Happy Palm Sunday to all. Hope each and everyone has had a good and safe week and that this finds you well.
It is a very frosty morning here. The sun is finally out, but it is cold and frosty. I tell you what, I have the chilly rain blues! It has been chilly, wet and gloomy for most of the week. Makes me just not want to do anything. UGH! This coming week is going to be much warmer, but we still have a lot of rain and April showers predicted for much of the week.
It is amazing to me just how beautiful the forsythia and daffodils still are. Just gorgeous. Things are really coming to life. I even saw my first groundhog of the year the other day. Good grief after trapping and removing so many last year you wouldn't think there would still be any around the area.
- On a warmer couple days I did get out and pick up lots of sticks and did some yard clean-up
- Cut the front grass
- Made some soup using a package I was gifted of soup mix and added dried veggies and more goodies to it
- Changed out the bedding from winter to summer things
- Froze 2 containers of soup
- Got to air the house a couple days
- Got a $39 check from insurance for some class action suit - no idea what - but I will take it
- Did more deep cleaning
- Ran to Kroger to check cat food (and get out of house). I got 120 cans of food. YAY - won't last all that long - but you get it when you can! I also got some milk and fruit. The store was well stocked.
- I topped off the gas tank - only need about $15 worth. Gas has gone down almost .40/gallon here
- Just doing all the normal stuff
Meals this past week:
Pork and fried hominy over bread and fresh veggies
Broccoli/cheese soup with added veggies and crackers
Baked potato topped with broc./cheese soup
Pasta pizza skillet - 2X & salad
Tuna patty sandwich and salad
Chili/cheese fries and hotdogs
SNACKS: toast & jelly, popcorn, fruit and fruit smoothies
How was your week? I hope you all had a good one. Any deals? Any outdoor work? What is up in your area?
Prayers that your upcoming week is safe, healthy and prudent.
Blessings from my humble little home to you and yours.
Pray then like this:
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name,
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
And forgive us our debts,
As we also have forgiven our debtors;
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
Matthew 6:9-13
AMEN!!!!
Good Sunday morning, Cheryl! Damp, chilly weather does have a kind of banana-slug effect, doesn't it? But it sounds like you were still productive.
ReplyDeleteThis week we moved from the hotel into our son's house. Our own house was brought in two halves to our acre and placed on the foundation Friday; it will be set in the coming week. Maybe move in by May? Fingers crossed and saying prayers as--at 60--I need my routines and have been without them too long.
I did manage a few homecooked meals once here: beef tri tip roast with potatoes and carrots and the leftovers became a nice pot of beef stew.
Have a blessed week. --Elise
You have been on my mind so much. Been wondering how it all was going. Glad to hear the house is there and it won't be long now!!!!
DeleteEnjoy you time with your son. So happy you are all in the same locale.
Have a great week.
I'd easily amuse people getting adjusted to piney wood, mountain life. Our son's house has only a pellet stove for heat and we ran it a little too hot last night, with the little house reaching 84 degrees! It felt a little like beach weather, though it was in the 30s outside. LOL!
DeleteLOL - at least you were warm! It will take some getting used to I am sure.
DeleteA coule of weeks ago I got a check from a class action suit that I also did not recognize, and someone else mentioned that also. I certainly do register for them when they apply to me, but maybe we also get put in automatically when they have our address??????
ReplyDeleteI have no idea. I sure don't remember applying for anything - so maybe the company did it. Free money - I will take it.
DeleteGlad you got extra funds as well!
Have a lovely week!
Cheryl, we received the same check you did. It was an "opt-out" type of class action. If I recall correctly, it had to do with using non-OEM crash parts on cars insured from the late '80s through the late '90s. More info here: https://www.halevstatefarmclassaction.com/Home/FAQ
DeleteThanks - I will check it out!
DeleteVery, very cold here today. I need to clean inside of car as RAC are coming tomorrow afternoon to install a new passenger airbag. A recall by Nissan. i believe
ReplyDeleteGot good chicken deals yesterday in our local shop. Sometimes you can get good deals there.
Have a nice week. Sylvia
We are at the beginning of a small warm up here. Sorry it is so cold for you. Stay warm while cleaning.
DeleteYay, on chicken deals. What a blessing.
Have a good week.
Good morning! It's been super rainy and cold and just yucky this week here as well. March and April are my least favorite months of the year, so I'm getting excited that we're almost halfway done with April!
ReplyDeleteI'm actually getting out of the house to do some volunteer work at my synagogue today, so I'm looking forward to that. Maybe going for a walk when I get home, if there's still time. :) Have a great week, everyone! :)
I know April showers brings May flowers - man, we sure better get a lot of flowers!!!!
DeleteHow nice - enjoy your time away today and I hope you get a walk in.
Have a lovely week.
Good morning to you too, Cheryl. Sounds like yucky weather your way. I guess this is dogwood winter here as it’s cold this morning here at 28 degrees. That groundhog needs to get gone, doesn’t he? LOL your meals sound delicious. I hope you have a great week with better weather.
ReplyDeleteYes, he needs to get caught pretty darn soon!
