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

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

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Menus and turtles

On this week’s to do list was inventory the frozen food and make a June menu.  
First I hand wrote the inventory as I counted things in the freezer.  But that was messy so I printed it out and then I put it pretty paper because I have a bunch of paper.  

 Meals for June were planned minimally.  If I decide later to cook a new recipe, I can, but for now, I’ve planned either familiar recipes or meals that don’t need recipes.



 There are turtles everywhere in Oklahoma right now .
Below is the second big turtle we’ve seen in our backyard this week, and it’s only Tuesday.
This guy was muddy, and mossy, and had an injury to his rear right  shell.  
He hissed when my husband picked him up
And he’s been moved to field where he won’t drive our dog crazy or eat our strawberries.  
I don’t think our dog would hurt him but there would be no peace if both Mr. Turtle and Ducky were in our yard at the same time.  




Monday, June 3, 2019

This week’s to do list



As usual, I keep my to do list hanging by the pantry. 
Sometimes it all gets checked off but sometimes it doesn’t. 
Either way, this list does help keep me on track.  


Have you made your list yet?

Have a nice Monday everyone ❤️

Sunday, June 2, 2019

Patio plants and CVS shopping

Hello everyone. 
Our backyard plants are just flourishing this year with all the rain fall. 
I grew a few from seed but most are plants bought from the Lowe’s markdown rack bought by my husband or son.  


Our pots are just an assortment, mostly from previous year’s yard sales.  
I looked for pots yesterday but didn’t see any.  
That big orange tub held some sort of an agriculture product and it’s from our son that has cattle.  







 This started out as 3  tiny succulents from Atwood’s.  They were in 2 inch pots when I bought them in April.  
I’ve heard succulents like hot, dry conditions but these have thrived this cool, damp Spring.  








This is a fairy garden I set up for my grandchildren.  They all like it and when they’re not here,  I rearrange it too.
My favorite piece is this little clothes line.  I found it at Dollar Tree.







On to CVS,  the deals are not great this week, but I had $28 in CVS ExtraCareBucks bucks and I like to spend them so I don’t neglect them and let them expire.










I got lots of toilet paper and paper towels.  Also, 1 bag of Tide pods and a makeup brush I wanted.  
After my newspaper coupons and $28 in ExtraCareBucks,  I spent $18.40 and got just $10 back for next week. 
But I’m happy with this deal as we were low on both paper products.


If you are a brand new CVS shopper, I would recommend waiting for better deals in a future week.  

Another money tip is return stuff that has problems and get a refund.  I bought a big bag of Caesar salad at Walmart on Wednesday, thinking it would be an easy side dish while my sister in law and brother in law were here.  
We didn’t eat it then but I got it out to have it with lunch today but it was so brown!  It was dated best by June 7, 
5 days away.  So I returned it this afternoon and got a refund of almost $5.  

Have a good Sunday everyone ❤️


I’m sorry, I had a crazy time doing this post using both the blog app and also trying it on Chrome.  And this is as good as I could get this short post to look and it took 90 minutes 🤷🏻‍♀️ 

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Neighborhood yard sale day

Our neighborhood’s annual yard sale and a nearby neighborhood’s sale was this morning. 
I shopped with my son and sister in law.  

Kid things were very abundant.  
Among my treasures are this pile of super condition boys clothes- some were $1 each and some were $2.50 for a sack full.  


Fabric was $3
Puzzle was .50 and a like new pop up book was $1


Razor scooter was $2
These retail for around $50 





Plastic barn was $2 and is the prefect home for farm animals we already owned


And a Rae Dunn mug for .50 



It was not nearly as hot today as it usually is for our annual sale so it was enjoyable being out. 
We went to lots sales, I’d guess 30 and I’ll say I have my desire to yard sale satisfied with all these purchases.  

I’ve really been a slacker toward blogging and I miss it.  I have plans to get back to regular posting.  
We’ll see! 

Have a great June 1st everyone.  

Saturday, May 11, 2019

May Doings - cookie baking, coupon shopping, one room schoolhouse, etc;


 Good morning everyone,  
My daughter asked for homemade cookies for a school reception and since I like to bake cookies,  I was happy to help.  She came over one morning and we somehow made 5 cookie recipes in less than 3 hours.  We both worked and my oven is a double oven but we were both surprised it went so fast.  
Recipes were chosen based on ingredients in my pantry I was wanting to used up. 




We made gluten free mini chocolate chip cookies,  spritz cookies all shaped like camels, oatmeal cookies with butterscotch chips and corn Chex stirred in, a brownie drop cookie with peanut butter chips and chocolate oatmeal no-bakes.  (This box is some of the “ugly” cookies, the ones that didn’t come out perfect.  I froze them and will add them to our lunch on Mother’s Day.  Even if they’re misshapened,  they will taste fine and my family won’t care.) 



Almost 4 year old Jackson wasn’t too sure about the no bake cookies.  As I was  dropping the scoops of the boiled cookies into wax paper.  He said “those don’t look good, they don’t look done” 
I told him to just wait a few minutes until they cool and set up and then to see what he thinks.  
They cooled and then set up just fine and he decided they were yummy.  




Shopping at CVS 
My trips there vary.  I look for bargains but I also buy what we like and need.  

This was a week ago and was an especially good shopping trip.  



What I bought this week- my total was higher because I only had $10 in CVS bucks,  my husband requested Dove bath soap stuff but it wasn’t on sale and I didn’t have a coupon,  and I picked up a large bag of jelly beans on clearance.  




I spent more than usual but I did get back lots of CVS bucks.  
And I need to keep our jelly bean dispenser full as all the grands like it. ❤️ 


That’s our youngest grand RJ getting his candy.  He will be 3 in July.  
His big sis Andie is finishing up 1st grade. 


One room school house

I thought y’all might like to see inside the school house Elizabeth visited.  It looks very much like schools did 100 years ago.  That’s her in the middle of the front row. 

She had lots of fun doing the school work and the old games.  
They ate their lunches from home outside on quilts.  
Doesn’t this look like a great school field trip? 


Hope you all have a great weekend ❤️