Homemade croutons, strawberry jam and tea syrup. That’s what my morning the other morning involved. Homemade croutons are yummy. Thanks to Kara, I make them instead of buying them now. We don’t use croutons by the truckload or anything, so I really don’t have to make them very often. Plus, they’re super easy. There is […]
Baby Bunnies
My daughter has been a busy and dedicated animal mommy during the months of May and June. Right now her particular babies are three baby bunnies. They are eating and growing!! We really weren’t sure if they would. She has been feeding them milk from an eye dropper and faithfully harvesting dandelions and clover everyday. She […]
More On Wheat Harvest
Wheat harvest is such a major part of our lives. It comes and then it is gone. It goes by at lightning speed and at a turtle crawl all at the same time. There is nothing quite like watching all those golden fields disappear underneath the combines as they eat their way […]
Yummy Berry Fruit Cups
Here is the other fruit cup recipe that I like really well. The rest of my family isn’t as fond of it, but I don’t mind. ‘Cause I really like them! You can go here for my family’s favorite fruit cup. The recipe I have didn’t really have a name, so I made one up. […]
It’s a Dad’s Life
Happy Father’s Day! And a little humor in honor of the day…
Of Harvest and Busy and Animals, But Mostly the Animals
It’s been a busy couple of weeks! Harvest time. Just the words equate “BUSY” in my mind! It’s a good time and a blessed time, though. My cousin and her husband and four daughters and two sons were here for the first week of harvest. My cousin’s husband helped out in the fields and my […]
Cuttin’ Wheat
The Harvest
The harvest in Kansas, the harvest of wheat, Each year it is hectic and busy, but neat, The combines are rolling, dust in the air, Wheat heads are waving, golden and fair, My man’s in the combine, surveying his crop, Till the harvest is done, he won’t hardly stop, The truck and its driver patiently […]
Biscuits and Honey Butter
Biscuits and Honey Butter. Just saying that makes my mouth water! I hadn’t made honey butter for quite a while! I made it recently and my husband loves the stuff! it is yummy. Especially if you have warm butterhorns or fresh biscuits to slather it on! The recipe I use is: Honey Butter 1 […]
A Lesson From the Little Wooden Engines
Crazy. A kid at heart. Lover of personification. You could probably call it any of these things. They would all be accurate descriptions. Sentimental would catch it. This is sounding familiar. I think I mentioned some of these same things here. I sorted through our Thomas the Train engines and track this evening and moved them from […]
A Harvest/Summer Staple
Fruit Cups! It wouldn’t be harvest time without frozen fruit cups in the freezer. They’re a pantry freezer staple during the summertime and wheat harvest around here. I have tried different recipes in the past. Anymore, I don’t really follow an exact recipe. I have a basic form and just add and dump and use whatever I have […]
Cinnamon and Sparky
Cinnamon and Sparky. The two baby calves on our farm right now. So dubbed by our daughter. They are pretty cute! Our farm isn’t much of a livestock farm most of the time. We do have bottle calves fairly often that grow up to provide beef for […]
Wheatscapes
It’s starting to look a lot like harvest…. And it’s only the 26th of May… There have been a few combines cutting in our county the last couple of days… Seems so funny. We are close to a month early! Harvest. It’s busy. It’s hectic. It’s hot. It’s dusty. Yet, there is something […]
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye
Sob. Sniff. I’m somewhat of a sentimentalist. I admit it. I’m sad. Don’t laugh. I’m sad over a combine. Nuts and bolts and metal and paint. And an auger and a clean grain elevator and memories. Sob. Sniff. You see, last fall an opportunity to upgrade our combine sort of fell into our laps. It […]
Lasagna and Strawberry Jam
I added a couple more things to the freezer! I have been loosely following Money Saving Mom’s Four Weeks to Fill Your Freezer series. I’ve been enjoying reading her posts and it has helped motivate me to put food in the freezer, which I had been wanting to do anyway! I posted this recipe and linked up on […]
Kansas Day Trip
I took a Kansas day trip yesterday with my husband. We needed to go to eastern Kansas to pick up our four-wheeler and an irrigation motor. My husband’s very youngest brother is an awesome mechanic and he had been working on/fixing both of these things for us. We didn’t take the most direct route since we had […]
