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

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

Friday, August 5, 2022

BEDA #5 breakfast, junk mail and supper

Breakfast was Banana Pecan muffins. The recipe is from YouTube, Collard Valley Cooks. 
I recommend their channel if you’re looking for something fun to watch,  but it might be most  interesting to Southerners, and maybe not to people from other regions 


My husband got our mail today.  He opened this envelope that I would of just thrown away.
It was a survey request and had a brand new $1 bill in it.  


I still don’t like mail from things I didn’t ask for but I guess it would be a good idea to open mail, just in case.  


When our son moved,  we got their kitchen pantry, household stuff  and frozen food items,  



We’ve already used or eaten some of the things.  I especially like a huge bottle of Trader Joe Olive oil with a pour spout.  
Our supper tonight was boiled shrimp - a bag of jumbo and 1/2 a bag of medium shrimp with homemade cocktail sauce, tater tots and Cole slaw.  
It was all delicious! 

And tonight was just hubby and I here for supper.  




This is the Rubbermaid Party Platter that I use so often.  I first bought two  at a Military commissary and have since repurchased more for gifts.  
Walmart sells them too and maybe Target and other grocery chains. 





❤️Rhonda 






Thursday, August 4, 2022

BEDA #4 Thrifty Thursday - dishwasher tips

Hello everyone 

With 7 people in our home, our dishwasher normally runs at least 2 full loads daily.  
My favorite and cheapest dishwasher detergent is the Great Value powder one.  It gets all the tea and coffee stains off of white mugs and leaves everything squeaky clean.  I fill the soap cup just half full too.  
My dishwasher requires a rinse agent.  Without it, the dishes are so wet after any cycle.  I’ve tried vinegar but it didn’t help at all and generic rinse agent didn’t help either.  
Name brand rinse agents are in small 8 ounce bottles and are about  $5 at my stores.  Then I found the huge 32 ounce bottle on Amazon for about $10.  I’ll keep buying it from Amazon if this price continues.  

I’ve discovered my dishwasher does an excellent job of cleaning everything on the speed cycle.  It’s about 60 minutes and the other cycles are 2 - 21/2 hours.  It’s kind of tricky to set the speed cycle though.  So to remind me and the others in our home,  I marked the buttons with the order to push them to run the dishwasher on the speed cycle.  
That part of the dishwasher only shows when the door is open.  So there aren’t any sharpie marks causing an eyesore in my kitchen.  





  

Thank you everyone who answered about the mystery gadget.  I’m pretty sure it is a no touch door opener. 
I had no idea.  

❤️ Rhonda 

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

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 

























Tuesday, August 2, 2022

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 









Monday, August 1, 2022

I’m going to try BEDA- blogging every day in August

We will see how this goes.  Like in April, I am going to try to blog everyday in August.  
My first august post is going to short though. 

My husband brought back some old things as he is cleaning out closets and such at his parents.  
My daughter wants the big Frankhoma boot.  I’m keeping the 2 tiny eagle pitchers to put out when I have patriotic decorations out. 
I’m pretty sure our daughter in law I will find a home for the other things .

We’ve been discussing this old spoonrest and it’s meaning.  
“A wife can throw out more with a scoop than a man can bring in with a shovel.”


This is very old,  I’m guessing maybe from the 1920s or 1930s.
It’s obviously not at all politically correct by 2022 standards.  

What do you all think it means?  
We’ve got a few theories and have no idea what is right.  So I really want to know what you all think. 

❤️ Rhonda