To do list and Dollar General shopping

Hello everyone 

I spent a lot of time looking into my blog photo problem.

I don’t think I can easily fix the posts from this summer that are missing the photos 

But I’m hopeful I found the problem- I needed to update my Google photos app.

Time will tell I guess 

This weeks to do list 

I went to 1 Dollar General on Saturday.  

I used their 5/$25 coupon and some of their digital coupons. 

My purchases 

And the receipt 

I’m happy with the total but I made a goof.  I’m 

I bought the wrong kind of Febreeze so the Febreeze $3 coupon didn’t subtract 

But that’s how couponing goes.  It’s both frustrating and fun.

Hope you all have had a good weekend 

❤️Rhonda 

Robin watching

I went in the backyard this morning to water the caladiums and the few pots of plants.  

I saw a robin gathering grass in the yard so I looked up at the pergola and sure enough,  robin nest #4  of 2023 is going in.  

Look at the top right corner to see the robin nest

  

They are fun to watch and they don’t make a big mess on the patio like doves we have had in the past.  

So I guess our pergola is just a robin haven now.  

My posts from April 30- July 3 all are missing the photos when I view them.  Can any of you see photos on any of those particular posts? 

I have paid .99 cents a month for years for Google photo storage so that should not be the issue.  

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So far my other photos on other posts and other blogs all are still showing.  

Hope you all have a good Saturday 

It’s hot here but it’s always hot in Oklahoma in July 

❤️ Rhonda 

Trying again

Hello everyone 

I’ve been away from blogging most of the summer. I checked my blog yesterday and saw that more of my recent posts have missing photos. I’ve done a search to find out the problem, but I cannot find a solution that works that I can do or that applies to my blog. 

So………..

I’m going to write a short post now with photos and a back up and see what happens.

Our patio pergola hosted 3  families of baby robins this summer.

They were fun, watching the parrot sit on the nest, and then faithfully feed the babies. About three weeks after the eggs hatch, the babies leave, and they all go away, and never come back.

I’m still working on downsizing the amount of things in our home

Yesterday I gave away a whole, another big batch of stuff on the Facebook buy nothing group.

Last week I worked on my homemade cookbooks. I had four binders and several folders with printed off recipes and recipes saved  from magazines

They were quite unorganized!

We have had to do some serious changes with the foods that we eat so many of the recipes I had saved were completely useless at this stage.

BEFORE 

AFTER I know, it looks dirty, but the scrapbook paper is a distressed style and looks a lot prettier in person

1 single notebook takes up a whole lot less space than all that other stuff.

The notebook has four dividers – main dishes, side dishes, breads & desserts, and miscellaneous

Some of the recipes are printed from the Internet and some are cut from magazines.

 Some are glued onto pretty scrapbook paper.

I used dividers that I already had and I was happy, but they have pockets in them. 

This is in the back in the miscellaneous section.

I also saved some menu plans from the past. I don’t know that I’ll ever use this again, but they’re fun for me to go back and read.

  

If the photos stay on the post for a few days, I will try to get back to blogging

If they disappear, I may look into starting a new blog or

I just don’t know.

❤️Rhonda

Advice is most welcome about the missing photos 

End of June -to do list, sewing, grocery haul

Hello again- I’ll just jump right in

I made a to do list that started Sunday- it’s not pretty but hopefully it will keep me on track 

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I used to sew a lot! I found this photo of 2 of my children in pajamas I sewed - around 1987 I think. 

Aren’t they cute?  They really were happy children that usually had smiles on their faces.  

Anyway, this got me thinking that our youngest granddaughter would enjoy a twirly nightgown too. So I searched EBay and somehow found the pattern.  

I cut out a blue polka dot one last night 

I am so thankful for online shopping.  I’ve been using Kroger delivery and it’s great!

Oklahoma does not have any actual Kroger grocery stores but there is a delivery hub about an hour from our town.  

I wont say their prices are rock-bottom lowest, but they do have good deals.

They have weekly sales and coupons and if you match them up, it’s pretty good.

They also have two weekly Free-Bees coupons, this week it was for marshmallows and apple sauce cups. I think my grandchildren will enjoy making rice crispy treats with the marshmallows.

Anyway, I ordered Saturday evening and my groceries were delivered Sunday morning about 7:30 AM. I ask for delivery between 7 and 8 AM.

They bring them right to my door and they travel in a refrigerated truck, so everything was fresh and chilled.

Kroger has the best produce of any store I’ve purchased from.  

The 3 bagged produce items were dated into July

Everything looks fresh and A+ in my opinion 

Look at this crazy big bell pepper! It’s on top of a 1 pound strawberry box

Dog items and grocery items.  The chicken breast were buy one get one free and I should’ve bought four or six. It was a good deal but I don’t eat that much meat these days so that will easily make three meals. The cream of tartar is for homemade Play-Doh.

As I said, before, the marshmallows and applesauce were freebie coupons.

That’s a lot of bread, right? I already had two loaves on my order. Then at the end, when you check out with Kroger, they usually have some short dated items that are half price or less. So I went ahead and added three more of the discounted loaves of bread, and I just put them in the freezer.

Can you believe these five grandchildren are getting so big and old? The youngest one is eight and the oldest one is 14! 

They have very busy lives -ball tournaments, ninja tournaments, livestock shows, Girl Scout camps, church camp, energy camp

They all had some free time in their calendar last week and were able to have a sleepover here.

I’ve been doing more decluttering. Most stuff that was usable has been passed on to people who wanted it on our local Facebook buy nothing group.

I truly recommend looking into your area buy nothing group. People give away lots of neat stuff and people ask for stuff. 

And it just feels so good to take stuff that we don’t need and put it into the hands of people who do want it.


OK, I need to get up and get on with my day. The last of my tea is gone.

I hope you all have a great week 

❤️ Rhonda 

June things

Hello everyone 

Sorry but I just haven’t had enough energy to blog and when I checked my blog earlier in the week,  many of my photos don’t show.  Have no idea why as I pay Google for photo storage.  

Can you see photos on my posts?

Anyway,  our entertainment this spring has been 2 nests full of baby robins.  We had 2 separate robin nests under our pergola roof and we have had so much fun watching them.  Both parents work so hard keeping the babies fed and protected.  And then once they are about 3 weeks old,  they all leave and live somewhere else.  

The photo is not great as I took inside our living room window. 

The babies have their mouths open most all the time.  

This is the birds in the first nest a day before they flew the coop.  

I rarely go into stores and prefer to order or do Walmart pickup for most things.  But I’ve seen a few IG posts about some Dollar Tree things.  

So I stopped there today.  

Centrum Mens vitamins - best by date is in 2024 and they are made in the US.  $1.25 is a super deal on these.  

I’ve worn this brand of press on nails and they are usually $7 or more a set.  

I was especially happy to find these for $1.25 a box.  

If this post works with photos- I’ll blog again soon.

Hope you are all fine

❤️ Rhonda