Happy Trailing!

Him bought me some wonderful flowers for my herb garden today!



This year I am growing my favorite herbs in containers! Him made me a raised flower bed that curves along the outside of our vegetable garden. This is a "shelf" for my flower pots containing the herbs!



I wanted something pretty to grow in the bed all around my containers. We found the perfect trailing perennials for that and we purchased them today!


Him bought me (pardon the english) 8 flowering plants in all:


3 Blue Emerald Creeping Phlox (the light purplish ones on the right and center)


2 Drummond's Pink Phlox (the larger pinkish ones bottom left)


2 Fort Hill Creeping Phlox (the smaller pinkish ones top left)


1 Scarlet Flame Creeping Phlox (the bright pink at the top center)



Mr Him also purchased three Herb Rosemary plants for my containers! I am so happy!

This has been a lot of fun for us-- working on this project. My husband is my best friend. I am so thankful that God has put us together. Like my phlox-delights-- we're just trailin' along beautifully!


"The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it." Proverbs 10:22


This project would be nothing without the LORD. He leads us and guides us every step of the way. He is what brings these beautiful and good things to pass. He is so good to us!


"Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established."
Proverbs 16:3

Information, Please

**This entry was first published without pictures on April 19, 2008 in our home school journal.**

The Lord laid it upon my heart to clear out the school shelf. I began working on it with a right heart - I had to have the mind of Jesus to do this. I'm a Keeper. I don't mean that I am a very special individual, I mean that I like to keep things that are good.

But then the LORD began showing me how to become selective and how to become focused - not all sprayed out.

I searched the book shelf and began tossing old text books we didn't use and any material I felt was contrary to the Standard Book, that is, God's Word.

I realized that I was in need of a new encylopedia set. So I asked God if He would send me one that was no more than ten years old (the areas we study right now are not extremely dated materials), was new, would fit on my living room bookshelf, and that would be beautifully bound like my small poetry books.

The shelf size is important to me. Most encyclopedias are very large - like a dictionary - and my living room bookshelf (built into the wall beside the fireplace) has shelves closer together; only books no larger than 10" tall can fit.

The week before last, our friends S and S called us to come pick up some discarded items for them. When we arrived, they asked me if I'd be interested in any encyclopedias. (They know we home school.) Naturally, I was very excited to see the books! They took me into a back bedroom and there were stacks of beautiful, large 1996 encyclopedias. They were not brand new, but I sure was grateful.

Then they showed me the other set. The box (the very box the set came in) was opened and there inside was a beautiful, brand new set of 1998 Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia. Ten years old. All but one book were still shrink-wrapped. The very first book had been opened, I suppose for previewing the set. The cover was a plush soft hardcover (if that makes sense); beautiful burgundy-brown. The tops of the pages are gold.

My God shall supply ALL your need ... And He will withhold NO good thing. I love my God!

**But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Psalm 84:11**