July things #1 - First to do list

Weeding

  Under bushes and move caladium pots 

 Under the tree that turned into a bush 

   Berry patch                   Mow? 

Kitchen 

  Boil eggs           Bottle water in kitchen 

  Make salad        Make veggie tray and dip 

  Make fresh salsa            Bake dessert 

  Make chicken veg soup maybe 

Plan meals 

  Turkey sloppy joes 

  Turkey lasagna 

  Burgers 

  Roast 

   Whole chicken 

    

Housekeeping 

  Guest room bedding     

   Hall bath

   Master bath 

   Vac            Mop 

   Dust 

   Laundry      Master sheets 

Extras 

Ducky to Spa 

Pay bills 

Grocery pickup end of week? 

Amazon thingie straightened out 

Hello everyone,  I’ve been busy with lots of yard and garden work,  and also feeling at my wit’s end deciphering this Covid yuck and how to live the new normal as people in the higher risk group.    I’m guessing a lot of you can say the exact thing.  

Anyway,  above is my to do list before I print it out and hang it in our kitchen.  

I’m still doing some food prep to make meals easier.  

Below is last week’s ......

We especially liked the hard boiled eggs with salad and sandwiches.  

Also a big bowl of naval oranges for snacking 

Some of our grandsons are playing baseball and one of them loves to slide in the Oklahoma red dirt when he crosses home plate (even when he doesn’t need to) in his white baseball pants.  

His mom asked if I could get his white pants cleaner than she was.  

First I washed them in Tide, my go-to stain remover and it helped but didn’t clean the red dirt from the knees.  

So I did some research and saw Out White Brite was recommended by other people washing white ball pants.  

Out White Brite is a powder and is sold at Walmart for less than $4.  I’m sure it’s sold other places too but my town has 3 Walmarts and not a lot of other stores so it’s where I mostly shop.  

I put 1/2 cup of it with hot tap water in a big bowl and soaked the pants an hour or so and they came remarkably cleaner!  

The only bad part is the cleaner has the same scent of hair permanent solution but the scent does wash out.  

Hope you’re all fine and enjoying summer 🌻🍉⛱ 🌞🏡🗽🇺🇸

❤️Rhonda 

June Homemaking #4- sewing, a frog and a Stromboli

This weeks finished sewing so far- 

16 off white napkins

9 checkerboard napkins

4 kitchen towels

All made with fabric on hand that I got who knows where 

All will be used in my kitchen 

Can you see the tiny tree frog sitting on top of this ceramic tile sign?  

At first I thought it was a leaf and almost brushed it off.  

He was sitting on top of the outdoor smoker last week.  

Homemade Stromboli by my daughter and son in law 

link to the crust recipe they used

 "we just rolled the dough out on the counter, put on sauce, cheese and toppings, then you roll it up like a cinnamon roll.  Seal the edges and the end and put it on a baking sheet.  I brushed the outside with an egg wash and sprinkled with garlic powder and Italian seasoning.  Then I baked it for 10 minutes at 500°, then for about 15 minutes at 375°."

Covid cases are going crazy in our little town- 25 new positives in the last 2 days- 

I thought we were almost in the clear but apparently we are not.  

I’ll just keep staying home and taking all the precautions we know to do.  

Let’s stay home ❤️ 🏠❤️

Rhonda  

June homemaking #3 - just a jumble of stuff

Good morning 🌞

First, here is my new to do list 

I’ve been busy already and have walked and weeded and have a red, sweaty face to show for it 

My husband picked a few edibles this morning 

And he picked up our weekly Walmart

It’s not much but we had plenty of other stuff on hand.  Not shown- 3 boxes of Great Value ice cream sandwiches already in the freezer 

I’ve talked about zinnias many times. I’m so happy this batch of  volunteer zinnias in a front flower bed are starting to bloom. 

I didn’t plant this batch this year,  they grew from seeds spread from last year’s zinnias. 

He’s a little late but one solitary Easter lily is also blooming in that front bed 

Here’s a quick meal a put together in about 10 minutes.  Our oldest and 2 grandsons were here one day helping with a backyard irrigation pump (in the end it didn’t work though and the pump is going back to Amazon)

The veggie tray was already made and the onions cut up.  

I took 2 packs of franks and 1 pack of buns from the freezer- cooked the franks in water on the stovetop and toasted the buns in the broiler.  

We ate on the patio and there were no leftovers except chips.  

We have enjoyed so many meals on the patio this spring but summer heat is here now and we probably won’t be eating out there much at all.  

I hope you all are fine. 

I must confess I have had some “down” days,  just feeling so bad about so many things.  

But staying busy helps much more that just sitting so that’s my plan.  

❤️ Rhonda 

June Homemaking #2 - vegetables

Hello everyone,  

Today I prepared vegetables to eat today and to have for meals during the week.  

I made more pico de Gallo as there were some tomatoes in the fridge that needed to be used and we have cilantro growing in the backyard.  

My husband ate some with chips for an afternoon snack. 

I used all the chopped onions I showed last week so I chopped more today. 

I also fixed a simple crudités platter for lunches and snacks. 

A very simple dip to eat with those vegetables- about a cup of nonfat Greek yogurt and 2 teaspoons of dry Ranch mix.  

All these veggies made me want veggie soup so I made a half pot full of  basic veggie soup with ingredients on hand

It was carrots, onions, celery, cabbage, a few new potatoes, frozen green peas and corn —the wet ingredients were a 8 ounce can tomato sauce,  a 16 ounce can diced tomatoes and enough water to make it all soupy.  The seasoning was 2 tablespoons of dry onion soup mix, salt and pepper.  

We enjoyed it very much even if it was 88 degrees outside.  

What did you all cook today? 

❤️ Rhonda 

June homemaking #1 - to do list and a link to a good recipe

Good afternoon 🌞 

What a weekend, right?  And that’s all the political talk you will read from me.  

This is a homemaking and family blog only.  

 

I didn’t take a photo because it’s not a photogenic dish but I made LiteCraving’s 

Copycat Panda Express Chow Mein.  ◀️ Click on the blue words to go directly to original recipe 

and it’s really good!  I made it like the recipe except I cut up a head of cabbage instead of using a bag of cole slaw.  The only really odd ingredient is the sesame oil and I think it could easily be left out.  I couldn’t even taste it anyway.  Next time,  I’d like to add carrots and maybe mushrooms.  

Hope you all are fine 

❤️Rhonda