A New Church Home

We had a visit from the Pastor on Thursday night.  We told him we we're interested in joining the church this Sunday.  Please be in prayer with us as we serve in a new church.  We are excited to be serving once again.  www.sbbcnj.org

 

 

 

Many Apples

We were home in the mid afternoon yesterday from our drive.  I told the guys I would make them an apple pie.  I have been experimenting and not adding any sugar to the apples.  I love the tanginess that a tart apple makes for flavoring the pie.  My sweet mother in law Donna,  uses sweet apples and makes a sweet apple pie.

We picked about 32 pounds of apples.  I am not sure if I'll try to sauce some or not.  I love homemade apple sauce.  I'll probably just peel, slice and vacuum seal them for pies.

Sour Apple Pie

A Country Drive

 On the return home from our trip to the apple farm, we took a few side roads.  I am so glad we did!  Every day the fall color explodes more and more and changes every day.  I hope you enjoy the picutres and postings!

 

 

Enjoying Autumn

My manly man took the day off from work yesterday to spend a family day with us.  We wanted to go apple picking.  I found a place just north of here, (Thank you internet!) And we headed out after going out to breakfast.

Large Apples

 

Deceitful Beauty

 

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised."

Proverbs 31:30

Take a look at this BEAUTIFUL tree.  I have been admiring the wonderful display of color on it.  I see this tree about 3 times a week on the drive to church.  It even outperforms the trees in the background.

Take an even closer look...

Closer

Closer

This is NOT a beautiful tree it is POISON IVY.  Yes, that's right Poison Ivy.  The roots found some good ground and dug in, the ivy climbed and wound its way around the telephone pole.  It even branched out and looks like a tree in every way. 

It reminds me of sin and the way sin can overtake a person.  It also reminds  me of the many verses talking about the end times and the church, verses about guarding our heart, verses about how deceitful our tongue is, verses on our heart...

Jeremiah 17:9   "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? "

 Mark 4:19   "And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. "

2 Corinthians 11 :13   "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."

Colossians 2:8   "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. "

2 Timothy 3:1-7  "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:  from such turn away.  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, ledaway with divers lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of truth."

Deceit, watch out for it, it's everywhere.

 

A Fall Saturday

 Yesterday, #2 son and I had a date with my friend Allison and her daughter Sienna.  Allison took us to a farm to choose pumpkins.  #2 son doesn't even realize what pumpkins mean to Halloween.  He calls them "Punkin Pies!" 

Every day, more and more fall colors appear in the trees.  The air is crisp and the days are getting short.  I enjoy the temperature now and the beautiful colors found in nature.  I get a little depressed thinking about the next season...WINTER.  Winter is definitely not my favorite season.  Now if only winter was about food and not snow, ice, rain, Cold, Cold, Cold and Cold!  I do enjoy winter foods:  Casserole, Stew, Soup, Roast Turkey, Hot spiced cider, hot coffee, Roast Beef.....

Sucking thumbs.

 

 

 

 

Our Weekend

Our weekend has been very productive.  We had dinner with our landlord, Vicente on Friday night.  Vicente is a widow who lives with his adult son, he misses his wife very much.  I fixed Filipino food in his honor. 

Friday Menu~

Pancit, Chicken Adobo with Rice, Garlic Green Beans, Chicken Wantons, Lumpia and Tres Leches Cake.  It was all delicious.

Leftovers!

As many of you can remember, we love to play Rack-O.  We taught Vicente how to to play.  Now he just needs practice so he can win!