BEDA #3 meals this week

Hello everyone 

I like seeing real meals other homemakers serve so I took photos of our recent meals to show y’all 

This was Sunday morning breakfast- hash brown made from left over baked potatoes, scrambled eggs and sausage gravy.

I cook lots of things from scratch but not gravy, I use this 

  

It’s not health food but it’s lots lower in calories and quicker to make than scratch gravy 

Lunch that day was make your own salad and/or sandwich 

Supper was a jointly prepared meal 

Meat grilled by son in law,

Sides of  green beans, corn, watermelon and rolls prepared by me. 

Dessert for a few days was compliments of son in law’s mother, who took them all to buy new school clothes and also a bunch of cookies 

 

And extra sodas from their meal at  Pops on Route 66

Another heat wave came through. I planned ahead and cooked some easy to reheat favorites for the 106 degree days 

  

A big batch of homemade Mexican rice, lentil taco filling, beef taco filling and assorted extras like tortillas, chips, fresh salsa, etc.  

and if anyone gets tired of Mexican, they can have a hot dog.  

These are our very favorite hot dogs. 

Ballpark white smoked Turkey. 

They are no longer sold in Oklahoma 🤷🏻‍♀️ So my husband stocks up on them when he visits his parents on the Arkansas-Texas border.  

And a question for you all 

Anyone know what this gadget is?  

❤️Rhonda 

BEDA #2 gardening is full of surprises

During the last 4-5 days of July, we had cooler temperatures and a good bit of rain.  

Since it was cooler and the ground had softened up,  I spent Saturday morning weeding and pruning the front yard flower beds. 

The hot weather had made the weeds thrive while our grass looks so brown. 

Ducky likes to hang out in the front yard and he is attached to a very long tether as our city has leash laws.  His tether is long enough that he can go all over our yard and driveway but not long enough to go in the street. 

I use this kneeling bench when I garden.  And I don’t think my cranky knees could pull many weeds without it.  

3 bags of weeds- and a lot of crinum leaves that I cut way back. 

On that Saturday,  just 3 days ago, I cut this bed of crinums back to almost nothing.  

You can see in the photo where the green part stops. 

My huge surprise was seeing all these crinum lilies pop up and getting ready to bloom.  

I’m guessing all the flowers were waiting down deep and couldn’t pop up through the thick maize of leaves.  

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Wouldn’t it be fun if all plants grew as fast as these crazy crinums?  Kind of like Jack’s magic beanstalk seeds 🙂

❤️Rhonda