ad in the Ohio Country Register!

Don't forget to pick-up the totally free Ohio Country Register, newspaper that you see in all the Primitive shops. It is jam packed with neat stuff to look at and shops all around Ohio. And Barb, the editor is doing such a great job helping customers find us for all your primitive needfull things! Drop her a line and tell her how much you love the job that she does~ ! ohiocountryregister@yahoo.com

May all your dreams come true in this brand New Year of 2009. Wishing peace, love, & happiness.

A Blessed Merry Christmas to you!

Wishing all who enter a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Come visit our shop & make yourself at home, we love our visitors to take their time and browse through the farmhouse. You never know what you will

find!:-)

Christmas Open House & Customer Appreciation!

December 6th & 7th brought lots of free gifts with purchase and homemade goodies to our annual Christmas Open House. The weather was not too agreeable here in the heartland of Ohio! Our December started out more like our January weather!

LOTS of Neat Stuff to Look At / Rusty Tin Roof Site!

I have two things of importance to tell you today.

One being, I am pleased as punch to be selected to be interviewed for My Country Heart, by our Lemon Poppy Seeds group at their Rusty Tin Roof site. And appear in their summer addition Prim Craft Magazine!!!!!!! Find it on page 14. Really exciting for me. Take a short visit, to the very interesting magazine. It's FREE! And, save it to your favorites. I have also been selected as a guest writer. (Yep, sometimes I like to jot down some short thoughts!) So check out the new FALL issue to come and look for my stories. It's one of my very favorite things to do:-) Look for the Lemon Poppy Icon on this page to visit all the fab stuff on there from some way fantastic folkart designers!


Secondly, here's my best picture of the season, to share with you all, "the last rose of summer". I don't like to see the beautiful summer leave our mist. Sooooo, I think I can for one short minute capture it's rapture. So can you!