Summer news - yard sale finds, baked carrots

Hello everyone 🌞

There will probably not be many posts from me for awhile- I’m just busy with home and garden and family.  

And when I’m not busy,  I often rest or do things that I forget to take photos of and then blog.  

Above is when I took 5 grands to a local splash pad and they all left their shoes in a pile while they played in the water.  

A fun activity the last couple days was working on this Americana puzzle with my oldest grand.  He is 12 and really likes puzzles. 

This was a $1 puzzle from the Dollar Tree and just as much fun as expensive puzzles.  

There have just not been many yard sales in our area. 

I went to one neighborhood sale that in the past had dozens of sales but this year there were less than 10. 

And one home had all their cast offs piled in the front yard and were FREE

This FREE tall metal trash can is dusty but the inside was spotless and never seemed to of been used- my husband wanted it to put in his workshop. 

  

I also got a box of kid jigsaw puzzles and a case of diamectous earth- all of the above things were FREE. 

I paid for these things below  but not much 

A company called The Fruit Truck was in our town and we got a case of Georgia peaches

They were so good!  We ate some, shared some,  froze some and put the rest in the freezer after we peeled and sliced them.  

For Kay

My baked carrots aren’t really a recipe but a method

I peel and slice and about 2 pounds of carrots. 

Put them in a baking dish. 

Add salt and pepper, a few pats of butter and a teaspoon or 2 of sugar (I don’t add water) 

Cover the dish with a lid or foil. 

Bake at 350-400 for 45 minutes or so.  

I usually make these when I’m making another baked dish and they bake along just fine beside a chicken or meatloaf or whatever.  

Kay- hope your farmer husband likes them 

Hope you are all having a nice summer 

❤️ Rhonda 🇺🇸

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