Trying again

Hello everyone 

I’ve been away from blogging most of the summer. I checked my blog yesterday and saw that more of my recent posts have missing photos. I’ve done a search to find out the problem, but I cannot find a solution that works that I can do or that applies to my blog. 

So………..

I’m going to write a short post now with photos and a back up and see what happens.

Our patio pergola hosted 3  families of baby robins this summer.

They were fun, watching the parrot sit on the nest, and then faithfully feed the babies. About three weeks after the eggs hatch, the babies leave, and they all go away, and never come back.

I’m still working on downsizing the amount of things in our home

Yesterday I gave away a whole, another big batch of stuff on the Facebook buy nothing group.

Last week I worked on my homemade cookbooks. I had four binders and several folders with printed off recipes and recipes saved  from magazines

They were quite unorganized!

We have had to do some serious changes with the foods that we eat so many of the recipes I had saved were completely useless at this stage.

BEFORE 

AFTER I know, it looks dirty, but the scrapbook paper is a distressed style and looks a lot prettier in person

1 single notebook takes up a whole lot less space than all that other stuff.

The notebook has four dividers – main dishes, side dishes, breads & desserts, and miscellaneous

Some of the recipes are printed from the Internet and some are cut from magazines.

 Some are glued onto pretty scrapbook paper.

I used dividers that I already had and I was happy, but they have pockets in them. 

This is in the back in the miscellaneous section.

I also saved some menu plans from the past. I don’t know that I’ll ever use this again, but they’re fun for me to go back and read.

  

If the photos stay on the post for a few days, I will try to get back to blogging

If they disappear, I may look into starting a new blog or

I just don’t know.

❤️Rhonda

Advice is most welcome about the missing photos 

End of June -to do list, sewing, grocery haul

Hello again- I’ll just jump right in

I made a to do list that started Sunday- it’s not pretty but hopefully it will keep me on track 

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I used to sew a lot! I found this photo of 2 of my children in pajamas I sewed - around 1987 I think. 

Aren’t they cute?  They really were happy children that usually had smiles on their faces.  

Anyway, this got me thinking that our youngest granddaughter would enjoy a twirly nightgown too. So I searched EBay and somehow found the pattern.  

I cut out a blue polka dot one last night 

I am so thankful for online shopping.  I’ve been using Kroger delivery and it’s great!

Oklahoma does not have any actual Kroger grocery stores but there is a delivery hub about an hour from our town.  

I wont say their prices are rock-bottom lowest, but they do have good deals.

They have weekly sales and coupons and if you match them up, it’s pretty good.

They also have two weekly Free-Bees coupons, this week it was for marshmallows and apple sauce cups. I think my grandchildren will enjoy making rice crispy treats with the marshmallows.

Anyway, I ordered Saturday evening and my groceries were delivered Sunday morning about 7:30 AM. I ask for delivery between 7 and 8 AM.

They bring them right to my door and they travel in a refrigerated truck, so everything was fresh and chilled.

Kroger has the best produce of any store I’ve purchased from.  

The 3 bagged produce items were dated into July

Everything looks fresh and A+ in my opinion 

Look at this crazy big bell pepper! It’s on top of a 1 pound strawberry box

Dog items and grocery items.  The chicken breast were buy one get one free and I should’ve bought four or six. It was a good deal but I don’t eat that much meat these days so that will easily make three meals. The cream of tartar is for homemade Play-Doh.

As I said, before, the marshmallows and applesauce were freebie coupons.

That’s a lot of bread, right? I already had two loaves on my order. Then at the end, when you check out with Kroger, they usually have some short dated items that are half price or less. So I went ahead and added three more of the discounted loaves of bread, and I just put them in the freezer.

Can you believe these five grandchildren are getting so big and old? The youngest one is eight and the oldest one is 14! 

They have very busy lives -ball tournaments, ninja tournaments, livestock shows, Girl Scout camps, church camp, energy camp

They all had some free time in their calendar last week and were able to have a sleepover here.

I’ve been doing more decluttering. Most stuff that was usable has been passed on to people who wanted it on our local Facebook buy nothing group.

I truly recommend looking into your area buy nothing group. People give away lots of neat stuff and people ask for stuff. 

And it just feels so good to take stuff that we don’t need and put it into the hands of people who do want it.


OK, I need to get up and get on with my day. The last of my tea is gone.

I hope you all have a great week 

❤️ Rhonda