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wards the end of the middle of the pay period we re not going to go hungry but nine times out of ten i can only seem to focus on what we re out of or what we ve less of we ve plenty of food and i like it all but not that much lol planning meals this week was a little bit harder only because i am nearly out of the more desirable fresh produce i will get a new bag this week i still have a cucumber and eggplant from last bag to use have i planned either into my menu no i don t have the foods i would like to have on hand never mind i m going to use what i have continue at august 27 2020 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest this week in my home let s just do something i am beyond over trying to work out those last two weeks of jobs sigh no good no good at all came of all that struggle to do things i can t say i ll ignore those tasks altogether but there s a reason why i ve no enthusiasm for them so let s do something else now to figure out what something else shall be we ve one whole week of august to go and then just a day or two and it s over and done that makes me sad it does truly because we all know that regardless of what a calendar says when september rolls around we cease to think of summer we tend to tuck our chins down and roll our sleeves up and start all those seasonal change tasks we want to put by a bit more if we can and get our homes ready for the cold months ahead we want to take advantage of fresh air and hot sunshine and wring the last lovely drops of summer from the days the same way we squeeze a lemon dry trying to get the last bit for lemonade continue at august 23 2020 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest worth sharing this week little bits of this and that patsy over at a working pantry shared an instagram account threerivershomestead that has issued a challenge for august every bit counts preserving challenge the challenge is to put something by every day of august i felt pretty proud of myself with my bit of fig jam i may not put something away every day this month but i m sure going to try how about you do you can preserve make jelly freeze your summer produce even though i won t be posting this until first of the week writing it out on weekend there s plenty of august left to join in with the challenge continue at august 21 2020 8 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the week behind time for a new song saturday john off to men s meeting this morning and i had the house to myself for a couple of hours i sipped my blueberry coffee enjoyed peach streusel muffins and peace and quiet i couldn t have asked for a better start to my day especially considering i was up for three hours in the middle of the night for no reason i can name other than waking and finding myself fully awake with no return of sleep i ve had a lovely day today reading blogs and magazines and planning the week ahead it s just the easy sort of shabat day i like best continue at august 21 2020 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest a local experiment probably the only photo you ll ever see of a haul from my home today i drove into town i wanted to go for two reasons first to test how well i felt driving with my blocked ear my second reason was to see how i might fare in adding to my pantry freezer by shopping locally had i felt better about driving i was going to go on to two other stores in more distant areas but i found overall that i didn t feel comfortable driving i am either oblivious entirely to things or i am hypervigilant even with low traffic such as we have mid morning in our little town i will stick to being driven about for a week or two or three i make myself nervous i certainly don t want to cause an accident because i am unable to hear continue at august 18 2020 12 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest gathering fragments more than i expected i ve just been rambling in my fridge remember how i said oh there s not much that will need using there ha continue at august 16 2020 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest this week in my home second verse same as the first anyone else remember the old herman hermit s song that line is my tune this week i planned i started tasks i failed this week i start over again on that long list from last week and try my best to conquer feeling unwell and get things done i still might not finish it all but i ll knock off a few more tasks i ve added a couple of new items too but that s it i don t mean to set myself up for failure twice continue at august 16 2020 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest the week behind maybe not saturday i was so restless last night that i slipped off to the guest room to toss and turn i couldn t breathe through my stuffy nose nor get comfortable i do find the firmer mattress has it s merits when my back aches and i did eventually go off to sleep i took my leisurely cup of blueberry coffee in the sunny kitchen sitting area it was lovely to read my bible and take my time while i was sitting there john asked if i d like to grocery shop today but i declined we will be in the same area tomorrow for church we have nothing to do all morning long after that i do enjoy my quiet sabbath day at home and i rarely agree to do anything that will disturb it bess walked over about 10ish and had a cup of the blueberry coffee and we chatted a little bit before she headed home i played about with genealogy a game i ve been enjoying on my phone reading blogs and not much else meals have been easy now that we re drawing near the end of the day the dishes have been cleared up and a full load run through the dishwasher it has been a lovely day quiet and peaceful and easygoing sunday i forgot to set my alarm last night thank goodness john remembered to set his we were up and off to church at our usual time we re always a bit late it seems but we do our very best to arrive on time to that earliest church service plans today for after church was grocery shopping i went to aldi and to publix i spent my full budget john asked if this was normal and i told him i m afraid we re going to find this is altogether normal at aldi we picked up nothing extra that wasn t slated for the grocery budget or that was unusual for our pantry and freezer at publix we spent about 12 on our lunch items and generally avoided even looking at anything that wasn t on my list to buy i don t know how we ll fare this month but i ve milk to make yogurt with as well as to drink plenty of half and half and some longer last fruits such as apples and oranges i told john i m just not going to sweat over the budget i know i have that bit extra on hand that i d intended to spend anyway and we ll use it and we just aren t going to worry otherwise he seemed to feel we d need to add in foods we typically don t eat to lower costs but i assured him at this point in time we needn t worry over that put away groceries after we got in this took about an hour i told john it s so easy to pile in the buggy but it makes real work when you re hauling it in from the car and taking bags to the pantry and having to find space to put it all he agreed as well he might since he s the main one hauling things about for me i put together a decent enough supper for us of fresh celery sticks deli purchase at aldi macaroni salad and some buffalo chicken tenders i bought a lot of convenience