Happenings on the Homestead

Weekend Coffee Share

Hello there Adventurous Friends & Family, greetings from South Dakota.  Happy New Year!  I made it till 10 pm & watched the ball drop in New York City since it was midnight there.  Kevin & I had a quite Christmas day at home due to the weather but was able to venture out a little on New Year's Day.  There were no resolutions made or words chosen this year, just some time spent enjoying the outdoors.  Thinking right off the top of my head, if there was a word for me this year, it would be "be".  I'm just going to be me.  I do have some hopes for the year & we'll see if those hopes are fulfilled throughout the year.  Having said that, January is walk your pet month.  My 1st hope & good intention is taking Rose on a walk everyday this month other than just our usual walk around in the yard.  It's a plan of action & motivation to get me up & out to get rid of cabin fever.  How you doing this 1st week of the year 2023?  Here's some of the things that's happened around my place, grab a coffee or your favorite beverage & walk with me...

The snow had a hard crusted top layer,
Kevin told me to walk soft so I 
wouldn't fall through.

* Sun - I started reading Blue by Danielle Steel. Moma sent me the book in a Christmas goodie box with a note telling me it was a good book to read.  The book starts off a few days before Christmas.  I washed sheets & hung them on the line to dry, made a blueberry cobbler & a grouse bake to have to eat on for a few days.  I used a chicken recipe & substituted the grouse meat to make the meat veggie casserole type dish.  I helped Kevin prep meat to make jerky, my job was tumbling the meat in a bowel to distribute the spices then put the meat in Ziplock bags to marinade overnight in the refrigerator.  We went for a truck ride up to the pond to take Rose on her 1st pet walk of the year. Kevin rabbit hunted along our walk, he got 4 rabbits, we talked on the ride home that we would make rabbit dumplings.  Kevin got a deer in the evening with his bow, we'll grind most the meat after it has cooled for a few days.  I completed & checked everything off my holiday weekend to-do list. My legs ached at bedtime from trudging through the snow.  I started watching the Candy series on Hulu, seems it's about a murder based on a true story. 

I dusted the frames, cleaned the glass &
 put in the new pictures of the Grands
that I got for Christmas.

* Mon - Why did the alarm go off at 5:30 am?  Neither of us had to work.  We cooked the marinated meat to make the jerky.  The meat was elk, grouse & mule deer.  A friend gave us the elk meat, Kevin brought in the grouse & deer.  We sampled the jerky as it cooked & that was enough for my morning snack & lunch.  The jerky took longer to cook than the directions suggested.  Our favorite was unanimously the grouse.  I watched you tube videos from The Frugal Cottage & A Charming Abode.  There were ideas for getting budgeting back to the basics living.  Will the 2023 decorating trend be Granny Chic & did you know garment bags can be used to store wrapping paper, wreaths & other seasonal decorations?  We took Rose for her pet walk out at the lake, there were ice fisherman.  We went to Lions Club meeting, dues were due, the meal was at #3, there was good conversations, good laughs & I had leftovers for lunch. We noticed fog rolling in on our way home.

6 degrees during Rose's pet walk, everything
was covered with a layer of frosty ice, didn't
know it was called hoarfrost till we moved
to the midwest, it's refreshing & energizing
walking in the early morning, hope I can
keep it up.

* Tues - Kevin made pancakes for our breakfast topped with blueberries & our homemade blueberry syrup.  I added peanut butter on mine for protein.  I packed lunches & snacks.  Kevin got leftover bagel bites, blueberry cobbler, jerky & Christmas candy. Mine was my leftover nacho tots from the #3, jerky & a blueberried pancake since I only ate 1 of mine for breakfast.  I packed us water to drink throughout the day.  I took Rose on her pet walk & got my household work done before going to work; cleaned up the breakfast stuff, sorted all the laundry & carried it downstairs, washed a load & hung it on the line to dry, vacuumed & dusted the living room.  I read The Frugal Girl while finishing up my morning coffee.  I enjoyed her Five Things Frugal & Meet a Reader.  It was an exceptionally busy day at work because it was a day after a holiday.  We had leftover grouse bake & salad for supper, finished up the blueberry cobbler & had a couple of little torte cakes from a meat & cheese sampler Daughter sent us for Christmas.  Kevin had brought in the trail cam a couple days ago, so we looked at the pictures to see what critters had been in our backyard.  There were deer, pheasants, grouse, cats & a dog.

