Friday things

hello again, everyone

our son that lives four states away, came back to our town for just a short visit because of some things involving his former law partner here.
He asked me if I could hem a pair of pants while he was here, I said, of course, and bring anything that you have that needs adjusted.
He brought three pair of his pants, two pair of his daughter’s pants, and a skirt he hoped I could make look more Halloween appropriate.  
Everything got hemmed and 
I sewed some green ball fringe and black Rick rack around the skirt bottom.   Both of those were items I just had in my sewing room that I probably Thrifted  several years ago

we both think it turned out really cute and I know my granddaughter will enjoy swishing the full skirt around.  

Because grandkids would be here after school I baked a batch of chocolate chip muffins. I had some sour cream that needed used up so this recipe was perfect..  
I’ve made this recipe many times, but I did not get a photo of the finished muffins.

While I was in the kitchen, I grated  3 pounds of cheese with this fairly new grater.  
It works pretty good.  
I put two boxes in the freezer and we will use one box before it goes bad.
We like cheese on salads, on anything Mexican, on baked potatoes.  It just goes fast  

There were seven of us here for supper tonight. We started with salad.  I should say a few of us had salad.  Then we had delivered pizza, but I did not get a photo of it.   I’m  pretty sure you all know what Pizza looks like.  Everybody ate pizza.  

The children also ate lots of chocolate chip muffins and took the leftover ones home with them.  

that’s my exciting day But I did enjoy it very much.

❤️ Rhonda 

not the best blogger

hello everyone

Two weeks ago I had plans to try to Blogg every day, but obviously that has not happened.

But I have taken some pictures along the way and I’ll just share those

I did completely finish one of the twin quilts for this room.
This room has two beds and I have the Quilt top made for the other bed,  I just need to spend time finishing it.

I’ve  been to a thrift store twice over the last two weeks.
The 16-year-old granddaughter has turned into a crocheter and she wanted any kind of yarn I could find
The bags of yarn are very full. One of them had some thicker yarn, maybe it’s referred to as chunky yarn by yarn people.
One bag is all cotton yarn And it is nice to crochet into dishcloths
I also got a big mug and a bag and a funny little remnant of fabric.  

 

oThe second trip I bought a vinyl tablecloth that I plan to use on two tables on our patio- It’s 104 inches long.
And five jars that I will use just for dry food storage.  I’m pretty sure the quart ones are old mayonnaise jars and they are a very heavy glass compared to how I think glass jars are made now

another Friday night supper with a silly 11 year-old showing y’all the food.  
It was just the three kids and myself. We had breakfast for supper.- Strawberries, Biscuits and gravy, Sausage, Scrambled eggs, And banana chocolate chip muffins because I had ripe bananas and these kiddos like chocolate chips in their banana muffins.  

I don’t drink coffee and my husband will drink any plain black coffee. He doesn’t care what brand it is..  
I bought this MasterChef coffee at Walmart a few months ago as it was cheap compared to all the other coffees
I was surprised that the can was actually metal.  
I don’t know what I’m gonna do with it, but I did save and wash the can.  


They’re great food storage too.


Anybody remember when baking pumpkin bread in empty 1 pound Coffee cans was the rage?
i’m thinking it started in the mid 70s.
You can’t do that anymore because coffee doesn’t come in a 1 pound metal can and the cans that a lot of foods are in have some sort of a coating  on the inside that I don’t think is baking safe

But it was fun back then to make a round loaf of bread.   

that’s a snippet of my exciting life.  

❤️ Rhonda 

Monday = new to do list

Good morning

Google-Blogger-Blogspot is still not updating new posts on sidebars yet.  In my past experience,  they never seem to respond to problems but maybe they will get it fixed.  I just don’t know and am not very hopeful.  

But on to what I can do…..

My new list for this week-  it’s not heavy as I know it won’t get done if I put everything on there that I could.  

I started some scrap quilts for the 2 twin beds in one of our bedrooms months ago. The quilt tops are done.

Yesterday I sewed up fabric big enough to make the backings on both of them.

So I need to get them sandwiched onto the kitchen table- If you don’t quilt, sandwiching means layering the backing fabric, then the batting and then the quilt top.

These will just get tied with crochet thread, and then I’ll need to sew the bindings.  

my goal is to finish both of these quilts in September.  

I will certainly post photos when I finish them.

So if y’all don’t see photos, soon of finished quilt, y’all nag me OK?

the quilt tops - folded and under that basket 

hope you all have a really good Monday
❤️ Rhonda 

Friday Fun

hello everyone!

Today is Friday. Fridays used to always mean a grandchildren sleepover. That doesn’t happen as often anymore, but it does today

first I baked a pan of brownies using a mix.
Some of us like pecans, some of us prefer chocolate chips, and some of us prefer M&Ms
So I just put some of each topping on three different sections
I made the box mix just like it said, but I did add a teaspoon of vanilla.
They turned out great!

we went to Branson this summer and shopped at an Aldi grocery store

This melamine lazy Susan was on their specials aisle.  I’ve always liked patriotic things and  quilt designs and I’m very glad I found this and bought it.  

Today I filled it with fresh fruit because we all like fresh fruit about our oldest granddaughter especially likes fresh fruit.. 

Everyone was in a good mood at supper. All of the food was a crowd pleaser.

Can you longtime blog readers, believe that my grandchildren are so big?  

Our oldest grandson is a senior in high school, this granddaughter in the picture is a junior.

These boys are in junior high and middle school.

Our youngest granddaughter is in second grade in another state

We have nine total grandchildren.  

Hope you all are having a good Friday

Thank you so much for all the people who have viewed my blog since yesterday. I checked my stats and I’m shocked at how many of you read my first post in six months yesterday

I promise all the post will not involve desserts.  

PS I’ve come back to add this after looking at several blogs on my sidebar.  It seems no one’s Blog list are updating.

People are writing new post, but they are not coming up inside bars.  So if you want to see if some of your favorite bloggers have  a recent post, Everybody works together

I think you’ll just have to click on their old post and look around and see if there are some more new ones.  

Very frustrating I know 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

This seems to be a glitch with blogspot/blogger/Google.  Hopefully, they will get it fixed soon

❤️ Rhonda 
 

It’s been almost 6 months

Hello everyone,

I want to get back to blogging and I wondered if I should about highlight from the last 6 months but that seems daunting so I just going to jump back in with today.  

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It has been such a hot and dry long summer in Oklahoma.  
I’ve done almost zero baking and meals have mostly been low-prep dishes cooked in a slow cooker to keep the house from heating up even more.  

But praise God,  we woke up to rain and the coolest temperatures we’ve had since May.  
So,  it seemed like a great time to bake a real dessert.mm
My husband said peach cobbler sounded best to him.  
I put almost 40 pounds of Colorado peaches in the freezer this summer so I used some of them in a Fannie Farmer recipe.  

I made half a recipe and baked them in 4 little pie pans.  
They were delicious and hit the spot after not having fresh baked desserts all summer.  
This crust was different from traditional crust as it called for baking powder, sugar, butter and cream.  

It’s a good recipe but I think we prefer a regular pie crust that uses just flour, salt, shortening and ice water.  

 This post is formatting weird,  It shows how rusty I am at blogging.  

But I really do plan to start posting  regularly.  

❤️ Rhonda