Weekly Wrap Up 8/24

 Hello and happy Sunday to all.  I am hoping you are all well and safe this fine Sunday.  One more week of this month and then it will be September.  I know that makes some happy - but I would just as well wait a while.  We will be experiencing a 'fake' fall this coming week - with highs in the 70's F, and lows in the 50's.  That will sure be a nice reprieve for a bit.  That is perfect weather in my book.  It has been much better the past few days - the humidity has come down and the temps as well.  I have sure enjoyed it.  It will get hot again, no doubt about that.

I saw a hummingbird moth again this week.  That doesn't happen often - they are just so neat.  Hummingbirds have been very active and drinking a lot, I hope that doesn't mean what I think.  The bright gold finches have been loving the echinacea seeds!

Got to walk a lot this week, porch sit and visit with many neighbors.  Nice.

My frugal week:

• Picking lots and lots of produce!  Lot of peppers and a good 50-60 lbs. of tomatoes this week!!  I will be picking more today.  The zucchini is done now.  The cherry toms are pretty much done (although setting new blooms), but the regular tomatoes are just going nuts.  I have some that are a pound or over that I have picked - Beef Master.  Talk about a nice slice of tomato!

Here is the one that was just a tad over a pound - there are others close to that weight!  Fills the hand

• Cleaned out the area between fence and drive again (neighbor's stuff coming through).  I sure wish they would keep things up - sigh.  He finally did his front fence yesterday - looks a little better
• Cut wild trees and weeds coming up out back in flowers - seems a constant chore
• Lots of laundry - I seem to change clothes a lot in the summer heat!
• Made new hummingbird nectar and cleaned the feeders
• Took the neighbor some tomatoes and peppers, came home with cukes and 2 patty pan squash.  She brought me cukes 2 more times this week - loving that!
• "Pickled" peppers 3 ways this week.  All easy - some sliced and placed in the jalapeno jar, some sliced and placed in the jar of mild banana rings from store, and one jar of refrigerator dill peppers
• Mowed and trimmed the entire yard over 2 days.  A neighbor brought over his blower, when I got done with the front, as I was getting ready to sweep walks and drive.  That was neat to use - I got get one of those!
• Got to air the house and turn of AC a lot!!!
• Didn't leave, so no grocery shopping
• Had a sweet tooth one day, so got creative.  Heated a couple waffle pieces from freezer in toaster - let them cool - and then made an ice cream sandwich out of them.  That was good
• Used zucchini, peppers and summer sausage in a baked spaghetti that I made in the air fryer
• Grapes picked and in freezer to make jelly later on
• Took lots of walks this week - it was so nice and the air refreshing - free exercise
• Cooking from home and using what I have

Meals this past week:

Potato/egg/cheese skillet & sliced tomatoes

Chicken strips, fries and fresh veggies

Italian bread pizza (made air fryer) (bread from freezer)

Pizza piece and salad

Baked spaghetti & sliced toms - 2X

BLT and side salad

SNACKS - tomato sandwich, toms & cukes, fruit, ice cream sandwich

This week I will be doing canning, now that it is cooler.  Got to get those tomatoes put up into winter goodies and 'gifts'.   Have shared a lot of them.

Just the same stuff, nothing exciting going on here.  Life the way I like it.

How has your week been?  Give us a shout out and let us all know what you have been doing and how those gardens are doing.

I hope you all have fantastic week and please, stay healthy and safe.  Blessings to you and yours from me at my humble little home.

I leave you with a wonderful poem today!

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WIDEN MY VISION

God open my eyes

    so I may see

And feel Your presence

    close to me.

Give me strength

    for my stumbling feet

As I battle the crowd

    on life's busy street,

And widen the vision

    of my unseeing eyes

So in passing faces

    I'll recognize

Not just a stranger,

    unloved and unknown,

But a friend with a heart    

    that is much like my own.

Give me perception

     to make me aware

That scattered profusely

     on life's thoroughfare

Are the best gifts of God

    that we daily pass by

As we look at the world

    with an unseeing eye.

Helen Steiner Rice

                              AMEN

Lord, please keep each and every one in your loving, caring and healing arms.  May we all have a blessed week ahead and may we all be a friend to someone in need.  Thank you for our many blessings.  Amen