items on friday evening and for the chinese bowls and the dumplings and a frozen pizza from a brand we like i probably won t do that sort of thing again because i know i can make better myself but i will consider buying these buffalo chicken tenders again simply because for an item ready in twenty minutes it was rather decent as for the macaroni salad i ve tried and tried to make it john simply doesn t care for my homemade macaroni salad except the tuna pasta one that i make it s the dressing that he likes on the deli salad it was a long day overall up early all that grocery shopping and putting things away doing a big load of laundry remaking the bed with fresh linens unloading the dishes i washed saturday evening and sorting out the house overall i was rather happy to settle into my chair after supper and simply relax monday i woke with an aching ear and a head packed full of cotton my ear malady has returned i m sorry to say i am using basil oil and taking my decongestants and tylenol this is the usual ear problems i have twice a year late winter and late summer ho hum it doesn t make me feel very happy but the doctor assures me there s nothing there but just fluid and i can hum and do what i m doing or whine and do what i m doing sigh i had planned to do a whole house task of floors today well i didn t quite make it i just don t feel well and it was the best i could manage to vacuum the main living area tiny hallway and our bedroom deeply i still need to do the guest room and i ll need to sweep and mop the hard floors but not today i won t it took me about 3 hours work to get the vacuuming done what with moving furniture about and all i also watered front porch plants and the end of the patio ones including that corner plot i cut flowers i cleaned house before i did the vacuuming and i set out foods to be dealt with today i have a chicken recipe cooking for our supper i have browned a pound of ground meat with onions and garlic half went into the fridge for a meal this week and half into the freezer for another day i have rice cooked for two meals and a half dozen boiled eggs on back of stove i baked a special peach pie recipe that i ve never had before i ve messed up a double sink full of dishes i ve also cut up and portioned and put away the meats i bought yesterday which included a corned beef brisket a top round steak and a packet of picada asada meat i have folded and put away clothes john skipped breakfast i found items to put out for lunch and i have a plan for supper which is mostly prepared i am tired i will need to go into town this evening to pick up caleb from nursery since katie and chad s work hours prevent their being there on time it is my plan to have supper all ready for our return though we will need to reheat some portion of it i didn t feel up to gathering fragments today not much anyway and that s okay sometimes things just don t go our way and we re forced to step back a little more than we might want to i think i m going to gift myself a nap now i changed up a recipe that calls for beef chuck roast mongolian beef and used chicken thighs instead it turned out really good i m glad i made this substitute because thighs are certainly a much lower priced meat than chuck roast and it makes the recipe that much more versatile in my opinion i served the chicken with wild rice and steamed broccoli it was as much stem as it was florets but i m tired of wasting the stems and if cooked until tender it s quite edible tuesday i am not feeling well but i know i won t feel any worse if i work lol so i went outdoors this morning and got all the sticks up from under the pecan tree most of them up from the sweetgum tree bed and weeded about another 1 2 of the area that needed weeding that seemed like plenty of work to me for outdoor work after i came back indoors i sat down to cool off and looked up how to clear a blocked eustachian tube which is the problem i m having at present result of that slight head cold last week i found a whole youtube by a chiropractor of exercises and massages one might do to help unblock the eustachian tube i immediately put these things into practice and repeated them periodically all through the day it can t hurt i made tuna fish salad for our lunch using a diced apple to both stretch the tuna and cut down on the acidity of it i use about 1 2 to 3 4 cup of finely diced apple 1 big heaping tablespoon of sweet pickle relish about 2 tbsps of mayonnaise not heaping and 1 finely diced hard boil egg to 1 can of drained tuna this generally makes enough for three biggish or four regular sized sandwiches depending on the size of your bread slices i spoke with becca this morning and told her i d take a produce bag this week i didn t know that bess was going to visit but becca texted me that she was sending the bag with bess to save me a trip over it s about an hour round trip i really appreciated that my bag contained tomatoes pears a bell pepper spinach basil green beans okra cucumbers i snapped the beans right away and then put them in boiling water to blanch i removed only half of them added diced potatoes to the remaining beans to cook for our supper i put the blanched beans immediately in an iced water bath and then dried them off to flash freeze for the freezer i diced the okra right away and dusted heavily with cornmeal and froze in a container i ll fry this in the future this is the way i grew up eating okra not battered as i ve done the last two times but simply salt and peppered and dusted with cornmeal then sauteed in a little oil until crispy our supper tonight was pan seared cubed steak fresh green beans with baby potatoes and fresh sliced tomato john tickled me when i sat our plates on the table boy what are the poor folks eating tonight i laughed and said this is purely country cooking it s how i grew up eating and it was too we didn t eat gourmet which is what katie told my cousin was how i cooked lol no in my childhood it was simple foods cooked as well as we could and using the freshest possible ingredients especially in summer when the gardens were producing off to go pick up caleb this afternoon and he felt much better he tickled john because he insisted on standing up and then jumping up and down to indicate that he wanted to get into his jumper seat lol he spent a good fifteen minutes working off that energy and then was ready to have his supper it was good to see him feeling more lively i know i did more on this day but i cannot remember what else i did wednesday i had a brief moment last night when i felt the pressure release in my ear that to me is a most hopeful sign it came a lot sooner than it did last time i dealt with this i continue with the basil oil and massage and exercises i discontinued the decongestant knowing how my body works i m following my intuition there is a point where decongestant is helpful and while my doctor recommended i do several dosages daily i felt strongly that this was making the remaining mucous thicker rather than thinner not taking decongestant in 12 hours i found i have had two more incidences of moments without the constant tinnitus and pressure i ll take moments of freedom because i know it s a sign of this mess breaking up peach streusel muffins for breakfast started our day with hardboiled eggs that was just the beginning of the kitchen morning i set sourdough english muffins up last...
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