DeleteDogwood winter for sure. Mornings have been cold. I am looking forward to better temps (at least) this week!
Have a good one.
Here's hoping the weather improves for you shortly. We had a lovely week here for this time of year but we're back into cooler weather after today for about a week. I want to spend some time cleaning up the front patio today, assuming the remainder of the ice melts. If not that will wait.
ReplyDeleteNice to get some unexpected money. It would help with the purchase of all that cat food! How many cats do you feed? Are they all feral?
Amazing that there is still ice in your part of the world. Hope it melts soon.
DeleteLOL - I feed 4. 3 outdoor and 1 indoors. All pets - non feral. They may have started that way - but all are calm and loving now. I have rescued all my cats over the years from just showing up at my door!
Have a nice week.
Another week passed. Again, a few things crossed off the to-do list, i.e. vacuum and declutter the basement. Highlights of the week - a haircut and a massage. I'm always amazed at what the massage therapist can find to work on. I got to watch the neighbor's 10 month old who makes strange the minute her mother's out of sight; nothing to do but trust this stage will pass. I put my cookie decorating skills (?) into practice on Easter sugar cookies, amateur but fun. Remember the old Kraft What's Cooking magazines? I pull them out seasonally for inspiration. Found the zesty shrimp pasta recipe. Delicious. I'm thinking of cheesy cauliflower soup this morning. have a good week, Cheryl.
ReplyDeleteGlad things are crossing off the list. A haircut is in order here too. I have never had a professional massage. May need to add that to a fun to do list!
DeleteGood for you on decorating. Those old cookbooks always had the best ideas. Easy and fun.
Kids seem to wait for parents to leave/come home and then behave differently!!!
Have a great week.
Glad you found all that cat food! Do you take D3? It really helps with the winter blahs and I would not be without it.
ReplyDeleteIt is what we call Dogwood winter here this weekend and we still have blackberry winter to go and then we will be in the clear. I covered my lettuce two nights this weekend. Hopefully it is okay.
I sure do. Vit. C, D3, zink and multi - not to mention whatever else I think of!!!
DeleteOh I guess winter will be over when it is ready. I keep forgetting it is still April - and it does this most every year.
Hope your lettuce survives. Usually pretty hardy.
Have a great one.
Someone is going to need to explain all these winters to me! I grew up in Cali. We didn't have any winter. Our seasons were Hot, Hotter, Fire, and Flood lol.
DeleteLOL - that is funny. Usually means that once these things bloom - you are SURE to have more snows. Same with forsythia - I think it is 3 snows after blooming. May not be big snows - just snow!
DeleteI will take ours over yours!!!!!
I thought you might be from the UK until I saw that you shop at Kroger. I'm also buying up cat food when I find it. I have two fussy cats so that makes it harder. I've had good luck at Wally World but they won't eat Aldis. Have a wonderful day and the sun is here in Indiana!
ReplyDeleteI am in central IN. My cats won't eat the Aldi brand either - never have. I try something new and different (flavor) every now and then to get them used to different stuff. They pretty much like what they like!!!! You got to get it when you can.
DeleteI was out working a lot this morning - yes, it is lovely today.
Have a good week.
Plenty of cold, dreary, blustery weather this week. Had sleet yesterday. I have so much to do outside and am not getting much of it done.
ReplyDeleteMonday I defrosted, inventoried and rearranged the freezer.
Tuesday was in the 50s and cloudy (and not raining, for a change), so I took a long trail walk in the morning, worked out my legs with leg weights with Husband, dug out the rest of the old outdoor exercise pad, and assembled my new electric chainsaw and tested it by cutting some small trees and limbs in the back of my lot. Got into the poison ivy, but fortunately it is confined to my left arm. If it ever stops raining long enough to dry out, I need to clear a lot of little trees out back. I don't have even onions planted yet and am at least 3 weeks behind on the garden.
Thursday I removed and washed the refrigerator shelves. It didn't get done last year due to my broken wrist, and it really needed it. I'll have to do the door and freezer compartment another time.
Friday was my monthly prune juice run to Walmart, got gas in the car ($3.99/gal at Costco), and a few things at Aldi.
This week I assembled 17 pieced fleece blankets for PL. Worked on Family Search indexing most afternoons. Finished reading "Oliver Twist" and am about half through "David Copperfield".
Today I baked an apple crisp with Granny Smith apples from the Tuesday food box. For supper, I am making a potato/hamburger/broccoli casserole. We'd received some 90/10 and some 70/30 hamburger, so I will fry them up together to make them palatable.
Husband has his optometrist appt. this week with a new dr. He's all worried that she won't be good. I'm having a plumber come fix the drain under the kitchen sink the following week. It's been leaking forever and is such a hodgepodge of various types of pipes that I want it done right for once and for all.
Well, I need to start supper, better get going!
I hear you on not getting much done outside. I did get a little done this AM in sun, but the wind started again - that makes it tough.
DeleteYou got a lot done this week. Great for you. Your casserole sounds very tasty.
I need to get a small chainsaw - that would help with little projects.
