Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #588

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #588!

Before we get to the blog hop today - 

during the months of July & August I will be featuring a post focusing on garden produce:

22 Treasures - TOMATOES

Checkout wonderful seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

click HERE to shop for the best seeds

Or click picture below:

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Also, checkout one of my Bags/Purses available at Zazzle:

Evening Sun Mix Sunflower Tote Bag
by GodsGrowingGarden

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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "Floral Painted Jewelry Dish" by Steph Creates Things

2. "DIY Paper Beads" by Within A World Of My Own

3. "Reupholstered Patio Chairs" by Studio 27 By Jennifer Adams

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

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Grow your own!
Many wonderful garden products from
 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
click to view

You're the STAR - Week#5 EXTRA (July 2024)

It's blackberry season here - enjoying every minute!

Thank you again for joining us!

There are many ways to follow me:

Angie @ God's Growing Garden

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Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:

Apricot Bundles - Dessert RECIPE

WELCOME to the July 2024 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!

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WELCOME to EXTRA feature week of the July 2024 "You're the STAR" blog hop!
(Sometimes we will have 5 Mondays in a month - these 5th special Mondays are called "EXTRA feature" days)

Meet all of your STAR Hosts 

Swing by the STAR Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Colleen @ Butterfly in the Attic
Mel @ Decor Craft Design

Michelle @ Moms Are Frugal
Kris @ Kris and Larry . com

Lisa @ Lisa's Everyday Life

Fiona @ Dolly Dowsie
Bev @ Eclectic Red Barn
Niki from Life as a LEO Wife

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories (except for this special EXTRA day - we will be featuring 4 extra).  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living,  while remaining family friendly),
WEEK#2 CREATIVE - arts & crafts, music, writing &/or dramatic arts (this can include sewing, dance, art history, handmade jewelry, computer art, fashion etc - anything creative while remaining family friendly)
WEEK#3 FAMILY - parenting, fitness, finances & inspirational (this can include anything about children like: education ideas for children, also self help, beauty etc -  anything family friendly)
WEEK#4 HOME - recipes, home décor, antique/DIY &/or travel (this can include anything about your home - even history posts - all while remaining family friendly)




(All features were chosen from the June 2024 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Lemon Lush Dessert by The Kitchen Is My Playground

A Visit To Chihuly Garden & Glass by Adventures in Weseland

A Summer Fave......Fireworks in a Jar by Our Grand Lives

Crispy Oven Fried Dill Pickles by Cindy's On-Line Recipe Box

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog.  We might also share your fantastic posts on social media.  Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though}  Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Trees #16(c) - NOAH - After the Flood

TREES #16(c) - NOAH:  After the Flood

We are completing all 3 parts about Noah (in the Tree series) in July (Instead of waiting for next month).  Today we are continuing in our Bible study on trees and are focusing on what happened after the flood.  Below are the three parts about Noah:

16(a) - NOAH:  Building the Ark

16(b) - The Flood

16(c) - AFTER THE FLOOD

In today's continuation of the trees series, we are studying AFTER THE FLOOD.

This is Part#16(c) - NOAH:  After the Flood

In the passage below we learn that the ark finally rested on solid ground on the "seventeenth of the seventh month."  Let's say July 17th (the months were different in Biblical times - click HERE to read "Strange Stuff - 13 Moonths") is the day that the ark settled on Mount Ararat.

Notice that Noah didn't open the window of the ark until 40 days after the flood began (when the rain stopped).  Just imagine not being able to see out for 40 days and 40 nights!

Also, it took even longer for the waters to decrease and the levels to go down.  It wasn't until October 1st that the waters finally stopped receding. 

Noah kept sending a raven out to see if it would bring something back to the ark -  to know when the waters had fully receded and when it was safe to leave the ark (see verses below).

The raven brought back an olive branch!!!  Notice the significance of another tree!!  

(click HERE to read Part#4 - Olives )

Even though Noah knew from his raven test that the flood was over, he still waited for God's guidance before leaving the ark and removing all animals (see verses below):

" Then God spoke to Noah, saying, “Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons’ wives with you.  Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you: birds and cattle and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, so that they may abound on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”  So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.  Every animal, every creeping thing, every bird, and whatever creeps on the earth, according to their families, went out of the ark."

