Greetings
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| White, orange, yellow & red. |
I guess I didn't know or realize there was different colors of carrots. Kevin dug the carrots & mentioned that he had planted multi-colored ones. Apparently there are even black ones but none of those in our harvest.
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| The red ones are orange on the inside. They are sweet if you can imagine a sweeter tasting carrot. |
Grandkids
The oldest Grand that is a Sophomore in high school, decided to do distance learning full time instead of the 3 days a week his school is doing. The 2 days he was attending, school was online learning with a lunch provided & not a teacher in front of the class teaching. He came up with a plan of what his daily schedule at home would be & how he would do chores & stuff. Daughter says it's working out good so far.
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| Happy Birthday to our Spiderman fan. |
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| Kudos to our summer league baseball player. |
Cooking
Meal planning continued to be around whatever was ready to be eaten in the garden - All things squash. After squash there was baked tator soup. Coming up is pumpkin chili.
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| Squash casserole ready to stick in the oven after work for supper along with BBQ chicken cooked in the crockpot. |
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Kevin planted 2 different types of winter squash. Bush Delicata & Carnival. I cut them in 1/2 & scrap out the seeds. Next I put in butter, brown sugar & cinnamon. Then bake at 425 for about 45 minutes. Fork out the squash & mix with the juices when ready to eat. |
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| Chocolate zucchini bread for breakfast. Chocolate & Coffee=Yum! |
Gardening
Kevin canned another run of carrots & I helped. We shared our harvests with friends cause there was more than we could eat or have room for in the pantry or freezer. We need to keep jars, lids & shelf space for an antelope that Kevin hopes to get a little later on during hunting season. The deer trampled the pumpkin vines while foraging around for something to take a bite of...a pumpkin here, a squash there & mators over yonder then drank all the water in the birdbath. Kevin covered a few more pumpkins with buckets to hide the pumpkins from the deer.
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| We have enough carrots to have 1 jar every week for a year. |
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| Rose helping with carrots or not. |
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| Peeling/scraping carrots is a relaxing project to do outside chit chatting with a companion. |
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| Onions drying before being put away for winter storage. |
Cleaning
Cooler temperatures moved in. I opened the windows & let the fresh air circulate though the house. I had a couple of scheduled days off from work with no appointments scheduled or nothing else going on, so I made myself a 2nd cup of coffee & caught up on cleaning a few things such as dusting & vacuuming, emptying out the bathroom trash can, cleaning the salt & pepper shakers & refilling them, wiping out the inside of the refrigerator & microwave. The stove top & oven needs a good cleaning but I think I will put that on my spring cleaning to-do list. I certainty like to do other things on my day off at home besides clean, so I set the timer on the stove for 30 minutes between cleaning & do other stuff...take the dog out to potty & sunshine for me, read blogs, organize pictures & do some writing, look out the window & daydream, close my eyes & they open when the timer goes off.
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| 80 degrees, soft breeze, clear blue sky...the trees called for me to come enjoy a nice long walk. The Russian olive trees have berries/olives that the animals, perhaps a pheasant, will eat during the winter. The lilac leaves are drying up & falling to the ground. No fall colors yet. |
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I did something I had not done in a long time...Make some good ol southern style sweet tea for supper. Aka insomnia tea. At bedtime I was wide awake then tossed & turned all night long it seemed. I know tea does me that way these days, but it was sooooo good at the time. I need to take the advice a friend said she did, Don't have caffeine after 2 pm. |
Health & Weight Maintenance
So far I'm enjoying having Rose as a motivation for getting me out walking more, so that is at least 1 good thing about having a dog again - The already chewed hole with stuffing coming out of her new soft lounging bed, not so good. I had been trying to take a nature walk everyday by myself out in the trees, now I go out there walking 2 or 3 times a day with Rose.
Frugality, Savings & Spending
We ate stuff out of the garden & meat from the freezer, so not much shopping done at the grocery store other than butter, brown sugar & ingredients to make an ice cream cake. I put out my fall/Halloween decorations that I've had for years. Did some more Christmas shopping.
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| I did it - made this ice cream cake for mine & Kevin's 35th wedding anniversary. We also went out to eat for the special occasion. |
Social & Community Service Activities
Participated in Labor Day events & helped with Lions Club activities - Pancake Breakfast & Bingo. Breakfast had about 1/2 the attendance compared to last year. Kevin cooked the ham & eggs. I helped with serving. We both helped with cleaning up. Bingo had a good turnout, about the same as last year. Kevin was the number caller. I helped with snacks. We both helped with cleaning up. Kevin & I also helped with the community BBQ hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. Kevin helped prepare the meat. There was 350 pounds of meat cooked in a smoker. We both helped with cleaning up.
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| It rained on our parade, though it was much-much needed rain. Me & Rose here watching the parade underneath an umbrella. |
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| Quilt show along with BBQ in the Rec Center. |
Other Activities
I got back to reading in my Little House book series. I made a Fall Bucket List of things I want/need to do this fall. I've already done some of the items & hope the list inspires & motivates me to check off everything on the list. I started watching Hart of Dixie, Heartland & Private Practice on Netflix. I'm still watching episodes of The Office, Grace & Frankie, Gilmore Girls, Jane the Virgin & Schitts Creek.
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These are a few things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?
