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Saturday, March 16, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
Sunday, March 10, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
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We're about to get started to finish up this project. Rose has been enjoying the warm days this week & wants to stay outside longer. |
* Kevin planned out what he's going to plant in the garden & where he's going to plant what. He's been separating the strawberry plants along as he comes up with containers. There's a couple of swaps & sales coming up that he wants to try to participate in.
Lots of runners from the original plants. |
Look at those nice hearty roots. |
These strawberry plants are called Eversweet Everbearing. Grands have already made rounds in the garden looking for strawberries. I told them it's too early just yet. |
* My 3rd cookie sample, I'm going to call it turtle cookie. It's a sweet & salty mix. The cookie stayed together & it stayed fresh for days without the crackers going soft.
It's simple & looks kinda fancy. |
Tastes delicious. |
I...
- went to Grand's baseball game, the smell of the fresh mowed grass was therapeutic.
- repaired my eyeglasses with a repair kit.
- made a crockpot of beans, then made chili using the leftover beans & deer burger, then had hotdogs with the leftover chili.
- didn't order anything from Amazon this week, though I'm still waiting on shapewear to go under the dress I got to wear to Grand's wedding.
Saturday, March 2, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
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Rose under the bed hiding from her necessary grooming needs. Nails clipped, bathed & a flea treatment.✅ |
- Move rocks to make a place to plant asparagus.✅
- Tear up the ground to make a bed to plant the asparagus in.✅
- Go to Home Depot, get landscape timbers to make the bed to plant the asparagus in.✅
- Make bed & plant asparagus.✅
- Go for a
jeeptruck ride to get something to eat.✅
Moving rocks. These will be put to use around the flower bed in front of the house. |
Tearing up the ground. |
Getting landscape timbers at Home Depot. |
We got this stuff too. |
Back to work building the bed. I helped to do all the things in between drinking my drink & sitting on the tailgate & taking of the pictures. |
Putting down landscape fabric to help control the weeds. |
Asparagus & rhubarb planted on this end. There's room for more stuff down on the other end. |
Our next project will be redoing the flower bed in front of the house. |
The primrose is coming up along the creek bank. I'm not sure if it will bloom this year or not. The plants are still small from where I separated the bundle Moma shared with me last year. |
Making the flower arrangements last weekend for the wedding arch was an overall success. We only got one made due to running short on supplies. |
Saturday, February 24, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
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Said a quick hello to Grand while shopping for a baby shower gift for their Mom & getting a pizza to cook for our supper. |
Mickey, Minnie & some others at Nana Camp. |
Gathered eggs for our breakfast & fed the chickens. |
* Grands helped make my 2nd sampling of cookie for Grand's wedding. This recipe I call, pecan pie cup cookie.
Chopped up the pecans. |
Made the filling. |
Cut out the dough. |
Filled mini muffin cups. They rose more than I thought they would. |
Leftover dough. |
Happy Birthday to Conner. |
These are some of the things that went on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?
Friday, February 16, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
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Happy Valentine's Day. I got my usual box of chocolates from Kevin. I also got a card from a previous coworker & friend. The card was certainly a sweet surprise. |
* Kevin did some tree trimming around on the property & trimmed the fruit trees. I picked up a few sticks, Kevin picked up a lot.
* Our next project is to redo the flower bed in front of the house.
This is how it looks now. A before picture. |
* There is going to be a cookie table at Grand's wedding. The wedding is going to be a small intimate ceremony to include immediate family & closest friends, so guests are going to be asked to bring some cookies to share with everyone. I came up with several ideas of recipes I'd like to try. I'm going to make a sampling of each before making the final decision of the winning cookie recipe that gets to go to the wedding.
This week's cookie sample was thin mint chocolate fudge cookie bar. |
Rose doing her own things
while I'm mixing & stirring
in the kitchen.
These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?
Saturday, February 10, 2024
Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains
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There were firebreaks all over the place that made good walking trails. |
This is a place where paper comes from. It was interesting to see these longleaf pine trees in their different stages of growth. |
The biggest bed of palmettos we saw while out walking. |
Kevin spied this lion's mane mushroom. According to Siri, it's edible. |
Spanish moss hanging in the trees. According to Siri, the moss lives off the air for it's food & moisture not the trees. |
I spied this upside down carrot. According to Siri, its called stinkhorn mushroom. It's hollow on the inside. |
Rose soaking up some sun during a picnic. |
Mickey & Mini hanging out at camp in a tree that has ferns going on it. |