Genesis 8:15-19

Before we talk about the Covenant that God made with us after the flood, let's first talk about why the flood had to happen.  It seems so harsh to get rid of every living thing through the flood but everyone in earth at that time was so disgustingly evil.  They all worshiped Baal and sacrificed their children.  Then, it gets even worse - yes, worse than killing their own children.......they ate their children!!!!  That's how horrific everything was at that time.

Now, the covenant:  

In verse 12 (see below) - it says that this covenant is forever - it is for "perpetual generations."

It was after this covenant that God gave us the rainbow.  And this special gift (the rainbow) can NEVER be taken away from us.  The world is trying to steal and twist this beautiful rainbow into a symbol of distortion and debauchery.

God will NOT be mocked - anyone who uses His rainbow for such evil will have to contend with the Lord of hosts!  

Previous Tree posts:

Part#1 - Visual & Edible

Part#2 - From the Fall to Forgiveness

Part#3 - Fruit

Part#4 - Olives

Part#5 - Mustard, Faith & Mulberry

Part#6 - FIGS: From Genesis to Revelation

Part#7 - Cypress, Pine, Cedar

Part#8 - The Tree of Life

Part#9 - Zacchaeus & The Sycamore Tree

Part#10 - Roots

Part#11 - Trunk/Bark/Wood

Part#12 - Branches (Part#1)

Part#13 - Why Palms?

Part#14 - Branches (Part#2)

Part#15 - Leaves

Part#16(a) - NOAH:  Building the Ark

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I challenge you to thank God for something everyday for one year!  Either write it down in a diary OR share with us on a blog.  If you have a blog & would like to share your THANKFULNESS posts with us, then please fill out this form: 365 Days of Being THANKFUL form - click HERE and you will be added to the THANKFULNESS page.

Beauty in the Little Things

Beauty in the Little Things

I'm sure you have heard this saying in the past:

"Grow where God plants you" 

Well, that phrase has been helpful in my life.  A trip to Europe or a hike in the Appalachian mountains are beautiful indeed, but I can find just as much beauty in the detailed little things of my garden.

Three beautiful little things popped out at me this summer:

 1.  Allowing a few onions from last year to go to seed this year

2.  The flower of a weed called "Daisy Fleabane"

3.  A bent Echinacea petal 

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1.  Onion Flowerheads

We had a few onions that were not harvested last year and instead of digging them up, we decided to try to save some onion seeds.

I was pleasantly surprised to see the beauty of each onion flower (see pictures below).

(I included a special onion recipe below the pictures)

Click HERE to read "Caramelized Onion Chicken Meatballs"

2.  Daisy Fleabane Weed

I'm so glad that I allowed this weed to flower.  Checkout the tiny detail in these cute little flowers - each petal is like a pen line (see pictures below).

Not all weeds are pests

(See link to post below the pictures about a healthy weed)

Click HERE to read "Purslane - A Good Weed???"

3.  A Bent Echinacea Petal

It may look like this Echinacea petal was just blowing in the wind but it wasn't.  I've never seen a petal grow creased without there being something that was forcing it to grow that way.  I just thought this was uniquely weird but still beautiful (see pictures below).

(Below the pictures is a post on Echinacea that I wrote last year)

Click HERE to read "Echinacea Purple Coneflower"

ENJOY!

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Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #587

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #587!

Before we get to the blog hop today - 

during the months of July & August I will be featuring a post focusing on garden produce:

Cucumber, Dill & Tender Zucchini Salad

Checkout wonderful seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

click HERE to shop for the best seeds

Or click picture below:

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Also, checkout one of my Bags/Purses available at Zazzle:

Evening Sun Mix Sunflower Tote Bag
by GodsGrowingGarden

_____________________________________________________________

Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "Macrame Wallhanging for Beginners" by My French Twist

2. "Peggy's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada" by Mille Fiori Favoriti

3. "Knitted Diagonal Dish Cloth" by Joy's Jots, Shots & Whatnots

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

_________________________________________
Grow your own!
Many wonderful garden products from
 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
click to view