I wonder too, if it isn’t easier to be contented when you aren’t constantly bombarded with things and options and keeping up with everyone else! 🙂

Tea syrup: 30 family-size tea bags(1 family-size is equal to 3 regular), 14 Constant Comment tea bags, 7 qt. water, 5 pounds and 3 cups sugar,
Boil water. Turn off heat and add tea bags. Steep for 20 minutes. Add sugar and mix well. Put in quart jars an hot water bath for 12 min or do like I did and put in pint jars and freeze. 1 quart tea syrup makes 2 gallons of tea. That’s why I did pints, so the ratio would be for 1 gallon. Also, this recipe is cut in half. I didn’t have enough tea bags for a whole so I cut it in half. It was a LOT, even just doing half! So, you can double it if you want!

We didn’t do anything special on the 4th. In fact I kind of forgot all about it and when I woke up and hubby was still in bed I frantically woke him up, “Aren’t you going to work???” About 2 hours later he reminded me it was a holiday :o) We celebrated having the electric back on :o)

I’m loving my frozen tea syrup!

Why is contentment so hard?! In our summer Bible study, one of the videos showed them visiting the Amazon. One of the women living in the Amazon apologised because she did not have a house to invite them into. She just had this little thing made out of four poles and a tarp-type material over the top-no sides. Talk about feeling ashamed of myself.

Skunks seem to like coming around your place! 🙂 How did you get rid of him?