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a couple of blogs I have been enjoying latelyI have been reading some new blogs lately (new to me, anyway). I have gotten some good information from them. The first one is DeNice at www.organizedhomemakingforchrist.blogspot.com. She shares some neat videos. One is a tour of her home with some cleaning tips and then a weeks worth of days in the kitchen with recipes. I want to try the baked oatmeal, it sounds so good. She is also doing a bloggy give away right now so go visit her blog soon. Some other nice blogs are http://www.pennypinchinmomma.blogspot.com. She gives lots of nice ideas about cutting costs. www.givingbacktohim.blogspot.com gives alot of good kroger deal info. and cupon links. Then one I just discovered today is www.tightwadtess.blogspot.com. She gives lots of good money saving links and videos on how to cook depression style, give home haircuts, etc. hope you enjoy The List For the past few days, I have realized just how lax I have been in my daily duties.... It first began when I was on Facebook the other night and a friend of mine and I were discussing some unfinished crafts that we both have. When I realized I have a dress of Cameo's on my sewing desk that only needed one button sewed back on and the dress has been sitting there for 3 weeks, I knew there was a problem! So there's one... Then I was on the phone with my Sister and she asked me when I cleaned my house... Well, honestly, I haven't really 'cleaned' in a while. I have tidied and got by, but the house really needs to be cleaned. And third, a dear, dear friend Lindsey came by yesterday and we strolled through the yard and garden and I was completely embarrassed by how let go my garden has been... So I have to do better! I have to! So I have began my list... -Clean bathrooms -Hoe and water garden this evening -Get cages for 4 of my tomato plants and stake them -Clean front porch and back deck -Clean and move aquarium to girls room -Mop floors tonight after everyone is asleep That is a bit of what I need to do and there is MUCH more I am sure... But I figure it will get done throughout the weekend. Besides, if you can't enjoy things and have fun sometimes... what a dull life we would lead. Blessings, to you friends. May your Friday be wonderful! :) Shop updateThis little cutie is up in the shop this morning.Hopefully it will make someone smile... it's so sweet and cheery, I can't help but smile... :)  Hopefully more to come later this evening or this weekend. :)
Prayers This is Abram and Gran Gran.Gran Gran is Shannon's grandmother. A couple of weeks ago she was diagnosed with lung cancer, it was heart wrenching for all of us because Gran Gran is amazing... she runs around with the enthusiasm of a young person and for her to feel bad is just not normal. She is now in chemo and radiation, and doing pretty well with both. I ask you to keep her and all of our family in your prayers. I love this dear lady with all my heart and I certainly want to have many, many more years with her. I still have a lot to learn from her yet... like how to make chicken and dumplins. :) Loving on DaddyFor Father's Day we try and celebrate the weekend...We went to a cookout on Friday.  The kids showed off their mad skills with some action shots. Our new little swimmer WITHOUT floaties, Carlie Jean! No hesitation about jumping right in.And if Carlie Jean can swim without floaties, then Abram has to be right behind... says he! My dearest working with our youngest.... swoon.  Another cookout on Saturday... and Saturday evening a little R&R for the Daddy of the year! And then surrounded by his best gifts ever! I hope you loved on the Daddy's in your life also.
The girls...    Many thanks to Aunt Ticky for the totally cute birthday dresses. :)
Rick Stein, the Durrells, and the Island of CorfuI have been enjoying watching Rick Stein's Mediterranean tour on Saturday nights. I looked at buying his book a couple of weeks ago, but it's close to $70, so I think I'll have to be content with the tv programme, and what I learn from that. On the current show, he is doing a tour of Mediterranean countries and discovering each country's unique style of cooking. I particularly wanted to see the episode this last Saturday as he was visiting the Greek Island of Corfu, and it just so happens that I am re-reading, for the trillionth time, one of my favourite books by Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals.  I think what I love about this book is the mix of eccentricity in the Durrell family, the beautiful descriptions of the Corfu landscape and people, and the descriptive, interesting stories of the buglife and animal life Gerald encounters on Corfu. As we are in the grip of winter, I love reading some of it outloud to my husband about the searing, lazy heat of Corfu, the shady olive trees, and the cicadas and the sleeping Greeks and the warm, blue, still sea that surrounds the island.
I laugh out loud at stories of his funny family. His widowed mother and her 4 children, Larry, Lesley, Margo and Gerrry. They are all unique, hillarious and I love the way Mrs. Durrell encouraged with reckless abandon, Gerry's love of natural history, to the peril of all family members; like when his brother Larry opened a matchbox expecting to find matches and found a family of mother and baby scorpions instead, and the chaos that ensued as they scattered all over the family dining table. So on Rick Stein's tour of Corfu, I was interested to watch and relive parts of the book. He showed us the Durrell house and the beach where they took family picnics. Probably the beach where the family held a celebration meal in honour of mother's new bathing suit, with disastrous results. It looked as though the tall Cyprus trees that are depicted in the paintings of my book are still prevalent on the island too. And Rick Stein lunched with a Greek family on a little farmlet, and the table looked delightfully inviting and mouth-watering. You could almost feel the heat and hear the stillness of the summer afternoon with the shady trees and the green grass giving relief to the heat of the day. And I learned how to make a white sauce properly and tried it out last night on my family with a perfect outcome. As Rick Stein said, white sauce (in chef-world, I guess), is hot with debate, because some think you should add hot milk and some think you should add cold milk. He (and I) add cold milk slowly, stirring all the time. He said white sauce should be the consistency of cream, which means getting your quantities of flour just perfect. A couple of years ago Rick Stein did a tour of France as well, travelling down a river on a canal boat. I loved this series also.  What I like about Rick Stein is that he isn't a celebrity chef in the traditional sense. He started out with real restaurants all over England, and made a couple of tv programmes out of his great passion for English and European food. For some reason he is extremely popular with us down-under-ites. He travelled alot with his little terrier Chalky (I remember once where he smuggled the little dog into a flash hotel), and maybe this endeared him to us - he wasn't too high-faluting, but fairly down-to-earth. I did enjoy this last episode with one of my favourite family's (the Durrells), and one of my favourite "celebrity" chefs. Nothing better than the mix of good food, and good literature! Before and during picsFor those of you who have been asking and commenting about my weight loss thanks. It is certainly a battle.So today I thought I would be brave and show you some pics of my face... I am not brave enough to show you full body yet. haha. So here is before I began.   I can see a bit of difference. I thought you might enjoy seeing me too... Hello friends. :) Have a wonderful Father's Day weekend. Love on those husband's and Daddy's a bunch. xoxo Pink and Blue... Not much today... Hoping this cheery shade of pink will chase off some serious shades of blue hitting me right now. My first cabbage This may not look like much to you... but it is a thrill to me. :)I see some yummy sauerkraut in our future. { Last Page } { Page 2 of 5 } { Next Page } |
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