* Wed - Kevin said everything was still frosty outside as he left out walking to work before daylight. I need to get back to walking to work but I don't like walking home in the dark when I can't see the icy spots & potholes.  I took Rose on her pet walk before doing my morning housework.  I cleaned up the dishes from supper & breakfast, it was dish drainer jenga.  I folded & hung clothes on hangers & put them away, washed towels & hung them on the line.  I dusted in the bedroom & took the kitchen trash out, it was stinky.  Hustling around in the house & up & down the stairs got my heart pumping giving me a little workout.  Sometimes I can get more done during a time constraint than I can having the whole day. I read about how Far Side of Fifty's granddog gets in some extra exercise &  Knit by God's Hands favorite things.  There was a recipe for vegan burgers that sounded good. We ate up the last of the grouse bake for lunches.  Kevin put rabbit legs in the crockpot during his lunch break, he then fried the rabbit for supper & made french fries using carrots, sweet tators & regular tators.  He brought in leftover chicken soup from the lunchroom & we each ate a small bowl of that.  I finished watching Candy.  I felt like I was starving at bedtime, so I snuck & finished off a box of crackers. I try not to eat anything after supper, oh well.

We liked the sweet tator fries best, maybe because they
were different, the carrots needed to cook a little longer,
the rabbit was tender & spiced perfect.

I'm warm all bundled up.

 * Thurs - All the frost was gone off of everything though still plenty of ice & snow.  The road was busy getting the kids to school as I took Rose on her pet walk, I slide on the ice crossing the road, I didn't see the deer anywhere.   Rose was cold & ran straight to the fire to warm up as soon as we came back inside.  I read about how Frugalwoods does their Christmas gift giving.  I washed a load of pants, my jeans had a hole in the knee, not for fashion but from being old & plum wore out thin.  I'll make those into shorts & get me a new pair of non-holy jeans.  I folded towels & socks & put them away, tidied the kitchen, carried up the meat grinder & gathered a few things to get ready to process that deer Kevin got over the weekend.  I went to write a check for the water bill, where was the bill?  It will show up, if it don't, I'll pay it in the office next Thursday along with taking care of all the vehicle insurances next week.  I picked up a few things at the grocery store after work, spent $44.30, we always need butter. The dry beans were on sale, so I got a pack of pintos & a pack of great northern.  My car didn't need any gas since I've been working in town less than a mile from home & not drove anywhere else.  Kevin usually takes me to work on the snowiest days & we've had a lot of those days these past several weeks.  Kevin made mashed tators to go with leftover soup for supper since he got home from work before I did.  He cut up the tenderloin in the deer, I assisted with getting containers, cleaning up & making cookies.  The pull apart ready to bake kind of cookies, no gathering ingredients, no mixing & no dirtying up more dishes to have to wash.

Rose says "I'm going to lay here & warm, you
can go do your thing".

* Fri - Kevin cooked some of the deer tenderloin for breakfast with eggs.  My worn-out teeth could not chew up the meat even though I've spent a lot of money to keep my teeth fit.  A bridge collapsed a couple years ago & my insurance don't cover implants; I'm making do with those back missing teeth for now.  That's one of the reasons we grind most of the deer meat because sometimes it's hard to get even the best cuts of meat tender for us cooked well-done meat eaters.  I wanted to take Rose on a longer pet walk, but the roads were just too icy.  I can only walk like a penguin for so far & for so long being pulled in every direction by a leashed very strong 12 pound furbaby full of energy & raring to go.  I read 3 things Runs for Cookies likes about her winter exercise.  I was off work for the day & Kevin come home early to work on getting the rest of the deer meat fixed.  One of his coworkers was out with her sick mother so Kevin was on call & planned to go back to work later in the day.  I washed Rose's blankets, cleaned her bedding & feeding area & cleaned the bathroom while Kevin cut up the meat.  As soon as we were done grinding, Kevin was called back into work to clean up a puke pile.  I cleaned up the grinder.  The trick to cleaning it, is wash & rinse immediately before any of the little meat particles dry.  I guess really that is the trick for cleaning any dish. We got 35 one-pound packs of ground venison from 2 deer, if we counted right.  Pizza for supper, early to bed for reading, watching shows on Hulu & relaxing.

This is one of Knit by God's Hand favorite Friday funnies,
I've been in the Atlanta airport feeling like I've done a 5k 
then was told I was in the wrong line, it was funny reading
this but it was not too funny that day in the airport.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how has your week been?

