Yay! Yay! Yay!

I’m so pumped, I signed up to go to this -  Turning Dreams into Reality: Starting a Farm in Arizona. It’s a two day workshop for people who want to start small farms.  It doesn’t just occur here in Arizona, the USDA has a beginning farmer program now that holds workshops in other states.  The only [...]

Spring Break Has Come and Gone

Wow how a week flies by! This was one of our short excursions this week.  We drove up on South Mountain outside Phoenix.  That’s the Phoenix metroplex in the background.  That’s Don in the middle of The Boys.  They’re grown.  <sigh>  For some reason no matter how tall they get when I look at them I still see [...]

This Just In – I Rock

A Spoonful of YUM! I couldn’t wait to try the Honey Lemon Jelly so as soon as the jars were cool I popped open the runt and dipped me a spoonful of yum!  Oh my goodness this is good!   And you’ll notice that it really jelled!  Woo-hoo!  I am so all about me right [...]

A Lemon Pickle of a Day

In my carport. This is the view out our kitchen door.   That dumpster means that progress is being made on the roof.  Replacing a roof is never a warm fuzzy event, especially when there’s no insurance claim involved, but we got tired of seeing little brown spots appear in our new ceiling paint.  Strangely, [...]

Lemon Marmalade

How cool is this? This picture has nothing to do with the post I just love it.  Now that’s a sink… AND it has a dishwasher built in.    Anyway, I found a cooking site that said basic marmalade is always 1:1:1, citrus, sugar, and water.  So I’m putting it to the test.  I’m making [...]

Wine Bag – No, Not Me Silly

Christmas from my friend This was our Christmas gift from our very dear friends L & K.   It’s a homemade, handmade wine bag – with wine of course.   Isn’t it beautiful!  I’m very envious of my friend’s hand work.  She is so talented – and much more patient than I ever will be. [...]

Vacuum Sealed Donuts

Vacuum sealed donuts = Epic Fail  My brother has been staying with us and he brought his FoodSaver along.  I love this thing.  It really does make a difference in frozen storage.  The bags are reusable if you wash them.   It doesn’t do so good with donuts though hahaha – What was I thinking??? [...]

Tough Week

This week we left our church. I can’t quite express what I’m feeling right now. I’m so sad I feel it in my joints.

Cheese Pie

Tonight I am making Cheese Pie.  I found the recipe in my Betty Crocker cookbook – which is my favorite cookbook ever by the way.  I like it much better than The Better Home and Garden cookbook which I thought would be really cool because it came in a three ring binder and everything.  I [...]

More Relaxing

Stayed home today to see if I had to report for jury duty. I didn’t and it was wonderful. Spent the whole day doing nothing but surfing. I was going to take a nap but it’s been so long since I’ve had a total day to just rot my brain on the web that I [...]