I've mentioned on here before how much I love the Big Happy Planner. I knew it was about this time when there's usually a sale at The Happy Planner but I was busy and never looked at it. Yesterday I checked to see what was on sale there, as well as Michael's and found this one. That's the style I use and I liked the design. It has July, 2024 through December, 2025 in it. I don't need the July - ...
Salads in Jars
I just went back and looked and the first blog post I wrote about vacuum sealing salads in jars was in 2011 so I've been doing it for a very long time. This was the first blog post I read about doing this and then I tried it. I love Thousand Island Dressing and I add a chopped boiled egg and a bit of grated cheddar cheese to it but right now, my favorite dressing is this Everyday Salad ...
Meal Planning & Grocery Shopping
Last night I was talking to a friend and she was saying that she had no idea what she was going to cook for dinner today but she needed to come up with a plan or they would end up going out to eat. When I got in bed, I was thinking . . I wish I could be a little more like that. We're all different and the best thing for me is to know what I expect of myself and do it. If I don't write things ...
Stitching Opinions Please
I'm still stitching on Rejoice Evermore by With Thy Needle. I love it and am enjoying stitching it. I took it to sit & stitch at the local cross stitch shop Saturday and got a bit more stitching done. I've kinda hit a snag. Those open vertical spaces are on the larger birds' wings. The called for floss is to use one strand of the more aqua floss and one strand of the greenish ...
A Day of Canning
This morning I started right away working on the yellow hominy and got it all canned - 12 pints. If anyone is interested in making hominy, Red Rose Homestead has good, fairly concise instructions in this video. At about the 20:00 point, she's talking about her jars, after canning, having no water - the corn absorbed it all. She mentions that her beans do the same thing. In my opinion, she's ...
Rejoice Evermore – More Progress
The rain really helped with my stitching time yesterday. I went out and picked the tomatoes but that took maybe 10 minutes and that's all the time I spent in the garden so that was extra stitching time. This is where I had stopped on Tuesday night. This is where I am now. I'm not even sure what those things are that look like rocks on both sides of the house - maybe just a pile ...