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 

Goodbye 2025

Hello friends,  

I’m ready to turn the page from 2025 to 2026. 

Actually, the last several years have been hard for our family but I’m hopeful 2026 will be better.  

but we will see, right?  

I’m planning for a more productive year ahead in several ways.  

We didn’t have very elaborate Christmas decorations out this month and I packed away all the Christmas things today and

  left up this 4 foot tree and put out mostly snow themed decorations.  

on the tv are screensavers from Youtube- there are so many there to choose from.  

This is the little New Years boy that was bought at a thrift store years ago but it’s really special to me because it looks like so much our grandson JJ.  

But the ceramic boy was here long before JJ.  

This may not be very readable and it’s just a rough draft so far. 

In 2026,  I hope to declutter, organize and clean every space in our home.  

Our home is not overly cluttered but every space needs some attention.  

I’ll try to take photos and show my progress.  

If you’re reading this,  thank you for sticking with me.

❤️Rhonda 

Orange Peel craft

I peeled a 3 pound bag of little oranges for quick snacks. 

The oranges went in the fridge and I had a pile of orange peels that smelled so good. 

I was wondering if I should do something with them. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

The day before,  I saw an idea to cut the peels with a little star cookie cutter,  

then let them dry on your radiator and then string them into garland for Christmas decorating.  

It sounded very nice but I don’t have a tiny star cookie cutter or a radiator——-yes, I’m sure they could dry in the oven or just naturally——-

but I’m was still thinking.  

anyway,  later in the day,  the first thing I see on facebook is this reel 

https://www.facebook.com/hodgesfarmtexascooking/videos/813382301307963/

She had a pile of orange peels torn into small pieces and she strung them on a wire to make a little wreath.  

That sounded very easy so that’s what I did.  

I used a length of wire from my craft supplies and tore the peels into random shapes,  all roughly the size of quarters.  

Then I strung them on the wire.  

That’s what I used and had left from 3 pounds of oranges.  

No wire?  You can also string them with a needle and any kind of string or twine.  

I put a ribbon bow on mine and hung it on our junk pantry door in between 2 aprons.  

❤️Rhonda