If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

If you do stuff, stuff gets done.......

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

I think my posting issues are fixed

I’m sorry for the crazy posts this week and thank you all for your help and kind words.  
I’ll just get back to the homemaking and daily life posts I like to 

Our 5+ year old Bosch dishwasher quit working a few weeks ago.  
We don’t think it was repairable so we just took it.   I have just been washing dishes by hand. 
 There are normally just 2 of us here and we really don’t use that many things.  
We have been rinsing everything after we use them and I usually wash everything from the entire day after our evening meal.  

I prefer to let everything air dry.  
Towel drying dishes is not allowed in commercial food establishments as it can spread bacteria so I’m happy to air dry.  
We already had this little metal shelf and it just fits in the dishwasher hole.  I keep the dishpan and drainer,  gloves and brushes on it when not in use.  
 They are sort of out of sight but still very easy to access.  

I think my favorite part of this washing method is when I put away the dry dishes.  It is much easier on my slightly cranky back and my husband’s very cranky back to move the dishes from counter height than to get them out of a low dishwasher.  



Kroger is supposed to deliver my order tomorrow morning.  
One of their specials is 80/20 ground beef for $3.99.
Have yall priced beef lately?  It seems to of really jumped up in price.
I hope the 15 pounds I ordered come.  
I plan on cooking part of for taco filling and part of it for chili,  all to put in the freezer for easy future meals.  
We like lots of beans in our chili so I put a pound of pintos to soak and will cook them in a crock pot first thing tomorrow morning.  



Hope you are all fine
Good night everyone 
❤️ Rhonda 

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

One More time


One more post today to see if I can get this blog post format how I want it
photo is  just an unedited snapshot of our supper tonight 

❤️Rhonda





so far it looks promising! 
hello everyone, I've been updating settings and changing settings. We will see how this one posts, but I don't feel like I'm making any progress getting my blog to look like it used to. One thing I've done around my home to get ready for next year, I cut the spent flowers off of the zinnia's from our backyard. I let them dry in a box for a few days, and then I will store them in a Ziploc bag and replant the seeds next year. A single dried zinnia seems to have at least 100 or more seeds inside. We grow these in our backyard and most people never see them, but the monarch butterflies and the bees just love them. Saving ZINNIA seeds is so Thrifty! I'll be able to share zinnia seeds next spring and plant mine just as thick as I want to. I am no expert on indeterminate and determinate and heirloom or organic type seeds. I just know I have been planting and enjoying this batch of flowers for years. ❤Rhonda

another test

just a test post I put 8 spaces between theses sentences as I wrote this post Do any of them show up?

Monday, November 3, 2025

Trying Chrome…..

This is the view from our front door right now. Our Christmas light man hung the lights back up today. Christmas is two months away, but we think the lights are festive so we will have ours lit from dusk to Dawn until he takes them down sometime after the first of the year. I'm trying this blog post using Chrome on my phone. I used to blog on my iPad with whatever browser comes with iPad. Melanie suggested I try chrome. Theoretically it should work perfectly since chrome and blogger are the same company, Google. We will see. I can already tell I think it's going to run all this text together into one paragraph. I would really like to blog. I like visiting with you all, and I think blogging keeps me more active as a homemaker. So let's see how this test post works ❤ Rhonda