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 […]