Getting back to doing stuff

Hello everyone

I’ve pretty much been away from blogs for several months - lots of reasons from me just not feeling like myself, my husband having health issues and several family situations I can do nothing about.  

I can work on myself and I’ve been to the doctor.  One of my issues is responding to very well to a new prescription but other issues still exist-  so,  I’m just going to do what I can, try to fix what I can and just live with the rest. 

And I want to get back to being more productive.   

So,  I made this list for the new week.  And as of this evening,  I’ve checked off a few more things too.  

I picked a little more than a gallon of green beans this morning.  We have one row of them in a skinny bed and they are producing quite well. 

We had a family meal last night with family packs from Texas Roadhouse.  

We all ate heartily but there lots of rolls left.  

My husband’s favorite breakfast is a sausage biscuit or 2.  

So I decided to use a lot of those rolls for breakfast sandwiches.  

I happen to have a good supply of breakfast sausage bought during Kroger sales.  

So I cooked up 3 rolls and made about 2 dozen breakfast sandwiches.  

I put all but 1 box in the freezer and the other one in the fridge.  

They heat up easier when their are not frozen.  

He can just heat up 1 or 2 for his breakfasts.  

And when a box empties,  we will take a frozen box and put in the fridge.  

In the sewing room,  I’ve started 2 more strip quilts.  

It’s my favorite kind to sew.  

We have 2 twin extra long beds in a guest room and regular quilts are just not long enough for these beds 

so I’ll sew these to be size that covers them like a bed spread.  

That’s all for now 

❤️Rhonda 

Another casual coupon trip and library goodies

There is a new batch of Walgreens deals  this week.  

I pretty much followed Savvy Coupon Shopper’s plan from YouTube 

https://youtu.be/4ycpayaBX5k?si=HgqtY-v1t8xyD8Qy

I only used digital coupons and the 3 paper Walgreens rewards I got on last week’s trip.  

I paid $5.48 cash and earned back $10 in Walgreens rewards and about $7 in Walgreens cash 

My granddaughter was with me and she was pretty surprised when the total was so low.  

She wanted to go the library so that was our next stop.  

We have a very nice public library.

I picked up some free seeds there. 

These are the 2 recipes in that Burpee pamphlet that sound really good to me.  

I’m not sure this one needs a whole cup of olive oil though - what do y’all think? 

I’ve made a little more progress in the backyard garden, but no photos yet.  

This nice spring weather is misleading.  It makes me want to move my tomato plants outside when is 65 or 75 degrees.  But I see we have a hard freeze in the forecast next week.  

So I’ll be waiting until April 15 even though I don’t want to.  

Hope you are well

❤️Rhonda 

Winner, Winner, Turkey Dinner

It started raining last night and rained most of today so I didn’t do any yard work today.  

There has been a big turkey in our freezer since before Thanksgiving.  It wasn’t needed for Thanksgiving as our son brought turkeys he cooked. 

We are also out of frozen chicken broth.  

So I thought I would thaw out that turkey and make broth with part of it.  

So I cut it up and have the back, neck and wings cooking in this large crockpot for broth,  

The legs and thighs are in the fridge for now.  

I sealed  the breast in foil and baked it, low and slow- and it turned out so good! 

We had turkey with sides for supper 

And I guess we will be having several more turkey meals but that’s ok with me.  

I’ll probably make more broth with the legs -or  “bone broth” as the cool homemakers call it these days. 

Turkey 🦃 anyone?  

❤️Rhonda 

Progress taking back the garden spot- after working here today and yesterday.

There is still lots to do and that’s only 6 feet 

But there is hope! 

My son made this meatloaf with this recipe-he says  it’s the best turkey meatloaf he’s ever had and they will be eating meatloaf for days.  

The photo he sent doesn’t have the mixing and baking instructions but you all know how to mix and bake meatloaf, right?  

I think meatloaf sandwiches sound very nice.  

❤️ Rhonda 

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Pork cutlets, a livestock show and will we garden?

Hello everyone 

I cooked those bargain $1 pork cutlets and they were delicious!  

I also baked that big pan of sliced carrots, made some mashed potatoes and a mix white gravy.  

Below is my plate 

My husband was very happy with this meal.  

This morning we went to the local junior livestock show at the county fairgrounds.

  Our 2 oldest grandsons were showing their Guernsey dairy cows.  

They are in 6th and 9th grade now.  

This is  what our side garden spot in the back yard currently looks like 😵‍💫🤯😱

Because of physical issues and extended family needs,  we have not really gardened in a couple of years.  

This is what that patch looked like, a few years ago, before the weeds moved in.  

Weeds grow really well in Oklahoma 

We’ve talked about hiring someone to just take it all back to a grass yard.  

But spring has me wanting to garden so I’m going to see how much cleaning up I can do without tearing it all down. 

No photos but I did a bit of clean up today and found a little asparagus coming up and blackberry bushes with lots of green leaves.  

I’m hoping to clean up a little each day and see how it goes.  

So come back and see if I make any progress.  

Hope you are all well. 

It’s a beautiful springlike day for us 

❤️Rhonda