Honey Cures Me

For my dry skin, I use fresh from my hives, pure natural honey!

For my bee stings... yes, if you keep bees, you are going to get stung! I've put a mixture of honey topped with cinnamon and the swelling from any of my stings have healed within two days.

I use honey for a sore throat or even just a scratchy or tickle in my throat.

I will be trying some recipes for honey cough drops soon, so hopefully they will turn out great and I can post how they turn out!

I love replacing processed sugars with honey in all my sweet-tooth recipes.

Of course I use honey in my tea and other beverages.

Winnie the Pooh is a really smart little bear and one of my many favorite children's story characters. I believe I will add fun literature of him to the list of gift giving this year along with sweet little honey treats!

Occasionally I will be adding some of these remedies with my own methods of using them for you to try if you so desire.

Nature's Cures

Keeping Honeybees has been one of the most rewarding of experiences up close and personal to nature that I have ever done. Fishing is right up there as is vegetable and herb gardening. Honey bees have been added just within the last eight or so years and actually hands on, just in the last three years. We've had to learn A LOT and every day since we started, Tim and I keep learning something new or take interest in something that we still  need to learn about beekeeping in order to better sustain our colonies.

I've decided to venture into finding all natural ways for us to live and am looking more into using everything that God gifted us with in our daily routines and healthful regiments. Whatever goes into or onto our bodies needs to be or become void of any and all toxins, free radicals, poisons; and in doing so, I will be adding what works for us on here.

Whatever mixtures or ingredients that work for my family or me, does not nor do I ever mean to imply that they will work for you and yours. This blog and or any of my writings are only meant for a means for me to share our own health journey and what is working or in some cases maybe, not working. It is never meant to diagnose or impress upon others what may not be scientifically "proven" as medicinal treatments.

So with that said, my love for honey bees is deep and I hope that I can share with you some of the fascinating adventures we experience everyday!

Nostalgic Photos

I've changed the header above several times in the past few days. I think I may keep this one at least until I have more time to play with the graphics programs. The photos are my own. I think the old doily and baby shoes against the barn wood and box gives me the feel of the nostalgia that I'm looking to share.

Yesterday morning, I spent the first four hours after and during my coffee-time, baking oatmeal cookies, peanut butter cookies and a chocolate pudding cake. While the oven was on, I wanted to get as much done to share with family members that I will be seeing this weekend. Even if I wasn't visiting, it always seems a bit of a weekend-time-saver, if I get some of the cooking out of the way ahead of time. The temperatures have been in the mid fifties at night and upper seventies in the daytime, so with that chill in the air, I do get in the mood for sort of "nesting" activities.

Grandkids in Mo. started their first day of school for this term. The year will finish out quickly, I'm sure. Before we know it we will be planning Thanksgiving & Christmas as it seems once school is in session, it all goes so fast.

I'm so anxious to meet some of you who have the same interests. 

Still Winter

Our measure of this "snow emergency" is 9.5". Hubby got the day off and spent about an hour blading out our driveway. I took the dog and the camera out for picture taking but it was difficult to get my camera to cooperate with gloves on and those little tiny buttons. It was really more fun just playing with the dog. He absolutely loves the snow.

I built a blueberry/strawberry mix cheesecake pie this morning and it turned out scrumptious. I had some crust leftover so I chopped up two apples and made a miniature fritter sort of thing with it. I love being snowed in. I tend to get creative and my survival mode sort of kicks in. I find and use up every little left-over and turn them into any little treat I can think of. My Mom taught me that.

There were ten of us kids and Mom would stretch the smallest amount of ingredients to make some elaborate and very satisfying meal with absolutely no complaints from any of us. I love what I've learned from my Mom as well as from her Mother, my Grandmother.

I also planted some heirloom tomato seeds and some lavender seed this morning. I have one of those portable four shelf miniature greenhouse units. It comes in handy this time of year for starting my seeds. I get rather anxious this time of year and the smell of soil gives me an awesome burst of energy. I use to raise worms and loved the smell they kicked up. I don't have the room for them anymore so I  let them all go and make their happy homes in my flower gardens.

Here is a photo of two of our little ladies who obviously aren't fond of this weather. The other is of ironweed. If those little garden fairies are still around this time of the year, I'd like to think these little snowcones are a treat for them.