Organization: 1. Clean and organize closet with printer and school papers. 2. Put schoolbooks and teacher’s manuals together for the current school year 3. Make sure I have everything I need to start the school year 4. Clean and organize my desk 5. Put away clutter in my bedroom Garden: 1. Pick ripe apples and…
Armenian cucumber in the garden This post contains affiliate and referral links. I harvested a few more Armenian cucumbers. I gave two to a neighbor (they each weigh 4 to 5 pounds). I harvested a small handful of tomatoes and a small handful of red noodle beans. I cut large bunches of basil from the…
My brother was married in California in July. This meant that we needed to make a trip to California and stay one night. The drive is about 5 1/2 hours each way. We decided to make the most of our time by leaving early the day of the wedding (the wedding was set for 4…
A friends asked me to take care of her garden while she was out of town, and to harvest from it while she was gone. I brought home a basket and a half of tomatoes, a handful of beans, a few small pickling cucumbers, and some small cabbages. I started a batch of sauerkraut with…
Here’s what I’m aiming to accomplish this week, in addition to my regular workload: Garden:1. Weed front and backyard 2. Prune hedges in backyard 3. Plant more zinnia seeds in places where none came up 4. Prune blackberry bushes 5. Cut grape vines back (they are growing all over where they should not be) 6….
This post contains affiliate links. Last week Winter cut and brought in grapes from the garden. The Thompson’s seedless grapes in the basket above weighed 20 pounds! We have filled that basket more than once this year from the same grape vine. She also brought in some seeded grapes from the garden. A friend of…
Note: This post contains affiliate links. I came across a beautiful whitework embroidered bee on Pinterest. I was fascinated by it. The pattern was created by Sarah Homfray. Sarah has achieved one of my life-long desires in attending the Royal School of Needlework in England. She teaches embroidery classes in England. You can see more…
We celebrated Cyrus’ birthday last week. There were a lot of fun details there, and it deserves its own post, but the simple things I did certainly should be part of this one. He wanted cheesecake, which I made for him. I made graham crackers and made a graham cracker crust for the cake as well. I…
Note: This post contains affiliate and referral links. The garden’s abundance this week was wonderful. I picked peaches and figs from the trees. I cut grapes and cucumbers from the vines, picked tomatoes, cut green onions, parsley, and basil. I also dug my garlic (later than I should have!). Being spring planted, the garlic is…
Congratulations to Lisa on winning the garden seed giveaway! My plans for last week changed completely when I found out we were having overnight guests, so all of last week’s goals were moved to this week. Gardening: 1. Pick peaches 2. Pick the rest of the plums 3. Harvest grapes 4. Harvest a few cucumbers 5….
Last week’s plans were completely changed when a friend, whom I haven’t seen in almost 8 years, emailed on Monday to ask if she and her family could come to visit on Friday, join us in our Fourth of July plans, and sleep at our place. We said yes, and changed our plans slightly to…
This post contains an affiliate link. Happy Monday! First, a few things: If you missed my giveaway for garden seeds for your garden, be sure to enter! The contest runs through Friday. Mrs. Wages is giving away a pressure canner! Enter here. If you’ve always wanted to have a price book but didn’t want to…