Living the Simple Life

Friday Afternoon November 8, 2008

Good Afternoon, it is a windy chilly fall day here in IL, I do believe that our lovely warm weather has left us for good this time. It hasn’t gotten chilly enough in the house to light a fire yet but I will start up the corn stoves and I just might light a fire in the fire place this afternoon.

 We have been pretty busy around here this week, trying to get outside chores done before cold weather got here. My husband Jeff took a couple of days off from work to get my green house wired and to get the heating units installed out there along with some lights. I have never had a green house before and I am looking forward to hopefully having some fresh produce this winter, keep your fingers crossed for me. Everything is all up and running and I even have some seedlings and plants moved from the house out there already. So far I have planted lettuce, spinach, radishes, carrots in a raised bed, and have tomatoes, green pepper, broccoli and cauliflower plants we started in the house going out there.

I am planning on spending the rest of the afternoon in the kitchen, I have bread dough rising and I am going to work up a batch of  Pumpkin cookies so there will be a snack on hand for this weekend, here is the recipe I use;

Pumpkin Cookies

1 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1 cup canned pumpkin

1 egg

1t vanilla

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour

1t baking soda

1t baking powder

2t cinnamon

¼ t salt

Frosting

3T butter

½ cup brown

¼ cup milk

1 ½ to 2 cups powder sugar 

Cream the butter, cane juice crystals and sugar together mixing well.  Add the pumpkin, egg and vanilla.  Mix until well combined.  Add the remaining ingredients Drop by tablespoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet.

Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes.  Let cool completely and frost.

Have a great Friday and enjoy the weekend!

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. -- Spencer W. Kimball, 1976

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01:37, Friday, November 7, 2008 .. Posted by heritagehill

Glad you are going to be able to use your greenhouse this winter. We have a small one, but have not figured out how to heat it without costing a bunch. In the spring we use electric heaters, but would take much more than that to keep it warm in the winter.
Marilyn

In Alabama

02:12, Friday, November 7, 2008 .. Posted by HopefulHeart77

In Alabama, it is rainy and chilly, but not cold. Last week we had freezing temperatures three nights in a row then it warmed back up. The farmers lost any fall crops like beans, that were not harvested yet. One farmer friend said the butterbeans on the bushes were black. I am really glad you have a greenhouse. I would like to have one someday. :) Right now, outside, I have lettuce, carrots, garlic, cabbage,onions,collards, radish and various herbs. Depending on the weather they should last awhile.