This week's to do list, CVS, and pecans

Good morning everyone!  Here is my list for this week.  I left it at just the necessities as we have several appointments and events to attend this week and we are kind of in relax mode to celebrate the beginning of my husband's retirement.

I never got the ironing done last week so that will be a priority this week.  

Early Sunday morning, I planned out my CVS trip.  We stopped there on the way to church.

I didn't take a photo of the purchases before I put them away.  But you all know what toilet paper, deodorant and sodas look like, don't you?

Below is the receipt-  it says I saved $48,  68%!  

Next week CVS is having a great deal on Tide pods and several brands of shampoo, especially good if you have the coupons from recent Sunday newspapers.  

After church, we came home and I rested a bit before I cooked supper.  

Husband went back to the pecan grove and got about as many pecans as we did yesterday.  

Just call us The Nut House,  and it won't be an insult.  

First Pecan harvest of 2015 and a good change at our home

We have friends who have a small pecan grove.  They told us the trees were loaded this year and they are  expecting a bumper harvest.

They let their friends and church family pick up pecans "on the halves."  Meaning, we can pick up all the pecans we want and we give them half of what we harvest.  Then they sell the pecans we help harvest to people who don't want to pick up their own.  

Their grove is in a peaceful part of the country and the picking is relaxed and pleasant.

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My husband weighed ours on the bathroom scales when we got home and we think we got about 30 pounds.  Of course they won't yield that much once my husband cracks and picks them out but it will yield lots. 

We do plan to go back and harvest as many as we can.  

30 pounds of pecans is not bad at all for our 2 or so hours of work.  

My husband will have plenty of time to pick up more pecans and to crack and shell them as he just retired! And we are very happy about that too.