Getting back to normal

Hello everyone,

My husband is doing much better.  He’s been off of the heavier pain meds for days,  he’s doing great at physical therapy and he even drove a little yesterday.  

Needless to say but we are both very happy he’s doing so good.  

It wasn’t a big list but I scratched every single task off of the to do list.  That felt good too! 

I cleaned up the front flower beds- they weren’t “weedy” but had some dry stuff leftover and of course leaves.  

I half filled up this trash can and uncovered some tulips almost ready to bloom. 

  

The garage got a good sweeping.  When it warms up even more, it will get mopped too (and no, I don’t mop our garage often, maybe once a year or so) 

I also gathered up a bag of trash out there.  I’m reclaiming real estate 

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Laura at Harvest Lane Cottage talks about doing.  

In the backyard,  I looked over husband’s raised beds.  They need some attention before he can plant anything so I worked on them some.  

I’ve still got 3 1/2 beds to clean out and I left the worst for last but I’ll just keep working on the .  It’s too early plant most things anyway.

While I was pulling weeds,  I found several volunteer lettuce plants.  

So I gathered them up and replanted them all together.  

I think there are about 12 volunteer leaf lettuce plants 

For cooking,  before the surgery, I made a batch of sausage biscuits for the freezer that my husband likes so much.

They were so handy for quick breakfasts.  If you are the caretaker, it’s really nice to have some fast some easy foods. 

These are baked Grands biscuits and Jimmy Dean precooked Turkey sausage patties.  

I freeze them with the sausage on top so I can microwave the sausage a little before I put the biscuit in the microwave.  The sausage takes longest to heat.  

One night this week we had hamburgers and I baked these Rhodes dinner rolls for the hamburger buns.  

We really like them but they are smaller than a fast food burger bun.  

And it’s simpler to eat slightly smaller bunsat home than to go out for store buns or takeout food.  

  

And last a funny story about the 5 year old grandson who is back in traditional school after almost a year or virtual school 

He has plenty of cool masks- I know he has baseball, dinosaur and super hero theme masks but apparently the teacher had some even nicer ones 😎

I hope you all have a good weekend.  I think we are going to a school plant sale and I’m sure my husband will pick out way more plants than we

need.  

❤️ Rhonda 

Soup and celebrations

Hello everyone 

I made a delicous batch of soup last week, inspired by a soup recipe from an old blog that is no longer being updated. 

Lena’s cabbage soup post

I followed the recipe except I didn’t add the beans and for seasoning,  I used just a little sage and thyme.  

It was such a good soup! 

For the last 6 or 7 years,  we started taking a trip for our wedding anniversary and they were usually to the San Diego area or Branson, Missouri.  

In March if 2020 was our 40th wedding anniversary- you all know what became of celebrations then. 

This week was our 41st anniversary.  With my husband’s surgery,  trips aren’t possible now but he tried to make our day very special.  

I woke up and saw this huge happy anniversary sign in our front yard

My husband thought he asked 1 of our children to arrange for a flower delivery but he actually asked 2 children so.....

2 huge floral arrangements were delivered.  

They are both so pretty and it smells like a florist in our home.  

Ducky spent last week at our favorite kennel/doggie day camp 

He had a great week playing with so many other dogs.  

He is home now and so tired from his busy week and also so happy to nap beside Jeff.  

I hope that photo doesn’t gross anyone out too much.  We think it looks bad but we checked with the doctor and they think it’s OK.  

This was actually Jeff’s 4th knee replacement surgery.  His other knee had lots of problems and it took 3 surgeries to get it OK.  

So we are really hoping this knee will be a one and done situation.  

Hope you are all fine.  

It’s been raining buckets here for about 16 hours and I’m glad today is a stay at home day.

❤️ Rhonda