Challenge #215 Winner!

Good morning!

Thank you all for playing along with my sketch last week! Unfortunately, there can only be one winner, and that is...

#13 MARLENA
with this fab, bright card!

CONGRATULATIONS!! 

Please leave a comment here Marlena, and email me, Lizy, at lizygreen@aol.com to claim your prize.

Hope to see you all in about 10 minutes for our new challenge!

Lizy x

Welcome Again

Here we are back again. I hope everyone is having a good summer (or winter) whichever is the case in your part of the world. I'm getting better. I remembered that for some of you the temperature doesn't rise over 100ºF every day. In fact, I'm also pretty sure some of you calculate the temperature as celsius instead of fahrenheit. Here in the desert where we live the night time temps are in the

Feast of the Diocese

Not every diocese can claim its own Marian feast, but we are lucky enough to live in one that can.  Today, 9th July, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Aberdeen. The statue, which is now in Belgium, is known in that country as Our Lady of Good Succour.

The miraculous statue of Our Lady of Aberdeen.

The Holy Mass of Our Lady of Good Succour, celebrated before the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.

Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. - John 6:54

For if the blood of goats and of oxen, and the ashes of an heifer being sprinkled, sanctify such as are defiled, to the cleansing of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God? - Hebrews 9:13-14

Markets - July 9th to 15th

SATURDAY 14TH JULY
Ballan & District
Ballarat Lakeside
Bendigo
Caulfield
Central Geelong
Coal Creek
Collingwood Children's Farm
Croydon
Kyneton
Metung
Mont De Lancey
Myrtleford
North Essendon Village
Pakenham
Sunbury
Torquay Central FM
Violet Town


SUNDAY 15TH JULY
Ashwood
Flemington (ex Melbourne Showgrounds)
Inverloch
Koondrook-Barham *POSTPONED to 29th APRIL*
Mooroopna
Mulgrave
Queenscliff Harbour
Seaford
Talbot
Yarra Valley

Record Breaking Cherries?

This year our greenhouse has been a huge success, especially in the fruit department.  Our cherries have grown fantastically; so big that we thought we should see what the record for cherry size is.

One of three cherry trees in our greenhouse.

Picked from the tree in the morning, and on the table at lunch...could they come much fresher? 

These cherries have very small stones.  Almost the whole thing is flesh. 

Guinness World Records give the heaviest cherry in the world as 21.69 g (0.76 oz).  The record was set in 2003 in Italy.  Br. Jean Marie, F.SS.R. places the contender on the scale.  He has done much of the work in the greenhouse.

Look at that!  Without even trying we have a cherry weighing in at 19 g (0.67 oz), just 2.69 g off the world record!  Could these be the heaviest cherries in Scotland?

The average weight for this years cherries has been 16g (0.56 oz).

Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you of much more value than they? - Matthew 6:26

Thanks be to God for the wonderful gifts he has provided us with!

Winner of # 212 Redrawn again!!!

Prize claimed
Unfortunately Rosalein did not claim her prize from week #212 so I have redrawn for the prize from 

Stamp Fairy again

The new winner is

# 46 Nadell

with this super card!

Congratulations Nadell please leave a comment here and email Susie at susielittle@ymail.com. to claim your prize.

#327 - tongue-in-cheek

A quick internet search reveals just as many people write it as tongue in cheek as do tongue-in-cheek. Whichever way you do it, make sure your tongue is firmly planted in your cheek as you write this week's post.