Vince is on a new diet plan. He's working with a nutritionist and the first two weeks he's on a pretty specific detox plan. Yesterday's lunch was a salad - I forget what it's called . . some kind of high protein salad. I can't remember what all it had in it but I remember black eyed peas, black beans, cucumber, avocado, tomatoes, snow peas, kale, spinach, walnuts, almonds, carrots, red cabbage, ...
Back to Love is the Key
There was a little break from stitching this weekend - a break from everything really - I think it was Thursday I started feeling like I might have a kidney stone. My plans for Thursday - Saturday involved cooking about a dozen freezer meals. The food was prepped and needed to be cooked so there was no time for a kidney stone. I got through Saturday with just a bit of pain but Sunday it was ...
Finish #12 for 2024
Yes, I know that my friend, Denise, just finished her 34th piece! That girl is a stitching machine and her work is always so pretty! I'm just happy to have finished something . . anything! This is Miss Isabelle Black by Scattered Seed Samplers. My cornstalk isn't really leaning, it's just the angle at which I was taking the picture (to try to avoid waking the dogs who were sleeping on my ...
The BEST Mac & Cheese Recipe
Aren't y'all glad I'm finding all these new to me recipes? Today I made The BEST Mac & Cheese recipe and it may well be the BEST mac & cheese. It seems to be the best I've made. I can't even remember if I told you that our pig isn't going to be ready until January so that gives me another month to make room in the freezer. What did I spend today doing? Making freezer meals. I'm ...
Propane Calculations
I should give up on trying to determine how much propane we need. Back in June, 2022, I wrote this: We have a 500 gallon propane tank. They will only fill it 80% full so basically, we have a 400 gallon propane tank. There’s a minimum of 200 gallons to buy to get the lowest price. Our take was at 50% so I calculated it all in my head and that was 200 gallons. They came yesterday to put propane ...
My Favorite Season – Fall
The weather doesn't seem like fall at all - still in the upper 80's to mid-90's. Go away, Summer!! But, the leaves are pretty! We will never have the color seen in places like Vermont or Maine or other places in the northeast but it's pretty here right now. This morning we had a dump truck deliver a load of mushroom compost. The first year we were here, we had a man with a small trailer bring ...