Another normal today

Hello everyone,  

I don’t have a new photo but the second scrap quilt is completely tied and pinned. 

 I need to spend about an hour at the sewing machine sewing completely around the border and then it will be done.  

Yesterday I did a grocery pickup from the Walmart close to my house.  
My town has 3 Walmarts, 1 Aldi and 1 Sprouts.  
We aren’t crazy about driving to Oklahoma City anymore for groceries so Walmart is where I do most of our shopping.  

Before I placed that order,  we inventoried our frozen meat.  We have a good amount of pork and already cooked meat like beef taco meat, lentil taco filling,  shredded roast beef.
We had 2 packs of chicken so I bought a whole chicken and a tray of boneless skinless chicken breasts.  
That chicken was 7 pounds!
  I remember when whole chickens were 3-4 pounds.  
It’s illegal to sell chicken in the USA that has hormones or steroids so thats not why chickens are so much bigger than they used to be.  

It would take all week for my husband and I to use a 7 pound chicken.
So before I freeze them,  I cut out the backbone and wingtips.  I save those in a freezer bag until I have enough to make chicken broth.  
Then I bag up each half chicken to freeze.   

The chicken breasts were about 1 pound each.  
Each one was put in a small bag by itself.  

These bags will probably last for 2 meals

ready to freeze 

there were 2 small packs of ground beef in our freezer.  
This meat store at our local university is only open on Friday afternoons.  
Their meat is raised on campus and packaged by students.  
Everything we’ve bought there has been first rate.  
My husband went today and bought 10 pounds of ground beef and a small ham.  

I’m happy to be so stocked up and don’t expect to need to buy meat again until after Christmas.  
But we do eat almost all of our meals at home so it may not last that long.  

I’m  still liking this Walmart great value dishwasher detergent.
It gets all the tea and coffee stains off.  
It just seems to do a really good job.
This measuring cup is a quarter cup because that’s what size I had to use as the scoop but we only fill it about a fourth full so I use about 1 tablespoon a load.

we got a new roof in the spring and the roofers did a great job.
They cleaned up, but apparently these nails fell into some of our garden beds that were overgrown and that we never cleaned out in the spring..
We did very little garden or yard work this year as my husband had back surgery. 

Anyway,  my husband and I did some garden cleanup this morning and found these nails down in some bushes.  
We had 4 inches or rain yesterday and our temperatures finally dropped into the 50s so it was pleasant outside and the soft ground made it easy to pull up stuff.  

I’m not an expert gardener by any stretch but I’m going to brag a bit on my jade plant.
  I bought it 5 years ago at Walmart and it was just  
 a little 3 or 4 inch pot.  
It stays on the patio in warm months and comes indoors during cold months.  
I put those nails in front of it for scale.  
It’s grown way bigger than I ever imagined.  


Hope you all have a really good weekend 
❤️ Rhonda 

getting back to a normal routine

Hello everyone,  

recovering from Salmonella took my husband a lot longer than either of us expected.  

But he is finally feeling almost normal except for feeling more weak and tired than before he got sick.  

I working on that second scrap quilt.  I’ve been tying it on the big dining table- this table isn’t really big enough but I’m just using what I have.  And it’s fine.  

Maybe I will make my goal of getting them both finished by  the end of this month.  

Here’s the to do list I started Monday.  

I’ve done some of it and some of either didn’t get done or will happen as the week goes on.  

I did go to Dollar General to stock up on laundry products while they had good coupons on them.  But when I tried to check out,  none of my coupons subtracted.  The 2 clerks said maybe it was because the first day of the sale and I could try again later in the week.  I was polite but I didn’t buy a thing.  Dollar General may just be off my list of stores where I shop.  I don’t like doing errands and gas is too expensive for fruitless errands.  

Next door to that DG is a big thrift store with good prices.  One of our granddaughters needs some sewing help with a Halloween outfit.  

this is her inspiration photo- she bought a similar blue plaid skirt with shorts attached for $1 at Walmart.  We found some fabrics in my sewing stuff for the hanging down parts.  But she really wanted some reddish plaid too.  

I got both of these plaid shirts and a book for $3.35 at the thrift store near DG.  

If you’ve shopped for fabric lately,  these 2 shirts are much cheaper than buying fabric by the yard.

In the photo,  the second shirt looks brown but it’s brick red in person.  

Sunday,  I was thinking about meals for the week and I wrote out this list really quick.  

It uses ingredients we had on hand.  

We haven’t eaten everything exactly as written but it’s been very helpful and we have ate all our meals at home.  

After the salmonella,  we are neither one too eager to eat out anyway.  

Tomorrow,  I’ll look in the freezer and see what looks good and make another list.  

hopefully I didn’t put any of you to sleep ready this very non-exciting post.  

❤️Rhonda