A few home changes and my current YouTube favorites

Hello everyone 

I wanted to write a blog post before the month of February ends.

January and February have not been a lot of fun. My husband spent about half of that time helping his parents. You all know he came back from one trip with a respiratory infection that stayed with him three weeks. Thankfully, I never caught it.

Then, on the second trip down there, he injured his shoulder. 

Today he got injections in his back that he gets about every three months. Tomorrow he will see the ortho specialist about his shoulder. We both thought if he just rested his shoulder, that it might heal on its own, but it’s been about 10 days and it is not getting better. The doctor he is seeing tomorrow is the one who did his last knee replacement, and we are confident that he will have the best treatment plan.  

My husband and I know we are not getting any younger and we have been making changes over the last few years to make our home for comfortable and manageable as we age.

About 6 years ago,  we put adjustable beds in the master bedroom and we both like them a lot.

When my husband had that respiratory bug and I was sleeping in one of the guest rooms to avoid getting sick,  I missed my adjustable bed.  

So,  after we thought about it,  we got some more adjustable beds and put them in this guest room.  

They will be comfortable for for guests and they will be comfortable for either me or my husband if we end up sleeping in that room. 

The Queen bed was moved next door.  It looks like a nice bed but I don’t like this older mattress at all.  

I would have preferred to just get rid of this bed, but my husband wanted to keep it. And any of you that are married know marriage involves compromise.

But our granddaughter likes sleeping in this bed so for now, it’s in that second bedroom.

This twin bed is the bed that same granddaughter slept in when her family lived with us for a year. It is a really good mattress.

It was in a closet, but I moved it into the sewing room, because if someone was staying in that bedroom, there wouldn’t be any room for their clothes in the closet, because that bed took up the closet.

There’s still a ton of stuff in this sewing room

But if I ever get back to sewing, I can always spread projects out on top of that twin bed

And it will be a place for someone to lay and take a nap. If we have a lot of guest it will be another space for sleeping.  

I rarely watch regular TV anymore. The shows just seems so fake or extreme, I just don’t enjoy them.

But there are several channels on YouTube that I do really like

I really like Meals with Maria.  She is a mom of three that lives in a normal looking house and she cooks normal food. She does it on a budget and without any drama.

https://youtube.com/@MealsWithMaria?si=07bYDuDdU7eqI-kg

Big Bankz does Urbex (Slang for urban exploration) He explores abandoned homes and buildings. I don’t know why it’s so interesting, but it is. My husband and some of the grandchildren enjoy watching him too. 

https://youtube.com/@BigBankz?si=1ebHR-hyjGhcncuN

Taco Stacks does scrapping, trash picking, cleaning out houses,  selling on eBay, buying abandoned storage building contents,  thrift shopping and sell at swap meets. 

https://youtube.com/@TacoStacks?si=bhyr7O4DCt46TZpY

I would call all of those shows G rated.

The only warning I would give is if you watch very much of Taco Stacks or urbex videos,  you will start cleaning out your drawers and closets 😊 

There are so many good YouTube channels.

But I’d love to learn of some more.

Please comment if you watch any that you think I would like

❤️Rhonda 

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Meals, a sewing project, weather, etc

Hello everyone 

My last post was about concerns for my husband and that illness.  

Well, all my precautions worked and I didn’t catch it.  He is pretty much better but has been though a lot with so much coughing.  

So if there is sickness in you home,  my advice is 

- try to keep as much distance as possible between you and the sick person

-Wash your hands often and especially if you handle anything that the sick person has handled like their dishes

-Be careful with dishes-I sanitized hours by running the dishwasher on the sanitize cycle. But if I was doing them by hand, I think I would pour boiling water on any dishes used by the sick person

-If possible, sleep in a different room than the sick person

-I asked my husband not to go in the kitchen, but if he just had to, I put a box of latex gloves on the counter for him to put a pair on if he had to touch anything. And I think he only went in the kitchen one time and he did wear gloves

-Be careful with laundry and towels. If possible wash, wash the sick persons, laundry in hot water.

That’s pretty much what I did and it worked for us. But it’s just my advice. I am not a doctor.

  

My most recent sewing project is a cover for my KitchenAid mixer’s bowl.  

It was a simple, sewing project. I used a pizza pan to cut out my circles. 

Mine is reversible with chickens on one side and a print on the other.

Meals -We’ve eaten at home all meals, except once when we went to Oklahoma City a couple days ago

But apparently I took very few photos of those meals 

 

Breakfast for supper 2 nights 

Swiss steak from a recipe shared by 

Terri at Blue House Journal

I made it exactly as she posted.  I’ve made Swiss steak many times but never put bell pepper in it.  Terri’s recipe uses bell pepper and is delicous!  

It’s very easy too.  

I rarely bake anymore but we had a small family gathering and another family member was going to see other family on a road trip. 

So I bake a double batch of Pound cake and a single batch of cake mix cookes.  

The 2 containers were sent on the trip and the desserts on the white plate were shared with family that night.  

Weather!  

We had super cold temperatures and snow that kept bus home for almost week.

Then a few days after that mostly was over,  we had ice.  

Ice is the worst!  It makes every surface slippery with walking and driving both treacherous. 

Thankfully we in a stretch of pleasant weather for the foreseeable future.  

Hope you are all well 

❤️ Rhonda