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

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

Friday, May 14, 2021

May 14- 4th post of the month

Hello everyone 
I’m still here- just been busy with family things and Spring things.   

First I want to brag on this peony bush- it had 31 buds and some the flowers are huge! 
Sadly, peonies only bloom once a year but they really show off when they are blooming.  

2 of the grandsons are already out of school for the summer.  we visited the Botanic Gardens in our town and thought this driverless lawnmower was amusing.  
I think it works like a Roomba vacuum cleaner 
  
It was working and moving and apparently  it’s smart enough to just mow grass and not cut down plants.  

We also tried Geocache hunting for the first time.  
They’re are many hidden in our town but you do need an app to help find them.  
This tiny one was the first of 5 we found. 
See it? It was  a pill bottle hanging on a wire in a very full tree.  It just had a note and sheet of paper to sign when you find it, 
The last of 5 geocaches we found was the biggest and most interesting. 
It was filled with stickers and doo-dads.  It was on the edge of a pasture and had letters explaining the landowners animals.  

We didn’t take or put anything in the 5 geocaches we found but we did sign the logs in all of them.  
Anyone have any tips to find them?
I think this will be something I do with the grandchildren this summer.  


I’ve been reading and enjoyed this Kindle book 

And I’m in the middle of this series and really like it too 



I’m planning to go to a neighborhood yard sale tomorrow
Maybe I’ll get some treasures I can share here- but who knows? 

Bye for now 
❤️Rhonda 

Monday, May 3, 2021

May#3

Good evening 
I worked in our front flower beds this morning- it’s been on my to do list for weeks and today was perfect, the outside temperature was perfect. 

My tools 
The garden kneeler is so handy- you can kneel on it and then use the side supports to help stand back up or it can be flipped over and sat on.  
I pulled weeds and moved a few plants and dug up some plants that weren’t doing good.  


The front of our home on one side 
And the flower bed on the other side 

My husband is responsible for planting most everything.  His method is he buys things at Lowe’s or Atwoods that catch his eye, 
and then he plants a little here and a little there.  
Right now, the dianthus, rhododendrons, pansies, 1 iris and mock orange bushes are blooming.  
Soon the red lilies will be blooming and so will these peonies and rose bush- both are loaded with buds. 
  


While I was weeding,  I uncovered some of last year’s Purple Heart coming back to life.  

Supper was  boneless pork chops baked with ShakeNBake for pork and they were delicious, green beans and little potatoes, that baked along side the pork chops.  

And this little guy had a snow cone at his brother’s t-ball game.  
It apparently had plenty of blue food coloring in it 

❤️ Rhonda 
























Sunday, May 2, 2021

May #2

Hello everyone 
Below is this week’s to do list.  It has weekly tasks and some things I hope to get done this month. 

I’m hoping to do several yard and garden and patio things this week.  There will also be a few family things happening.  
So I decided to get a jumpstart on meals for the week.  
After I made a weekly menu (on the list above)  I gathered up the needed canned goods and the frozen meats.  
They will just sit on the counter and be ready for quick meal cooking, 
The 2 bottom packs of meat are thawing in the fridge until needed.  
I used the chicken sausages and vegetables in the sheet pan meal we ate tonight.  
This meal was really good too!   And the asparagus was from our garden.  

In case your wondering about our lunches and breakfasts, 
lunches will be leftovers or sandwiches and 
breakfasts tend to be eggs with toast or hash browns.  




Hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready for this new week starting tomorrow 
❤️ Rhonda 

Saturday, May 1, 2021

May 1st and May #1

Hello everyone 
Have any of you wondered how my to do lists look at the end of the week? 
 It’s rare that everything on the lists get done but I’m OK with the progress I made last week. 

Those tiny volunteer lettuce plants  I found at the beginning of garden season have done so good! 
I’ll be picking the biggest of them this week and we may just have salad every day 
The taller plants are broccoli grown from seed 


We did some cleaning up and changing around in the backyard and didn’t need this assortment of chicken wire stuff.
So I put it on a local Buy Nothing group on Facebook (where people give away or ask for free things, nothing is sold)
Anyway,  it was picked up 15 minutes after I listed it.  
That was a very easy way to clean up a situation and I’m guessing whoever picked it up had a use for it.  


I apologize for not doing VEDA all 30 days.  Some family things (not bad things) went on this week that had my attention and they just aren’t things I will blog about.

Happy May 1st everyone 🌺 🌸 🌹 
❤️Rhonda 

Monday, April 26, 2021

BEDA #28

Sorry about the gap in posts- we’ve had some busy days and this week looks to have a few busy days too. Anyway today,  I show some of the things we’ve been up to 

It’s baseball season here and 4 of the grandsons are playing on different age kid teams. 
It was so much fun seeing 2 of the grandsons play each other this week.  
 
And “Just yesterday” they looked like the photo on the right.  

Last week I did a grocery pickup - here is the pantry and fridge stuff,  the frozen things were already put  away 
The watermelon was a dud and the 3 boxes of honey buns are for my 89 year old dad.

This weekend,  we had a 5 cousin sleepover.  
For us,  having the Covid vaccines and having very low Covid rates in our state has meant we can go back to more normal lives and it’s wonderful! 
Then on Sunday morning, my parents and brother joined us for breakfast 

I didn’t get a photo of everyone at the same time but there were 11 here and we all ate at this big table.  

I served  a big breakfast and everyone enjoyed it.  The only leftover leftovers were a couple of biscuits and sausage patties. 
When I cook for a group with 5 grands buzzing around the kitchen - I take advantage of easy to prepare things, 

They are not the thriftiest options but they all cook up quickly and taste very good. 


I did a little sewing last week- 4 quirky potholders and I have more cut out to sew. 


Our son has been cooking competitively and cooked this weekend in a steak cook off up north.
He won 1st in Steak and 1st and 2nd in Boozy drinks 😳
Aren’t those crazy and way over the top? 

Well- I need to be working on my to-do list right now. 
Hope you’re all having a wondertful Monday 
Bye from Windy Oklahoma  ðŸ’¨ 

❤️Rhonda