dinner fm the garden

Grandma Q's Fried Chicken

My Dad loved her chicken the best.
Grandma Vivian fried the most delicious chicken up in her
2nd story apartment in Lemoyne every Sunday.



She taught my sister and I to make it,
telling us we would
delight the heart of our Dad
if we learned well and cooked it often, for it was his
favorite all his life, she would say



Her kitchen was teensy, but she could fry
like the best of them

Grandma once told us that if there was a way
at all to return from the dead to get a message
to this side, she would find it and
come back.  My sister and I have a silly myth.
We joke that she returns in Spring as a Redbird.
Every spring, a redbird comes and perches outside of my Kitchen window.
I wonder if the LORD might allow this unique and hilarious
woman one last way to delight her kin each Spring?



My Fried Chicken is almost as yummy as
the Sunday Chicken dinners I remember
all those years ago.   But Only my own dear Mother
can fry a yummier chicken! 
Here's to Grandma and My JRB Mom
I love you both so deeply.

Gayelynn Quigley Grandma thought the world of you and your sister. Thank you for the kind and sweet words.

Memories of Blueberry Cottage: Our home from 2007 to 2011

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Thursday is Science Experiment Day...

Today we did an at home experiment to test for acidic and base (alkaline) substances.

It was interesting and fun to watch the learning take place with hands on discovery.

testing the solution with the litmus test paper....

The Enemy's Trap

“For our struggle is NOT against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against

the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlyplaces.”

(Ephesians 6:12)

It has been “one of those days.” On days like these, I try to remember that my war is not with what is going on, but with my true enemy, Satan, who loves to see me discouraged and angry. I have discovered a wonderful thing. When I am at my lowest, I read scriptures (or recite passages out loud), and when Jesus’ Name is spoken, the enemy must flee! 

This demonstrates to me that God will go to battle for me with that nasty Enemy. As a mother and wife, I find myself in regular spiritual warfare. I see clearly that Satan wants to enlist all of our children for his evil army. One way he quickly disarms me is to discourage me. But when I call on my God to strengthen me, He does! I have memorized the verse above from Ephesians to protect me and my loved ones in the heat of the battle. We MUST pray that the LORD will protect our children from the enemy’s lies and traps. May they be Mighty Warriors for JESUS.