You sure do keep busy - ad love all the blankets you have done. What a wonderful gift.
Have a great week - hope you get some warmer weather!!!
Wow, you did good on the cat food! Buy it while you can.
ReplyDeleteI got up Friday to snow on the roofs. Hopefully we are past the really cold stuff. Aired the house out a bit today. Worked on pulling weeds around the rhubarb plants. Got out the packages of flower seeds to figure out what can go where. The Farmer has covered the beds where things are planted so keep the dastardly squirrel out.
Found honest-to-goodness saltines last week at Walmart. They had Nabisco and Zesta both.
Looks like a rainy and stormy few days this week.
I did - and yes, you get it when you can. I left plenty too!
DeleteI haven't thought of planting a thing. You are ahead of the game.
Glad you found the saltines. I have been eating on Kroger brand for quite a while - they are very good.
Yes, more rain - yay! (not)
Have a good week.
It didn't come back! My whole post from yesterday disappeared and I was hoping it was just delayed. Nope.
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll keep it brief. Sent out a package today to my best bud that needs some cheering up. Everything in the box was yellow and I printed out a Pinterest thing about a box of sunshine. It turned out pretty cute.
I'm still working on birthday gift that will be shipped by Saturday morning. It will!
I'm reading...
On my nightstand - Dead Heat by Dick Francis
In my CD- just finished Stephanie Plum #27 by Janet Evanovich
In my Bible study - Created to be his Help Meet by Debi Pearl
By my reading chair - Amish Peace by Suzanne Woods Fisher... this is such a great book that I want to add it to my collection. So many good lessons and things to reflect on in this nutty world we live in!!
Sorry you lost your post - not sure why that happens.
DeleteYour yellow 'gift' sounds neat. Someone on FB the other day was having a bad day and asked for something to make them smile. I sent a picture of my forsythia and said sunshine growing!
Sounds like some good reading and listening.
Have a good week.
I swear I don't read all day! I read a chapter at a time at night and the rest in fits and starts. My best friend calls me every weekday à t the same time so I do my Bible study in the half hour or so before she calls. When I finish, I'll read that book until she calls. My CD is during crafting/gifting time. And my reading chair is usually while dinner is in the oven until hubs gets home. The Amish Peace book is PERFECT for this because there are mini chapter stories.
ReplyDeleteLOL - never thought you did. How neat you and your friend connect every day! Sounds like a neat system to me.
DeleteCheryl, instead of a chainsaw you might consider a Sawzall tool. We love ours! Several neighbors have also bought them after seeing how easily they cut branches, even big ones!
ReplyDeleteThanks - I do have one of those and it seems to beat me to death! LOL
DeleteI have seen a min version of a chainsaw that I have thought about and it has an extension arm as well for higher objects. Something I will contemplate!
Sounds like a nice week. I went to get cat food and they were out. It is hard to get some things here. Our gas is now below $4 a gallon and dropping.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard to find cat food here as well. Most places do not have much, so when you find it, you get a lot! I did leave a lot on the shelves.
DeleteOur gas is below $4 as well - thank goodness. It had gotten close to 4.50 for a while.
Last week I was pretty productive. I usually watch my grandson for a few days a week but they went out of town for the week so I had the whole week to get stuff done!
ReplyDeleteI started my seedlings and finished organizing my garden supplies.
I cut out some patterns but ran out of time to do any sewing. Hopefully, this week.
I reorganized my food supply. I labeled all my 5 gallon buckets with contents (I'm getting too many to remember what's in them!)
I took my mom out for half a day to go thrifting and visit the cemetery where my brother is laid to rest.
I cleaned up those stacks and stuff I always tell myself I need to do but never seem to get to!
I made cookies for Sunday lunch. These were so good! I found the recipe at Averie Cooks. They're called Vanilla Melting Moments Sandwich Cookies with Nutella-Cream Cheese Filling. Pretty easy. They were a big hit.
Most days were dreary & cold. Even had sleet one day.
I found a variety of meats on clearance so husband had a nice variety of meals last week and he said he really enjoyed it! (He eats meat and I don't.)
Last fall I had 3 or 4 geraniums out by my front door. They were so pretty I was sad I'd lose them to the cold weather. So I replanted them into one big pot in October and put it by a window near the baseboard heat. It held its own. Some time in December our cat ate a lot of the leaves! But both survived! There been enough sunny days over the last month that it has grown and leafed out pretty good.
Well, now I am quite tired and it is early morning here! LOL
DeleteYou sure did get a lot done, what a productive week. Oh my, just the name of those cookies sounds yummy.
Great find on clearance meats - that is such a huge plus now days!
Kitties - they sure like to get into things! I have to keep all my houseplants way up high!! Glad your geraniums survived!
Hope this week is good for you as well.
Getting ready for what I hope is our last blizzard. It would happen the week that the sons could be coming home. Hopefully the weather gets better on Friday as I think that will be when they can manage to get started and finished the journey home.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Blizzard??? Oh my gosh! That is awful.
DeleteI sure hope the fellows get home safely! Then you can relax and enjoy!
Have a wonderful week.