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