June 6- meals from last week and my plan for this week

Hello everyone 

Last week’s meal plan worked out really well and I cooked everything but 1 meal on the schedule.  

My husband picked spinach and a few strawberries.  Big or small harvest,  we enjoy whatever grows. 

I always get a kick out of the chicken marinating in dill pickle juice- the recipe is linked in my previous post. 

I served the dill pickle chicken with fried rice

We had a busy weekend!  

We had a house guest and a family here and neighborhood yard sales, also grands had dance recitals and baseball tournaments.  

I baked a coffee cake and blueberry muffins for our weekend breakfasts.  They were good but not recipes worth sharing or baking again.  

We watched a streaming church service this morning and it was really good! 

I think thats just an overlooked typo- and it should say sons not sis 

Sunday lunch was grilled burgers grilled today by my husband  and everything else was leftover from yesterday’s family meal.  

It was nice to have an easy meal ❤️

I spent part of this afternoon cleaning house so that’s why there is not much in the cleaning category. 

Grandchild #9 will be spending  most summer week days with us so I will adjust my to-dos to just necessary stuff for now.  

And that’s fine - one thing I know is kiddos grow up very fast 

And lastly, we have lots of lilies blooming right now- yellow, white, pink, red and orange.  They are quite showy! 

About washing machines- my new machine does have a center agitator and a huge tub.  It has a water lever sensor and you can let the machine decide how much water it needs for the load or you can set the load for a full tub regardless of size.  It also self adjusts if a load get unbalanced.   So far- I’m very happy with this new machine.  

If you want to look at it more closely - https://www.lowes.com/pd/Maytag-Commercial-Grade-3-5-cu-ft-High-Efficiency-Top-Load-Washer-White/1002579758 

  It runs about $1000 so if that price won’t work for you,  don’t look.  There are cheaper machines that still work great.  

If you think my washer is fancy,  this is the set my daughter in law bought.  

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/combo/washer-dryer-bundles/4cc94347-de57-4017-a52b-259f1afe3af4

It’s a washer and dryer set, both appliances will do a small load and a large load simultaneously.  

But it’s a very heavy set and they live in an old farmhouse,  so it’s too heavy for the laundry room floor and they will need to upgrade their floors.  Also it uses more water than their current plumbing can drain so they are going to need to update their plumbing too.  

If you’re wondering how heavy, it took 4 men to set the washer in place 😳 I’m just guessing but it may be too heavy for mobile homes and maybe upper floors too.  

I had no idea washers and dryers came with so many features.  

Hope you all have a good week 

❤️ Rhonda 

June 2nd - unbusy almost summer day

Hello everyone 

Today was a day spent with grands so I did very minimal home things.  

I took 6 of them to a park and they had so much fun. One grand had the best time playing with a classmate who just happened to be at the park at the same

There were 4 of us here for supper and my husband offered to go get takeout.  

There were a few things in the kitchen to clean up for the day.  So I did that while they were gone,

One thing I do every evening is set up the coffee and tea makers for morning.  

My husband drinks 1 mug of coffee and I drink 2 mugs of tea.  

  

They are marked with a silver Sharpie so guests know which pot is which. 

It’s really nice to just push a button and brew our morning beverages, whenever we are ready in the morning.  

The clocks are not set, in case your wondering if I cleaned up the days dishes at midnight - 

Ducky went to our vet for his yearly shots, a checkup and med refills.  

I think our Vet charges very reasonably for his services- the prescription are just expensive! 

But we do love our dog so we take him to the vet to keep him healthy.  Also, living in the city limits he is required to have up to date rabies vaccines.  

At least the weather is being  thrifty! 

We’ve had so much rain, we have not watered any of the garden or yard in weeks.

It’s also cool enough to just have windows open but not cool enough to need to turn on the heater.  

Below are the links to recipes requested 

dill pickle chicken recipe   

spaghetti salad recipe  but no sesame seeds, and I’ll use multicolor bell peppers and a diced cucumber 

This YouTube video also shows how to make Spaghetti Salad 

lejmom- yes, this Commercial Maytag has a huge tub and an old school center agitator.  I hope I never have to use any kind but a center agitator washer. 

Hope you all are having a nice week so far 

❤️Rhonda