July #6 - summer foods

Hello everyone 

Below is where I usually do my chopping and peeling, etc.  

I set everything up on the breakfast table and sit down to work because it does take me awhile.  

Sometimes I watch YouTube on an iPad while I work.  

Today- I made another batch of fresh salsa and cut up one cantaloupe.  

It was a bit green but it still tastes really good.  I will let the others ripen a couple days before I cut them.  

  All waiting in fridge until time to eat 

Supper was cornbread muffins,  canned pinto beans seasoned with onion, bell pepper and spicy tomato sauce, with fresh salsa to spoon on top.  It was really good! 

Below is what my husband harvested today - minus some onions he ate at lunch and jalapeños I put in the salsa.  

He planted potatoes in tubs to hopefully harvest this fall.  

A few replies 

 Terri- I know it’s a lot of melon but we will share it with family and it will all get eaten fresh.  

Angela, yes- we like our air fryer.  I can cube up potatoes, spray them with olive oil and in 10 minutes,  they are browned, delicious  and a very easy no fuss side dish.  

  Yesterday,  my 3 grands got school sack lunches and the entree was a chicken patty and bun.  I put the patties in the air fryer and they were ready to eat in 5 minutes.  

  I use the air fryer almost daily.  

❤️ Rhonda 

July #5 - cleaned out my purse

Hello everyone 

I took a few photos today so I’ll write a short post 

My husband bought some huge local melons off a trailer in a church parking lot this afternoon 

That’s a 24 ounce cottage cheese tub as a size reference.  I weighed one cantaloupe at 8.07 pounds. My husband thinks the watermelon is 30-40 pounds.  

My purse has been used very little during this virus stuff.  On the rare occasions I have used it while in a store,  I have just dropped the receipt and change in so as not to touch them unnecessarily.  After 3 months or so of neglect,  it did need cleaned out.  

So I dumped everything on the table 

Then I sorted it and threw away the trash 

And put everything back in 

I didn’t put all the change that was in the bottom of my purse back in,  I put it a jar where my husband saves change,  

I’ve heard we’re have a coin shortage in the US but I’m afraid I don’t want to handle coins until this health situation is better 

My purse did feel a lot lighter with all these coins out 

I don’t normally pay attention to fancy vehicles but I saw this ad today and I was so interested.  I have short legs and getting into tall vehicles can be a trick.  

Aren’t the steps on this new model amazing?  

I don’t need a new vehicle and I have zero plans to buy this fancy Lincoln but it sure looks nice.  The car engineers did a great job, I think.

The funny part of the ad is it’s described as affordable,  my guess is the price would be in the $60000 range,  sooo affordable, right? 

Supper was a smoked chicken sandwich, homemade salsa on cottage cheese and air-fried potatoes and carrots.  

❤️Rhonda