first day of 2026

hello everyone

Don’t we all want to be more organized in 2026?

When I cleaned out the junk pantry two days ago, I found these paper sheets that I bought at Dollar tree.

I separated them and put each one on a piece of pretty paper. I also put our freezer inventory On some pretty paper.

Then, I used magnets to hold them to the refrigerator

This should help keep appointments and groceries on hand at the front of my mind, planning ahead to make the best use of time and groceries we already have

I used part of the paper. I cut off when I mounted the calendars and wrote out my grocery list.

I needed to do three errands yesterday and I stopped at Aldi to purchase groceries.

Kroger is going to stop delivering to Oklahoma and I am really going to miss it.

But I plan on using up the groceries we have and hopefully having some low spend grocery months for the first several in 2026.

New Year’s Eve is not a good time to go shopping. I got there about 3 o’clock in the afternoon.

So many of the shelves were practically empty, it looked like that store had been shopped hard!

there was one young man running a register, and I did not see any other workers in the store.


I mostly got what was on my list. I had to substitute the type of lettuce I wanted and I added cherries and strawberries because grandchildren will be here and they really like them. They were a good price too.

Our New Year’s Day tradition is to eat Black Eyed Peas, pork, cabbage and cornbread. My husband is going to smoke a spiral ham that I got on sale From Kroger for $.99 a pound. He also made some pimento cheese stuffed jalapeño poppers to smoke while he smokes the ham. He’s never made them before and he didn’t have a recipe. I imagine they will be very good

❤️Rhonda 

last day of 2025

good morning everyone

Today I have a few errands to go on.

Then to celebrate, we will watch a live stream from the Clay Cooper theater in Branson to bring in the new year. 

Tuesday, I did some house cleaning. And this pantry I call our junk pantry was just disorganized as could be.

Of course, I did not take it before Photo. I really need to do better at that.

But above is the after picture

Earlier this year, I put two small boxes in the bottom of the junk pantry

One was for keeping throw away plastic and one was for keeping cans

I pulled out the plastic containers to stack it So it would fit in the box better

It’s just amazing how many plastic food containers we bring home.

And this is certainly not every container, sometimes I didn’t wash them. Sometimes we have used them for other things.

The clear square one is from tiny tomatoes.

I think it will be especially good to plant more tomato seeds in. It already has drainage holes in the bottom.

in Oklahoma, it will be time to start gardening seeds in the house pretty soon.

I think starting the seeds in the house is my favorite part of gardening.

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone

❤️ Rhonda