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2023

Greetings from South Dakota! Kevin has been busy at the school fixing things & moving snow from around the school, around the house & around town.  I've been busy at the Post Office helping Santa get all the Christmas presents delivered. The mail didn’t move for days due to I-90 being closed due to a little dab of snow that was blowing around all over the midwest causing a blizzard. Snow around our place was 0 to 8 feet deep due to drifting.

The perfect gift for those (me) that
like to have picnics.

We had a restful Christmas Day at home due to the Sheriff saying to stay home. There were reports of black ice on the roads & no travel was advised along with wind gusts predicted of up to 65 mph making snow drifts.  A time or 2 the Sheriff put it like this “stay off the freaking roads”. We decided that was a good enough reason for us to just stay home instead of taking our camper out & going camping as we had originally planned. We had just came out of a blizzard that left traveling through families & truckers stranded in town for a couple nights. A shelter was set up in the Rec Center that accommodated about 40 people one night & about 60 people the next night. Santa was able to make it to the shelter for a quick little visit & give out goodies.

Our Christmas special cooking project was trying our hand at making an old-fashioned gingerbread cake to use up some molasses we had in the pantry.  Kevin remembers having a sweet bread when he was a boy, so he searched for a recipe online. The recipe he chose turned out pretty tasty with a serving of snow cream & chocolate syrup. We talked that we might make another cake using the same recipe someday soon to use up the rest of that molasses before it goes bad. 

We’ve done a lot of camping & exploring this year, going out every chance we got on the weekends & holidays.  In the spring & early summer we were able to have a few little campfires to roast hotdogs & make smores, then the weather turned too dry during the rest of the summer for lighting up.

Toney

We enjoyed having the Grandkids visit during the summer.  Austin, the oldest, is all set to graduate high school in the spring.  He is working at KFC & seems to like it pretty good.  He has a girlfriend & they have plans to move out on their own after graduation & take courses at a community college. The middle teen & tween boys are playing all the sports. The girls are doing cheerleading & dance.  The babies are growing so unbelievably fast.  We welcomed our 9th Grandbaby in October.  He was a little feller, weighing just under 5 pounds.  He had a little trouble at the very 1st wanting to start breathing & taking in oxygen, though he is healthy & fine now.  I went to North Carolina to be with the family & help out during the week of delivery & recovery.

Kevin got the garden all cleaned up just before the cold weather & snow set in. We were able to keep the deer out of the garden this season by putting up a netting fence around the entire garden area.  We planted a couple rows of sweet tators this year that produced a good crop.  We put the tators & onions downstairs where it’s dry & cooler.  They seem to be keeping good down there. We put the carrots in the crisper in the refrigerator & they are doing good in there. We like to make french fries with the carrots & sweet tators.  Mmmmmm!  We put squash & pumpkin in the freezer.  I made a couple pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving & we have a squash casserole recipe that is good

Kevin got a deer during hunting season. We ground most that meat for making sloppy joes & such. He took a shot at a deer with his bow to fill his archery tag but didn’t get it yet. Kevin did a little bird hunting too & brought in some doves, grouse & a rabbit or 2.  We went fishing quite a bit & have fish in the freezer that we’re still eating on. Kevin went on a little camping trip in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming & did some fishing over there. It seems a lot of our activities involves food of some sort.

                                                                                       

 We look forward to seeing what 2023 

has in store for us, Karen & Kevin.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?

Fish & other June Happenings 2022

Hello there Adventurous Friends, greetings from South Dakoka.  How you doing?  We did a lot of camping, enjoyed a couple campfires & did some fishing.  This is Sentence a Day where I join others & write a little something about each of my days, wrote in one long drawn out sentence or 2. 

Celebrating the 1st - Mother nature gave us plenty of much needed spring rain for the garden & yard, we were able to have a campfire while camping, got the garden planted & a fence built to keep the deer out.

* Thurs 2nd - Got groceries & gas, my name was drawn for a $10 in store grocery coupon, got a few things for Grand's visit, M&Ms to go in popcorn & mozzarella cheese sticks, Kevin got the sweet tator plants that he ordered, we planted them after supper.

* Fri 3rd - Kevin reseeded some seeds in the garden, mowed the yard & changed the oil in my car, I folded laundry & put it away, paid a couple bills & balanced the books, we cooked shrimp for supper then rode out to the lake to check out a camping spot.

