Happenings on the Homestead in the Appalachian Mountains

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from Georgia. How you doing this 7th week of 2024? It's a chilly refreshing 37 degrees out this Friday morning. We have daffodils coming up & they're about to bloom any day now. Kevin is going to do a little squirrel hunting with a friend this weekend, I'm going to be doing some activities with the Grandgirls. I got a haircut this week & ordered some flowers to attempt to make arrangements for Oldest Grand's upcoming wedding. Me & Kevin are on the arch building committee. I made a sampling of a cookie recipe to see if it would be tasty & presentable enough for wedding food. Grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & I'll tell you about a few more happenings around our place, walk with me. 

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?