That hardest part is starting, right? So I’m just going to start this post and see where it goes. I’ve been mulling it over in my head. I reread last year’s post for inspiration. Still, I...
I was trying to find a good picture to use in my Thoughts on Marriage post. Instead, I ended up having some fun playing around with other pictures. These are from a recent hay day at our new friends’...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I thought it was almost too beautiful to eat! We did eat it though and it tasted almost as good as it looked. It was Strawberry Rhubarb. I wanted to get the bags of strawberries and rhubarb out of...
This is part of Works for Me Wednesday. I picked up this handy “dog hair remover brush” at Walmart (eww) probably over a year ago. With 4 dogs and a cat in the house I am always looking for...
I’ve mentioned before that I’d like to share some of the steps I’m taking to prepare for starting a family. While this may seem unrelated, one of the first things I’m doing is reevaluating my dental...
Last Sunday we had breakfast at the farm after church instead of going out to a restaurant. I really enjoyed hosting! My family is about an hour away so I’ve rarely had the chance to host anything. ...
Our house is gradually looking better for longer periods of time since I’ve settled in to a cleaning routine. I still rarely make it through the week without missing at least one scheduled day of...