Week 23

* Weekend 4th & 5th - Went to Friends moving sale, got toys, books & movies for the Grands, several blankets for picnics, a camo shirt for Kevin, spent almost all of the $20 bill I took to shop with, went camping out at the lake, built a campfire on the lakebed, roasted cheddar dogs & made smores, did a lot of fishing between the rains.

* Mon 6th - Got new tires put on my car, went to Club meeting, meal was at #3.

* Tues 7th - Planned Luau party for August when I go visit family in NC, ordered supplies & decorations to be sent to Sister, grass skirts, leis, ring toss game.

* Wed 8th - Read the newspaper, the school has several job openings, Summer in the Streets & the Fishing Derby are coming up in a couple of weeks.

* Thurs 9th - Got groceries & gas, gas was $5.299, packed us a picnic supper, we drove down to the Gulch to check out a camping spot & the lady slippers. 

(Previous year's lady slipper in bloom) - No good camping
spot in the Gulch for our camper & the slippers weren't blooming.

* Fri 10th - Went fishing out at the lake, Kevin caught 3 fish, I caught one, Kevin turned the gas heat off for the summer, I had turned off the baseboards last week.

Week 24

* Weekend 11th & 12th - Went camping up at the pond, did some cooking, reading, riding & walking, not as much walking now that it's snake season, Coworker had almost stepped on a rattlesnake during the week that was at the bottom of her steps, had a couple thunderstorms that produced hail, there was a tornado watch.

Found several areas to walk with
thinner shorter grass.

Seems one of our favorite camping
activities is eating.

                  

Rose seems to enjoying camping & exploring just
as much as we do, she often sniffs the flowers.

Happy Birthday to Grand Gracie.

* Mon 13th - Prepared for tornado weather, Kevin unhooked from the camper, we put all vehicles in the garage, I brought in the deck chairs, glad the storm missed us, halleluiah.

* Tues 14th - Made a pie for supper, tuna pie that is, have another shell to make a tomato pie when the matoes are ready in the garden.

* Wed 15th - Worked more hours covering for  Coworker having an allergic reaction to something, chilly & windy evening, did some reading & watching episodes of The is Us. 

* Thurs 16th - Got groceries & gas, gas was $5.539, cooked eggs & tators to make tator salad for weekend camping.

* Fri 17th - Finalized the camping menu, filled the water jugs, made ice blocks to put in the drinking water, did a little weed eating around the office, felt like my arms were going to fall off.

Week 25

* Weekend 18th, 19th & 20th - Went camping over in the buttes, the sunshine was hot, the clouds & rain were cold, made a sloppy joe shepard's pie with leftover sloppy joe mix.

* Tues 21st - Cleaned the bathroom, did some laundry, vacuumed, prepped for Grand's visit.

* Wed 22nd - Facetimed with Moma & Sister about our August Luau, cooked a pork roast in the crock pot, met Friends out at the lake for fishing, swimming & picnicking, Kevin & I had pulled pork sandwiches along with leftover tator salad from the weekend, Friends made smores & mountain pie sandwiches.

* Thurs 23rd - Went to Summer in the Streets, the clinic hosted the food for customer appreciation, we got hamburger plates with the extra root beer floats that were available.

* Fri 24th - Went grocery shopping up the road, got a carload.

Week 26

* Sat 25th - Spot cleaned the carpet here & there, wiped & dusted out my car, spot cleaned the seats, organized food for the Grands, Friend brought over firewood since they are moving & we're planning a hotdog roast a couple days after the 4th.

* Sun 26th - Stopped in Cabalas to get Kevin a pair of work shoes, picked up the Grands at the airport, went to the city park, ate the lunch I packed, toured the historic fish hatchery & feed the fish, too cold for tubing, got blizzards, a smoothie & a milkshake at DQ on the drive home.

Who knew feeding the fish at this age would be so much fun,
along with listening to each other's ringtones on our cell phones.

* Mon 27th - Basketball & wiffle ball for the Grands, Circus after supper, there was cotton candy, candy bars & snow cones, Kevin mowed, showers, popcorn & episodes of Camp Cretaceous before going to bed.

* Tues 28th - Grands up early for Strength & Agility at the gym, there was a selfie photo scavenger hunt, played a couple rounds of Boom Boom Balloon, baseball after supper, watched Hustle on Netflix.

* Wed 29th - Lake Day - swimming, fishing & a picnic, found some cactus in bloom, a thunderstorm came through, we sat in the car & waited for it to pass, there were several drops of rain.

