June 12 - garden produce, Grandma tricks and meals ☀️

Hello everyone 

The sunshine is good for the garden.  We’re harvesting blackberries everyday and have  picked green beans the last 2 days. 

My husband dug up the potatoes he grew in barrels - reds, whites and Yukon golds 

Some are big and some are little - and there will be lots of potatoes on our menu this summer 

Even after caring for 8 grandchildren over the last 12 years,  I am learning a few new tricks with grandchild #9 

This is the best and easiest  to use diaper rash treatment ever!  Just spray a little on and there’s no waterproof cream to try and wash off your hands afterward- 

It really works fast on diaper rash too 

Grand #9 is young enough to need daily naps.  Naps are always easier to start with a few books but this room has insulated curtains and my eyes don’t see the book well enough to read in the dark room. 

So I remembered I had a clip on book light and it works perfectly.  

I used last weeks to do list but some of the meals changed 

Onions, carrots and oranges prepped for the week 

Other carrots were grated and baked into carrot muffins 

I mixed up a double batch and got 20 normal size muffins-some we ate, some we shared and some were froze

They are a moist muffin, not real sweet- perfect for breakfast 

Some of our Meals this week 

Salmon patties, cabbage and potatoes and bell pepper - looks funny because it was hot and steamed my camera 

Crockpot baked potatoes, barbecued chicken and spinach from the garden - we ate chicken several meals and shared some 

Baked carrots, corn and potatoes, and more of the barbecued chicken

A recent guest told us they didn’t ever like leftovers.  I don’t get it- we enjoy leftovers and they are so easy on busy days 

What is your opinion of leftovers? 

Hope you’re  all enjoying the end of spring ☔️ 🌧 💐 

❤️Rhonda 

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