The Hopeful Homestead

bits and peices...

Little Homestead things I'm up to these days...

I'm crocheting dishcloths.  We needed some new ones, and I found a new pattern I liked in Mary Jane's  Ideabook, Cookbook, Lifebook, only I started with 30, not 20 stitches.  DH likes them bigger, so OK.

Fall baking.  Pumpkin & apple everything!  This weekend I''ll be making a big batch of mini pumpkin muffins for church.  And some banana bread. mmmmm...  It makes the house smell SO good.

There's a greenhouse in my greenhouse!  DH got my new 4 x 6 greenhouse assembled and we'll be setting it in place out by my clothesline in the next few days.  A much more manageable size than the 20 x 60 greenhouse we're converting to a shop.  Then I'll get some lettuce & spinach planted.

I sat and mended Tuesday afternoon, and got all those little things done I'd been putting off.  A button here, a stuffed toy there.  Now that pile is gone. 

I also mailed all the letters our girls had written to all their cousins, so there's another pile gone.

My pantry got cleaned the other day after we found creepy crawlies in some bags of beans & rice.  I'll be getting some glass canisters to keep this from happening again.  I hated having to throw out groceries. 

We're really facing up to our finances this month with a renewed commitment to our budget.  (gulp)  The biggest thing we've noticed is that we didn't have a category for "animals" so all of our feed costs were "unexpectedly" eating our grocery budget.  We'll be fixing that!

We're cooking from our menu again!  We've gone a week only eating out once (the girls and I grabbed lunch when we were at church longer than expected last Sat.)  Last night I was tempted by Chinese, but DH did the grocery shopping while I was at Choir practice, and got stuff for Make Your Own Subs so we came home and did that instead.  YEAH!! (yep.  He's great for grocery shopping!- plus we saved gas by only going out ONCE this week.)

Just little things, but they really do add up.  Peace~

Shari

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10:44, Thursday, October 9, 2008 .. Posted by Isabella

I am glad you have a bargain shopper for a husband. My dh goes and buys our meat. Every third month (about) dh will check the sales paper and go purchase the meat. I

Yeah...

09:27, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 .. Posted by HopefulHeart77

Yeah....I think we are all taking stock of our budgets and trimming the fat. It just makes sense. I got myself a sewing machine. I think I will take up quilting. I have only made one quilt many years ago. I sewed a few things about 15 years ago so I am practically a beginner, starting from scratch. I am looking forward to the challenge though. Good to see ya blogging over here.