July things #2- food and oddball plants

Hello everyone 

Below is the produce I prepped at the first of this week 

The square dish is fresh salsa made with many grape tomatoes from our garden and they are so good! 

The grandchildren all enjoy the fairy gardens but they haven’t been here much because of covid.  I enjoy these dish gardens,  they’re just fun to rearrange and play with when we’re sitting at the patio table.  

So,  I made a second one.  I used a big a Tupperware lid that was in our discard pile and this one mainly has a turtle theme as one grandson is very fond of “tuttles”. 

And the original one 

You can buy things for fairy gardens but a lot of the stuff in ours is doodads we already had,  seashells,  little found rocks,  a sign made by a granddaughter 

We have some odd plants this summer 

This pot started out with one small succulent on the left and a painted plant my husband bought last summer. 

Both have doubled, maybe tripled in size this spring/summer. 

The one on the right has a bloom starting, similar to how a hosta blooms.  

Leaves that fell off the left succulent and landed in the pot have started many new plants,  all on their own with no help from me.

Succulents do OK inside during cold months but they really thrive outdoors in warm weather.  

2 more odd plants are Mother of Millions and Mother of Thousands.  

They both reproduce by growing baby plants along the edge of their leaves.  Then the baby plants grow into big plants when they fall in the dirt. 

These 2 plants are considered invasion in really warm climates and should be kept in pots to prevent them from taking over. 

And it’s hot here and getting hotter- but we are enjoying being outside early mornings and late evenings.  

Hope you are all well

❤️ Rhonda 

July things #1 - First to do list

Weeding

  Under bushes and move caladium pots 

 Under the tree that turned into a bush 

   Berry patch                   Mow? 

Kitchen 

  Boil eggs           Bottle water in kitchen 

  Make salad        Make veggie tray and dip 

  Make fresh salsa            Bake dessert 

  Make chicken veg soup maybe 

Plan meals 

  Turkey sloppy joes 

  Turkey lasagna 

  Burgers 

  Roast 

   Whole chicken 

    

Housekeeping 

  Guest room bedding     

   Hall bath

   Master bath 

   Vac            Mop 

   Dust 

   Laundry      Master sheets 

Extras 

Ducky to Spa 

Pay bills 

Grocery pickup end of week? 

Amazon thingie straightened out 

Hello everyone,  I’ve been busy with lots of yard and garden work,  and also feeling at my wit’s end deciphering this Covid yuck and how to live the new normal as people in the higher risk group.    I’m guessing a lot of you can say the exact thing.  

Anyway,  above is my to do list before I print it out and hang it in our kitchen.  

I’m still doing some food prep to make meals easier.  

Below is last week’s ......

We especially liked the hard boiled eggs with salad and sandwiches.  

Also a big bowl of naval oranges for snacking 

Some of our grandsons are playing baseball and one of them loves to slide in the Oklahoma red dirt when he crosses home plate (even when he doesn’t need to) in his white baseball pants.  

His mom asked if I could get his white pants cleaner than she was.  

First I washed them in Tide, my go-to stain remover and it helped but didn’t clean the red dirt from the knees.  

So I did some research and saw Out White Brite was recommended by other people washing white ball pants.  

Out White Brite is a powder and is sold at Walmart for less than $4.  I’m sure it’s sold other places too but my town has 3 Walmarts and not a lot of other stores so it’s where I mostly shop.  

I put 1/2 cup of it with hot tap water in a big bowl and soaked the pants an hour or so and they came remarkably cleaner!  

The only bad part is the cleaner has the same scent of hair permanent solution but the scent does wash out.  

Hope you’re all fine and enjoying summer 🌻🍉⛱ 🌞🏡🗽🇺🇸

❤️Rhonda