* Thurs 30th - Grands up early for Strength & Agility, basketball in the evening, they had friends spend the night, tacos for supper.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?

 

Blooms & other May Happenings 2022

Happy Birthday to Moma.
She's wearing the shirt I sent her.

Hello there Adventurous Friends, greetings from South Dakoka.  How you doing?  March gave us some much needed rain & moisture.  Lots of mowing the grass going on.  The smell of fresh cut grass is one of my favorite smells. This is Sentence a Day where I join others & write a little something about each of my days, wrote in one long drawn out sentence or 2. 

Celebrating the 1st - Got a lot of decluttering done, ordered supplies to organize pictures, got some much-needed moisture for the area having rain & snow.

* Mon 2nd - Club roadside trash pickup canceled due to snowdrifts in the ditches & possible slippery slopes, went to Club meeting, got fundraiser Happy Day Award tickets to sell, meal at #3, got a BLT & tator tots.

* Tues 3rd - The circus is coming to town, full vacation time back on, got plane tickets to visit family in NC & take Grands home after their visit, made a few activity plans with Daughter - amusement park, picnic & tubing at the creek, ordered a snow cone making machine & supplies, had it sent to Sister.

* Wed 4th - Started working in one of the other offices, will be there till someone is hired, sad drive seeing cows & calves that didn't make it through the blizzard, Kevin grilled a couple of the fish we caught over the weekend, yum, froze the others.

* Thurs 5th - Full day of work going back & forth between offices, dropped off the water bill before work, put gas in the car during lunch break, station under new management as a ranch supply place, there was lots of different colors of roping ropes, got a snack, too tired to get groceries after work.

* Fri 6th - No long johns & a short-sleeved shirt, 1st hot day of the year, got groceries, planned & packed for camping, 

Week 19

Saw lots of turkeys.

* Weekend 7th & 8th - Put together Grand's birthday box, 2 birthdays coming up in June, went camping up at the pond, forgot the coats for riding, Kevin had some shirts & a rain coat that we made do, a wheel bearing went out on one of the camper tires on the way home. 

Found a couple bunches of bluebells blooming.

Having my morning coffee while walking around the pond, watching the ducks,
green grass everywhere, seeing several patches of snow, listening to the frogs croak,
found the remains of a goose nest, eggshells, feathers & all.

Ham, egg, veggie &
cheese breakfast rollup.

* Mon 9th - Cooked up the 1st bunch of asparagus from out of the garden this season, looked up recipes with more protein & less sugar, got to eat healthier for our health, Kevin's high sugar, my thyroid, cholesterol & weight.  

* Tues 10th - Tried a new recipe for a breakfast rollup, it was a hit & fun cooking with Kevin, we talked about different ingredients to put in it next time, I ate one & had the other for morning snack, vacuumed, not been in the cleaning mood & it showed, helped put up the stage for graduation.

* Wed 11th - Early morning rain showers, decorated for customer appreciation activities, got my shingles booster, stopped in to look at the flowers in the greenhouse while waiting for appointment time, joined several diabetic recipe groups to get ideas for healthier eating, lights out at 9ish.

I like the purple 
cattails.

* Thurs 12th - Rained about all day, customer appreciation day at the office went good, didn't have a sherbet float, didn't have a craving for it, so proud of my will power, got groceries, walked home in the rain, declined 2 ride offers, read ideas for healthier eating meal plans using the plate method. 

* Fri 13th - Found a recipe for roasted veggies with a new to me spice to try - Old Bay, stopped in the grocery store again for more veggies & they didn't have the spice, wrote it on the Walmart list, put gas in car, $4.699 a gallon, worked in the garden.

Rose & my job was to fill the buckets with fertilizer
(seasoned cow manure), Kevin turned it into the
dirt with the tractor.

Do you see the hole in the rock?

Week 20

* Weekend 14th & 15th - A perfect weekend for camping up in the hills under the big pines & trail riding, not to hot, not to cold, a little windy that rocked the camper like riding in an airplane, Kevin had got parts & fixed the camper wheel during the week, still no breaks for some reason so that's still a work in progress, forget the mess kit for cooking lunch out on the trail, pb&j sandwiches made do, forget the dish rag to wash the dishes, paper towels made do.

A beautiful blue sky on Sunday, lots of
dandelions in bloom. 

Saw lots of wildlife - deer, antelope turkeys,
 2 porcupines, a grouse & a snake, found
a goose egg, a roll of tape & a golf ball.

