I think it’s day 5. Guess that’s about right. We’ve picked squash four times. So far that’s been 31 squash we’ve picked. We borrowed my mother in law’s pressure canner, and I canned five quarts of squash today. That’s not counting what we’ve eaten and […]
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Recently Stephen got a new PDA for work and gave me his old one. We had talked about getting me one before that, but I was hesitant to buy one in case I didn’t like it or it wasn’t useful for me as a homemaker.
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Oh wow, am I ever happy. Our washer was delivered tonight. It is working again. We’re washing a load of laundry in it right now. We ended up calling a man from our church to fix it. We figured we’d rather pay a brother in
I don’t know how people who use laundromats do it and still stay on top of everything else! Wow. The boys and I went over to Stephen’s mom’s house on Tuesday to do some laundry, and went to a friend’s house yesterday (thanks, H!). I
My washer just started making a funny noise. I had just put a load in to wash, it filled up, and then started making a horrible noise instead of agitating like it should. We had talked about using part of the stimulus payment to buy
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I got the BEST green peppers at Aldi this week. They were absolutely huge, sweet, and crunchy. Yum. They were cheap too. I chopped some up on Wednesday for our salads, and chopped extra so they’d be ready later. I’m so glad I did. A
This is what I’ll be doing all day. . . I have a ton of laundry to do today. Yes, there’s the usual clothes, but I’m doing a bunch of towels and sheets today too. I’m behind on washing those so today I’m trying to
You know, I learned something today. Multitasking can be a bad thing sometimes. Oh – and maybe I need to add a new category called “Kitchen Adventures” for things that happen around here, like this. . . And like setting a glass saucepan full of
This morning I made some bread, since both my husband and son were asking for some. It’s been probably two weeks since I’ve made any – we really do not eat a lot of bread anymore. Since we haven’t been eating a lot of bread
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I was just writing an email to a friend, and mentioned my to-do list for today. Work on a website for my pastor’s wife (I’ll post a link where when it’s finished – it’s been a major project but a real blessing to be able
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