BEDA #5 - banana keeper and T-ball

Not much to post about today. 

I worked on my to-do list as we have houseguests coming in a couple days and also marked off several errands

Jane (Lejmom) asked about the Rubbermaid banana keeper.  I am still using it and it’s good but I wouldn’t call it miraculous.

These bananas were bought March 25 and March 30.  

The top one is very ripe and the others are pretty ripe too but considering how long ago I bought them,  they look OK. 

With all the Easter stuff, we didn’t eat fresh fruit as much as usual but that’s ok,  I plan to make banana bread with these to have when our guests are here.  

My husband and I eat a banana most everyday and I plan to keep using this banana keeper.  I think it does help keep the bananas at least a bit longer.  

Cons are it’s a big ole’ box and it wasn’t cheap.  

This evening,  I watched a grandson play T-ball.  

It was nice warm evening but windy.  For once, I was glad to be wearing a mask as between my cap, sunglasses and mask 😷 

all the dust blowing off the field didn’t get in my eyes, nose or mouth.  

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #4 to do list and more family fun

Hello everyone 

Next week is going to be busy so I made my list today.  When I have lots going on, it helps to just write everything down and then I feel a little bit more in control

And we had the nicest surprise today- a visit from our daughter in law and her 3 children.

They live about 1 1/2 hours away and we haven’t seen them much since the pandemic started.  

It’s not a good photo of any of us except Andie (in the middle) but I love it because it was such a happy time.

I hope you all have had a nice weekend- and now it’s time to get ready for the new week 

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #3 - family day

Today, we had our first family holiday gathering in more than a year. 

To get ready I 

 

Made jello  cups and deviled eggs——

  

Boiled eggs for coloring and made tea and fruit drink 

  


Emptied the trash and set up the tea and coffee makers 

I didn’t cook the main part of the meal.  We had catering from Texas Roadhouse

And it was delicious! 

The children had a ball hunting for plastic eggs and coloring eggs 

  

  

We’re closing out this day watching The Ten Commandments movie 

Hope you all have a special Easter 🐣 

❤️ Rhonda 

BEDA #2 - mostly outdoor day

Hello everyone 

In the house,  I ran the self clean cycle on my ovens.  It took all day but I’m glad it’s done.  And it was a beautiful day so having the windows open was very pleasant.  

I had several frozen bags of chicken pieces and veggies scraps so I filled up the big crockpot and made a batch of chicken broth. 

It turned out so nice! 

If you want to see exactly how I do this  Homemade chicken broth 

The only cost is the electricity as it’s made with only scraps.  

I got an email from a company I work with occasionally.  

Right now,  I’m trying out a household product that most everyone uses and will get paid $90.  The company mailed me the products and I do short surveys explaining what I think of it.  

This email asked me to tell my family and friends about the research company.  

I do recommend them.  

I did not qualify for the survey in this email but I’m sharing it to show what their emails look like and that they do want people to sign up.  

I’m not positive but I’m guessing this is for  USA residents only.  

The company is www.esearch.com 

ESEARCH

I am not supposed to talk about the surveys I do but I can tell you I did another one in the fall. 

They sent me a months supply a cleaning type product and the next month they sent a different variety of the same cleaning product.  

I answered 2 short surveys for each and was paid $85 for that one.  

The cleaning product was something I buy and use anyway so besides the $85, I also didn’t need to buy that cleaning product.  

Outside,  I planted all the vegetable plants into raised beds.  

We’ve got tomato, potato, peas, green beans, asparagus, assorted peppers, broccoli and assorted lettuce in the ground now.  

Supper was just an easy meal -and I couldn’t cook on the stove as it was cooling down from the self clean cycle.  

My husband cooked hot dogs and hash browns outside on the grill.  

Our favorite dogs are Hebrew beef 97% fat free dogs.  


❤️ Rhonda 

April 1- Sheet pan supper and BEDA

Hello everyone 

It’s April 1st and my goal is to blog everyday in April- or BEDA

It may not happen but I’m going to try.  

I had some errands in the afternoon so I planned ahead for a supper that would be easy to complete.  

I decided to make a sheet pan meal like I see everywhere.  

I peeled and diced  the sweet potatoes and cut the asparagus into 2 inch pieces.  

For seasoning, I mixed together 

 2 t paprika

 1 t onion powder

 1 t sugar

 a few shakes of red pepper and garlic powder

 Salt and pepper to taste 

When I got home, I preheated the oven to 425. 

Then I mixed the sweet potato cubes with a tablespoon of olive oil and a small amount of purple onion and put them on a baking sheet and sprinkled with part of the seasoning,  

The potatoes baked for almost 20 minutes. 

I tossed the asparagus with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sliced a package of Turkey smoked sausage.  

I added them to the potatoes and more seasoning and baked for 20 more minutes.  

It turned out so good! 

Most sheet pan recipes say put all the ingredients on the pan and cook all ingredients for the same length of time.  But sweet potatoes take longer to cook than asparagus and turkey sausage.  

And for these ingredients, I think it was best.  

Melanie  we are having an Easter gathering of some of our family.  The adults all have had Covid vaccines and I’m hopeful we can do it outside.  This will be our first family gathering since the  party back in Feb. 2020 

Valentines Gingerbread House

❤️Rhonda