Bernideen's Tea Time, Cottage and Garden: June 2017

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

MARTHA WASHINGTON for "Tea In The Garden"

With the 4th of July coming Sunday,

I wanted to set up a little tea time

with Martha Washington:

I made a Lemon Pound Cake
(click for recipe)

yesterday so let's have a slice.

Today is a beautiful June day so we can

sit here under the deck and chat and have tea.
We will celebrate Independence Day
which was first celebrated July 4, 1776.
If you like, click on this link for a history lesson.

These are old Homer Laughlin

pieces and English

Mason's Vista cups and saucers.

I dug out another area in my backyard

recently but it isn't very pretty yet as

I took plants from here and there that

aren't all that happy to be moved. I am

glad I did it as it allowed me to

join Jeremy Fisher back with Miss Tabitha.

My garden is a bit of a

"Popsicle stick garden" with sticks

marking seedlings everywhere!

I do hope your summer is going well!

Monday, June 26, 2017

THE MAIL MUST GO THROUGH!

Just sharing two photos with our new

mailbox that my Hubby put in. I dug out

the area and used rocks my son gave us

for our anniversary!

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

THE SECRET GARDEN for "Tea In The Garden"

This week we are going into the first days of

summer and my garden is slowly starting

to bloom. I am learning where to move

things around - where they might do better!
The sun here means really hot so some
things needed to be moved.

All these flowers (above) were
picked from the garden.

This morning I set up a little tea time.

I mentioned in a prior post that I

wish I planted seeds directly in

the ground last year. That still holds!

Here is one of the clipboards

that I recently decoupaged:

This little house wren can't make

up her mind which birdhouse to use:

I have been enjoying my garden and so

happy I don't have to do that digging out

job this year. I don't think I could really.

Friday, June 16, 2017

BURWOOD PLANTATION, PILOT GROVE, MISSOURI

Today I had the opportunity to tour

the Burwood Plantation Home near

Pilot Grove, Missouri which is owned

by Vicki McCarrell. It dates to the 1880's

and was built by Henry Ruby Walker.

It was built on the site of an earlier

brick dwelling from 1826.

Parts of the old home were incorporated

into the later Queen Ann style house.

The old kitchen and

the slave cabins remained.

You can read some history about
it and the Pleasant Green
plantation next door - here.

Pleasant Green is owned by Florence
"Winky" Chesnutt. I had met both owners
of the plantations at the tea I attended back in
May in Boonville, Missouri. Pleasant Green dates to
1818 and is a brick structure.

There is so much history that I need to learn

and I thank Vicki McCarrell for sharing

her Burwood Plantation with us! If you
follow the link above the 2nd and 3rd pictures
are from the slave quarters and I went in
them today. That 3rd picture - yes it looked
just like that. Can you imagine?

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

BLUEBERRY MUFFINS for "Tea In The Garden"

Yesterday I had a couple of friends

over for lunch. We had a fun time

as we are all bloggers and "kindred

spirits" as Anne of Green Gables
would say. I had some leftover Blueberry

Muffins so we have a treat!

I am also sharing one of my clipboards

I decoupaged with Edith Holden's artwork.

I have shared some of the decoupage
things I have done.

We will sit here:

I was hoping to have a more thrilling

garden this year.

Looking back, I now know that I should

have planted seeds directly in the dirt
late last summer. I goofed.
I think next year will be better.

Please enjoy one of these blueberry muffins:

Here are the ingredients to

make 12 nice ones:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees

and spray a muffin

tin (larger size) with pam. Combine: 2 cups flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 1/2 tsp baking powder, 6 oz sour cream, 2 large eggs and 1/2 cup vegetable oil till smooth.

Fold in 1 cup blueberries. Spoon into muffin tin and

sprinkle sugar on top....bake 20 minutes