FYI

While I haven’t been putting up many actual posts lately I wanted to let you all know that I have been updating the “gardening” and “tour my pantry” pages. I’ve weighed in over 100# of tomatoes already this year!! That is pretty fabulous for me considering I started every single one of my plants from […]

2nd Anniversary Dinner

It’s almost done and it smells sooo good.  Here’s what’s on the menu: Steaks on the grill from one of the steers we raised together.  Delmonico for me, T-bone for Brian. Red skinned potatoes that Brian got from our potato pots tonight, fried with garlic powder I grew and made myself. Homemade cheesecake for dessert […]

Laundry Area Makeover Pt. 1: Brainstorming

No pics in this post… before pictures to come.  As part of my tackling my housekeeping trouble spots I want/need to makeover our laundry area.  Doing that will solve problems #2 (laundry) and #4 (shoes) and go a long way with helping #5 (basement).  Here’s my plan… I want to implement an awesome idea I […]

Dog Fun!

The girls really enjoy climbing up in the hay with Brian.  To get up there in this picture she had to scale a wall 4 or 5 bales high and then army crawl across the top.  Brian’s holding her so she doesn’t jump down to me.  June can jump from the floor and easily land […]

Garden Update

Yeah… about that mess of weeds I call a garden… These are volunteer tomatoes growing in with some weeds where I never planted anything this year.  You can’t tell but they’re laying on the ground. I get one or two decent sized cucumbers off my two plants every day.  That is, of course, unless the […]

Cowboy Blueberry Pie

I made this one with some of my home canned blueberry pie filling.  A neighbor invited me down for tea this morning so I took it with me.  It was delicious!  I think I’ll tweak the cookie cutter a little bit next time so it looks more like a boot.  I’ve tried to make good […]