Still drifts of snow here & there, Kevin
wanted to take my picture, I told him 
that I was too clumsy, low & behold, my
 shoe rolled on a rock & I fell while
walking to get around it, gracious.

* Mon 16th - Seemed to have more energy after a week of less sugar & carbs, hope it continues, made an egg & sausage bake to have for breakfast for several days, made a protein bar, worked on freezing & packaging the applesauce we made over the weekend, went to Club meeting, turned in my 2 packs of Happy Day Award tickets, now to help Kevin get his pack sold, meal at #3, got nacho tots, ate 1/2 & saved the other 1/2 for lunch.

Protein Bar - the way I made mine, recipe shared from Coworker

- 2 cups peanut butter

- 1 cup honey

- 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Mix ingredients, heating over medium/low heat, then add

- 2 cups of oatmeal or rice crispys ( I used oatmeal, Coworker said she used rice crispys)

Spread in greased 9X13 dish

Sprinkle with 

- handful of chocolate chips

Let chips melt a few minutes & spread to cover a thin layer on top of the bar.

Put in refrigerator to set.

 

* Tues 17th - Made 2 lunches out of the leftover tots, added salad fixings along with a piece of the protein bar, ordered net fencing to keep the deer out of the garden, Walmart order of jellos & puddings sitting in MO unable to be delivered & damaged.

Bomgaars moving all their plants 
inside getting prepared for the 
weekend freeze forecasted.

* Wed 18th - Went with Kevin to the dermatologist, stopped in Bomgaars, got 4 tomato plants in gallon containers, trying bigger size plant starts for our short growing season, shopped at Safeway, a new to us grocery store, ate at Culvers for supper, got ice cream at DQ, Kevin tried their new fruity blast dipped cone, I got my regular hot fudge sundae.

* Thurs 19th - Saw a baby antelope on the drive home from work, stopped in the grocery store, Rose needed dog food, got the photo storage/organizer box ready to start putting pictures in, still waiting on the label maker.

* Fri 20th - Relaxed & did some reading.

Week 21

* Sat 21st - Club hosted bingo night, won $3.50 & a tomato plant, kept up with the card counts, Kevin was the number caller, emptied the coffee pot & helped clean up.

* Sun 22st - Had a good day of fishing, walking & a picnic.

There was still a little snow
around the lake here & there.

Chicken salad on crackers
for lunch.

* Mon 23rd - Helped Kevin gather posts to build a fence around the garden to keep the deer out, 1 post by it's self seemed lightweight, I could barely carry 3 posts together, got sore places on my arms where the posts laid.

* Tues 24th - Got a down pour of rain just as I was coming home from work, ordered magazine subscriptions to take camping, Women's World for me, Backwoods Home for Kevin, Kevin cooked fish for supper then I helped him put in the posts for the garden fence.

* Wed 25th - Tried an avocado for the 1st time, didn't care for it, made avocado toast with an egg for breakfast, helped Kevin put netting fence to the posts, watched yellow finches came to the dandelions in the yard while Kevin went to the hardware store to get ribbon to mark the fence.

* Thurs 26th - Finalized the camping menu, made a shopping list, packed some things in the camper, renewed subscription to the newspaper, the station ordered tires for my car, helped Kevin finish the fence & plant tomato plants.

* Fri 27th - Got groceries, went to the greenhouse with Kevin, I chose red, white & blue flowers, he got pepper, cabbage & tomato plants, planted the plants as soon as we got back home.

Week 22

* Weekend 28th, 29th & 30th - Went camping up at the pond, it rained off & on, we still had a good time, went riding, walking, cooking, reading & watching DVDs of Dainel Boone & The Brady Bunch, didn't forget anything other than Kevin saying he forget to get the leaf blower to blow the dust off the side by side, it rained so didn't need it, Rose got the 1st tick of the season on her leg, Kevin said his favorite thing was the hamburgers, my favorite thing was walking to explore & seeing what flowers were in bloom, grateful & thankful for those who severed so we have freedoms to enjoy the things we want to do this Memorial Day.

28th National Hamburger Day.

We had popcorn & hot chocolate sitting
by the campfire.

Do you see the fairy ring? 

* Tues 31st - Got a surprise during 1st morning walk with Rose, the wild iris had blooms, yay, thought they weren't going to bloom this year, put away picture organizing stuff till next winter, time to finalize activities & menus for Grand's summer visits, met with Club to get Happy Day tickets ready for the drawings.

These are some of the things that's been going on in my neck of the woods, how about you?